2h/dw stamd dk build not viable?

Valabrog

I would switch snb to dual blades for a back bar, trade reverb for dw dot and put corrosive armor instead of snb ult. And use medium armor.

Just want to make a berserker type char and be competitive in BGs at least.

Ecfigies

I may say that Blackrose DW it's what you looking for.

Nord_Raseri

I miss my old 2h/dw stamdk. It was a bleed build before bleeds changed. It was still great during the dot meta. Lost the resistance negating from bleeds but the damage from bleeds and the dk dots being buffed more than made up for that. Now running 2h/s&b but I'm probably gimping myself by not running Fury with leap on FB and S&B ult on BB. Always like the 2h ult even when it wasn't that great.

Theignson

why not? Go for it.

Especially BRP dual wield makes 2H/dual wield viable. You have about 18 more hours for that build before its nerfed!

Davadin

Theignson wrote: »

why not? Go for it.

Especially BRP dual wield makes 2H/dual wield viable. You have about 18 more hours for that build before its nerfed!

nerfed with Graymoor? why? seems pretty potent still.

Valabrog wrote: »

I would switch snb to dual blades for a back bar, trade reverb for dw dot and put corrosive armor instead of snb ult. And use medium armor.

Just want to make a berserker type char and be competitive in BGs at least.

its viable, but not easy because u want a back bar to turtle up. DK is really good at turtling up... without a defensive back bar, u will die. a lot.

that's why BRP DW is what u want as its arguably the best defensive stam weapon in the game.

L_Nici

I don't consider BRP changes as a nerf at all. Before it was just defensive now it is half offensive and half defensive also once activated it will work for over 7 seconds permanently, since you hit your enemy every 2 seconds again with the blade cloak, which refreshes your 10% more Damage done and 10% less damage taken, without being forced to bar swap and cast new.

Theignson

L_Nici wrote: »

I don't consider BRP changes as a nerf at all. Before it was just defensive now it is half offensive and half defensive also once activated it will work for over 7 seconds permanently, since you hit your enemy every 2 seconds again with the blade cloak, which refreshes your 10% more Damage done and 10% less damage taken, without being forced to bar swap and cast new.

Problem is, it only has 5 meter range (quick cloak). So BRP will never go off when you are receiving damage from beyond 5 meters (which is almost always).
It will still be useful in a close melee situation

L_Nici

@Theignson Yeah well, I play almost only melee, Stamsorc is great for it, and I never am more than 5 meters away from an enemy except they are streaking Magsorcs, but well, I can counter their projectiles with Ball of Lightning or dodge. I think I have only 2 chars with ranged weapons, that would be my MagDKs Inferno staff and the Bow on my Stamcro.

Theignson

Yeah all my characters are melee also. For example, my original character is a StamDK. When they took away wings, I stopped using it. It will be interesting to compare how often major protection goes off now. Five meters isn't that much.

You'll be able to see in combat metrics by comparing the number of times quick cloak goes off to the number of times you got major protection. Currently this is exactly the same, its on demand. Usually my quick cloak does very little damage, it will miss people due to lag, compared to major protection always going off regardless-- I predict it will be a major nerf and you'll only get major protection ~50% of the time you use quick cloak. But we'll see

Nord_Raseri

Theignson wrote: »

It will be interesting to compare how often major protection goes off now.

I'm fairly sure major protection is being removed and replaced by 10% mitigation on that set.

sergeant_jorge

DW good if your grouping, but you'll neer to do alot of dodge roll for it to be viable.