Stamina DPS PvP Build 「Brute force Dragon」 - DK perspective Repost

MaxwellC · January 2017

Reason for Repost: I noticed I put it in the wrong section lol...

I first wanna start off my mic in the video isn't great at all, my voice continues to sound muffled and drops pretty low in comparison to my xbox headset (can't use it as it picks up everyone else's voice too). I should also add that I did not edit it in any awesome way as I don't own after affects and do not feel like paying 10$ a month for it lol. So sorry in advance!
Note: Weapon damage will be 3708 if you have access to minor brutality if not it'll be around 3500-3600 (which is still good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlfH64ZP4iU&feature=youtu.be
Current Race : Redguard
Current Class: Dragon Knight
Mundus : Thief
Sets: 5 Hunding & 5 Automaton 1 Big armor piece should have a max health enchant while the rest remains max stamina.
Champion point setup (300) - 100 in Mighty, 50 in Hardy, 50 in Elemental Defender, 100 in Warlord.
Champion point setup (561) -

The Mage :

100 in Mighty, 48 in Precise Strikes, 29 in Piercing and 10 in Blessed.
You could also replace Piercing strikes and invest it all into precise strikes (until you hit 20% then place the rest in blessed)

The Thief:

100 in Warlord, 10 in Magician and 29 in Tumbling.

The Warrior:

10 in Expert Defender, 20 in Quick Recovery, 63 in Hardy, 63 in Elemental Defender, and 31 in Resistant

Two Handed Sword Bar 1: Critical Rush (Can switch with Stampede to slow enemies), Noxious Breath (use your class stamina ability or trap beast if you're not a DK), Reverse Slice, Dizzing Swing, Rally, and Ultimate: Onslaught
↓(depending on class mobility, bow can be changed to any weapon of your choosing)
Bow Bar 2: Fossilize (If your class has a hard CC or trap beast/soft cc), Igneous shield (if your skill gives you major mending or a defensive skill e.g. hurricane/cloak), shuffle, poison injection (if you use DW use whatever makes you feel comfortable in place of poison injection), and vigor (if you do not have vigor substitute with class heal or another defensive buff e.g. Immovable), and Ultimate : Corrosive Armor (Substitute corrosive armor for your class defensive/offensive ultimate or if you use DW use the rend ultimate)

When using onslaught (ultimate) attempt to heavy attack first to proc two hand passive that adds 10% damage). I do use poisons which is to damage enemies not steal offensive/defensive resources so this build doesn't have sustain issues thanks to the usage of max health/stam recovery food. If you have a masters bow do not use poisons!
Towards the end of the video (Which isn't edited in any shape or form to look nice lol) I discuss some of the potions I utilize while in combat so if your interested check it out.

Hope you like it and again my mic is horrible lol.

Pros
Does high damage without neglecting sustain.
Has decent health pool for survivability (harder to get 1 shot)
scales nicely with mighty CP.
Can be utilized by all stamina variant classes (some better than others; IMO stamblades will get the best out of it).

Cons
Hard to reach full potential without a decent spam-able ability like surprise attack.
Two handed is sometimes difficult to lay on the pressure unlike dual wield
(low stamina) 30k stamina may prove to be an issue when spamming abilities consistently.
Extremely difficult to out class a build that is shield stack based (unless you're not a DK).

LuminaLilly · January 2017

I know you from xb1 na. Props to you on not confroming to the meta like the rest of these proctards. Id run hundings over viper anyday, i thought i was the last of my kind.

MaxwellC · January 2017

@AlphaNicole
Yeah I'm not a fan of proc sets as it's not satisfying when your armor does the damage for you rather than you hitting that incredible hit like I did today (15k onslaught on a tankplar lol).

LuminaLilly · January 2017

Yep, skill over proc. but everyone just wants to be cheese and wants zenimax to give em a crutch.

Riggsy · January 2017

I run hundings and spriggan but was thinking of switching to spriggan and automaton. Any reason you do hundings and automaton, stacking damage I surmise but is that better than the penetration from spriggans?

MaxwellC · January 2017

@Riggsy
I ran hundings and spriggans before but when testing it I seemed to do a lot more damage with automaton in comparison to spriggans + my penetration is always going to be around 7k starting with breath almost 12k if not. I feel that's fine against most tank builds such as those who run black rose already were getting smacked with this amount of penetration, the added 3.9k from spriggan seemed it was unnecessary.

When I ran automaton with Hundings I felt it gave me the right amount of health in order to survive most proc set RNG builds + it scaled nicely with my CP since it effects all of mightys CP based on what I saw with damage output and tooltip. Since that happens I could instead invest 20% into my precise strikes (which I do now) and the rest in blessed and deal a lot of damage.

A prime example is my onslaught hitting someone for 15k yesterday and even today I almost one shotted someone with a 17k hit lol (Since I heavy attack first into onslaught so it'll be 10% from heavy attack followed by greatsword which is an added 5% for a total of 15% + our crit/CP taken into account).

I'd say spriggan would be better if I was fighting a tank target but even still with onslaught I could hit through that armor and I felt that my damage was better using automaton.

Riggsy · January 2017

I don't use a 2-hander (dw and sb) because I like to run 2 5-pieces and monster set. I'll have to farm automaton so I'll try it with my hundings. I am also thinking slime-claw set for that extra 8%. Anyways Ill test out.

Jaronking · January 2017

@Riggsy automaton with hounding is also better since if your fighting any magic build running a shield your extra armor pen you get from Spriggin is pretty much meaningless.So the armor pen is only useful against stam builds.So this build is better for general purpose fighting.If you know your going fight a stam build and can switch gear your set would perform better but this is better if you don't know who your fighting.

Hey @MaxwellCrystal have you tried 5 Auto 5 Hulking on a DK?Am thinking about running that on my stamblade and if it works well try it on my DK.

MaxwellC · January 2017

@Riggsy
I do not rock a monster set but that would be a good one to use as the extra 8% is pretty strong since I believe it's calculated at the final damage mark. I don't really recommend it with a DW/SB unless you're a stam sorc since hurricane would be even stronger with it but it could work if you're especially using bloodthirst from the DW skill line alongside absorb magic for those who are mag builds.

@Jaronking
I have tried it before and I wasn't really fond of it on my DK as I was missing a lot of damage, maybe if it had a weapon damage 2/3 bonus it would feel a lot better but it definitely didn't outperform spriggans nor did it outperform automaton. (I used Hunding/ hulking) the stam return from igneous was a lot better especially with max health/max stam for obvious reasons lol.
For a Stamblade if you don't mind using a meta armor piece, I'd recommend Black rose + vicecanon as I feel it would be incredibly strong since vicecanon has a high DoT damage + synergizes well with crit cloak and on top of that heals you for the damage done. Mix a vitality pot in the mix and it's practically over if you can get a cloak shot in that is.