Stam DK Trials DPS

Anil235

How can I improve my trials DPS? My parse on the final boss of nSO was 11.5k. My bars are:

Dual Wield (Main bar):
Flurry
Venemous Claw
Blood Craze
Trap Beast (Will morph into Rearming Trap once leveled)
Flames of Oblivion (For crit buff and damage)

Ulti: Flawless Dawnbreaker (for weapon damage buff)

Bow (Back bar):
Poison Injection
Endless Hail
Noxious Breath
Igneous Weapons (Don't really use in trials as other DKs buff the group with this and Minor Brutality)
Expert Hunter (Crit buff)

Ulti: Standard of Might (I use this as soon as I hit 250 ultimate)

My gear is currently:

2pc Engine Guardian
5pc Hunding's Rage
3pc Agility (2 axes, one necklace)
3pc Flanking (2 rings, one bow; I use this as I haven't found a suitable weapon and jewelry set alternative that I have access to right now)


My rotation is Poison Injection>Endless Hail>Noxious Breath>Venemous Claw>Blood Craze>Trap Beast> Flames of Oblivion> Flurry (Medium weave)>Poison Injection. I don't have Caltrops nor do I have a trash bar. I also don't have any Maelstrom weapons. I have 253 CP. What can I do to improve my DPS? I want to get 25k+ without Maelstrom Weapons (I don't have them but I will use my magplar to farm for them soon).

Amdar_Godkiller

Maybe remove Noxious Breath from your rotation, as your Trial Tanks will probably run their own version 
of that debuff and you already have 3 dots.

Anil235

Amdar_Godkiller wrote: »

Maybe remove Noxious Breath from your rotation, as your Trial Tanks will probably run their own version 
of that debuff and you already have 3 dots.

I would, but what can I replace it with?

Amdar_Godkiller

Dunno. You could throw on Silver Shards for another 3% increase to your weapon damage plus AOE for mobs. My rotations usually utilize more frequent single target attacks. something like Volley-DOT-Flames-Flurry-DOT-DOT-Trap Beast-Flurry... 

Also, remember that to get maximum DPS from Flames, you should recast it right after the second or third fireball, 
so every 5.5 or 10.5 seconds 

Vangy

Mmmm.... I have maelstrom weapons so my rotation would look vastly different from yours... but here's what I would do without them (assuming im not relying on pots for buffs);

Main bar DW:

Unstable| Rending slashes| Flurry| Steel tornado| Evil hunter| ULT: Flawless DB

( I like running evil & flawless on main DPS bar for double bonus to weapon damage from FG passive + 5% more from flawless).

Back bar BOW:

Poison injection| rearming| Endless hail| caltrops| igneous| ULT: Standard

You can swap out caltrops for burning breath or eruption if u need some group CC to aid your non-DK tanks. Most DK tanks would already be running eruption. Altho burning debuff is applied by tanks, its an okay DPS skill when you lack caltrops. If someone is already running caltrops, you can run FOB in its place.

Rotation without mael weapons would look something like this;

1. buff up
2. While running up to boss (caltrops) > poison > endless >(when in range) rearming > unstable > rending
3. Flurry with medium weaves while keeping up unstable and rending slashes.
4. When rearming trap ends (repeat from 1)
5. For ult, throw ult just before barswap to melee bar.
6. When boss is under 50%, keep up poison injection 24/7 with unstable and rending.

Rotation with maelstrom weapons will look vastly different due to needing to weave flurries inbetween DOTS.

Also, get rid of engin guardian for valkyns or 1 pc kena/1 pc bloodspawn or 2 pc mepahals. 2 PC mephalas is awesome on DKs and you can weave flurries with full heavies. With the new DLC coming out, velidreths would be awesome too. I also light attack > skill >block/bash cancel everything except flurry.