Is a penetration build viable?

devilsTear

For a redguard stamplar that is, since lots of peeps are running around In heavy armor I wanna try speccing more in into penetration.
Is this a good idea

Crown

Your best bet is to find a friendly player on another faction, and test differences in weapons and champion points to see how much damage you do based on both your and their stats.

As a general answer, yes it's a good idea. How good an idea will really depend on the details of the build / spec.

Preyfar

Viable? Yes. A lot of abilities also can increase increase the concept of penetration builds. Off hand, I'm not sure what Stamplar abilities would be, fur for Nightblades, you can reach exceptional armor pen builds.

Sharpened weapons drop 5160 penetration, Power of the Light for Minor Breach with 1320 pen and Crusher enchants on your weapons for 1622 penetration. All in all, a stamplar can drop a little over 8,100+ armor penetration down on their target. I don't know of a Stamplar skill right off to add Major Breach, but if you're working with a nightblade with Mark Target you'll be over 13,200+ armor/spell pen. Can do a LOT of damage in PVP.

EDIT: For Stamplar, I tend to go with 2X DW Sharpened and 2H Defending. I lose a bit of damage on the 2H, but with my other armor buffs I can also prevent the armor penetration gang from hitting my as hard as I'm hitting them. Gives me situational variety.

Minno

Preyfar wrote: »

Viable? Yes. A lot of abilities also can increase increase the concept of penetration builds. Off hand, I'm not sure what Stamplar abilities would be, fur for Nightblades, you can reach exceptional armor pen builds.

Sharpened weapons drop 5160 penetration, Power of the Light for Minor Breach with 1320 pen and Crusher enchants on your weapons for 1622 penetration. All in all, a stamplar can drop a little over 8,100+ armor penetration down on their target. I don't know of a Stamplar skill right off to add Major Breach, but if you're working with a nightblade with Mark Target you'll be over 13,200+ armor/spell pen. Can do a LOT of damage in PVP.

EDIT: For Stamplar, I tend to go with 2X DW Sharpened and 2H Defending. I lose a bit of damage on the 2H, but with my other armor buffs I can also prevent the armor penetration gang from hitting my as hard as I'm hitting them. Gives me situational variety.

Templars cannot achieve major fracture. It has to come from an external source.

devilsTear

Preyfar wrote: »

Viable? Yes. A lot of abilities also can increase increase the concept of penetration builds. Off hand, I'm not sure what Stamplar abilities would be, fur for Nightblades, you can reach exceptional armor pen builds.

Sharpened weapons drop 5160 penetration, Power of the Light for Minor Breach with 1320 pen and Crusher enchants on your weapons for 1622 penetration. All in all, a stamplar can drop a little over 8,100+ armor penetration down on their target. I don't know of a Stamplar skill right off to add Major Breach, but if you're working with a nightblade with Mark Target you'll be over 13,200+ armor/spell pen. Can do a LOT of damage in PVP.

EDIT: For Stamplar, I tend to go with 2X DW Sharpened and 2H Defending. I lose a bit of damage on the 2H, but with my other armor buffs I can also prevent the armor penetration gang from hitting my as hard as I'm hitting them. Gives me situational variety.

I thought about dw 2h but I like bow for the dodge roll speed buff and poison injection/endless hail, also thought about s&b one bar for ransack maybe?
I'm also not sure about CP distribution, I use biting jabs as my main dps so I wanna put points in thaumaturge but also mighty and the other one ( the name escapes me atm)
I don't have any friends in other alliances and I play on ps4 so I don't have add ons to test stuff
Help is greatly appreciated.

Forestd16b14_ESO

Penetration viable in PvP ? That's like asking is Radiant Destruction over powered of course it is if anything it's the most powerful build in pvp. Why try to get high enough raw damage to beat mitigation when you can just go around it. Seriously players complaining about HA just use penetration if anything HA needs a passive to reduce penetration damage effects by 70% just to make HA not turn into tissue paper armor.

Minno

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

Penetration viable in PvP ? That's like asking is Radiant Destruction over powered of course it is if anything it's the most powerful build in pvp. Why try to get high enough raw damage to beat mitigation when you can just go around it. Seriously players complaining about HA just use penetration if anything HA needs a passive to reduce penetration damage effects by 70% just to make HA not turn into tissue paper armor.

Though, you can achieve 30k physical armor/33k spell armor easily. Which equates to 45% and 50% dmg mitigation respectively.

This mitigation targets all dmg types; why wouldn't you cap resistance? Youd have to put 100 points into hardy to reach 25% mitigation for only physical dmg.