What do you guys think of my dps build?

xX_NachtJager_xx

I'm running 5 viper (head, chest, belt, boots and ring, all divines) 5 ophidian (shoulders, bracers, pants, ring and neck. One divines, two infused.) two hundings rage swords, and one bow, precise with weapon damage glyphs. All of my gear have stamina chants except for one large piece and small piece with health glyphs. My rings have weapon damage glyphs as well.

My stats are: 18,000 health, 33,000 stamina, 2500 weapon damage, and my crit is 78%. I would like to get my weapon damage up a bit but I'm satisfied at the moment.

Any suggestions would be helpful. I've always been a tank so this is my first dps. I'm cp380 btw. I do need some help with my champion points if anybody can help with that. TIA!!!!!

Soundwave

My build is almost the same, but I went with tbs, instead of viper. Viper is ridisously expensive on Xbox

Mojmir

Class? Skill bars?

xX_NachtJager_xx

I actually found all of the gear pieces, but I had to buy all of the jewelry. It ran me about 50K for all of the pieces. Once I get a divines kena/velidreth/skoria helm I'm going to do some switching around. I already have all of those shoulders in divines thank god lol

Mic1007

Mojmir wrote: »

Class? Skill bars?

This. We need to know this to help you.

xX_NachtJager_xx

I'm a red guard nightblade.
Skill bar 1 (DW): rearming trap, rapid strikes, expert hunter, steel tornado, and flying blade

Bar 2 (bow): lethal arrow, poison injection, endless hail, relentless focus, killers blade

xX_NachtJager_xx

Yeah I realized that after I posted lol

Mojmir

xX_NachtJager_xx wrote: »

I'm a red guard nightblade.
Skill bar 1 (DW): rearming trap, rapid strikes, expert hunter, steel tornado, and flying blade

Bar 2 (bow): lethal arrow, poison injection, endless hail, relentless focus, killers blade

Lose lethal arrow,add caltrops,killers needs to be on front bar,switch exper hunter with bloodcraze. You'll get more damage with DOTs. That's a start

CasNation

Honest opinion: needs improvement.

Swap out your precise swords for sharpened daggers or 1 sharp dagger/1 precise or sharp axe. I would also swap viper for TBS for pve content and pick up both thief and shadow mundus stones. And do you mean vicious ophidian or just ophidian? If the latter, try to get vicious version. Also, swap out your hundings swords for Agility weapons (as noted above) if you don't have access to maelstrom stuff. Leki's also works.

Your bars are all over the place. Ditch flying blade for rending slashes for an extra single target dot. Use potions for major brutality, or find a friendly dk to help. For bow bar, replace lethal arrow with expert hunter for an easy swap, but you are better off replacing expert hunter on both bars with something else (not a stam blade expert so don't know what) and use potions to get your 10% extra crit.

Mic1007

Mojmir wrote: »

xX_NachtJager_xx wrote: »

I'm a red guard nightblade.
Skill bar 1 (DW): rearming trap, rapid strikes, expert hunter, steel tornado, and flying blade

Bar 2 (bow): lethal arrow, poison injection, endless hail, relentless focus, killers blade

Lose lethal arrow,add caltrops,killers needs to be on front bar,switch exper hunter with bloodcraze. You'll get more damage with DOTs. That's a start

About as blunt as it can get. Also, Flying Blade can be replaced with Trap Beast to get Minor Force.

xX_NachtJager_xx

What would be a good average damage per hit? My steel tornado is critting around 9-10K, rapid strikes maybe 8-9K (can't really tell, too many number popping up when I use it) but 8K or so is the number that is popping up when it finishes, so I'm assuming that is the total damage. And my light attacks are about 4K, heavy attacks about 9K. I'll post my champion points when I get home so you guys can help me on that.

GreenhaloX

Dawnbreaker will add 5% weapon damage, the warrior stone will add another 200 or so max weapon dam, with one piece divine will get another 90 max weapon damages. Also, use camo hunter or dead hunter which adds another 3% weapon damages and 2100 something crit. Also, you can look into 5 pieces Dreugh King Killer (DKK) that gives 20% extra weapon damages (and major expedition.) Without Maelstrom weapon, I'm around 3600-3800 max weapon dam or so; give or take. I can break in the 4k (without buff), but would have to sacrifice my crit rush and wrecking blow slots for additional fighters guild skill, which I'm not willing to do. With what I suggest switching or adding, you should be up to around 3300-3600 max weapon damages. Oh, greatsword for a DK also adds 5 or 6% extra weapon dam, passively. Plus, 3-piece Agility gives extra 1400 max stam and 186 weapon dam; although, your max stam is fairly good, but your health is fairly low.

Keep in mind, the above is stam DK-based. Seems you're duel-wielded, which you have that extra flurry perks that stack; what up to 600x weapon dam, with successive light attacks or something duel-wield does.

Ideally, where you're at with your current CP, you're fine. You will increase, passively, as you get more and more CP. Also, look at plusing up your CP in the Mighty Slot. Try to get at least 15-20%, if you're looking at DPS. I'm at 25% max, there. Your current light and heavy at 4k and 9k are fine, at your current CP level, but you should be able to attain 6-8k for light and 10-16k for heavy (crit dependent), as you increase in CP and max weapon dam. Where I'm at, as a stam DK, when I combo my heavy/wrecking blow (per hit combo), my heavy could do from 9-16k and then the follow-up wrecking blow at 18-29k. So, I could be putting out 35k to over 50k dps, per combo hit (crit dependent); just to give you an idea.

Oh yeah, if you decide to test with my suggestion, unfortunately, you will lose about a 1/4 of your crit percentage (although, you have good crit % currently), but your dps output will still skyrocket. Also, DKK boosts max health, which I favor, aside from the Major brutality and Major Expedition. I also have a bit over 30k max health (buffed, though, which is fine with em.)

Milvan

Soundwave wrote: »

My build is almost the same, but I went with tbs, instead of viper. Viper is ridisously expensive on Xbox

You can easily farm them now on FG1. I suggest you to farm on vet because I have the impression that the drop rate of weapons is much better on it.

Milvan

xX_NachtJager_xx wrote: »

I'm a red guard nightblade.
Skill bar 1 (DW): rearming trap, rapid strikes, expert hunter, steel tornado, and flying blade

Bar 2 (bow): lethal arrow, poison injection, endless hail, relentless focus, killers blade

No twin slashes? I would say to leave the rearming trap on the bow bar and get it. Also, if you craft some pots with weapon crit you can switch the expert hunter to something else, or even the twin slashes.

ArchMikem

xX_NachtJager_xx wrote: »

What would be a good average damage per hit? My steel tornado is critting around 9-10K, rapid strikes maybe 8-9K (can't really tell, too many number popping up when I use it) but 8K or so is the number that is popping up when it finishes, so I'm assuming that is the total damage.

The 8k is the damage the last hit does because it deals 300% more than the first four. I'm not a Math person but that would mean your Rapid Strikes are initially hitting for somewhere in the 2 - 3k range each time maybe, I dunno don't quote me on the math part. Personally though I use Bloodthirst. Little extra healing always helps, especially from a skill you use so often.

CasNation

xX_NachtJager_xx wrote: »

What would be a good average damage per hit? My steel tornado is critting around 9-10K, rapid strikes maybe 8-9K (can't really tell, too many number popping up when I use it) but 8K or so is the number that is popping up when it finishes, so I'm assuming that is the total damage. And my light attacks are about 4K, heavy attacks about 9K. I'll post my champion points when I get home so you guys can help me on that.

I imagine you are on console, and therefore don't have acess to DPS metrics?

If so, I would conduct what is known as a "Bloodspawn Test." You can Google it to find out exactly what it is, but the point is that the damage per HIT doesn't matter in pve dps, the damage per SECOND (DPS) is what matters. You can find some target time to shoot for on the bloodspawn test online as well. I am on PC, so I don't know what the metrics or conversions are.

If you are on PC though, definitely get a dps addon like FTC, LUI, or the like.

xX_NachtJager_xx

Yeah I know the blood spawn test. Gonna see if any of my guild mates would run it with when I update my game