DPS Dragon Knight Question

gamer559

Hi there. I'm going with a stam DPS Dragon Knight build and wanted to know which pumps out more dps, the dual wield skills or 2h skill trees? Also should I be using more of the weapon skill tree skills or Dragon Knight skills when I'm fighting?

TheDarkRuler

For my Dragon Knight I use DoTs all over the time.
So its really important for me to have twin-maelstrom daggers since flurry increases the damage of the next DoT.
So use Flurry and then Poison Claw and you have an insane DoT running.

For armor I use 2x5 parts of Roar of Alkosh and Twice-Born-Star since i use this loadout alot in Trials.
The 2H is neglectible since you have your own source of Brutality from the class skills.
Also in trials Brutality is almost cast everytime by others if you are making a good team.

HatchetHaro

^ that guy just gave you a build that is pretty dang hard to acquire.

Dual wield is always better than 2H for PvE content, and 2H is way better than dual wield in PvP.

Being a stam DK, your damage will mainly consist of DoTs upon DoTs upon DoTs. That's actually also why stam DKs are the hardest to play but also one of the best damage dealers in the game right now.

Run your first bar on dual wield with Venom Claw, Blood Craze (or Rending Slashes), Rearming Trap, Bloodthirst (or Rapid Strikes), Camo Hunter, and Flawless Dawnbreaker.

Run your second bar on bow for Igneous Weapons, Poison Injection, Endless Hail, Caltrops, Vigor, and Standard of Might. Feel free to swap out Vigor for Noxious Breath if you know you got a good healer.

My build (35k single target dps): 5pc Hundings, 1pc Kra'gh's, 3pc Agility (get healthy rings; robust rings are too expensive and you lose out on a lot of health with those), and Night Mother's Gaze arm cops and weapons (all sharpened). Feel free to go with another monster shoulder (Kra'gh's, Velidreth, Molag Kena) and use any normal bow. All armor should be medium eith the divines trait, and you should use the Thief Mundus stone for the crit. Remember to unlock the relevant passives from DW, medium armor, and Fighter's Guild.

With my build, what you should do to get most single target dps is throw down all the DoTs on your bow bar along with Standard of Might, then switch to your DW bar, throw down all the DoT's on that bar and spam flurry a few times, then rinse and repeat the moment the first DoT runs out. Remember to refresh Igneous Weps every now and then.

It's a much simpler build than what the "pros" are suggesting for the best stam DK loadout, and you don't have to grind too much for this one. You can also swap out any pieces whenever you feel like, such as full Velidreth monster set, NMG armor or Leki's weapons.

gamer559

So for PVE I should be DW instead of 2h then. Thanks. I figured that 2H would be better.

Mr_Apollo

gamer559 wrote: »

So for PVE I should be DW instead of 2h then. Thanks. I figured that 2H would be better.

Thought the same thing, but it can also be my biased of actually preffering 2h weapons rather than any other weapon

HatchetHaro wrote: »

^ that guy just gave you a build that is pretty dang hard to acquire.

Dual wield is always better than 2H for PvE content, and 2H is way better than dual wield in PvP.

Being a stam DK, your damage will mainly consist of DoTs upon DoTs upon DoTs. That's actually also why stam DKs are the hardest to play but also one of the best damage dealers in the game right now.

Run your first bar on dual wield with Venom Claw, Blood Craze (or Rending Slashes), Rearming Trap, Bloodthirst (or Rapid Strikes), Camo Hunter, and Flawless Dawnbreaker.

Run your second bar on bow for Igneous Weapons, Poison Injection, Endless Hail, Caltrops, Vigor, and Standard of Might. Feel free to swap out Vigor for Noxious Breath if you know you got a good healer.

My build (35k single target dps): 5pc Hundings, 1pc Kra'gh's, 3pc Agility (get healthy rings; robust rings are too expensive and you lose out on a lot of health with those), and Night Mother's Gaze arm cops and weapons (all sharpened). Feel free to go with another monster shoulder (Kra'gh's, Velidreth, Molag Kena) and use any normal bow. All armor should be medium eith the divines trait, and you should use the Thief Mundus stone for the crit. Remember to unlock the relevant passives from DW, medium armor, and Fighter's Guild.

With my build, what you should do to get most single target dps is throw down all the DoTs on your bow bar along with Standard of Might, then switch to your DW bar, throw down all the DoT's on that bar and spam flurry a few times, then rinse and repeat the moment the first DoT runs out. Remember to refresh Igneous Weps every now and then.

It's a much simpler build than what the "pros" are suggesting for the best stam DK loadout, and you don't have to grind too much for this one. You can also swap out any pieces whenever you feel like, such as full Velidreth monster set, NMG armor or Leki's weapons.

I will have to test this out as I'm starting a new stamDK for DPS, might I question, why Camo Hunter? Isnt that mostly used for PvP?

acw37162

You can swap Flames of oblivion for camo hunter the main reason to use either is the crit buff and you can activate it before you open a fight for an extra DOT.

Also it's a decent Magic dump and can be swapped out for flappers, igneous, or armaments is you can't reflectability a group shield or some resistances as needed

sneakymitchell

gamer559 wrote: »

Hi there. I'm going with a stam DPS Dragon Knight build and wanted to know which pumps out more dps, the dual wield skills or 2h skill trees? Also should I be using more of the weapon skill tree skills or Dragon Knight skills when I'm fighting?

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