Magblade DPS PvE build in need of help/advice

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Dexter411
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Are those stats a way to go or should I change something(something is too high or low)? It is fully selfbuffed, will post unbuffed stats if needed.
This is mostly for dungeons, dailies, farming and just adventuring around. With couple of changes to current skills I want to try vMA.
Any advice is welcome.
  • Dexter411
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    fully buffed
    Edited by Dexter411 on December 26, 2016 12:07PM
  • Bakven
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    What gear are you using?
    EP NA Haderus
    Iscangar- Mageblade (retired pvp; pve only now)
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  • Dexter411
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    5 Julianos, 5 Scathing Mage and one piece of Nerien' eth's
  • Oreyn_Bearclaw
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    It's not a bad set combo. Is it BIS? No. If running scathing, be sure to run Twisting Path for good uptime.

    You stamina is too high, and your magic is too low IMO. If you are running tri stat food, then I would swap to health + magic food. If you have any stam enchants, I would change to magic.

    Your crit is actually quite high. Are your running precise weapons? You definitely want sharpened. It's not even up for debate. Sharp>>>>>>precise.

    Your health is a judgement call. It's in a pretty good spot. Are you running 5/1/1 with undaunted passives? If anything it's a touch low considering you have 10 points into health and are wearing a one piece health bonus with nerienth. If you don't want to go with a 2 piece monster set (might be terrible next patch anyway after the nerf), you might want to consider a one piece that boosts Spell Damage, Spell Crit, or Max magic.
  • idk
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    I'm asuming your not near the CP cap. That will help your max stats. Also with 5/1/1 armor setup and the undaunted passives you'll get more max stats. Don't forget the heavy armor passive Constitution adds more max health. In the end you'll end up with about the same health and 40k+ magika without any addddd health from any source other than the passives mentioned.

    For improvements, any of the trial gear that provides minor slayer will be a boon when in dungeons and trials though it doesn't help in overland monsters. Additionally, 1 PC kena for added spell damage or 1 PC icehearf for spell crit will be better than nerienth after your health is at comfortable levels.

    Edit: I assume your weapons are sharpened.

    Edited by idk on December 28, 2016 7:38PM
  • ryanborror
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    I cleared vet maelstrom on my nb with 16k health the first time. I'd suggest fixing your attributes and going for all magic. Assuming you will eventuallyou get undaunted mettle and heavy armor passive, there's hardly any content in the game that will one shot you, aside from broken things like the new vet spindle clutch. Make sure to slot a Siphoning ability and mages guild abilities for more max magic. You should at least be near 40k I'd think.
    After changing attributes, when you do difficult content, you can slot entropy or a shadow ability like veil for more hp momentarily. And I strongly recommend using dampen magic.
    For your one piece bonus, nerieneth is nice now for health but I'd look into kena or ice heart or maybe one with magic like grothdarr until you get a maelstrom weapon.
    Also tbs might be a better alternative for julianos for the health and stam.
    dooderrr
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  • Dexter411
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    Thanks for replies!

    The 10 points into HP was just to hit around 18k, for dungeons. It was on tri stat food, stam for rolling, dodging and all that in vMA. Right now I switched to two tri stat glyphs for a extra hp and stamina. Will practice, will switch to hp and magicka only food.

    I am using Sharpened on both weapons. 76.6% crit on main bar. Almost 71%(depends on skills I am using) on back bar.
    I have 10k penetration without any buffs or debuffs, which for solo I think is ok.

    The thing that I hate the most on this build is the proc from Scathing Mage and my weapon enchantment(another over 300 spell damage). It needs to proc to do its thing and when it does it is crazy.

    I did a little research and I started to use Twisting Path, i have hope it will not get patched or "fixed" any time soon.

    Instead of Dampen Magic I am using Harness for more magicka sustain.

    For monster shoulder 1 PC bonus, I do not have any light divine, like Molag Kena, but it was a plan to use it since I started to theorycraft this build.

    Overall I love this set up, even with bad rotation and sometimes canceling my medium attacks I can pull of the 25k dps.
    Not only it works but also it looks cool while doing so. High spell damage, massive crit(maybe I will switch to shadow mundus instead of thief) combined with amazing magicka sustain that magblade has and crazy damage.

    Maybe I will switch to dual wield on my back bar and place a Impale there and then use monster set. However I will not be able to get 5th pc bonus from Julianos on main bar. Thoughts?

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