BSW for sorc?

Sheva I 7 I

So since now I am using lighting moondancer staff for elemental blockade, wouldn't Twice Born star/Julianos outperform BSW? Only source of fire i have is meteor/force pulse

Voxicity

If you're using a front inferno bar, your weaves + ilambris can proc BSW. When running inferno front and lightning back bar I get around a 50% bsw uptime still, with 5 bsw only being on my front bar (bsw inferno front, lightning moon back).

Sheva I 7 I

KaiVox22 wrote: »

If you're using a front inferno bar, your weaves + ilambris can proc BSW. When running inferno front and lightning back bar I get around a 50% bsw uptime still, with 5 bsw only being on my front bar (bsw inferno front, lightning moon back).

I am a console player, so don't have a status meters to tell me what my bsw uptime is, are there any tests which show what uptime bsw has to be at to outperform julianos/tbs?

Vaoh

If you are running a Lightning Blockade of Elements then I recommend using a pet build. Slot Necropotence.

In this situation, it will outperform BSW should you keep your pet alive relatively well.

Otherwise just use BSW as usual.

Artemiisia

you can see bsw on your arms if its up, when your arms are orange bsw is activated, so that will give you a sense of how long its up in the fight Sheva

Sheva I 7 I

Vaoh wrote: »

If you are running a Lightning Blockade of Elements then I recommend using a pet build. Slot Necropotence.

In this situation, it will outperform BSW should you keep your pet alive relatively well.

Otherwise just use BSW as usual.

Thats interesting suggestion i haven't played pet build for 2 years now, don't you have to double slot the pet though thus loosing one slot? Not sure if I like the sound of that...

Voxicity

Sheva I 7 I wrote: »

KaiVox22 wrote: »

If you're using a front inferno bar, your weaves + ilambris can proc BSW. When running inferno front and lightning back bar I get around a 50% bsw uptime still, with 5 bsw only being on my front bar (bsw inferno front, lightning moon back).

I am a console player, so don't have a status meters to tell me what my bsw uptime is, are there any tests which show what uptime bsw has to be at to outperform julianos/tbs?

I think if you're at 50% uptime you basically get the same spell dmg as juli so might be worth running juli/necro/tbs if using a lightning back bar. I'm only using lightning back at the moment because i havent got inferno moon staff yet.

Sheva I 7 I

Artemiisia wrote: »

you can see bsw on your arms if its up, when your arms are orange bsw is activated, so that will give you a sense of how long its up in the fight Sheva

that i know, but its kinda hard to time it in a prolonged vet trial, since for most bosses theres mechanics you have to follow, block, run, etc. Wondering if any pc guys already tested this, I checked Yolo wizards/Alcasts pages and they still use BSW, so might as well keep running one size fits all set.

Vaoh

Sheva I 7 I wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

If you are running a Lightning Blockade of Elements then I recommend using a pet build. Slot Necropotence.

In this situation, it will outperform BSW should you keep your pet alive relatively well.

Otherwise just use BSW as usual.

Thats interesting suggestion i haven't played pet build for 2 years now, don't you have to double slot the pet though thus loosing one slot? Not sure if I like the sound of that...

Summon Volatile Familiar is very strong this patch. It provides great AoE DPS.

Basically you just slot Summon Volatile Familiar in place of Bound Armor to make room.

Molydeus

Vaoh wrote: »

Sheva I 7 I wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

If you are running a Lightning Blockade of Elements then I recommend using a pet build. Slot Necropotence.

In this situation, it will outperform BSW should you keep your pet alive relatively well.

Otherwise just use BSW as usual.

Thats interesting suggestion i haven't played pet build for 2 years now, don't you have to double slot the pet though thus loosing one slot? Not sure if I like the sound of that...

Summon Volatile Familiar is very strong this patch. It provides great AoE DPS.

Basically you just slot Summon Volatile Familiar in place of Bound Armor to make room.

Wouldn't you want to slot Bound Armor with the pet since he scales off magicka?

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

I've been running the Volatile familiar, is pretty strong.

Tempah

You would have better uptime with both infernos but RNG is a ***. I use a ma precies Lightning on backbar and still have decent uptime.

Vaoh

Molydeus wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

Sheva I 7 I wrote: »

Vaoh wrote: »

If you are running a Lightning Blockade of Elements then I recommend using a pet build. Slot Necropotence.

In this situation, it will outperform BSW should you keep your pet alive relatively well.

Otherwise just use BSW as usual.

Thats interesting suggestion i haven't played pet build for 2 years now, don't you have to double slot the pet though thus loosing one slot? Not sure if I like the sound of that...

Summon Volatile Familiar is very strong this patch. It provides great AoE DPS.

Basically you just slot Summon Volatile Familiar in place of Bound Armor to make room.

Wouldn't you want to slot Bound Armor with the pet since he scales off magicka?

Naw. You'd give up 4 slots. At that point you'd have to take off other important skills aswell.

It could work, but you'd find more use out of replacing Bound Armor with a pet than keeping both skills active on both bars.