DPS skills for a solo Stam DK Tank?

Lonewolf628

Looking for any go-to damage abilities I can use on my stam dk tank when I'm running around by myself and not in a dungeon group. Right now I just use light and heavy attacks between pierce armor and heroic slash while keeping igneous weapons and shields up for the damage buffs. I don't want to swap gear between tank and damage sets and I would like to stay s+b on both bars. I am swapping jewelry at the moment but that's as much swapping as I would like to do. I understand my damage capability is laughable as a dual s+b tank but I'm just curious if anyone is using a different rotation or different skills for solo dps as a stam dk tank in heavy armor.

GeorgeBlack

I used to have one sword and shield one the first bar for dps set and one sword shield on my backbar for defence set (knights errant and armor master i think).
You can also use the morph Flames of Oblivion from ardent flame. Scales of WD. Ardent flame also has 2 stamina Dot morphs.
A third stamina Dot is caltrops from the Alliance War skilline

Sleep724

Venomous claw, noxious breath and heroic slash. And/or trap beast for more DOT damage and increases your crit damage done. Could add danwbreaker in there for your ultimate too.

humpalicous

- Venomous Claw for single target dot's.
- Noxious Breath for a decent cone dot while also reducing enemies resistances.
- Eruption for aoe dot and massive snare.
- Heroic Slash for minor heroism and decent dot especially when using Maelstrom tank weapons (swords and maces).
- Caltrops for good aoe dot.
- Trap Beast for minor force and good single target dot plus immobilizes target.
- Dawnbreaker is a great ultimate that's cheap and deals good damage.
- Igneous Shields for the Earthern Heart Passive proc of increasing weapon damage.
- Cheese sets like Tremorscale for decent damage when taunting.
- Pierce Armor for reducing targets resistances.
- Flame Lash for decent single target damage, one morph is amazing with off-balance targets.
- Flames of Oblivion is a good passive source of damage once activated.

Think I just named all the skills there are hehe, but a combination of the above will provide you with a decent overland dps build for sword and board. Just expect a slower pace as you won't kill stuff quickly and moving around is slower in Heavy Armor as I'm assuming that's what you're wearing.

Happy hunting