Any experience with knight slayer set?

ChefZero

Did you test it and if yes how did you combine it with other sets and weapons?

Waffennacht

I did.

Lightning staff and resto I've tested it with.

Only really liked it against health tanks. I combined it with a source of defile, which made it effective.

Slow AF tho

So, from my experience too niche for me to use

ItsNebula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVvdGIgz14k&t=459s

Just an example of the set for a build i released a while back.
Works REALLY well if you know how to use it and build around heavy attacks... works BEST on MagDK imo.

Waffennacht

@ItsNebula have any game play footage?

jaws343

I decked out my magblade in it a few months ago and ran it with torugs pact with oblivion enchants. Used a fire staff and hit cloak right after releasing the heavy attacks. Since the oblivion damage doesn't crit, the heavy attack damage would be a guaranteed crit with cloak. You can also pair this combo with Kena. Trigger overkill and your heavy attacks are going to do an insane amount of damage.

It hits really hard, you can drop a non-shielded player into execute with a single heavy attack. Follow that up with Impale and you can two shot people.

While it is strong, all of your damage is mostly coming from heavy attacks. And if you want to hit the hardest with it you have to use a fire stave. So all of your damage can be dodged. You could use a lightning stave with it, but it won't hit as hard and is more easily countered due to the channel.

Mintaka5

Tried it in PvP on my magsorc, but didn't notice any significant advantage over my prior set. No longer use it.

raasdal

Yes. you need to focus all Oblivion.

Torugs or Sload + Knightslayer. Infused OB anyway. DW. Templar.

Templar because POTL will boost Oblivion damage. Hence the very best class for anything Oblivion. DW because it is fastest heavy.

But the playstyle is booooooooring

brandonv516

jaws343 wrote: »

I decked out my magblade in it a few months ago and ran it with torugs pact with oblivion enchants. Used a fire staff and hit cloak right after releasing the heavy attacks. Since the oblivion damage doesn't crit, the heavy attack damage would be a guaranteed crit with cloak. You can also pair this combo with Kena. Trigger overkill and your heavy attacks are going to do an insane amount of damage.

It hits really hard, you can drop a non-shielded player into execute with a single heavy attack. Follow that up with Impale and you can two shot people.

While it is strong, all of your damage is mostly coming from heavy attacks. And if you want to hit the hardest with it you have to use a fire stave. So all of your damage can be dodged. You could use a lightning stave with it, but it won't hit as hard and is more easily countered due to the channel.

Funny you mention - tried same setup because I got 2 gold Knight Slayer rings from leaderboards rewards.

It's really nice if you can get a lot of heavy attacks to connect. Bad against rolling builds, DKs conservatively using wings, other NBs that will stealth before your HA connects, groups that stick together and play smart.

And it's really good for a gank if you do something like heavy attack, destructive reach, light attack, force pulse, soul assault, impale.

DeadlyRecluse

It's very strong in very specific instances.

Generally only worth using with lightning or resto heavies, as they land super consistently, but on the other hand they're very slow. Also not bad when used on an inferno heavy out of stealth as part of a magicka gank combo.

The damage itself isn't great except against high HP folks, but it is oblivion damage...

The nice thing about it is you can basically ignore sustain with your other sets/mundus/jewelry because you'll be heavy attacking enough to stay pretty near topped off.

geonsocal

used it on my destro(lightening)/resto magplar along with elegance...

the thought being is that I'd fight using a lot of light and heavy attacks...

seemed to work okay, was just really boring playstyle thoigh...

ChefZero

I made this thread cause there is very less traffic about this set on the www or I just googled wrong..

KS was released before Sloads so I understand the logic about combination with torugs pact. But now I think the DpS gain on normal Oblivion enchantment + KS + SE is better.

Otherwise I don't understand why people used/using lighting staff. If I use a destro/destro or destro/S&B ok but that's really uncommon.

If my MagNB would go this way I would go for restro/s&b, KS + SE + Engine Guardian or Bloodspawn.
Gear 5/1/1 heavy, all impen, all tri stat.
Small scale restro ult + incap, zerg incap + s&b ult.
Funnel as spamable, some DoTs like gripping grasp or/and teleport strike, S&b primary buff bar, one AoE like sap or path for spotting invisible enemies, etc..

IMO the Oblivion DpS on this build compared with defile from incap should handle the most enemies and you are tanky AF. The combo of heavy attack + funnel weave and heavy armor passive means your magicka is most time on 100% while you're on off mode. The only trick is to handle your magicka and stamina on def but with the other two ults you have a 6s and 5s lifesaver with a cost of 125 to 135 ult.

Why the F*** noone tried this before?

Raammzzaa

I wore it on my magblade while ganking for a while. I also thought it was pretty decent just playing open world with my guild too. If you usually weave in some heavy attacks for regen and grim, or open your gank with a heavy it will do really well. I was using KS with spinners and Grothdarr at the time.

Vanzen

Skoria/Sload/KS on DK

Zerg surfing spamming wings and heavy lightning ...

Lame but relaxing

Artim_X

I combine it with infallible aether (yes the trial set). Gives me just enough crit for decent heals, debuffs players with a consistently applied minor vulnerability, increases the damage of my fully charged heavy attacks, creates a cool visual that other players can see, makes a cool sound as well, and when knight slayer finally procs after my lightning/resto heavy attack ends it's all the more satisfying. Not the most exciting playstyle, but it gives my healer something to do besides meditating my resources back. I also use grothdarr, which sometimes results in other players backing off from me.

TheFamousMockingbird

On my magic Templar I made a true Knightslayer build.

5 Piece KS
5 Piece Durok's bane
Alternate between different monster set head and shoulder pieces but have been using Domihaus and Lord Warden mix.

Current build out in Cyro is healer support, but this build also makes you able to send out some non-ignorable damage. It especially excels against tanky builds and shield users. Versus DKs it is a potent and oft surprising offense. Hit them with Eclipse on cooldown, and light attack light attack it will cause all their reflected dmg from wings and volatile armor to hit them for around 4k dmg a sec. Invite them into your templar house and save stam for breaking Petrify. Then start hitting them with the heavy attacks (I use resto, lightning also good due to channel). You will find that with the duroks kicking in and their health rapidly declining they tend to try and heal heal heal, hit them with soul assault or radiant for finisher. This is on a build sporting purges, siege shield and heals. From backline in a raid or zerg it sends out nice pops of dmg numbers while charging up your heals.

Amksed1991

Reviving this thread for a question.

Anyone used this 5pc w/ Sorcerer's Heavy Attack Ult? Does it proc each tick?

ATomiX96

Amksed1991 wrote: »

Reviving this thread for a question.

Anyone used this 5pc w/ Sorcerer's Heavy Attack Ult? Does it proc each tick?

no it shouldnt, overload heavy attack doesnt proc any set bonuses afaik.

Joosef_Kivikilpi

ATomiX96 wrote: »

Amksed1991 wrote: »

Reviving this thread for a question.

Anyone used this 5pc w/ Sorcerer's Heavy Attack Ult? Does it proc each tick?

no it shouldnt, overload heavy attack doesnt proc any set bonuses afaik.

Sorcerer Overload ultimate is boosted by Undaunted Unweaver and Infiltrator sets though for some crazy damage. Add in Elegance with one of the sets + VMA Lightning blockade and your heavy melts.