Poison stamDK. Ideas?

SpiderCultist

I'm quite bored atm and decided I will gear a poison-based stamDK. Been thinking of:

- Monster set not decided yet: either troll king or the new balorgh set. Tested Mephala's Spawn and it's not my thing.
- swamp raider or syvarras
- morag tong

I would probably go for corrosive armor for ultimate. What do you think? I'm only concerned about his squishiness since I should probably go for the medium armor route.

Any idea is appreciated.

Riggsy

You're one patch too late, I think. It seems stam dk poison builds aren't what they used to be after Wolf DLC dropped. I ran morag tong, skoria, and marksman. Relied heavily on bow skills for the boosted poison damage, and dks claws and volatile armor. It was a strong poison dot build that now seems much weaker after the latest DLC. Not to mention there has been a noticeable increase in mag dks all spamming wings, which makes the entire bow line worthless.

Whatever you do don't slot corrosive armor. Its wholly broken (doesn't mitigate damage correctly in PVP or grant you penetration).

I'm interested to see if others have managed to make a a standk poison build still work, or found a way to not rely on bow abilities.

DarkJester1

Are you kidding? With Swamp Raider set, poison is even better now!!! (Also, Acid Spray can't be reflected).

Personally, I use bow and S&B with Lethal Arrow, Acid Spray, and Poison Injection, and Venomous Claw on my other bar with 5 Swamp Raider, 5 Fortified Brass (Medium), and 2 Valkyn Skoria. I like it a lot.

Marcus684

DarkJester1 wrote: »

Are you kidding? With Swamp Raider set, poison is even better now!!! (Also, Acid Spray can't be reflected).

Personally, I use bow and S&B with Lethal Arrow, Acid Spray, and Poison Injection, and Venomous Claw on my other bar with 5 Swamp Raider, 5 Fortified Brass (Medium), and 2 Valkyn Skoria. I like it a lot.

Those are all stam abilities. What are you using to proc Swamp Raider?

DivineFirstYOLO

Swamp Raider
Set bonus
(2 items) Adds 833 Weapon Critical
(3 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
(4 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Stamina
(5 items) Adds 400 Weapon Damage to your Poison and Disease Damage abilities.

this is how you "proc" swamp raider ;-)

Checkmath

i like poisonous snake on my stamdk in no cp pvp.....

SpiderCultist

Thanks for the input guys, I've just geared him up, let's see how it goes when I get home. Something tells me I'll miss heavy armor but whatever...

Marcus684

Oh they changed the set. I must’ve been reading old info.

Xvorg

Go NB

sDK gets no benefits for using poison skills, just a little dmg increase for WiR in acid spray, nothing else. Oh and some recovery with combustion on lethal arrow, which is kind of useless since you use that skill to kill as fast as posible, so the poisoned status shouldn't last more than 3 secs

SpiderCultist

Xvorg wrote: »

Go NB

sDK gets no benefits for using poison skills, just a little dmg increase for WiR in acid spray, nothing else. Oh and some recovery with combustion on lethal arrow, which is kind of useless since you use that skill to kill as fast as posible, so the poisoned status shouldn't last more than 3 secs

Yeah, I'm testing swamp raider with my sNB at this very moment and with good results so far. I couldn't survive as much as I would have liked in open world with medium armor on my sDK. I still have to test syvarras though.

Xvorg

SpiderCultist wrote: »

Xvorg wrote: »

Go NB

sDK gets no benefits for using poison skills, just a little dmg increase for WiR in acid spray, nothing else. Oh and some recovery with combustion on lethal arrow, which is kind of useless since you use that skill to kill as fast as posible, so the poisoned status shouldn't last more than 3 secs

Yeah, I'm testing swamp raider with my sNB at this very moment and with good results so far. I couldn't survive as much as I would have liked in open world with medium armor on my sDK. I still have to test syvarras though.

Syvarras gets no benefit from WiR according to tooltip... since WiR works on abilities, not dmg done. It is not like Sorcs energized, with works on DMG, then they get better procs on stonefist, bleeds (like the one from twin sisters) and things like Livewire or Mad Tinkerer.

I've been telling that the arden flame passives passives are crap to ZoS last 3 years and the only good thing they made was the change to combustions which is not even a great one.

geonsocal

the challenging part of trying to kill folks with disease and poison abilities - is it's a slow death...

if they have access to health pots, or, good burst healing - it's hard to kill folks focusing on poison and disease damage...

I'm still gonna pick up a set of swamp raider and mix it into a build...

what will be particularly rewarding is when I hit someone with lethal arrow and poison injection a couple of times, see them disappear, and get credit for their death a few seconds afterwards...

oh yeah, acid spray for everyone

Ragnarock41

Swamp raider is simply not worth it because of the lack of poison abilities. Same with morag tong. So I do not recommend sinking money into them. (If only acid spray had the defile instead of snipe, this might have at least functioned as a pug stomper, though snipe is kind of horrible with the cast time and its terrile with the rest of your mostly melee kit, meanwhile acid spray would work if it was decent utility-wise.)

Though if you insist, viper+poisonous serpent will do much better than what you have in mind.(very decent build in no-cp, you can literally light attack spam and it will function) Survivability will suffer though.

This is yet another proc build disguised as ''poison knight'', though its mainly poison damage, so I guess that counts for something.

regime211

Riggsy wrote: »

You're one patch too late, I think. It seems stam dk poison builds aren't what they used to be after Wolf DLC dropped. I ran morag tong, skoria, and marksman. Relied heavily on bow skills for the boosted poison damage, and dks claws and volatile armor. It was a strong poison dot build that now seems much weaker after the latest DLC. Not to mention there has been a noticeable increase in mag dks all spamming wings, which makes the entire bow line worthless.

Whatever you do don't slot corrosive armor. Its wholly broken (doesn't mitigate damage correctly in PVP or grant you penetration).

I'm interested to see if others have managed to make a a standk poison build still work, or found a way to not rely on bow abilities.

Actually I came up with a build, and its melting people, corrosive armor actually does a lot of damage and has been working just fine for me.

OrphanHelgen

It had potential to be fun, so they nerfed it.