Stamplar Gear Suggestions

Septimus_Magna

Last week I respecced to Stamplar for PVE dps but I have a few questions about gear before I waste all my transmute stones again.

Currently I have the following sets collected:

• Relequen - body pieces, necklace, 1h axe and dagger.
• Lokkestiiz - body pieces, jewelry, 1h axe and dagger.
• Deadly Strike - body pieces and jewelry.
• Advancing Yokeda - body pieces, jewelry, 1h axe and 1h sword.

There are a couple different fight scenarios for which the gear setup might vary:

1. Single target focus in a 12-man group.
2. Single target focus in a 4-man group.
3. Multiple target focus in a 12-man group.
4. Multiple target focus in a 4-man group.

What gear setup would you recommend for these different scenarios?
And is front barring Relequen or AY viable on a Stamplar?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Shaggygaming

You cannot use Releq weapons because you will drop your stacks when switching bars.

Deadly weapons - mainhand Nirn, offhand Sharp
Deadly jewelry - Bloodthirsty
Selene Monster Set

If you cannot keep your stacks up drop Releq body for Lokk body.


Skinny Cheeks Stamplar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR8hAgHN6yg

SpLaTTyDaDDy

I do 2 Selene or 2 storm fist pending how your recovery is.
5 deadly (3 jewelry 1axe 1 dagger nirn/sharp

Then flip flop sets are rele (if the game ain't lagging its butt off) or war machine in 4 man content
12man I usually just leave rele on. Still working on my lokke setup. I'd def only run deadly on weps though its primary focus making your jabs hit harder

SidraWillowsky

Shaggygaming wrote: »

You cannot use Releq weapons because you will drop your stacks when switching bars.

Deadly weapons - mainhand Nirn, offhand Sharp
Deadly jewelry - Bloodthirsty
Selene Monster Set

If you cannot keep your stacks up drop Releq body for Lokk body.


Skinny Cheeks Stamplar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR8hAgHN6yg

Well, you technically can- the stacks last 5 seconds, so you could technically get back to your front bar within that time frame. That said, the stacks don't build when you're on your back bar, so I wouldn't recommend it. I don't like the AY set either- for whatever reason I cannot get the uptime high enough.

Looking at a vet trial from last night, the player with the highest DPS is a stamplar. He uses Deadly Strike, Selene, and New Moon Acolyte. The second highest was also a stamplar; he wore Rele, Deadly Strike, and Selene. In both cases the players were using deadly weaps/jewels and rele/NMA as body.

SpLaTTyDaDDy

NMA is nice if you can sustain it. I'm a scrub and have issues sustaining it unless I pair it with VO in vma

xaraan

I prefer Rele/Deadly (deadly on weapons) on my stamplar. I don't see a big dps difference vs lokke and I don't have to worry about did I synergize that on the right bar? Did I miss that synergy, etc. (The last one is an issue b/c when I'm channeling jabs, sometimes I'm not as quick as the other dps to grab a synergy and miss it). And I look for any reason not to run the exact same lokke/rele setup on every stam dps. So having a set that works great for stamplar without much if any dps loss is nice.

I do swap to Aegis/Deadly for dungeons and stuff though, just better for AoE and fights that aren't going to last a long time (where you wont' build up rele stacks).

Septimus_Magna

Thanks for the advice everyone, Ive noticed that Lokke doesnt work as well on a Stamplar because it can be difficult to hit the synergy in between channeling jabs.

For raids I will definitely try out Relequen on the body and Deadly on the front bar.

For dungeons I think Relequen is hard to justify, most fights are pretty short or there are mechanics that cause you to lose the stacks. Lokke is also not very useful because the up-time is usually pretty low with a limited amount of synergies. I dont think I can sustain NMA, my sustain isnt bad with few synergies but its not great either.

AY is just slightly better than Leviathan which would always be active so that might be an interesting option.
Automaton also buffs all attacks except Ritual so that might be a decent replacement for NMA.

Edit: Automaton is not buffed by major brutality so thats not a good option.

Shantu

I prefer Vicious Serpent (VO), Deadly Strikes, and Selene's/Velidreth as a good all-around approach. If fights are mostly single target, I'll consider Relequen instead of VO.

Giljabrar

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

Edit: Automaton is not buffed by major brutality so thats not a good option.

It's not? I could've sworn it was

Septimus_Magna

Giljabrar wrote: »

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

Edit: Automaton is not buffed by major brutality so thats not a good option.

It's not? I could've sworn it was

I did some testing and it appears that Automaton is buffed by major brutality.

With 5pc Automaton major brutality increases the jabs tooltip by 8.8%.
With 4pc Automaton major brutality increases the jabs tooltip by 8.3%.

If major brutality had no effect on Automaton the %increase with the 4pc would have been higher.

Maulkin

Personally for single target (bosses) on trials I would go Rele body, Deadly front bar. I don't think you can easily beat that without giving away too much in terms of sustain (i.e. NMA).

For clearing AoE trash more quickly I would definitely drop Rele, put Deadly on the body and either Lokke or AY on front bar. Lokke is certainly preferable if everyone puts out lots of synergies. AY works quite well on my Khajiit Stamplar in pug groups when synergies are lacking, since the racial passive allows you to get couple more % of damage from the set

For vet dungeons I would definitely go VO on the body and either TFS on front bar for the pen, or AY for the crit. Normally TFS since I keep low pen on CPs and can't be bothered to change that. I'd keep the same setup on for solo content (vMA) too, which will also need farming again soon