Perfect Master's dual wield...

Cortimi

Saw in the patch notes they are "closely monitoring" this set bonus to observe it's "functionality as a spammable", but is anyone actually doing this, using Twin/Rending slashes as a spammable with this set? Just got a set from vDSA today, and my tooltip didn't change so I'm guessing it's a "calculated after cast" kind of thing. Just curious what others think of this particular setup and if anyone is finding it worth giving up a monster set for.

daemonor

For me it outperformed 2h/bow by 2k in a dw/dw 85k>83k setup on my stamsorc, plus the rotation felt alot more fluid. For me it's a yes.

Burtan

in PvP I find that rending outperforms even dizzying swing by a large margin when using master DW. When combined with a heavy attack cancel ive seen combos in excess of 20k damage on a relatively defensive based build without use of an ultimate.

Id say its pretty damn strong, at least in PvP, maybe even a little too strong.

It is indeed calculated after casting twin slashes and will be added to your tooltip.

Cortimi

Burtan wrote: »

in PvP I find that rending outperforms even dizzying swing by a large margin when using master DW. When combined with a heavy attack cancel ive seen combos in excess of 20k damage on a relatively defensive based build without use of an ultimate.

Id say its pretty damn strong, at least in PvP, maybe even a little too strong.

It is indeed calculated after casting twin slashes and will be added to your tooltip.

Ok, you are going to have to educate me, how exactly are you using it? I don't want to try it, do it wrong, then blame my equipment.

Burtan

Cortimi wrote: »

Burtan wrote: »

in PvP I find that rending outperforms even dizzying swing by a large margin when using master DW. When combined with a heavy attack cancel ive seen combos in excess of 20k damage on a relatively defensive based build without use of an ultimate.

Id say its pretty damn strong, at least in PvP, maybe even a little too strong.

It is indeed calculated after casting twin slashes and will be added to your tooltip.

Ok, you are going to have to educate me, how exactly are you using it? I don't want to try it, do it wrong, then blame my equipment.

Bit of a late reply so sorry for that.

You can wind up a heavy attack, cast rending slashes and then another skill or barswap to make it land quickly and with very little animation. There is a very good chance poisons will instantly go off when doing this or you can use a charged shock glyph for 8% extra dmg which is pretty effective.

Sets like sergeants mail also add a rather large amount of dmg to heavy attacks since the set applies its dmg to both ticks of DW heavy attacks for some reason resulting in 5k extra tooltip dmg on heavy attacks.

You can also meme and add vMA destroy at the cost of defensive capability.

With all of this combined ive seen heavy attacks dealing 7k+ each and Rending dealing 3-5k each and then anything else like sub assault on top is pure bonus.

The dot is also decent (as decent as a dot can be right now).