Been one month since I asked and made a new character, learned to make potions and food, and reconstructed pariah and gaze helm.
I run 2h/bow now and can make a few kills when lucky. But it looks like I'm stuck in the current setup with no further improvement.
Defense: Mirage and dark shade are up most of time. I can't get major resolve ever, see below Attack issue.
Healing: keep Echoing Vigor and Rally before contact, both are not for burst healing. Been considering to slot brawler in PvP (unslotted it in anger after a world boss one-shotted me)
Sustain: buffed only 2k recovery. It's enough for attack, but not prolonged dodge + attack (changed from well-fitted to impen armors)
Attack is what I would like to improve most. All I do now is to spam stampede repeatedly both as gap closer and in melee range. It crits, usually 4-5k damage recorded by CM but I can't get more. My other abilities seem all useless because they either take time enemies are always retreating and dodging, meaning no volley proc, no relentless focus, no surprise attack, no major resolve, ...
So,
- I guess I need to come up with some combo attacks, and I saw such in CM by other classes such as templar and sorc, but none from stamblade. What can I do as a stamblade, aside from getting a proc set like Night Mother's Gaze or Unleashed Terror? I can't even think of any usable DoT except maybe deadly cloak in backbar (replacing bow)
- Dodging - how do people know when to dodge in PvP? I noticed ranged enemies tend to start dodging when I closed in, but as a melee class should I do that against ranged enemies? Or just keep attacking and hoping they'd panic and die first? And how did people in 1vsX even dodge attacks? Just repeat dodging after the cooldown?
- CC - got CC'ed a lot. I can never see them coming. Aside from Slippery CP is there any other way to deal with that? Most are fear or pulling I recall, not snare or immobility that I can cleanse.