MagSorc 70k+ build Heavy Attack Oakensoul build.

Living_Tribunal

Just wanted to share my easy heavy attack build. Comments. Critques. GO! I've been liking this setup moslty because I'm not keen on pets...and maintaining multiple abilities...so...this is a lazy setup for me. But when I run PUG dungeons I usually carry the DPS.

Dr_Con

Living_Tribunal

Did you click on it? Loads up just fine.

Living_Tribunal

Zodiarkslayer

The reason why people shy away from Storm Master is the uptime of the Buff.
@Living_Tribunal Can you show or tell us the part of the Combat log, that shows the uptime of Storm Master and Sergeant's Mail, please?

And please explain your rotation, too. For, personally speaking, I find the Daedric Mines to be , ehm ... "unwieldy". And since it is, what?, 4% of your heavy attacks DPS, I suspect casting more heavy attacks instead of it could yield more total DPS.

Or another class DoT or even pet could outperform DMines. Maybe a passive bar buffer, too. I don't know. It may be worth a thought or two?

Living_Tribunal

@Zodiarkslayer ok, I didn't know there was a way to show set up times so I don't have that information. I can rerrun it and post it here later. I have a set of noble duelist, but I was forgetting to run up and reapply the melee damage boost. I liked the daedric mines for the visuals, but yea it's a tough one to use if the boss doesn't stay still. I've been messing with some others to see if I can get higher though. Yes a pet would give me more dps but....I don't really like having them around. I might try one if I can stand it. 🤣
My rotation? Uhm...My rotation....goes something like this...heavy attack to *** of the dummy then apply the longest running ability first. Reapply as needed with a ha in between. Reapply crystal weapon every 2 hits when it runs out.
Hey I'm down for suggestions. I like trying things out!

dmnqwk

Living_Tribunal wrote: »

@Zodiarkslayer ok, I didn't know there was a way to show set up times so I don't have that information. I can rerrun it and post it here later. I have a set of noble duelist, but I was forgetting to run up and reapply the melee damage boost. I liked the daedric mines for the visuals, but yea it's a tough one to use if the boss doesn't stay still. I've been messing with some others to see if I can get higher though. Yes a pet would give me more dps but....I don't really like having them around. I might try one if I can stand it. 🤣
My rotation? Uhm...My rotation....goes something like this...heavy attack to *** of the dummy then apply the longest running ability first. Reapply as needed with a ha in between. Reapply crystal weapon every 2 hits when it runs out.
Hey I'm down for suggestions. I like trying things out!

Try doing the same with just Hurricane / Bound Aegis / Inner Light / Barbed Trap / Camou Hunter. Just remember only use Hurricane - the rest are there because Inner Light is 7% max magicka to couple with Aegis on 8%, and the fighters guild skills are 3% each versus the 2% from sorc. You might be able to squeeze 75k out by ignoring abilities other than Hurricane.

Living_Tribunal

dmnqwk wrote: »

Living_Tribunal wrote: »

@Zodiarkslayer ok, I didn't know there was a way to show set up times so I don't have that information. I can rerrun it and post it here later. I have a set of noble duelist, but I was forgetting to run up and reapply the melee damage boost. I liked the daedric mines for the visuals, but yea it's a tough one to use if the boss doesn't stay still. I've been messing with some others to see if I can get higher though. Yes a pet would give me more dps but....I don't really like having them around. I might try one if I can stand it. 🤣
My rotation? Uhm...My rotation....goes something like this...heavy attack to *** of the dummy then apply the longest running ability first. Reapply as needed with a ha in between. Reapply crystal weapon every 2 hits when it runs out.
Hey I'm down for suggestions. I like trying things out!

Try doing the same with just Hurricane / Bound Aegis / Inner Light / Barbed Trap / Camou Hunter. Just remember only use Hurricane - the rest are there because Inner Light is 7% max magicka to couple with Aegis on 8%, and the fighters guild skills are 3% each versus the 2% from sorc. You might be able to squeeze 75k out by ignoring abilities other than Hurricane.

Thanks! I'll give that a shot. I don't have many fighters guild abilities but I can work on them.

Zodiarkslayer

Living_Tribunal wrote: »

@Zodiarkslayer ok, I didn't know there was a way to show set up times so I don't have that information. I can rerrun it and post it here later. I have a set of noble duelist, but I was forgetting to run up and reapply the melee damage boost. I liked the daedric mines for the visuals, but yea it's a tough one to use if the boss doesn't stay still. I've been messing with some others to see if I can get higher though. Yes a pet would give me more dps but....I don't really like having them around. I might try one if I can stand it. 🤣
My rotation? Uhm...My rotation....goes something like this...heavy attack to *** of the dummy then apply the longest running ability first. Reapply as needed with a ha in between. Reapply crystal weapon every 2 hits when it runs out.
Hey I'm down for suggestions. I like trying things out!

Uptime of your set's buffs can be seen in the "(De)Buff In" part of the cmx window. The columns are name, number and uptime %. It's pretty straight forward. You just have to look up the corresponding buff to the set. For example the Sergeant's Mail set produces the "Sergeant's Focus" buff. Next to it should stand 4/4 and then a percentage number. That is your uptime.
Just scroll down in that window, until you find buffs named after sets.

To decide what sets to use, swap out sets and leave everything else the same, especially rotation. The uptime numbers and the resulting DPS of the change should give you all you need to decide on which set to use.

And remember that tipps like @dmnqwk 's are good to cheese out higher numbers on the trial dummy (which is bloated with buffs at the moment). That might not result in a playable build for actual content. 😉

Living_Tribunal

I tried it but eventually went back to pets. It gave me about 80k. Can't figure out though why my heavy attacks are missing so much. I talked with a fellow on Reddit and his setup, same gear but with prey, pets, unstable, and hurricane, pumped out 90k! I did the same setup with skills and couldn't get in the 90ks..I wondered if it was because my ha kept saying I was missing so many. I'll try to post a parse later today.