Need Build Suggestions

DestroyerPewnack

Hello, everyone. I'm trying to collect every gear piece in the game, and now I've reached the solo arenas part.

I'm looking for a build that can melt arena bosses as quickly and as efficiently as possible. So, more upfront damage, and less focus on sustained damage and survivability. Hyperioxes's builds are not too helpful for this.

Are Thrassian Stranglers still a thing? Is Balorgh still being used for this purpose? And which class/class masteries would be best, in this situation?

I was thinking of Nightblade, with Mechanical Acuity, and the Above and Beyond class mastery (raises crit damage cap from 125% to 155% and gives 25% crit damage,) but I'm not sure how to get to 155% crit damage.

Also looking at Sorc. Streak would be great to skip certain arena mechanics, and Sorc has high upfront and execute damage, (Amplitude passive for upfront damage, Static Reverberation class mastery for execute.)

Soarora

I just used regular old fatecarver arcanist. As the class came out after both arenas (unless you’re including IA), they’re not balanced for fatecarver… which not only has strong damage, cleave, and survivability (reaving blows cp and the shield from pragmatic), the beam is also long enough that you can damage multiple portal spawn locations in Maelstrom Arena at once.

StytchFingal

DestroyerPewnack wrote: »

Are Thrassian Stranglers still a thing? Is Balorgh still being used for this purpose? And which class/class masteries would be best, in this situation?

I've using Thrassian with Aegis and Agony on a solo WW (all attributes in health) whose gear I was too lazy to optimize for Shattered Path. Not quite as much damage as Shattered, but not very far behind at all. Makes arenas into jokes.

DenverRalphy

I just HA OakenSorc'd my way through them when I started from scratch after moving to consoles. And was still only held up by the scripting. At a certain point, you can't really go any faster in the solo arenas.