Help with Redguard Stam DK DPS

TheMilkMan · August 2016

Hello,
I have a Redguard Stam Dragonknight and I recently hit CP 160 so I was wondering which crafted gear would be most helpful for endgame DPS. I do mostly PvE. I was also wondering if someone could give me an idea of how I should allocate my CP.

Here are my (somewhat pitiful) stats (unbuffed):

Health: 12555
Stamina: 22404
Stam Recovery: 881
Weapon Damage 2019
Weapon Crit: 20.3% (Yikes, I know)
CP:166

Attributes:

Magicka: 0
Health: 5
Stam: 59

Amdar_Godkiller · August 2016

CP:

Red

Mostly Hardy and Elemental Defender
Some in Quick Healing and Thick-Skinned

Blue
Mostly in Mighty
Some in Thaumaturge, Precise Strikes, Blessed, and Piercing

Green
Spread between ability and roll dodge cost reduction and stam regen

TheMilkMan · August 2016

TheMilkMan wrote: »

Hello,
I have a Redguard Stam Dragonknight and I recently hit CP 160 so I was wondering which crafted gear would be most helpful for endgame DPS. I do mostly PvE. I was also wondering if someone could give me an idea of how I should allocate my CP.

Here are my (somewhat pitiful) stats (unbuffed):

Health: 12555
Stamina: 22404
Stam Recovery: 881
Weapon Damage 2019
Weapon Crit: 20.3% (Yikes, I know)
CP:166

Attributes:

Magicka: 0
Health: 5
Stam: 59

I should've included my bar setup.

First bar: DW
Rapid Strikes, Noxious Breath, Igneous Weapons, Steel Tornado, Venomous Claw. Ultimate: Flawless Dawnbreaker

Second Bar: 2H
Critical Rush, Wrecking Blow, Green Dragon Blood, Executioner, Forward Momentum. Ult: Corrosive Armor

I also typically run 5 Medium and 2 Heavy.

Amdar_Godkiller · August 2016

Hunding's is the go-to craftable stam DPS gear.

AverageJo3Gam3r · August 2016

Start with something like 5 hundings, 3-4 nights silence, with agility or jewlery. That's a good starter set.

sickboy2808 · August 2016

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

Start with something like 5 hundings, 3-4 nights silence, with agility or jewlery. That's a good starter set.

Exactly how i have set up my new Redguard Stam DK but with kena shoulders

TheMilkMan · August 2016

What kind of traits should i be putting on my weapons/armor?

AverageJo3Gam3r · August 2016

For PvE, all divines.

TheMilkMan · August 2016

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

For PvE, all divines.

Right on, thanks man! What about enchantments though?

sickboy2808 · August 2016

Divines with stam enchant for armour is what i have done

Alcast · August 2016

http://alcasthq.com/venom/

I really recommend grinding more CP asap.

altemriel · August 2016

5 medium Hunding`s Range, 3 medium Nightmother`s gaze, Agility robust jewelry (or at least Ravager as I have, Agility expensive...)

cp into Mighty, Warlord, Mooncalf, Blessed, Medium armor focus (or was it expert

),

altemriel · August 2016

Traits armor: all divines/infused,
weapons: precise, sharpened
Enchant Increase max stamina enchant/increase max health enchant, weapons 2H (fire damage enchant), bow (frost damage entchant)

Asmael · August 2016

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

Start with something like 5 hundings, 3-4 nights silence, with agility or jewlery. That's a good starter set.

5 Night Mother Gaze / 4 Hundings / 3 Agility (all Robust with Weapon damage enchants) is actually better for those who don't have vMA weapons. All medium, full Divines, Thief mundus, only stamina glyphs on armor. 1 Dagger, 1 axe (1 Sharpened / 1 Precise or 2 Sharpened). All attribute points into stamina. Use Health / stamina food.

First bar: DW
Rapid Strikes, Noxious Breath, Igneous Weapons, Steel Tornado, Venomous Claw. Ultimate: Flawless Dawnbreaker

Second Bar: 2H
Critical Rush, Wrecking Blow, Green Dragon Blood, Executioner, Forward Momentum. Ult: Corrosive Armor

If you really want to run this setup, I guess you're not the "flower picking" kind (for short, you don't get Major Brutality from potions), so assuming this, you'll get your Major Brutality buff from abilities. Now, DW / Bow is superior to DW / 2H, but this is how I'd set a DW / 2H setup:

DW

Rapid strikes
Venomous claw
Steel tornado (AoE) OR Rending slashes (boss fights)
Rearming trap
Expert hunter (any morph)
(R) Flawless Dawnbreaker

2H

Executioner
Rally OR Igneous weapons (favor Igneous weapons)
Resolving Vigor (GDB meanwhile)
Caltrops (any morph, I prefer Razor caltrops for dungeons, anti-cavalry for boss fights)
(flex) Flames of Oblivion
(R) Standard of Might

Now, honestly, I'm not even sure Executioner is good enough to compare to the DW bar, even in execute phase, if not, might as well just replace it with a passive damage buff (a Fighters' guild abilities, Silver shards to have a ranged attack for use once in a while I guess).

Reasons for what abilities are changed

Wrecking Blow is redundant and a DPS loss compared to Rapid strikes, especially since it has a bad synergy with weaving
We eliminated the redundancy of Major brutality by choosing either Rally or Igneous weapons (I'd pick Igneous weapons)
Corrosive Armor is inferior to Standard of Might both for single target DPS and AoE situations. The drop in survivability can be compensated by... learning the mechanics.
Forward momentum makes sense in PvP, but Rally (if you use it) is the better choice for dungeons. That said, Igneous weapons is still the preferred choice, as it also gives you extra ultimate, and the Minor brutality buff.

Still, this is a dungeon setup, true late game, you'll want to look at something like what @Alcast posted above.

Hutch679 · August 2016

TheMilkMan wrote: »

TheMilkMan wrote: »

Hello,
I have a Redguard Stam Dragonknight and I recently hit CP 160 so I was wondering which crafted gear would be most helpful for endgame DPS. I do mostly PvE. I was also wondering if someone could give me an idea of how I should allocate my CP.

Here are my (somewhat pitiful) stats (unbuffed):

Health: 12555
Stamina: 22404
Stam Recovery: 881
Weapon Damage 2019
Weapon Crit: 20.3% (Yikes, I know)
CP:166

Attributes:

Magicka: 0
Health: 5
Stam: 59

I should've included my bar setup.

First bar: DW
Rapid Strikes, Noxious Breath, Igneous Weapons, Steel Tornado, Venomous Claw. Ultimate: Flawless Dawnbreaker

Second Bar: 2H
Critical Rush, Wrecking Blow, Green Dragon Blood, Executioner, Forward Momentum. Ult: Corrosive Armor

I also typically run 5 Medium and 2 Heavy.

Why run igneous weapons? Forward momentum already gives you major brutality and it doesn't stack. Also why do you have 2 damage bars? Even if this is for Pve it's not efficient because you could be using caltrops on your buff bar. IMHO, you should have a buff bar and a damage bar. You currently have two damage bars but are missing some key skills. You don't need wrecking blow if you are using rapid strikes. You also don't need executioner if you are using dual wield skills because the dual wield skills act as an execute already and you have steel tornado slotted which acts as your execute. You'd be better off using igneous shields on your off bar because it gives a 5% stamina return and it gives minor brutality increasing weapon damage by 5%.

Try this.
Bar 1 dual wield
Venomous claw
Noxious breath
Steel tornado
Expert hunter (any morph)
Rapid strikes
Flawless dawnbreaker

Bar 2 2hand
Igneous shield
Green dragon blood (vigor if you have it instead)
Forward momentum
Reflective scale/volatile armor/ or shuffle
Critical rush
Corrosive armor

^much more effective I promise you

TheMilkMan · August 2016

Asmael wrote: »

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

Start with something like 5 hundings, 3-4 nights silence, with agility or jewlery. That's a good starter set.

5 Night Mother Gaze / 4 Hundings / 3 Agility (all Robust with Weapon damage enchants) is actually better for those who don't have vMA weapons. All medium, full Divines, Thief mundus, only stamina glyphs on armor. 1 Dagger, 1 axe (1 Sharpened / 1 Precise or 2 Sharpened). All attribute points into stamina. Use Health / stamina food.

First bar: DW
Rapid Strikes, Noxious Breath, Igneous Weapons, Steel Tornado, Venomous Claw. Ultimate: Flawless Dawnbreaker

Second Bar: 2H
Critical Rush, Wrecking Blow, Green Dragon Blood, Executioner, Forward Momentum. Ult: Corrosive Armor

If you really want to run this setup, I guess you're not the "flower picking" kind (for short, you don't get Major Brutality from potions), so assuming this, you'll get your Major Brutality buff from abilities. Now, DW / Bow is superior to DW / 2H, but this is how I'd set a DW / 2H setup:

DW
Rapid strikes

Venomous claw

Steel tornado (AoE) OR Rending slashes (boss fights)

Rearming trap

Expert hunter (any morph)

(R) Flawless Dawnbreaker

2H
Executioner

Rally OR Igneous weapons (favor Igneous weapons)

Resolving Vigor (GDB meanwhile)

Caltrops (any morph, I prefer Razor caltrops for dungeons, anti-cavalry for boss fights)

(flex) Flames of Oblivion

(R) Standard of Might

Now, honestly, I'm not even sure Executioner is good enough to compare to the DW bar, even in execute phase, if not, might as well just replace it with a passive damage buff (a Fighters' guild abilities, Silver shards to have a ranged attack for use once in a while I guess).

Reasons for what abilities are changed
Wrecking Blow is redundant and a DPS loss compared to Rapid strikes, especially since it has a bad synergy with weaving

We eliminated the redundancy of Major brutality by choosing either Rally or Igneous weapons (I'd pick Igneous weapons)

Corrosive Armor is inferior to Standard of Might both for single target DPS and AoE situations. The drop in survivability can be compensated by... learning the mechanics.

Forward momentum makes sense in PvP, but Rally (if you use it) is the better choice for dungeons. That said, Igneous weapons is still the preferred choice, as it also gives you extra ultimate, and the Minor brutality buff.

Still, this is a dungeon setup, true late game, you'll want to look at something like what @Alcast posted above.

Thanks for all the information that you're giving me man! Wouldn't it be more beneficial to have maybe one health enchant on my armor? Seeing as how my health is fairly low.

Holy-Dope · August 2016

Use food and start doing the dungeons to level undaunted . That'd give u 6% extra states. W/ Cp-150 food you and be close to 17k health which is more than enough

Holy-Dope · August 2016

And also once you allocate your cp, that give you extra base stats as well.

Stannum · August 2016

DPS buld for redguard DK
1. CP. Blue: Taumaturg and Precious strikes until inc<=0.4% rest all to mighty until caps. When mighty at cap put to taumaturg and precious strike at 2\1 rate.
CP. Red mostly spread between mitigations (dont remeber both in middle const) adn some for healing resieved.
CP Green to stam regen until caps then to stam cost reduction.
2. Armour. light divines belt, heavy infused chest, 5 medim (head and guards infused else - divines), Mundus - thief.
3. Sets, 5Hundings+4mothers gase + (need to buy 3 agility jewelry). Armour with stamina enchanment, weapon with poison.
4. Weapon DW both. 1st bar 2x daggers, 2nd bar 2x hammers or hammer+sword. Everything sharpened.
5. bars:
main AoE\trashmobs bar (2xdaggers)
tornado-hunter-cloak-nox breath-igneous weapons \\FDB
main boss bar (2x hammers or hammer+sword)
rapid strikes-hunter-blood craze- venom claw-vigor \\FDB

If you have good heal in party and have no need in emergensy heal you can put away vigor and put nox breath on both bars (for conviniense not tu tuggle bars on boss fight) or put shadow silk or rearming trap for extra damaging skill.