We'll need some more information to help you.

What sets are you using?
How many CPs do you have and how do you distribute them?
Are you using max health / max stamina blue food? If no, make sure to always have your food buff up. It provides very high stats very easily.
What armor weights do you use? As a stamina build, you should have at least 5 medium armor parts, rest can be either heavy or medium
What weapons? (2H / Bow, DW / Bow...)
Can you provide a screenshot of your character stats?
What abilities do you have on both bars?
What mundus stone are you using? Answer should be Thief, or Thief & Shadow if using Twice Born Star

For sets, you have a few option, a good cheap starter being 5 Hundings and 3/4 Night Mother Gaze (NMG) or 5 NMG and 3/4 Hundings, depending on the weapons you are using.
For weapons, Either 2H / Bow, DW / Bow or 2H / DW can work, leave the shield to the tank.

To help your survivability, you can use either Rally (morph of Momentum), Resolving Vigor (requires some PvP to unlock) or Bloodthirst (morph of Flurry). Try to have at least 16k health for dungeons.

Don't forget that your damage directly depends on the following formula for stamina builds:

Average damage = ( ( max stamina / 10.46 ) + weapon damage ) * ( 1 + ( critical chance * critical damage ) )

So increasing your maximum stamina also helps increasing your damage.

I'd recommend checking videos of guides (available anywhere, Google is your friend) for dungeons you'll run but don't know the mechanics yet.

Here is a very detailed guide by @Gilliamtherogue for endgame stamina DD build. You won't have access to all items right away, but you can get some ideas from the abilities used and some stronger gear setups.

Asmael wrote: »

We'll need some more information to help you.

What sets are you using?
How many CPs do you have and how do you distribute them?
Are you using max health / max stamina blue food? If no, make sure to always have your food buff up. It provides very high stats very easily.
What armor weights do you use? As a stamina build, you should have at least 5 medium armor parts, rest can be either heavy or medium
What weapons? (2H / Bow, DW / Bow...)
Can you provide a screenshot of your character stats?
What abilities do you have on both bars?
What mundus stone are you using? Answer should be Thief, or Thief & Shadow if using Twice Born Star

For sets, you have a few option, a good cheap starter being 5 Hundings and 3/4 Night Mother Gaze (NMG) or 5 NMG and 3/4 Hundings, depending on the weapons you are using.
For weapons, Either 2H / Bow, DW / Bow or 2H / DW can work, leave the shield to the tank.

To help your survivability, you can use either Rally (morph of Momentum), Resolving Vigor (requires some PvP to unlock) or Bloodthirst (morph of Flurry). Try to have at least 16k health for dungeons.

Don't forget that your damage directly depends on the following formula for stamina builds:

Average damage = ( ( max stamina / 10.46 ) + weapon damage ) * ( 1 + ( critical chance * critical damage ) )

So increasing your maximum stamina also helps increasing your damage.

I'd recommend checking videos of guides (available anywhere, Google is your friend) for dungeons you'll run but don't know the mechanics yet.

Here is a very detailed guide by @Gilliamtherogue for endgame stamina DD build. You won't have access to all items right away, but you can get some ideas from the abilities used and some stronger gear setups.

Well i have no set atm lol im using purple tri stat food some random CP set up and rsndom mundus stone. I might start there and see how i go. I do have vigor unlocked just havent used it.

Easy place to start for pve Stam dps is 5 piece hundings rage, dual wield, and a bow.
Fill the other sets with any stamina or weapon crit/ damage
More expensive but attainable gear would be 3 Piece agility jewelry.
Once you get up to speed on this, you can farm for specific loot to upgrade, and it should be realtively doable

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jarradarab wrote: »

Looking for some tips for my dps toon. I main a temp healer and then have a DK tank, but ive recently leveled a stamblade to CP level. Im struggling a lot with survivability and getting my dps up. Currently sitting at about 7k single target and dying a lot, any tips will help.

Try using 5 Red Mountain and 5 Viper, they are relatively cheap to obtain. If you are running Two-Handed I would suggest using Brawler and Rally. Run a bow on your second bar for Arrow Barrage, Acid Spray and Re-arming trap at the very least. If you need a hand getting the equipment let me know.

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If you would like I could give you a complete breakdown of the skills I currently use.

I would like this, I just got my my stam blade kitted out, hundings+ 4 leki, duels with a master dagger and mephala. I just can't seem to do much better then 17k dps. Have 35k stam and 3.1k WD on the duels bar, precise master dagger and sharpened leki axe. 6 medium 1 heavy.

What is your critical hit %?