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MagDk builds

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Imvoracious
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I am looking for ideas for magDk dps builds. I've seen Alcasts and masels builds but I'm wondering if anything else is out there?

I am currently running either 5 spinner/4 IA/2 illambris (charged and precise spinner staves for off balance flame lash)

Or 5 spinner (front bar - charged staff off balance heavy attacks and flame lash) 5 undaunted infiltrator on back back for heavy/light attack proc and 2 illambris.

Sustain is not a problem with second build and is manageable in first, but I can only pull around 23k dps at 400 cp.

Any ideas would be most welcome!!
  • Narvuntien
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    Well you saw the builds they made and those are the best dps.

    The advantage of spinners is that you don't need sharpened weapons to get to the penetration cap. Otherwise it is less dps.

    I also have no trials gear (no slayer).

    Ideally i'd want bsw and silks of the sun and valkan skoria helmet but sun sharpened staff is too much money. (I'll probable be able to run witchmothers brew for sustain with my hp bounses with that set up)

    But for now i have seducers (light) and bsw. The bsw uptime is up quite high for dk so it is pretty similar in power to silks of the sun. Julianos is probably more dps than seducers as a crafted option. But i don't have dlc.

    If you are a pvp player heavy seducers is very strong for sustian.
  • caperon
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    If you have people using lighting wall of elements with you, you can use 5 bsw, 4 ia/moondancer, 2 grothdar and morph your whip to flame lash. If you dont have bsw, sun could work.

    If you go for the heavy atack route, you want vma staff. The bonus to your heavy atacks is just too good to not have vma staff for the wall.
    Edited by caperon on June 20, 2017 6:01PM
  • Duragon_Darko
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    I use 5 BSW, 5 Julianos, no monster helm, just a head piece that gives magicka. I don't have time to get Moondancer, which is the better set, but Julianos works for me better then a monster helm. I mainly light armor mage dps and love it.
    .... I have to admit, the devs do listen to reason, if not to the forums. Thank you for "nameplates", a welcome addition to immersion, as well as the text chat box for PS4, which only comes on the screen when I need it too, and helps this gameplay SO MUCH MORE then without it. THANK YOU for the additions. Very much appreciated.
  • Narvuntien
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    Duragon_Darko wrote: »
    I use 5 BSW, 5 Julianos, no monster helm, just a head piece that gives magicka. I don't have time to get Moondancer, which is the better set, but Julianos works for me better then a monster helm. I mainly light armor mage dps and love it.

    You can just back bar BSW trigger it and switch back to Julianos.
    The monster Helms are just so powerful on MagDks with the fire damage boost that I'd rather go without a 5 piece bonus than a monster helm... I guess the best set to go 5 -4 is actually spinners I think.
  • theamazingx
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    I've been using 5sun/3md/2grothdarr, maelstrom backbar. 5/1/1, 1 prismatic enchant on a large piece. Witchmothers, but you can get away with dual stat food in some fights with good offbalance uptime. Worked out well for me so far. Would be better with an md staff front instead of a trash staff, of course.
  • BlanketFort
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    Is BSW on back bar and Sun on front bar alright? Specifically, if BSW on backbar is worth it (does it proc enough?). Just recently switched to mag (from StamDK) and don't really have a clue on how to effectively play the mag class, yet.
  • Qbiken
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    Off-balance DK is so good, especially for vMSA :D Got my first Flawless run with an Off-balance build using Spinner, Illambris and Moondancer :D
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