Stam DPS sets in HotR

Kanar · July 2017

With today's change to Leviathan, it looks like leviathan + lover mundus is about the same as current thief + spriggans. I prefer it this way because I'd rather swap gear than mundus, and pen is always useful while crit is not.
What stamina sets look interesting to you?

Septimus_Magna · July 2017

Pen is only useful until you start over-penetrating. This can happen if the targets has major fracture debuff and the tank uses a crusher enchant.

Crits are always useful although at some points its better to raise other stats to make the crits hit harder ofc.

I think Leviathan + TFS with Shadow mundus could be an interesting combination, especially if someone in group runs NMG and/or Alkosh.

RoyJade · July 2017

I'll definitively try a pure crit build with the change to leviathan. A khajiit NB should get nearly 100% crit chance, and with a lot of cp on crit damage and shadow stone it might hurt a lot.
Dunno if it'll be BIS or nearby, but I'll definitively try.

Kanar · July 2017

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

Pen is only useful until you start over-penetrating. This can happen if the targets has major fracture debuff and the tank uses a crusher enchant.

Crits are always useful although at some points its better to raise other stats to make the crits hit harder ofc.

I think Leviathan + TFS with Shadow mundus could be an interesting combination, especially if someone in group runs NMG and/or Alkosh.

I was thinking of PvP when I said crit is not always useful. As a stamDK I don't have enough bonus crit damage to make it worth pursuing in PvP.

Leviathan is making crit build look fun, but I also want to try a build with raw weapon damage focus. StamDK has access to 37% increase to weapon damage (major/minor buff and med armor) with another viable damage focus mundus (lover) available instead of being forced into thief, I could try lover + pirates tatters + hundings (I always wear 1 crafted set...for style) and all weap dam glyphs on jewels then damage might be good enough. That's assuming I can get dubious throne drink recipe...which is expensive. Plus side is that pirates tatters is good for PvP as well so one less set to carry around.

Edit: I just go for "good enough," which for me is 20k DPS on target skel solo. If I get that then I prefer to add sustain, mitigation or utility. I don't run in an optimized trial group.