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Stam NB or Stam DK for HotR PvE dps?

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Hey everyone, I've been using a mag sorc as my main for a while now and finally want to try a solid stamina dps character, but what class is best now?

I'm assuming NB's and DK's are the top of the stamina dps classes, but which one would be best for all PvE aspects (including trials, vMA, etc)? Which one has the best single target? AoE? Sustain/Survivability?

Thanks in advance.

  • Pijng
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    StamDK is better in my opinion. Just have no time to say why. But I'm sure others will give you a full argumented answers.
  • Brrrofski
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    Stam dk.

    Dots and heavy attack build. Never have to worry about resources like you do with stamblade.
  • Araxyte
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    Stamblade self-buffed 3mil dummy NMG, VO, Krag, VMA bow

    pre-patch was 46.7. Not sure how this compares to stam DK though
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  • Asardes
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    Both are probably around the same. Stam NB may have a slight edge now because they fixed the way execute skills scale with CP and other bonuses.
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  • actosh
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    Nbs are fun with warmachine eqiiped to push dps of 2members.
  • Xvorg
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    Stamblade with infused maul and a crushing glyph + NMG.

    Focused aim (bow bar) + crit rush + Surprise attack.

    You wanted penetration? What about breaking armors?
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    Araxyte wrote: »
    01431b84fc92c25e5e950d66c4754116.png

    Stamblade self-buffed 3mil dummy NMG, VO, Krag, VMA bow

    pre-patch was 46.7. Not sure how this compares to stam DK though


    isnt this setup bad in trials? crusher + alkosh means you are over penet. cap. am i wrong?
  • Bladerunner1
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    Stamblades have better self buffing, so they parse higher in solo and maybe small groups, StamDK is higher usually in raids.

    Stamblades can have a faster pace, more light attacks coupled with heals and a satisfying amount of burst damage. They probably have the best class AOE damaging skill, power extraction, but it rarely comes up in meta guides. When I use a bow/2H build with the forceful passive combined with my stamblade's power extraction it's by far the highest AOE DPS of all the builds I've tried.
  • Juhasow
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    Stam dk is doing higher DPS then stam nb in optimised group enviroment but have harder rotation to do that. We're talking here about up to 60k+ single target DPS.
    In solo or poorly optimised group enviroment stam nb doing more DPS.
  • Patouf
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    If you play with other StamBoyz StamDK is nice for its passives, buy StamNB with War machine shines stronger with other stamboyz !

    Skeleton parses does not represent the dps in raid, sNB has so many things to think about to not lose its dps.

    StamDK has a hard rotation with lot of active buff/skills, but easier than sNB, he does not lose its dps when he goes wrong where as stamNB goes wrong he loses lot of dps.

    The main strenght of DK is more AoE and lot of regen, moreover sDK has lot of choise to gear itself, Sunderflame/TFS/NMG/Hundings/Spriggan/mephala/veldreth/kragh...

    And if we look at the nerf at mundus stone(shadow, thief), it affects more sNB.

    Moreover... sDK can go easy with Khajiit for sustain, more difficult for sNB.
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