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War Machine or VO? Stamblade

xRichh94
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Hi, I am a regular trialer and I have recently been farming VO but I am just wondering is war machine actually better for trials? As I know the sustain will be great with VO but is the damage that much greater that I can just make up the difference with stamina regeneration glyphs? I will be pairing this with spriggans.

Thanks.
  • Izaki
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    Depends on your group. You can't just say one is better than the other, since different situations will have different results.

    War Machine is best used in an optimized group where you don't have to run Two Fanged (or Spriggan's in your case). War Machine is also more effective in single target fights. War Machine also depends on the group DPS (if its low, then your group won't benefit much).

    VO is good in basically every situation. In certain fights where you have to block/break-free a lot, VO is better since it ensures that you're always able to do those actions when you need to.

    An example where VO is flat out better than War Machine: vMA.

    Also: NEVER use recovery glyphs. Heavy attack more if you can't sustain, it will give you more DPS than light attacking with a recovery glyph.

    Now in terms of damage, War Machine is the peak. But basically its better to have both sets and chose what you'll wear based on the situation.

    Now I've done some dummy parses on the PTS with both and you'll see that the difference isn't huge:

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    ^ WM TFS

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    ^ VO TFS
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  • xRichh94
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    Wow, thank you very much for such an informative post, I did not know that about the recovery glyphs.. I have 3..and there really isn't much difference at all and with the utility of VO aswell, I think I will be sticking with VO. Thank you so much.
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