You aren't that far from what I managed to get in pts. I was doing some warden and night blade testing. Here's what I came up with:

Reverse Slice, Critical Rush, Sub Assault, Rearming trap,(utility slot), Flawless dawn breaker.
Endless Hail or poison injection (depending on fight), Bull Netch, Bird of Prey, Green Lotus, Cutting Dive, Ballista

It's quite similar to yours with a few changes. The build plays melee though, regardless if you have a bow, it's on the back bar.

Why no brawler? What I would do is buffs, cast sub Assault and then crit rush, trap, endless Hail (or injection if it was single target), weave reverse slice with heavy attacks, rinse and repeat. For groups, dawnbreaker is beast. For single target, Ballista is an awesome way to maintain pressure while still moving. Both reverse slice and poison injection deals more damage on 50% health and that's where you start to crank up the damage.

The utility slot is really all about giving group support where it's needed. There's so many options, Ice Fortress, gripping shards, leeching vines, bone shield, even soothing spores or vigor. All of these are viable in the build and it all depends on how much group support you want to bring.

Sets I'd use are leviathan, veiled heritance (Jewelry and weapons with one piece armor, usually belt) hundings, automaton, spriggans, briarheart to a certain degree, twice fanged. I'd add spelunker for sustain, but it's more of a tanky set than dps. Some sets are easier to get but common sets such as viper, toothrow, etc doesn't scale well with wardens as they aren't made for poison attack. I'd say go for the automaton veiled heritance combo, that's why the weave of reverse slice and heavy attack works really well here.

Note that this is what I got from pts and not live so results may differ but I assume that it's not that much since there wasn't much changes to the warden as far as I'm concerned.

Grab one piece kraghs for pen or slime craw for the criticals. You can go max Stam for the one piece monster but I'd focus on the pen so you hit harder.

I find reverse slice to be a much better morph than executioner simply because you don't have to spam too many different skills for aoe or single target. This is because reverse slice deals up to 60% damage to nearby enemies. The tool tip I had in the pts, was 96% but again, it's the pts. The fact that you start to deal 300% more damage when enemy is at 50% health works well with your build. Executioner is only 350% more on a single target.

Jeffdkc wrote: »

Ok that makes more sense about reverse slice.

So critical rush, you would really only use once per fight correct? So you think that is better than brawler or carve?

What did your rotation look like if I might ask?

Thanks again for the feedback, its really helpful

On some standing fights, that is true but many of the bosses require you to move so having critical rush makes it easier to get back into the fray. For eg the minotaur boss and the adds in blood root forge.

Gaining ultimate is not that much of a problem if you maintain attacking with sub Assault and cutting dive coupled with the heavy / light attack weaving. Brawler / carve can still be used in the utility slot but it works much better if your build focus is bleeds. Right now it's about weapon damage and dealing as much physical damage as possible.

You can change your gear setup to accommodate the build, like blood drinker but I personally feel bleeds work best with a dual wield / two hander setup.

My rotation was basically buffs [green lotus - bird of Prey - bull Netch - utility slot if you have a buff as well] - sub Assault - critical charge - Rearming trap - endless Hail - weave heavy attack with reverse slice. While moving buff yourself up again, add cutting dive when you can, rinse repeat.

Do note that both bull Netch and lotus has a 20s duration but Bird of Prey has only 10s. You can slot a BoP right after endless Hail so it ends roughly the same time as the other buffs. Almost always use critical rush to get in the fray rather than running into it so you gain that extra damage. While leveling or soloing WBs or dolmens, use Briar heart for excellent self heals.

I don't know about crit rush not making it in a pve dps build but I do agree on caltrops. Birds aren't just for the damage passive but also for better ult regen. Wrecking blow... Doesn't do as much as birds would do for stamden imo.

Swap as you see fit op.

Don't run pugs, you'll just gonna get yourself disappointed lol