I disagree for the Dragons Bones patch. MagDKs can now achieve very high Off Balance (and thus Exploiter) uptime in PVP. 75 in Thaumaturge gives me a very strong Embers DOT, and even if that is the only DOT I use, it gives me 10% extra damage on all other skills (while still leaving enough CP to stack heavily into MaA, Ele Expert, and either spell pen or crit dmg.) Taking points out of Thaum to stack those other stars higher does not result in a 10% damage increase.
Yamenstein wrote: »
I disagree for the Dragons Bones patch. MagDKs can now achieve very high Off Balance (and thus Exploiter) uptime in PVP. 75 in Thaumaturge gives me a very strong Embers DOT, and even if that is the only DOT I use, it gives me 10% extra damage on all other skills (while still leaving enough CP to stack heavily into MaA, Ele Expert, and either spell pen or crit dmg.) Taking points out of Thaum to stack those other stars higher does not result in a 10% damage increase.
How do you achieve high off balance ? For my solo parses I feel like I never proc it.
I disagree for the Dragons Bones patch. MagDKs can now achieve very high Off Balance (and thus Exploiter) uptime in PVP. 75 in Thaumaturge gives me a very strong Embers DOT, and even if that is the only DOT I use, it gives me 10% extra damage on all other skills (while still leaving enough CP to stack heavily into MaA, Ele Expert, and either spell pen or crit dmg.) Taking points out of Thaum to stack those other stars higher does not result in a 10% damage increase.
I disagree for the Dragons Bones patch. MagDKs can now achieve very high Off Balance (and thus Exploiter) uptime in PVP. 75 in Thaumaturge gives me a very strong Embers DOT, and even if that is the only DOT I use, it gives me 10% extra damage on all other skills (while still leaving enough CP to stack heavily into MaA, Ele Expert, and either spell pen or crit dmg.) Taking points out of Thaum to stack those other stars higher does not result in a 10% damage increase.
With 75 in Thaumaturg the pretty best pvp CP split you can do is:
75 Thaumaturge
50 Master at arms
55 elemental expert
40 spell erosion
20 elfborn
My tooltip for whip is 9957 and powerlash 11798. --> total: 21755
Powerlash bonus of 10%: 12978 --> total: 22934
My actual CP split:
35 Thaumaturge
65 Master at arms
65 elemental expert
45 spell erosion
30 elfborn
My tooltip for whip is 10324 and powerlash 12232. --> total: 22556
This results in a powerlash bonus of 6% and a total lash bonus of only 1,6%.
With the second setup my proc sets hit harder (valkyn, Caluurion), but also Meteor, fossilize, deep breath, burning ambers + talons first hit, flames of oblivion...
In my opinion its not worth it.
I could take out some points of spell erosion and go for:
75 Thaumaturge
60 Master at arms
60 elemental expert
25 spell erosion
20 elfborn
My tooltip for whip is 10177 and powerlash 12058. --> total: 22235
Powerlash bonus of 10%: 13264 --> total: 23441
Powerlash bonus of 8% and total lash bonus of 4%.
Without losing much damage on the other abilities but we lose 1300 penetration what results in around 2% less damage and we are in the first scenario again.
Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »