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The two biggest lies in ESO that have been told to me about my dps are...
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Azyle1✭✭✭✭✭Just tried Redguard and you were right. Not enough of an increase to justify me switching (I had 2 extra tokens I guess). It's like a 900 DPS increase at max and that isn't enough for me to lose a tail and become the most boring race ever.0 -
itsfatbass✭✭✭✭✭I've pretty much given up on vMA, so good to hear that it's not as huge a deal to get that stupid bow as everyone says. I know it would be a dps increase, but honestly I doubt it's going to account for more than 5% of my overall damage output, especially when my rotation only keeps about 75-85% uptime on endless hail and a pretty big portion of my damage is coming from other dots and effects (hurricane, caltrops, trap, slashes, shrouded daggers, deadly cloak, etc).
I've settled on maybe getting an asylum or master bow instead, but I'm not sure those are going to be worth it either.
You really want to be going for 95%+ uptime on Hail. It is your highest damage ability by far. And yes, for best dps you also need VMA Bow paired with it.~PC/NA~ Magblade, Tankanist, Healplar, Stamcro, Oakensorc, Healden, Tanknight ~PLUR~1 -
kylewwefan✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Don’t underestimate the VMA bow. 1 cast of Endless rocks 9500 DPS for 10 seconds with war Machine/TFS.
That’s darn near %25 of your 40k DPS from one skill.
Regular bow ain’t doin that.
It’s great in dungeons with a lot of ads. They melt.
If you’re concerned with trials DPS it’s gonna be quite a bit different because you won’t use TFS and you’ll swap Mundus to warrior.
Running random dungeons, war machine probably won’t make much difference to a bad DPS. But you know. Nothing will.
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Izaki✭✭✭✭✭
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^ 3mil Dummy
^ 6mil Dummy
Blue, Max Stam, Max Health food
Warrior Mundus
War Machine + Mechanical Acuity + Stormfist
0 heavy attacks in both of the above parses
Both parses are from the Clockwork City patch iirc
I think that in total I had about 7.3k penetration in this parse which is just Major Fracture and 22 CP into penetration (and the dummy has 18.2k armor just like all mobs in trials and dungeons).
With VO and Hunding's you'll lose about 800 DPS in long fights and about 5k in short bursty fights on the dummy. And you don't do anything for the group DPS at all.
^6mil Dummy
Everything the same as in the previous parses but with VO + Hunding's + Stormfist
However, the difference between these two setups in raids is pretty big.
Reason 1: Mechanical Acuity proc + Major Slayer proc + Major Force + Incapacitating Strike debuff will result in 5 seconds of 100% crits with 35% more damage done. So basically its currently THE highest burst setup in the game. And Stamblade is THE burstiest class in the game.
Reason 2: War Machine unlike VO, buffs 2 of the DDs standing next to you by 15% also. Which is a huge DPS increase for the group. Stamblade is by far the most effective class to use War Machine on, due to how powerful Incap is and due to the high ultimate regen that the class has.
Reason 3: You don't need VO for sustain since the new synergies don't cause you to lose DPS at all and activating Orbs is much easier now. If you're having sustain issues due to being a Khajiit, use Stormfist. The proc from this monster set deals more single target DPS on most fights in the game which offsets the loss of DPS due to having 1 less weapon damage bonus.
The vMA bow is a must have since it doubles the DPS output of your strongest DoT. So you will do about 3k more DPS than without it. War Machine is basically the same as VO in terms of your own DPS, but it also bufs other members of your group. Since you are Khajiit from what I gather, you may have a higher benefit in running Briarheart over Mechanical Acuity in conjuction with War Machine, since otherwise your racial passive is basically useless 27% of the time. I could of course be wrong.
Also your rotation has a few flaws obviously, such as swap canceling a Bow proc (there are only 4 or 5 other Stamblades that I know that don't swap cancel it: Liko, Karma, Swift and Warfire which are all among the best Stamblades in the world atm). So don't swap cancel your Bow procs. Another thing is that you only get 2 Bow procs per cast of Relentless whereas you should be getting 3. You also don't do enough weaves on your front bar (you're 1 skill cast short, which means that you're refreshing about 1.5 Endless Hail too early which means that you lose 2-3 of the strongest ticks of that skill). You also use Trap first on the back bar which means that your last ticks of Hail are weaker simply because they happen on the bow bar. Next, you should NEVER EVER refresh Deadly Cloak while Mechanical Acuity or Major Slayer or both are active. Your Bow procs should be used on cooldown and your Relentless buff should be applied even if it means breaking the back bar rotation (same for Leeching Strikes). Don't be afraid to do extra bar swaps. I don't know what you do in the execute phase since you didn't describe it, but its the easiest part of playing Stamblade (and also the most fun at that): Endless Hail > Trap > Injection > swap > Killer's Blade x9 (replacing one of the Killer's Blade as soon as you have 70 ult by an Incap).
There are a couple of other things I'm 99% sure that you don't do that will also affect your DPS, but my post is already starting to get long.
One last thing: 3-4k DPS difference on the dummy is about a 10k+ DPS difference in raids. 35 Blue CP will help, but it won't just magically give you 1-2k DPS. So KEEP PRACTICING. (Btw you didn't specify if you were doing your DPS tests on the 3mil dummy or on the 6mil dummy, the difference between the 2 is massive).Edited by Izaki on March 12, 2018 2:18PM@ Izaki #PCEU
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Azyle1✭✭✭✭✭
^ 3mil Dummy
^ 6mil Dummy
Blue, Max Stam, Max Health food
Warrior Mundus
War Machine + Mechanical Acuity + Stormfist
0 heavy attacks in both of the above parses
Both parses are from the Clockwork City patch iirc
I think that in total I had about 7.3k penetration in this parse which is just Major Fracture and 22 CP into penetration (and the dummy has 18.2k armor just like all mobs in trials and dungeons).
With VO and Hunding's you'll lose about 800 DPS in long fights and about 5k in short bursty fights on the dummy. And you don't do anything for the group DPS at all.
^6mil Dummy
Everything the same as in the previous parses but with VO + Hunding's + Stormfist
However, the difference between these two setups in raids is pretty big.
Reason 1: Mechanical Acuity proc + Major Slayer proc + Major Force + Incapacitating Strike debuff will result in 5 seconds of 100% crits with 35% more damage done. So basically its currently THE highest burst setup in the game. And Stamblade is THE burstiest class in the game.
Reason 2: War Machine unlike VO, buffs 2 of the DDs standing next to you by 15% also. Which is a huge DPS increase for the group. Stamblade is by far the most effective class to use War Machine on, due to how powerful Incap is and due to the high ultimate regen that the class has.
Reason 3: You don't need VO for sustain since the new synergies don't cause you to lose DPS at all and activating Orbs is much easier now. If you're having sustain issues due to being a Khajiit, use Stormfist. The proc from this monster set deals more single target DPS on most fights in the game which offsets the loss of DPS due to having 1 less weapon damage bonus.
The vMA bow is a must have since it doubles the DPS output of your strongest DoT. So you will do about 3k more DPS than without it. War Machine is basically the same as VO in terms of your own DPS, but it also bufs other members of your group. Since you are Khajiit from what I gather, you may have a higher benefit in running Briarheart over Mechanical Acuity in conjuction with War Machine, since otherwise your racial passive is basically useless 27% of the time. I could of course be wrong.
Also your rotation has a few flaws obviously, such as swap canceling a Bow proc (there are only 4 or 5 other Stamblades that I know that don't swap cancel it: Liko, Karma, Swift and Warfire which are all among the best Stamblades in the world atm). So don't swap cancel your Bow procs. Another thing is that you only get 2 Bow procs per cast of Relentless whereas you should be getting 3. You also don't do enough weaves on your front bar (you're 1 skill cast short, which means that you're refreshing about 1.5 Endless Hail too early which means that you lose 2-3 of the strongest ticks of that skill). You also use Trap first on the back bar which means that your last ticks of Hail are weaker simply because they happen on the bow bar. Next, you should NEVER EVER refresh Deadly Cloak while Mechanical Acuity or Major Slayer or both are active. Your Bow procs should be used on cooldown and your Relentless buff should be applied even if it means breaking the back bar rotation (same for Leeching Strikes). Don't be afraid to do extra bar swaps. I don't know what you do in the execute phase since you didn't describe it, but its the easiest part of playing Stamblade (and also the most fun at that): Endless Hail > Trap > Injection > swap > Killer's Blade x9 (replacing one of the Killer's Blade as soon as you have 70 ult by an Incap).
There are a couple of other things I'm 99% sure that you don't do that will also affect your DPS, but my post is already starting to get long.
One last thing: 3-4k DPS difference on the dummy is about a 10k+ DPS difference in raids. 35 Blue CP will help, but it won't just magically give you 1-2k DPS. So KEEP PRACTICING. (Btw you didn't specify if you were doing your DPS tests on the 3mil dummy or on the 6mil dummy, the difference between the 2 is massive).
Thanks for the insight. I have stopped using trap before hail. That took some time to get used to (muscle memory and all). Now I got that figured out.
So, you are saying I should switch my bars as soon as the bow proc is up, eh? Yeah, that's gonna take some practice. But, I think I can do that.0 -
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^ 3mil Dummy
^ 6mil Dummy
Blue, Max Stam, Max Health food
Warrior Mundus
War Machine + Mechanical Acuity + Stormfist
0 heavy attacks in both of the above parses
Both parses are from the Clockwork City patch iirc
I think that in total I had about 7.3k penetration in this parse which is just Major Fracture and 22 CP into penetration (and the dummy has 18.2k armor just like all mobs in trials and dungeons).
With VO and Hunding's you'll lose about 800 DPS in long fights and about 5k in short bursty fights on the dummy. And you don't do anything for the group DPS at all.
^6mil Dummy
Everything the same as in the previous parses but with VO + Hunding's + Stormfist
However, the difference between these two setups in raids is pretty big.
Reason 1: Mechanical Acuity proc + Major Slayer proc + Major Force + Incapacitating Strike debuff will result in 5 seconds of 100% crits with 35% more damage done. So basically its currently THE highest burst setup in the game. And Stamblade is THE burstiest class in the game.
Reason 2: War Machine unlike VO, buffs 2 of the DDs standing next to you by 15% also. Which is a huge DPS increase for the group. Stamblade is by far the most effective class to use War Machine on, due to how powerful Incap is and due to the high ultimate regen that the class has.
Reason 3: You don't need VO for sustain since the new synergies don't cause you to lose DPS at all and activating Orbs is much easier now. If you're having sustain issues due to being a Khajiit, use Stormfist. The proc from this monster set deals more single target DPS on most fights in the game which offsets the loss of DPS due to having 1 less weapon damage bonus.
The vMA bow is a must have since it doubles the DPS output of your strongest DoT. So you will do about 3k more DPS than without it. War Machine is basically the same as VO in terms of your own DPS, but it also bufs other members of your group. Since you are Khajiit from what I gather, you may have a higher benefit in running Briarheart over Mechanical Acuity in conjuction with War Machine, since otherwise your racial passive is basically useless 27% of the time. I could of course be wrong.
Also your rotation has a few flaws obviously, such as swap canceling a Bow proc (there are only 4 or 5 other Stamblades that I know that don't swap cancel it: Liko, Karma, Swift and Warfire which are all among the best Stamblades in the world atm). So don't swap cancel your Bow procs. Another thing is that you only get 2 Bow procs per cast of Relentless whereas you should be getting 3. You also don't do enough weaves on your front bar (you're 1 skill cast short, which means that you're refreshing about 1.5 Endless Hail too early which means that you lose 2-3 of the strongest ticks of that skill). You also use Trap first on the back bar which means that your last ticks of Hail are weaker simply because they happen on the bow bar. Next, you should NEVER EVER refresh Deadly Cloak while Mechanical Acuity or Major Slayer or both are active. Your Bow procs should be used on cooldown and your Relentless buff should be applied even if it means breaking the back bar rotation (same for Leeching Strikes). Don't be afraid to do extra bar swaps. I don't know what you do in the execute phase since you didn't describe it, but its the easiest part of playing Stamblade (and also the most fun at that): Endless Hail > Trap > Injection > swap > Killer's Blade x9 (replacing one of the Killer's Blade as soon as you have 70 ult by an Incap).
There are a couple of other things I'm 99% sure that you don't do that will also affect your DPS, but my post is already starting to get long.
One last thing: 3-4k DPS difference on the dummy is about a 10k+ DPS difference in raids. 35 Blue CP will help, but it won't just magically give you 1-2k DPS. So KEEP PRACTICING. (Btw you didn't specify if you were doing your DPS tests on the 3mil dummy or on the 6mil dummy, the difference between the 2 is massive).
Thanks for the insight. I have stopped using trap before hail. That took some time to get used to (muscle memory and all). Now I got that figured out.
So, you are saying I should switch my bars as soon as the bow proc is up, eh? Yeah, that's gonna take some practice. But, I think I can do that.
Edit: I only practice on a 3 million dummy. I can do 6, too, I just do not have a 6 million at my house, which is where I do most of the practice. I used to use caltrops for execute phase, but I won't do that anymore.
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Izaki✭✭✭✭✭
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^ 3mil Dummy
^ 6mil Dummy
Blue, Max Stam, Max Health food
Warrior Mundus
War Machine + Mechanical Acuity + Stormfist
0 heavy attacks in both of the above parses
Both parses are from the Clockwork City patch iirc
I think that in total I had about 7.3k penetration in this parse which is just Major Fracture and 22 CP into penetration (and the dummy has 18.2k armor just like all mobs in trials and dungeons).
With VO and Hunding's you'll lose about 800 DPS in long fights and about 5k in short bursty fights on the dummy. And you don't do anything for the group DPS at all.
^6mil Dummy
Everything the same as in the previous parses but with VO + Hunding's + Stormfist
However, the difference between these two setups in raids is pretty big.
Reason 1: Mechanical Acuity proc + Major Slayer proc + Major Force + Incapacitating Strike debuff will result in 5 seconds of 100% crits with 35% more damage done. So basically its currently THE highest burst setup in the game. And Stamblade is THE burstiest class in the game.
Reason 2: War Machine unlike VO, buffs 2 of the DDs standing next to you by 15% also. Which is a huge DPS increase for the group. Stamblade is by far the most effective class to use War Machine on, due to how powerful Incap is and due to the high ultimate regen that the class has.
Reason 3: You don't need VO for sustain since the new synergies don't cause you to lose DPS at all and activating Orbs is much easier now. If you're having sustain issues due to being a Khajiit, use Stormfist. The proc from this monster set deals more single target DPS on most fights in the game which offsets the loss of DPS due to having 1 less weapon damage bonus.
The vMA bow is a must have since it doubles the DPS output of your strongest DoT. So you will do about 3k more DPS than without it. War Machine is basically the same as VO in terms of your own DPS, but it also bufs other members of your group. Since you are Khajiit from what I gather, you may have a higher benefit in running Briarheart over Mechanical Acuity in conjuction with War Machine, since otherwise your racial passive is basically useless 27% of the time. I could of course be wrong.
Also your rotation has a few flaws obviously, such as swap canceling a Bow proc (there are only 4 or 5 other Stamblades that I know that don't swap cancel it: Liko, Karma, Swift and Warfire which are all among the best Stamblades in the world atm). So don't swap cancel your Bow procs. Another thing is that you only get 2 Bow procs per cast of Relentless whereas you should be getting 3. You also don't do enough weaves on your front bar (you're 1 skill cast short, which means that you're refreshing about 1.5 Endless Hail too early which means that you lose 2-3 of the strongest ticks of that skill). You also use Trap first on the back bar which means that your last ticks of Hail are weaker simply because they happen on the bow bar. Next, you should NEVER EVER refresh Deadly Cloak while Mechanical Acuity or Major Slayer or both are active. Your Bow procs should be used on cooldown and your Relentless buff should be applied even if it means breaking the back bar rotation (same for Leeching Strikes). Don't be afraid to do extra bar swaps. I don't know what you do in the execute phase since you didn't describe it, but its the easiest part of playing Stamblade (and also the most fun at that): Endless Hail > Trap > Injection > swap > Killer's Blade x9 (replacing one of the Killer's Blade as soon as you have 70 ult by an Incap).
There are a couple of other things I'm 99% sure that you don't do that will also affect your DPS, but my post is already starting to get long.
One last thing: 3-4k DPS difference on the dummy is about a 10k+ DPS difference in raids. 35 Blue CP will help, but it won't just magically give you 1-2k DPS. So KEEP PRACTICING. (Btw you didn't specify if you were doing your DPS tests on the 3mil dummy or on the 6mil dummy, the difference between the 2 is massive).
Thanks for the insight. I have stopped using trap before hail. That took some time to get used to (muscle memory and all). Now I got that figured out.
So, you are saying I should switch my bars as soon as the bow proc is up, eh? Yeah, that's gonna take some practice. But, I think I can do that.
Yes that's one part of it, and when I say never swap cancel the Bow proc, I mean, instead of doing Bow proc > swap > light attack > Endless Hail, you should do Bow proc > light attack/heavy attack > swap > Endless Hail
Those 2 things alone will give you a noticeable DPS increase in raids especially.@ Izaki #PCEU
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Izaki✭✭✭✭✭
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^ 3mil Dummy
^ 6mil Dummy
Blue, Max Stam, Max Health food
Warrior Mundus
War Machine + Mechanical Acuity + Stormfist
0 heavy attacks in both of the above parses
Both parses are from the Clockwork City patch iirc
I think that in total I had about 7.3k penetration in this parse which is just Major Fracture and 22 CP into penetration (and the dummy has 18.2k armor just like all mobs in trials and dungeons).
With VO and Hunding's you'll lose about 800 DPS in long fights and about 5k in short bursty fights on the dummy. And you don't do anything for the group DPS at all.
^6mil Dummy
Everything the same as in the previous parses but with VO + Hunding's + Stormfist
However, the difference between these two setups in raids is pretty big.
Reason 1: Mechanical Acuity proc + Major Slayer proc + Major Force + Incapacitating Strike debuff will result in 5 seconds of 100% crits with 35% more damage done. So basically its currently THE highest burst setup in the game. And Stamblade is THE burstiest class in the game.
Reason 2: War Machine unlike VO, buffs 2 of the DDs standing next to you by 15% also. Which is a huge DPS increase for the group. Stamblade is by far the most effective class to use War Machine on, due to how powerful Incap is and due to the high ultimate regen that the class has.
Reason 3: You don't need VO for sustain since the new synergies don't cause you to lose DPS at all and activating Orbs is much easier now. If you're having sustain issues due to being a Khajiit, use Stormfist. The proc from this monster set deals more single target DPS on most fights in the game which offsets the loss of DPS due to having 1 less weapon damage bonus.
The vMA bow is a must have since it doubles the DPS output of your strongest DoT. So you will do about 3k more DPS than without it. War Machine is basically the same as VO in terms of your own DPS, but it also bufs other members of your group. Since you are Khajiit from what I gather, you may have a higher benefit in running Briarheart over Mechanical Acuity in conjuction with War Machine, since otherwise your racial passive is basically useless 27% of the time. I could of course be wrong.
Also your rotation has a few flaws obviously, such as swap canceling a Bow proc (there are only 4 or 5 other Stamblades that I know that don't swap cancel it: Liko, Karma, Swift and Warfire which are all among the best Stamblades in the world atm). So don't swap cancel your Bow procs. Another thing is that you only get 2 Bow procs per cast of Relentless whereas you should be getting 3. You also don't do enough weaves on your front bar (you're 1 skill cast short, which means that you're refreshing about 1.5 Endless Hail too early which means that you lose 2-3 of the strongest ticks of that skill). You also use Trap first on the back bar which means that your last ticks of Hail are weaker simply because they happen on the bow bar. Next, you should NEVER EVER refresh Deadly Cloak while Mechanical Acuity or Major Slayer or both are active. Your Bow procs should be used on cooldown and your Relentless buff should be applied even if it means breaking the back bar rotation (same for Leeching Strikes). Don't be afraid to do extra bar swaps. I don't know what you do in the execute phase since you didn't describe it, but its the easiest part of playing Stamblade (and also the most fun at that): Endless Hail > Trap > Injection > swap > Killer's Blade x9 (replacing one of the Killer's Blade as soon as you have 70 ult by an Incap).
There are a couple of other things I'm 99% sure that you don't do that will also affect your DPS, but my post is already starting to get long.
One last thing: 3-4k DPS difference on the dummy is about a 10k+ DPS difference in raids. 35 Blue CP will help, but it won't just magically give you 1-2k DPS. So KEEP PRACTICING. (Btw you didn't specify if you were doing your DPS tests on the 3mil dummy or on the 6mil dummy, the difference between the 2 is massive).
Thanks for the insight. I have stopped using trap before hail. That took some time to get used to (muscle memory and all). Now I got that figured out.
So, you are saying I should switch my bars as soon as the bow proc is up, eh? Yeah, that's gonna take some practice. But, I think I can do that.
Edit: I only practice on a 3 million dummy. I can do 6, too, I just do not have a 6 million at my house, which is where I do most of the practice. I used to use caltrops for execute phase, but I won't do that anymore.
Yeah see so, Liko (who's video was linked to you earlier) is a good mate of mine and we often killed dummies together. When it came to 3mil dummies, I believe he was at about 50.7 or 50.8k (pretty much the same as me really) on the 3mil dummies. So at this point its no longer a 3-4k DPS difference, but a bit closer to 8-9k. With the little tips I gave you about the rotation, you should instantly gain some extra DPS. Little things like that add up and when you apply everything the difference becomes pretty huge. So yeah keep practicing man and if you have any other questions feel free to shoot them at me
And get those 35 extra CP, they will make a big enough difference once you start getting the hang of the "real" Stamblade playstyle, which is hard to get started with, but very rewarding in the end. @ Izaki #PCEU
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Azyle1✭✭✭✭✭
^ 3mil Dummy
^ 6mil Dummy
Blue, Max Stam, Max Health food
Warrior Mundus
War Machine + Mechanical Acuity + Stormfist
0 heavy attacks in both of the above parses
Both parses are from the Clockwork City patch iirc
I think that in total I had about 7.3k penetration in this parse which is just Major Fracture and 22 CP into penetration (and the dummy has 18.2k armor just like all mobs in trials and dungeons).
With VO and Hunding's you'll lose about 800 DPS in long fights and about 5k in short bursty fights on the dummy. And you don't do anything for the group DPS at all.
^6mil Dummy
Everything the same as in the previous parses but with VO + Hunding's + Stormfist
However, the difference between these two setups in raids is pretty big.
Reason 1: Mechanical Acuity proc + Major Slayer proc + Major Force + Incapacitating Strike debuff will result in 5 seconds of 100% crits with 35% more damage done. So basically its currently THE highest burst setup in the game. And Stamblade is THE burstiest class in the game.
Reason 2: War Machine unlike VO, buffs 2 of the DDs standing next to you by 15% also. Which is a huge DPS increase for the group. Stamblade is by far the most effective class to use War Machine on, due to how powerful Incap is and due to the high ultimate regen that the class has.
Reason 3: You don't need VO for sustain since the new synergies don't cause you to lose DPS at all and activating Orbs is much easier now. If you're having sustain issues due to being a Khajiit, use Stormfist. The proc from this monster set deals more single target DPS on most fights in the game which offsets the loss of DPS due to having 1 less weapon damage bonus.
The vMA bow is a must have since it doubles the DPS output of your strongest DoT. So you will do about 3k more DPS than without it. War Machine is basically the same as VO in terms of your own DPS, but it also bufs other members of your group. Since you are Khajiit from what I gather, you may have a higher benefit in running Briarheart over Mechanical Acuity in conjuction with War Machine, since otherwise your racial passive is basically useless 27% of the time. I could of course be wrong.
Also your rotation has a few flaws obviously, such as swap canceling a Bow proc (there are only 4 or 5 other Stamblades that I know that don't swap cancel it: Liko, Karma, Swift and Warfire which are all among the best Stamblades in the world atm). So don't swap cancel your Bow procs. Another thing is that you only get 2 Bow procs per cast of Relentless whereas you should be getting 3. You also don't do enough weaves on your front bar (you're 1 skill cast short, which means that you're refreshing about 1.5 Endless Hail too early which means that you lose 2-3 of the strongest ticks of that skill). You also use Trap first on the back bar which means that your last ticks of Hail are weaker simply because they happen on the bow bar. Next, you should NEVER EVER refresh Deadly Cloak while Mechanical Acuity or Major Slayer or both are active. Your Bow procs should be used on cooldown and your Relentless buff should be applied even if it means breaking the back bar rotation (same for Leeching Strikes). Don't be afraid to do extra bar swaps. I don't know what you do in the execute phase since you didn't describe it, but its the easiest part of playing Stamblade (and also the most fun at that): Endless Hail > Trap > Injection > swap > Killer's Blade x9 (replacing one of the Killer's Blade as soon as you have 70 ult by an Incap).
There are a couple of other things I'm 99% sure that you don't do that will also affect your DPS, but my post is already starting to get long.
One last thing: 3-4k DPS difference on the dummy is about a 10k+ DPS difference in raids. 35 Blue CP will help, but it won't just magically give you 1-2k DPS. So KEEP PRACTICING. (Btw you didn't specify if you were doing your DPS tests on the 3mil dummy or on the 6mil dummy, the difference between the 2 is massive).
Thanks for the insight. I have stopped using trap before hail. That took some time to get used to (muscle memory and all). Now I got that figured out.
So, you are saying I should switch my bars as soon as the bow proc is up, eh? Yeah, that's gonna take some practice. But, I think I can do that.
Edit: I only practice on a 3 million dummy. I can do 6, too, I just do not have a 6 million at my house, which is where I do most of the practice. I used to use caltrops for execute phase, but I won't do that anymore.
Yeah see so, Liko (who's video was linked to you earlier) is a good mate of mine and we often killed dummies together. When it came to 3mil dummies, I believe he was at about 50.7 or 50.8k (pretty much the same as me really) on the 3mil dummies. So at this point its no longer a 3-4k DPS difference, but a bit closer to 8-9k. With the little tips I gave you about the rotation, you should instantly gain some extra DPS. Little things like that add up and when you apply everything the difference becomes pretty huge. So yeah keep practicing man and if you have any other questions feel free to shoot them at me And get those 35 extra CP, they will make a big enough difference once you start getting the hang of the "real" Stamblade playstyle, which is hard to get started with, but very rewarding in the end.
Yeah, I was pleased to reach 40K but if I can squeeze out more dps to help my group then I will try. Just takes more practice. I'm gonna practice this week and I will let you know. Thanks for the insight for sure.0