Are we looking at PVP or PVE here?

PVP wise, going that heavy into damage on a DK is not going to give you very good results. You can blow people up sure, but you also get blown up by pretty much everything.

From a PVE perspective, Bow has the best dots in the game, and dropping it for 2h is always going to be a DPS loss.

I would assume this is a PvE setup since the sets you mentioned are almost never used in PvP. Automaton is bad on Stamina DK since a great deal of abilities are poison (Poison Injection, Venomous Claw, Noxious Breath, Corrosive Armor), not physical damage so they won't benefit from the 5p bonus at all. Hunding's Rage or Mechanical Acuity are much better if you want a pure damage set; or simply keep Briarheart if you have the weapons on front bar since the proc damage buff carries over. You should use a penetration set, like Spriggan (overland Bangkorai), Twice-Fanged Snake (Sanctum Ophidia, drops more frequently on normal), Night Mother's Gaze (crafted, if you also have Spriggan jewels). Kra'gh is good but Mephala and Velidreth are even better, since they add also AoE damage.

Also 2H/2W is a bad combo for PvE - you should always run Bow back bar, since Endless Hail and Poison Injection are some of your best damage abilities. In PvP 2H/1H+S is much better on DK but you can retain the bow as well if you need mobility and ranged damage in some situations.

And I understand not using bow is a Dps loss, but those builds will be used for my stamblade. Just looking for which combos would net best phys. damage. Maybe changing to a bleed build.

But if you want something that works well solo and doesn't depend on potions for buffs you can pick 2H DK. The damage is rather low but it has more survivability and it's cheap since you don't need to chug those potions for Major Brutality and still retain the HA bonus damage. What I would use is 2 x 5p sets and a monster head, For example Spriggan 3 jewels 2 armor, Hunding 4 armor and 2H sword & Bow with Krag'gh/Velidreth/Mephala head.

“village of peasants”. Meant to say village of Altmer/Bosmer. He’s excited to visit Summerset

You can use 2 damage sets, just swap your mundus to lover.

Brrrofski wrote: »

Like what are you doing?

Just exploration? Normal dungeons? Vet dungeons? Trials.

Normal dungeons and exploration you can wear pretty much anything you want.

Just dungeons vet and normal. My main concern is golding out weps. I always wanna make sure I’ve got a pretty strong commitment to the gear.

Also Sunderflame has the advantage that it can be front barred - if you have the weapons, which are tricky to farm - since the debuff lasts 8s and you while not lose it in a typical stamina DK rotation, that features 3-4 heavy attacks on front (2W) bar, and 4-5 skills with light attacks in between on the back (bow) bar. In a trial group you can even pair another debuff set with it, such as Night Mother's Gaze (more penetration) or Morag Tong (more poison damage); the latter is particularly useful if you have more DKs in the group, since it buffs all poison damage against the affected enemies.

Sunderflame / Red Mountain / Vel (or Selenes).

Use the @Alcast Skills and rotation setup but modify his CP so you don’t have diminishing returns and you’ll hit an easy 30k self buffed and 40k group buffed without a vMA or Masters bow.

I run the above setup in a 0-6-1 weight ratio (Vel head is heavy) with 6 piece Divines and 1 piece Infused. Sunder is my perm 5 piece (because the RNG gods have yet to deliver me any weapons) and Red Mountain is my front bar only 5 piece.

Weapons wise I have 2 Red Mountain Daggers (Nirn with Poison Glyph and Infused off hand with Weapon Damage Glyph). Red Mountain Bow on back bar (current Sharp with Double Dot poisons, this will be changed to Nirn eventually).

My race is Dunmer (because I refuse to race change anymore) and I’m a vamp (mostly stage 4, though anything too fire heavy I’ll knock down to 3 or lower depending).

I’m not a fan of the Stam play style but it’s an easy high damage build so I can’t grumble.

Also to note I’ve swapped Trap to front bar and FoO to back bar so you get 6% from the fighters guild passive on front rather than 3% per bar.

I’ll be changing out Red a Mountain for Morag Tong at some point to see how the damage differs (once I find the weapons for a reasonable price).

If anyone on this thread has any criticism / feedback to help me get numbers higher it’s kore than welcome.

OP I hope this helps in some way for you.