MAG DK Questions

Fiveboro · August 2018

What is better to run on a mag dk - molten armaments or structured entropy??

Virtually the same spellpower buff but entropy provides a negligible amount of damage and healing but also needs to be applied more frequently.

Opinions on what works best for you?

SilverWF · August 2018

Well, Molten increases the damage of your heavy attacks

Tiphis · August 2018

Molten also buffs allies around you, whether in a coordinated group or not it is more helpful than entropy.

devilsTear · August 2018

I feel if you're running skoria go with entropy, otherwise go molten.
Depends on how you play really.

Brutusmax1mus · August 2018

Degeneration ftw, molten has much less maintenance though.

ak_pvp · August 2018

PvP. Entropy, either morph. Its a dot (for valkyn/small pressure) a hot, (adds up) mages guild passives, and depending on the morph an extra RNG heal on LAs on a target with it on, or slight extra coag heal when switching onto the bar. Its worth 1/2 of a molten cast and half the time, but does a lot more.

CrazYDunm3r · August 2018

I would say molten since you can focus on more things, you can do nasty heavy attack&skill combos and you can get some stamina by activating it if really needed (for example you are low on stamina and you know you can get stunned really soon again). Both have there pros and cons, but I always chose stronger burst over better dots (other dots should already do enough damage in my opinion).

scipionumatia · August 2018

I got to go with molten, less maintenance and increased HA damage. Also if you wind up in a situation where you have to run (like in battlegrounds where you can jump off a ledge and make an escape) the entropy animation will tell the enemy what direction you've run off too. Also If you have entropy running and you go into sneak (again trying to avoid enemies like in a battleground like capture relic) your gonna get pulled out of sneak because youll be doing damage every tick. I know stealth isn't usually a huge concern for DK but when your playing objective BG games it is useful.

Xvorg · August 2018

Fiveboro wrote: »

What is better to run on a mag dk - molten armaments or structured entropy??

Virtually the same spellpower buff but entropy provides a negligible amount of damage and healing but also needs to be applied more frequently.

Opinions on what works best for you?

What staff do you use, lit or flame?

If you use Lit, then molten
if you use flame, then entropy

Lit staff is more favored of the full heavy dmg increase since it is not dodgeable neither reflectable, besides HA can proc skoria, so you don't need another dot to make it work outside of the regular ones (embers, reach, even engulfing). On top of that, the magicka recovery of full heavy lit helps a lot.

Flame staff is wonderful for entropy, especially for regeneration. Since your full heavy attacks are often dodged, you take little advantage of molten, so you have to weave to do big dmg. If you pair that weave with the chance of healing on degeneration and proc Skoria.

My 2 cents