How can I increase my DPS and is my build decent?

TAD2000 · June 2020

Hello,

My character is a Dark elf stage 4 vampire nightblade and here are the gear and weapons listed:
-All relequens (imperfect)
-Selenes monster set with relequens
-New moon acolyte weapons and jewelry
-Sharpened trait on my two daggers
-I use essence of weapon power potions before battle

Here's my rotation:
Use essence of weapon power, Endless hail, Consuming trap, Poison arrow, Summon shade, Barbed trap, deadly cloak, relentless focus and then i spam surprise attack with light attack weaving. I then use my nightblade assassin ultimate Soul shriven and then i repeat the rotation.

I'm asking if there is any other tips and tricks on how to increase my dps. I don't know if this is of any importance but i am CP 337. The highest dps I did on a dummy was 27k and averaging around 20k.

If anyone has any tips or advice, i'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks,

Septimus_Magna · June 2020

First off, if you dont use any vampire skills you should really get cured. Right now your skills are very expensive (5% cost increase from NMA and 12% vamp stage 4) so your stamina sustain will be pretty bad.Very important with Relequen is to build max stacks and not lose them, I personally use Srendarr addon to track the Relequen stacks and its cooldown timer.

When it comes to weapons you want axe+dagger, the main-hand weapon with nirnhoned trait and the off-hand weapon with sharpened trait. In optimized groups the Shadow mundus is usually the best choice, for random groups/solo I would suggest the Lover mundus.

For buff food I would first try Dubious Camoran Throne (or Artaeum Takeaway Brooth) because you are using NMA. If that gives too much stamina sustain you can try max health+stamina food like Braised Rabbit with Spring Vegetables. Use weapon damage potions on cooldown throughout the entire fight and make sure you have Alchemy passive Medicinal Use unlocked.

Its been a while since I played stamblade so I cannot help you with your rotation, Liko usually has good builds on you YT channel that shows the rotation, CP and other useful stuff.

TAD2000 · June 2020

I changed my character to stage 1 vampirism with purifying bloody mara. I will look into the food that you listed.

Brrrofski · June 2020

I noticed you said "spam surprise attack with light weaving".

Are you light weaving on your back bar? That will also add up.

With nightblade, to get the most out of your dps, you have to use relentless focus when it's procced. So that means swapping to your front bar and using it even if you're halfway through your back bar rotation.

Also, I didn't see killer's blade in your rotation. That is key.

Are you testing on a 3mil dummy or a 21m raid dummy?

TAD2000 · June 2020

Yes i am using killers blade, sorry i forgot to add that. I have killed a 21 mil dummy once and it said 20k. I killed a 3mil dummy and the most it's ever said was 27k.

Septimus_Magna · June 2020

TAD2000 wrote: »

I changed my character to stage 1 vampirism with purifying bloody mara. I will look into the food that you listed.

That will help your sustain a lot but if we're strictly looking at dps there's no reason to be vamp, only downsides of increased ability cost, increased fire dmg taken and reduced health regen.

How is stamina sustain for you right now? Can you perform your rotation until the end or do you have to heavy attack once in a while to restore stamina?

Parsing 27k self-buffed on the 3m dummy is a good place to start, for target dummy tests you can also use max stamina+stamina recovery buff food to make sustain less of an issue.

MudcrabAttack · June 2020

You could probably drop consuming trap and deadly cloak. Poison arrow could be left off, unless you get the poison injection morph, then you'll want that while the health is dropping low and into the execute phase.

Hit relentless focus after every five light attacks.

Put fighters guild skills like camo hunter and barbed trap on the front bar for the extra 3% weapon damage buffs. And then you would use soul harvest or incapacitating strike on the front bar, shortly after swapping to the front bar. It buffs damage 20% for 6 seconds, and you can get the most out of it when the damage over time is ticking and you are using the surprise attack or killers blade spammable.

When endless hail runs out you'll want to reapply it. With a weapon damage glyph slotted on a back bar infused bow you can have a consistent 450 extra weapon damage.

BeamsForDemacia · June 2020

i guess many ppl dont wanna hear it, but just check out alcasts website/youtube or other ppl on youtube they explai everything there (liko) , good thing about alcast he has always a beginner setup

erio · June 2020

TAD2000 wrote: »

Hello,

My character is a Dark elf stage 4 vampire nightblade and here are the gear and weapons listed:
-All relequens (imperfect)
-Selenes monster set with relequens
-New moon acolyte weapons and jewelry
-Sharpened trait on my two daggers
-I use essence of weapon power potions before battle

Here's my rotation:
Use essence of weapon power, Endless hail, Consuming trap, Poison arrow, Summon shade, Barbed trap, deadly cloak, relentless focus and then i spam surprise attack with light attack weaving. I then use my nightblade assassin ultimate Soul shriven and then i repeat the rotation.

I'm asking if there is any other tips and tricks on how to increase my dps. I don't know if this is of any importance but i am CP 337. The highest dps I did on a dummy was 27k and averaging around 20k.

If anyone has any tips or advice, i'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks,

Stage 4 vamp and new moon acolyte seems to be a very bad combo