What is the optimal dps for a DD now?

VatorLol · July 2020

So, haven't been playing the game for about 6 months now. Just returned and learned that animation cancelling is mostly dead. What is considered high dps now that animation cancelling is not a big part of rotations? Is it still about the same or is there a significant drop?

susmitds · July 2020

Animation cancelling has gone no where for non-ultimate skills. It is still here. 80k+ on Iron Atro is a good enough for most things.

Grandchamp1989 · July 2020

20k for normal vet I've always been told and match with what I've seen.

20k in normal vet is standard if you don't expect a carry or want your team to fall over from boredom.

Then it goes up from there depending on the content you seek.
I believe it starts at around 60k for vSS

But a lot of these guys push 80+ as the poster above me mentioned.

MrBrownstone · July 2020

I think to be able to finish veteran content at a fast enough pace you need 70k. Anything above is for hardmode/speedrun achievements

MrBrownstone · July 2020

Animation cancelling is the same, just block cancelling is tweaked a bit and that's for pvp

BRCOURTN · July 2020

Optimal? Probably something like like 110k I think

Fur_like_snow · July 2020

Around 100-110k on the iron atro.

VatorLol · July 2020

I've been trying to do block cancelling like before on some skills like, Endless Hail, Hurricane, but didn't work. Is there some kind of guide for new mechanics out there?

Deloth_Vyrr · July 2020

If by optimal you mean the best players in the game playing the best builds you're looking at 100k+.

However, realistically an end game player looking to do HM DLC trials, etc. should be aiming to push 80k+ on the trials dummy, anything above that is gravy

mocap · July 2020

20-25k on 4kk dummy, self parse. Imo. Bufs will come from group, not much, probably will get you to 30k, which is enough for most vet dungeons. The rest is mechanics.

For vet trials i would say 30-35k+ and from this point DPS measured as the bigger, the better.

Nemesis7884 · July 2020

at least 9000

MrBrownstone · July 2020

VatorLol wrote: »

I've been trying to do block cancelling like before on some skills like, Endless Hail, Hurricane, but didn't work. Is there some kind of guide for new mechanics out there?

Afaik nobody block cancels these skills ever, not in a PvE rotation. The whole "animation cancelling" in PvE is merely stopping light attack animations with a skill press, called weaving.

RefLiberty · July 2020

Fur_like_snow wrote: »

Around 100-110k on the iron atro.

No no, 150-200K.

Now, who will lie more. Come on, will we stop on 250K

Mancombe_Nosehair · July 2020

My record is 500k dps. But then I have been playing eso for 12 years. Honest.

Asardes · July 2020

In most content doing the mechanics, prioritizing targets and not dying is more important than static DPS. But I would say 35-40k self buffed and self sustained on the 6m dummy is decent. Or 60-65k on the 21m - that throws shards so you don't need to break up your rotation to heavy attack, and it has most group debuffs on it.

gatekeeper13 · July 2020

20-25k individual dps is more than enough to clear any vet DLC content, provided you can stay alive and follow mechanics. Higher dps will only help your group have more chances to skip mechanics and not wipe.

Can't speak about vet trials.