nesakinter wrote: »In PTS, pretty much every stamina DPS got nerfed by the changes to Rele and Lokke, at least as far parses go.
However in case of Stamina Nightblade, they received some really spicy buffs for DPS with the Master Assassin, Executioner and Relentless Focus changes resulting them being the only class who stayed exactly where they are.
Also with the changes to AY, as well as resurgence of Acuity(for non-stamcros), critical hit chance increased across the board. This also coincides with the nerf to Shadow, making the newly added critical damage buff to Relentless Focus all the more important. Now NB has the highest Critical Hit damage of all classes higher than Templar too. While the crit damage does not affect the bow proc, it stays up for the entire execute phase, which is the stamblade's highest DPS phase compared to other classes.
From what I have seen, these are the highest parses from PTS across discords (higher ones maybe out there, just what I have seen)
Stamcro - 93.1k
Stamblade - 92.9k
Stamplar - 92.7k
Stamsorc - 90.2k
StamDK - 88.1k
Stamden - 86.8k
While Stamcro does parse slightly higher than stamblade, keep in mind that Stamcro has Major Vulnerability already in its rotation, while Stamblade parses lacks it and still keeps up. This means that Stamblade will outDPS stamcros in actual fights.
Also another good class will be stamplar, which have virtually very similar DPS as Stamblade. That will most probably change in groups though, as Morag Tong usage will mean Stamblade will outDPS stamplar by a decent margin. Also stamblade sustain is much better than stamplar even on Live and the change to executioner solidifies it.
Next patch, stamina raids will be basically 3 stamcros for optimal uptime on Major Vulnerability, maybe one stamplar for Minor Fracture(which may not be needed anyways with the buff to Alkosh) and 4-5 Stamblades for the bulk of the DPS.
nesakinter wrote: »In PTS, pretty much every stamina DPS got nerfed by the changes to Rele and Lokke, at least as far parses go.
However in case of Stamina Nightblade, they received some really spicy buffs for DPS with the Master Assassin, Executioner and Relentless Focus changes resulting them being the only class who stayed exactly where they are.
Also with the changes to AY, as well as resurgence of Acuity(for non-stamcros), critical hit chance increased across the board. This also coincides with the nerf to Shadow, making the newly added critical damage buff to Relentless Focus all the more important. Now NB has the highest Critical Hit damage of all classes higher than Templar too. While the crit damage does not affect the bow proc, it stays up for the entire execute phase, which is the stamblade's highest DPS phase compared to other classes.
From what I have seen, these are the highest parses from PTS across discords (higher ones maybe out there, just what I have seen)
Stamcro - 93.1k
Stamblade - 92.9k
Stamplar - 92.7k
Stamsorc - 90.2k
StamDK - 88.1k
Stamden - 86.8k
While Stamcro does parse slightly higher than stamblade, keep in mind that Stamcro has Major Vulnerability already in its rotation, while Stamblade parses lacks it and still keeps up. This means that Stamblade will outDPS stamcros in actual fights.
Also another good class will be stamplar, which have virtually very similar DPS as Stamblade. That will most probably change in groups though, as Morag Tong usage will mean Stamblade will outDPS stamplar by a decent margin. Also stamblade sustain is much better than stamplar even on Live and the change to executioner solidifies it.
Next patch, stamina raids will be basically 3 stamcros for optimal uptime on Major Vulnerability, maybe one stamplar for Minor Fracture(which may not be needed anyways with the buff to Alkosh) and 4-5 Stamblades for the bulk of the DPS.
Problem with such a raid is that it won't still be available to compete with magicka as magicka ranged is dealing pretty same or more single target DPS as melee stamina and much much more cleave especially compared to stamblade DDs.
nesakinter wrote: »In PTS, pretty much every stamina DPS got nerfed by the changes to Rele and Lokke, at least as far parses go.
However in case of Stamina Nightblade, they received some really spicy buffs for DPS with the Master Assassin, Executioner and Relentless Focus changes resulting them being the only class who stayed exactly where they are.
Also with the changes to AY, as well as resurgence of Acuity(for non-stamcros), critical hit chance increased across the board. This also coincides with the nerf to Shadow, making the newly added critical damage buff to Relentless Focus all the more important. Now NB has the highest Critical Hit damage of all classes higher than Templar too. While the crit damage does not affect the bow proc, it stays up for the entire execute phase, which is the stamblade's highest DPS phase compared to other classes.
From what I have seen, these are the highest parses from PTS across discords (higher ones maybe out there, just what I have seen)
Stamcro - 93.1k
Stamblade - 92.9k
Stamplar - 92.7k
Stamsorc - 90.2k
StamDK - 88.1k
Stamden - 86.8k
While Stamcro does parse slightly higher than stamblade, keep in mind that Stamcro has Major Vulnerability already in its rotation, while Stamblade parses lacks it and still keeps up. This means that Stamblade will outDPS stamcros in actual fights.
Also another good class will be stamplar, which have virtually very similar DPS as Stamblade. That will most probably change in groups though, as Morag Tong usage will mean Stamblade will outDPS stamplar by a decent margin. Also stamblade sustain is much better than stamplar even on Live and the change to executioner solidifies it.
Next patch, stamina raids will be basically 3 stamcros for optimal uptime on Major Vulnerability, maybe one stamplar for Minor Fracture(which may not be needed anyways with the buff to Alkosh) and 4-5 Stamblades for the bulk of the DPS.
Problem with such a raid is that it won't still be available to compete with magicka as magicka ranged is dealing pretty same or more single target DPS as melee stamina and much much more cleave especially compared to stamblade DDs.
With what resources?
nesakinter wrote: »In PTS, pretty much every stamina DPS got nerfed by the changes to Rele and Lokke, at least as far parses go.
However in case of Stamina Nightblade, they received some really spicy buffs for DPS with the Master Assassin, Executioner and Relentless Focus changes resulting them being the only class who stayed exactly where they are.
Also with the changes to AY, as well as resurgence of Acuity(for non-stamcros), critical hit chance increased across the board. This also coincides with the nerf to Shadow, making the newly added critical damage buff to Relentless Focus all the more important. Now NB has the highest Critical Hit damage of all classes higher than Templar too. While the crit damage does not affect the bow proc, it stays up for the entire execute phase, which is the stamblade's highest DPS phase compared to other classes.
From what I have seen, these are the highest parses from PTS across discords (higher ones maybe out there, just what I have seen)
Stamcro - 93.1k
Stamblade - 92.9k
Stamplar - 92.7k
Stamsorc - 90.2k
StamDK - 88.1k
Stamden - 86.8k
While Stamcro does parse slightly higher than stamblade, keep in mind that Stamcro has Major Vulnerability already in its rotation, while Stamblade parses lacks it and still keeps up. This means that Stamblade will outDPS stamcros in actual fights.
Also another good class will be stamplar, which have virtually very similar DPS as Stamblade. That will most probably change in groups though, as Morag Tong usage will mean Stamblade will outDPS stamplar by a decent margin. Also stamblade sustain is much better than stamplar even on Live and the change to executioner solidifies it.
Next patch, stamina raids will be basically 3 stamcros for optimal uptime on Major Vulnerability, maybe one stamplar for Minor Fracture(which may not be needed anyways with the buff to Alkosh) and 4-5 Stamblades for the bulk of the DPS.
Problem with such a raid is that it won't still be available to compete with magicka as magicka ranged is dealing pretty same or more single target DPS as melee stamina and much much more cleave especially compared to stamblade DDs.
With what resources?
Magcros and Magblades won't have sustain problems.
nesakinter wrote: »In PTS, pretty much every stamina DPS got nerfed by the changes to Rele and Lokke, at least as far parses go.
However in case of Stamina Nightblade, they received some really spicy buffs for DPS with the Master Assassin, Executioner and Relentless Focus changes resulting them being the only class who stayed exactly where they are.
Also with the changes to AY, as well as resurgence of Acuity(for non-stamcros), critical hit chance increased across the board. This also coincides with the nerf to Shadow, making the newly added critical damage buff to Relentless Focus all the more important. Now NB has the highest Critical Hit damage of all classes higher than Templar too. While the crit damage does not affect the bow proc, it stays up for the entire execute phase, which is the stamblade's highest DPS phase compared to other classes.
From what I have seen, these are the highest parses from PTS across discords (higher ones maybe out there, just what I have seen)
Stamcro - 93.1k
Stamblade - 92.9k
Stamplar - 92.7k
Stamsorc - 90.2k
StamDK - 88.1k
Stamden - 86.8k
While Stamcro does parse slightly higher than stamblade, keep in mind that Stamcro has Major Vulnerability already in its rotation, while Stamblade parses lacks it and still keeps up. This means that Stamblade will outDPS stamcros in actual fights.
Also another good class will be stamplar, which have virtually very similar DPS as Stamblade. That will most probably change in groups though, as Morag Tong usage will mean Stamblade will outDPS stamplar by a decent margin. Also stamblade sustain is much better than stamplar even on Live and the change to executioner solidifies it.
Next patch, stamina raids will be basically 3 stamcros for optimal uptime on Major Vulnerability, maybe one stamplar for Minor Fracture(which may not be needed anyways with the buff to Alkosh) and 4-5 Stamblades for the bulk of the DPS.
Problem with such a raid is that it won't still be available to compete with magicka as magicka ranged is dealing pretty same or more single target DPS as melee stamina and much much more cleave especially compared to stamblade DDs.
Problem with such a raid is that it won't still be available to compete with magicka as magicka ranged is dealing pretty same or more single target DPS as melee stamina and much much more cleave especially compared to stamblade DDs.
nesakinter wrote: »In PTS, pretty much every stamina DPS got nerfed by the changes to Rele and Lokke, at least as far parses go.
However in case of Stamina Nightblade, they received some really spicy buffs for DPS with the Master Assassin, Executioner and Relentless Focus changes resulting them being the only class who stayed exactly where they are.
Also with the changes to AY, as well as resurgence of Acuity(for non-stamcros), critical hit chance increased across the board. This also coincides with the nerf to Shadow, making the newly added critical damage buff to Relentless Focus all the more important. Now NB has the highest Critical Hit damage of all classes higher than Templar too. While the crit damage does not affect the bow proc, it stays up for the entire execute phase, which is the stamblade's highest DPS phase compared to other classes.
From what I have seen, these are the highest parses from PTS across discords (higher ones maybe out there, just what I have seen)
Stamcro - 93.1k
Stamblade - 92.9k
Stamplar - 92.7k
Stamsorc - 90.2k
StamDK - 88.1k
Stamden - 86.8k
While Stamcro does parse slightly higher than stamblade, keep in mind that Stamcro has Major Vulnerability already in its rotation, while Stamblade parses lacks it and still keeps up. This means that Stamblade will outDPS stamcros in actual fights.
Also another good class will be stamplar, which have virtually very similar DPS as Stamblade. That will most probably change in groups though, as Morag Tong usage will mean Stamblade will outDPS stamplar by a decent margin. Also stamblade sustain is much better than stamplar even on Live and the change to executioner solidifies it.
Next patch, stamina raids will be basically 3 stamcros for optimal uptime on Major Vulnerability, maybe one stamplar for Minor Fracture(which may not be needed anyways with the buff to Alkosh) and 4-5 Stamblades for the bulk of the DPS.
nesakinter wrote: »In PTS, pretty much every stamina DPS got nerfed by the changes to Rele and Lokke, at least as far parses go.