The most I've gotten out of a HA build is 73k on the iron atro. Thats towards the bottom of what a lot of guilds will consider for vet trials. It is, however, more damage than 99% of DPSes you'll find in PUG dungeons and is super simple to use. Some guilds may completely reject it though

Wolf81 wrote: »

Can you still build for a heavy attack two pet sorc setup in the markarth patch? With their adjustments to max magicka and dot/crit meta going on I am wondering if its even possible and have competitive dps. Solo doesn't matter you can build whatever you want, mostly asking for group style pve.

A well put together heavy attack build, like most well put together dps builds, is significantly more powerful in Markarth than previously.

Hack's build is not well put together for anything beyond solo play.

I hit 91k with my double pet heavy build this patch. But I have been playing with and readjusting my build through patches for years.

I have no problem sharing. The current incarnation of the build is so simple I am almost embarrassed by the amount of work I put into it.

Keep in mind you will still get the best results if you can do a standard LA weave on the skills used before getting to the HA weave at the end of the rotation, but the build only uses 4 active skills total other than light and heavy attacks, and there is no part where you ever rapid fire a spammable with LA's.

Gear:
Front bar - Infallible Aether. Undaunted Infiltrator, or Siroria. The difference is very minimal. Obviously lightning staff.

Body - Medusa

Monster - Maw of the Infernal

Backbar - Maelstrom Lightning or Inferno. Inferno if you have someone else reliably providing Off Balance, Lightning if you don't.

Skills:

Front bar - Scalding Rune, Volatile Familiar, Twilight Tormentor, Bound Aegis, Inner Light

Back - Unstable Wall of Elements, Mystic Orb, Familiar, Tormentor, Inner Light

Rotation

Assume you do a LA before every skill/bar swap like normal until the HA weave part.

Rune > Familiar > Bar Swap > Wall > Orb > Bar Swap > Rune > Heavy Attack weave into Rune x 2 > repeat

Simplicity itself.

Alternatively you can replace Rune with Daedric Tomb if your group needs a source of Minor Prophecy, or you find yourself in a position where using an ability that will go off immediately would be more beneficial than having the 2 second delay on Rune. Just don't cast it an additional time when swapping from back to front bars, go right into the HA weave. Also keep in mind you will be losing out on Empower in this case, but if you can reliably get multiple mines to go off the damage will be nearly identical.

Inner Light can also be replaced on the back bar with something defensive like Ward for almost no loss in dps.

Other things:

Since you are incorporating 2 HA's at the end of every rotation sustain is a non-issue. Feel free to use a pure dps race and Bi-stat food for max stats.

I find the exact placement of the active skills in the same position on both skill bars is extremely helpful if coordination during a rotation is an issue. You literally just keep hitting the same two buttons other than your LA/HA button.

Button 1 > Button 2 > Bar Swap > Button 1 > Button Two, etc.

The build could probably squeeze out a bit more dps working another active skill somewhere in there, but the extreme simplicity is a huge part of the appeal.

Edit for clarity:

Assuming your rotation does not get interrupted -

If using the Rune version of the rotation you only start the rotation with a Rune cast the first time. So after your second HA weave you immediately bar swap and keep that going.

If using Tomb you repeat the rotation exactly every time. So immediately do your 2 HA weaves when switching from back to front, then start the rotation with a normal cast of Tomb again.

Both rotations include 3 casts of Rune or Tomb, just in slightly different order.