zvavi wrote: »

cmx of the parse?

I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm kinda new to this haha...

I don't play vampire mag necro but a couple things

• You need MA staff on your backbar. This will increase your DPS by a considerable amount
• You need access to major prophecy (mages light on frontbar) and major sorcery (degeneration on backbar). Unless you're rich and can spam spell power pots.
• Get a rotation you're comfortable with and practice it with la weaving until you can do it without looking at your action bar.

Is there a reason you're doubling barring Swarming Scion? As much as I use the ultimate even I know that the vampire ultimate doesn't give you anything for having it slotted. Putting the Mage's Guild Meteor ultimate on your primary damage bar would increase the max magicka by 2% on that bar even if you don't use it, which would boost the damage of all the abilities on that bar.

Could also slot a different ultimate besides Meteor on one of your bars as it would increase your flexibility in combat. Like for example I have Ferocious Leap on my front bar just in case I need to activate an ultimate now instead of later when I don't have enough ult to cast Swarming Scion. And I do this even though the passive for slotting Leap gives me increased health regeneration despite the fact if I'm at stage 4 I have 0 health regeneration.

Serkuos wrote: »

For the Swarming Scion, it helps me to do good Damages while also helps me to avoid death (thanks to the full HP it gives.)

I understand, but what I was getting at is you double barred it. You can still use it, but double barring an ultimate is usually only done when that ultimate has a passive buff associated with it or it's a pet like the Warden Bear. If you don't double bar the Warden Bear and change to the bar it's not in it'll unsummon. That's what I was getting at >.>

Vevvev wrote: »

Serkuos wrote: »

For the Swarming Scion, it helps me to do good Damages while also helps me to avoid death (thanks to the full HP it gives.)

I understand, but what I was getting at is you double barred it. You can still use it, but double barring an ultimate is usually only done when that ultimate has a passive buff associated with it or it's a pet like the Warden Bear. If you don't double bar the Warden Bear and change to the bar it's not in it'll unsummon. That's what I was getting at >.>

I think I see what you mean ! Yeah, there is no actual reason for to double it, I just want to cast the ultimate anytime. But if an other ultimate is better on 1 of my bar, I'll take it !

I'm no DPS expert. Possibly this advice is well-intentioned but wrong. 18k on a 3mil dummy isn't horrible, it could be much worse

Alcast doesn't seem to explain the skill choices in that build or the rotation (that I can find at least) so I can't say how they fit into the theory. But the build is labeled as for 'solo pve' which balances your damage with personal survivability.

I suspect your Illambris uptime isn't very good, considering it's triggered by doing flame and/or lightning damage. If you're using lightning staves with lightning enchants, and only have one lightning skill slotted, you'll never get the fire proc except from Stalking Blastbones, and probably get the lightning less often than a storm sorcerer would get.

You have several defensive skills slotted. From memory I don't think they do anything to help your damage. Spirit Mender keeps you alive but no damage boost. Summoner's (Beckoning?) Armor keeps you alive, but no damage boost (helps reduce magicka costs which you might want). Baleful Gaze stops enemy attackers looking at you but gives no damage boost, and in a group with a tank it may not be useful.

Replace most of these with damage and buff abilities like Mage's Guild Degeneration which gives you an immediate 20% damage boost since you're not getting Major Sorcery from potions.

Ricochet skull would give you another fire skill to help Illambris. Mystic Siphon is a little wonky but directly increases your damage and regen, plus also does lightning which could help Illambris.

Try using Colossus as an ultimate for the Major Vulnerability debuff and compare against the vampire Ult's.

Try Simmering Fury (keep the damage shield skill on your bar). That's risky but would help your vampire do damage better than Baleful Gaze.

Unnerving boneyard and Necrotic Potency won't help as much soloing a dummy as they probably would in a real fight. Nobody around to activate the synergy and you're getting only your own corpses for ultimate.