khaoticfury wrote: »

SirAndy wrote: »

A few things for that kind of build:

- Try to focus and getting your critical chance up as high as possible. 65% is OK but still a bit low.
- After crit chance, focus on crit damage
- Try to get your max Magicka above 40k, sacrifice some max health if needed. No need to put any points in stamina.
- Use a lightning staff

I know you mentioned a 1 bar setup, but things like crit surge that have very long runtimes are better put on a back bar, since you don't have to recast them often. That would free up a slot on your front bar to allow you to weave in another damage skill into your rotation. Or allow you to slot Inner Light on your front bar.

not quite sure how to get my crit any higher AND magicka. If i switch from Necropotence to Julianos, I would gain crit but lose max mag. I could squeeze in another 3% crit if i lose 2nd piece of iceheart and replace with another crit monster piece. but don't know how to get the max magicka......

khaoticfury wrote: »

khaoticfury wrote: »

SirAndy wrote: »

A few things for that kind of build:

- Try to focus and getting your critical chance up as high as possible. 65% is OK but still a bit low.
- After crit chance, focus on crit damage
- Try to get your max Magicka above 40k, sacrifice some max health if needed. No need to put any points in stamina.
- Use a lightning staff

I know you mentioned a 1 bar setup, but things like crit surge that have very long runtimes are better put on a back bar, since you don't have to recast them often. That would free up a slot on your front bar to allow you to weave in another damage skill into your rotation. Or allow you to slot Inner Light on your front bar.

not quite sure how to get my crit any higher AND magicka. If i switch from Necropotence to Julianos, I would gain crit but lose max mag. I could squeeze in another 3% crit if i lose 2nd piece of iceheart and replace with another crit monster piece. but don't know how to get the max magicka......

forgot to add.....i do already have inner light on bar....

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

I think your rotation is holding you back. The point of weaving, either heavy or light attacks, is that is deals damage in the time between skill casts (the global cooldown). There shouldn’t be skills back to back, always throw either a light or heavy attack between them. There also should never be two light attacks, two heavy attacks, or a consecutive light and heavy attack.

Try something like:
Buff, Heavy, DoT1, Heavy, DoT2, Heavy, DoT3, Heavy, repeat

As you get more comfortable you can start to replace some heavies with skills, and light attack whenever you end up with two or more skills in a row without a heavy.

For gear you’ll need a maelstrom staff to get the most out of Lightning heavy attacks. You should drop Necropotence, it has been nerfed several times over the years and is currently very weak. A set with Minor Slayer would also help, I hear many heavy attack builds like Infallible Aether, which drops from all 3 Craglorn trials on normal or veteran.

I don’t know what the rest of your build is, but generally heavy attack builds don’t need sustain. Make sure your weapons are enchanted with damage glyphs like Berserker or Flame, and your jewelry should be 3 spell damage glyphs (not recovery or cost reduction).

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

I think your rotation is holding you back. The point of weaving, either heavy or light attacks, is that is deals damage in the time between skill casts (the global cooldown). There shouldn’t be skills back to back, always throw either a light or heavy attack between them. There also should never be two light attacks, two heavy attacks, or a consecutive light and heavy attack.

Try something like:
Buff, Heavy, DoT1, Heavy, DoT2, Heavy, DoT3, Heavy, repeat

As you get more comfortable you can start to replace some heavies with skills, and light attack whenever you end up with two or more skills in a row without a heavy.

For gear you’ll need a maelstrom staff to get the most out of Lightning heavy attacks. You should drop Necropotence, it has been nerfed several times over the years and is currently very weak. A set with Minor Slayer would also help, I hear many heavy attack builds like Infallible Aether, which drops from all 3 Craglorn trials on normal or veteran.

I don’t know what the rest of your build is, but generally heavy attack builds don’t need sustain. Make sure your weapons are enchanted with damage glyphs like Berserker or Flame, and your jewelry should be 3 spell damage glyphs (not recovery or cost reduction).

I doubt the OP is farming trial gear.

But to another of your points -- jewelry glyphs shouldn't be magicka recovery in a build like this.

Anyhow, I thought heavy attack builds normally included sets that buff heavy attacks or all basic attacks (note: The Maelstrom staff is an example of the latter), plus a source of Empower (commonly from the Mages Guild skill line, although templars obviously have a different option). And even then heavy attack damage was less than 50% of total damage done.