Rapid Strike with Ulfsild Scribing Skill+Maelstrom Two Hand Sword

MrCray78 · April 18

◾Without buff

◾With Ulfsild(+2k more damage for next direct damage) and maelstrom Two Hand Sword !

◾The skill

SkaraMinoc · April 18

The +2000 damage will be good in PvP as a prebuff for large hitting direct attacks like Ice Comet, NB bow proc.

Bashev · April 19

That damage should not be added to the channel attacks and bash. These attacks do damage every 0.3 seconds, and the buff will be massive.

MrCray78 · April 19

Bashev wrote: »

That damage should not be added to the channel attacks and bash. These attacks do damage every 0.3 seconds, and the buff will be massive.

Because Rapid Strike do that "Each hit increases the damage of the subsequent hit by 5%" if the first hit do 4500 and no 2500,the subsequent hit cannot do less than him 🤡🤡🤡

Bashev · April 19

MrCray78 wrote: »

Bashev wrote: »

That damage should not be added to the channel attacks and bash. These attacks do damage every 0.3 seconds, and the buff will be massive.

Because Rapid Strike do that "Each hit increases the damage of the subsequent hit by 5%" if the first hit do 4500 and no 2500,the subsequent hit cannot do less than him 🤡🤡🤡

Then all good, it is just a bug that lets hope is fixed. Good find.

Trejgon · April 19

I am unsure how to read those screenshots, like if rapid strikes with this buff are apparently doing monster damage, why the DPS "with the buff" is actually smaller than without?

SkaraMinoc · April 19

Trejgon wrote: »

I am unsure how to read those screenshots, like if rapid strikes with this buff are apparently doing monster damage, why the DPS "with the buff" is actually smaller than without?

Because you have to waste a global cooldown every 2 seconds casting Contingency.

kalunte · April 19

the dps is irrelevent because he used other skills for some reason in the buffed parse.

what's relevent tho is that with 67hits, 81% crit he did 659,976 total damage while on the buffed version: 72 hits, 68%crit but a total dmg of 1,277,010 dmg which is roughly double dmg so far.. and that's brazy...

MrCray78 · April 19

kalunte wrote: »

the dps is irrelevent because he used other skills for some reason in the buffed parse.

what's relevent tho is that with 67hits, 81% crit he did 659,976 total damage while on the buffed version: 72 hits, 68%crit but a total dmg of 1,277,010 dmg which is roughly double dmg so far.. and that's brazy...

The only changes to my buffs are the use of fiery contigency and maelstrom Two Hand Sword (merciless charge). I can definitely increase my damage even more on this skill, I need to find sets that improve this type of damage for snowball even more 🤓🤓🤓

SkaraMinoc · April 19

MrCray78 wrote: »

kalunte wrote: »

the dps is irrelevent because he used other skills for some reason in the buffed parse.

what's relevent tho is that with 67hits, 81% crit he did 659,976 total damage while on the buffed version: 72 hits, 68%crit but a total dmg of 1,277,010 dmg which is roughly double dmg so far.. and that's brazy...

The only changes to my buffs are the use of fiery contigency and maelstrom Two Hand Sword (merciless charge). I can definitely increase my damage even more on this skill, I need to find sets that improve this type of damage for snowball even more 🤓🤓🤓

There aren't any other sets than maybe Draugrkin. Dragon's Appetite isn't worth using for what you're trying to do. You could also check the interaction between Rapid Strikes and Mechanical Acuity but I'd be surprised if subsequent hits were based on critical strikes.

Necrotech_Master · April 19

looking at your CMX, it looks like while the individual dmg went up, the avg dmg went down, so it would be nice to have the full list

in your 2nd screenshot picturing the buffed version, the skill was only accounting for 24% of your dps compared to your first screenshot at 91%, and the avg dps shows as 15k on the buffed version and over 18k on the unbuffed version

your buffed version had 71 hits and unbuffed had 67 hits

so honestly it looks worse to me except for the avg dmg and max dmg numbers

unbuffed avg dmg was 9850 and max unbuffed dmg was 12116

for your buffed one, the avg dmg was 17736 and the max buffed dmg was 32594

so it looks like its better for burst and not parsing

SkaraMinoc · April 19

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

so it looks like its better for burst and not parsing

That's what they're trying to do. Frontload as much damage into the initial hit to get the largest possible burst.

With lucky crits, 30k x3 would translate into maybe 15k (+/-5k) total damage after battle spirit and damage reduction. Not bad for 1 second of damage. Maybe they could wind it into a combo, then Dawnbreaker + execute.

kalunte · April 20

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

so it looks like its better for burst and not parsing

That's what they're trying to do. Frontload as much damage into the initial hit to get the largest possible burst.

With lucky crits, 30k x3 would translate into maybe 15k (+/-5k) total damage after battle spirit and damage reduction. Not bad for 1 second of damage. Maybe they could wind it into a combo, then Dawnbreaker + execute.

+ the fire dmg on top of it..

it's funny to see how they removed the pvp burst tanky setup from master DW and then introduce this which is only way more broken as it is with the skill combination.

i'm thinkin about a nightblade coming at you with ult (which as 0.4 cast time) that should proc the run and... boom.

kalunte · April 20

or even the same braindead combo we have now running with ulti into whatever execute scaling skill with prebuff from cloak.

btw, do fire dmg proc on a single target at whatever range or is it melee? what with aoe? does it trigger the dmg to each and every dmged foe?

i'm a nightblade but bombing with this will also be "fun" as hell. the backlash of casted ultis..