Stop using fatecarver as your subclass dps choice instead use this

DarkStrifeYT · September 30

I see so many dps use fatecarver as the dps choice but its base damage is lower than a major spamable with great passives. I present you to the templar aedric spear line: The jabs itself does more base damage, does not require crux buildup, and is cheaper than the fatecarver. It also can't be interrupted as well as benefits from the deadly set like the fatecarver. Lets also not forget that the stam jabs gives you major brutality/sorcery and the magicka ones heal you. The passives on aedric spear gives an additional 11% damage boost. 6% for having it slotted and 5% activating the ability. Also don't forget the burning light passive giving even more damage. There is also increased critical damage from aedric spear as well. Sure a fully crux fatecarver does a lot of damage but can also be interrupted in pvp. The jabs can't be interrupted. Also one thing with the arcanists, the classes 3 skill lines help generate crux for that massive hit that subclassing will not do since you can only subclass 1 skill line from a class.

Tldr: Jabs give more consistent dps and its skill like provides better benefits while fatecarver needs to be built up.

freespirit · September 30

Couldn't agree more!!!

Well said! 👍

Oblivion_Protocol · September 30

Are you talking from a PvP perspective, or a PvE perspective?

AcadianPaladin · September 30

All at a whopping range of 8m. Some time ago the animation was . . . changed and now rivals Fatecarver for fugly. The damage was also nerfed but even before the damage nerf, PvE jabplars were not top notch dps. Before the animation and damage changes it was a decent skill but I haven't slotted since those changes.

Zodiarkslayer · October 1

Why not have both? Aedric Spear and Herald of the Tome?

LunaFlora · October 1

Puncturing Strikes has a range of 8 meters and duration of 0.8 seconds.
yes you cannot be interrupted but there is no time for that anyways with how short it is.

Fatecarver has a range of 22x3 meters and duration of 4.5 seconds, which the Exhausting morph increases with Crux.
longer range, longer duration. it is easier to use due to that and we (unless interrupted) do not have to cast it as much as Puncturing Strikes.
Also we do not need all 3 Arcanist lines, you can get Crux from Runeblades and Cephaliarch's Flail.

Aedric Spear and Herald of the Tome are both good skill lines, but i choose Fatecarver over Puncturing Strikes.

Renato90085 · October 1

so you mean spear pvp better,because must player use beam in pve

what part did i miss

MincMincMinc · October 1

Dizzy tooltip scales 1.2473 every gcd 1s
jabs is 0.41578*3 = 1.24734 every gcd
surprise attack = 1.0846 every gcd + effect procs and crit
Crushing shock = 3x 0.325 = 0.975

Fatecarver = 0.41054 * 3 per gcd = 1.23 + 33% damage = 1.6359 per gcd

IDK it seems to be doing fine even without the massive damage boost. This skill is a good example of how bloated the game is though. Its a main SPAMMABLE rotation and is going to be SPAMMED so why is the skill so complex. A core skill like this shouldn't have multiple paragraph explanations. And we wonder why the servers have performance issues.

ZOS_Kevin · October 1

Thread was closed at the request of the OP.