This guide is for anyone interested in trying out ranked, and should have everything you need to get started, the class guides have been provided by top solo ranked players.
General Information
Spoiler:
+ Seasons have varying lenghts but usually last a couple months. With preseasons being much shorter.
+ As you play games, you will obtain a matchmaking rating (MMR). This rating is unique to both queue types (solo/group) and is used to track your performance.
+ MMR will additionally be used to pair players together of similar matchmaking rating in the Solo queue type.
+ The longer time elapses without a queue pop, the greater MMR difference is allowed between players, this increases until a game is started.
+ At the start of a season, your matchmaking rating is completely reset to 0.
+ Mixed Realm Solo Ranked games are now popping and it's a unique and fun experimental experience!
[Where to Queue and Ranked Leaderboard]
[Ranked Scenario Rewards]
[Season Dates]
+ As you play games, you will obtain a matchmaking rating (MMR). This rating is unique to both queue types (solo/group) and is used to track your performance.
+ MMR will additionally be used to pair players together of similar matchmaking rating in the Solo queue type.
+ The longer time elapses without a queue pop, the greater MMR difference is allowed between players, this increases until a game is started.
+ At the start of a season, your matchmaking rating is completely reset to 0.
+ Mixed Realm Solo Ranked games are now popping and it's a unique and fun experimental experience!
[Where to Queue and Ranked Leaderboard]
Spoiler:
+ A new interface for Ranked Scenarios has been added. Open it with the medal icon near your minimap.
+ or with the command:
+ if you want to make a macro use this:
Leaderboard
Queue:
+ If you open the "Ranked" tab, you can join the "Solo" or "Group" queue. Alternatively you can use the normal scenario queuer.
+ You can join the current "Solo" queue with this command:
+ To join the "Premade Ranked":
+ If you want to challenge a certain group, take a look here -> [Ranked Scenario Seasons]
+ or with the command:
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/leaderboard
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RoR_RankedLeaderboard.ToggleShowing()
Leaderboard
Queue:
+ If you open the "Ranked" tab, you can join the "Solo" or "Group" queue. Alternatively you can use the normal scenario queuer.
+ You can join the current "Solo" queue with this command:
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.ranked queuesolo
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.ranked queuegroup
Spoiler:
+Triumphant Insignias, you will receive one of them for winning a match in the following situations:
+ Winning a match will result in a gain of 8 War Crests and 1 Triumphant Insignia at maximum.
+ Ranked has a significantly higher Renown/XP gain than normal scenarios. XP can be used to level your guilds even at 40.
+ Ranked Vendors and Quartermasters have been added to the War Quarter in Altdorf for Order, and to The Undercroft in The Inevitable City.
+ Quartermasters rewards weekly bonus.
+ New tome unlocks have been added for playing and for winning certain number of Ranked matches. There's also tome unlocks added for getting a top placement in a season in total or for your class.
Note:
The weekly ranked event ends at noon on Mondays, just like the warfront.
+ The Triumphant and Victorious armor set now have a new jewelry piece added. This is a slot 3 Jewelry piece that is able to harness stalwart talismans, just like the Sentinel jewelry. This means these sets will now have eight pieces in total, however they will only have set bonuses up to seven pieces. That being said, you can pick which pieces you want to use.
Each of these two rings will cost 2000 War Crests and 50 Triumphant Insignias.
+ Some of the trophies and cloaks are unique and will be only available after the season if you place 1st to 3rd of your class in either Ranked Solo or Ranked Group.
+ They also sell 90 day mounts for 500 Triumphant Emblems & 20 Triumphant Insignias. Which mount you can buy depends on your race and class:
End of Season 2 Rewards:
All of these rewards will be available for both the winners of Ranked Solo and Ranked Group. Which means that both playstyles have been taken care of.
At the end of the season you will receive Triumphant Emblems based on your total ranking on the scoreboard, but also additional ones if you are among the top four players within your class.
The top players will receive additional Triumphant Emblems based on their leaderboard placement at the end of the season:
#1: 1000 Triumphant Emblems
#2: 950 Triumphant Emblems
#3: 900 Triumphant Emblems
#4: 850 Triumphant Emblems
#5: 800 Triumphant Emblems
#6: 750 Triumphant Emblems
#7: 700 Triumphant Emblems
#8: 650 Triumphant Emblems
#9: 600 Triumphant Emblems
#10: 550 Triumphant Emblems
#11: 500 Triumphant Emblems
#12: 495 Triumphant Emblems
#13: 490 Triumphant Emblems
# ...
#100: 55 Triumphant Emblems
The top players of each class will also receive additional Triumphant Emblems:
#1: 1000 Triumphant Emblems
#2: 750 Triumphant Emblems
#3: 500 Triumphant Emblems
#4: 250 Triumphant Emblems
There is also a new vendor in Altdorf and the Inevitable City that will sell unique mounts, unique trophies and unique new titles! As for the top players, who ranked between 1st and 10th position within each class, more rewards will be available for them. Some of these rewards are unique to those who placed 1st within their class.
- Win a Ranked Group match
- Have an MMR of 1000 or more and win a Ranked Solo match
+ Winning a match will result in a gain of 8 War Crests and 1 Triumphant Insignia at maximum.
+ Ranked has a significantly higher Renown/XP gain than normal scenarios. XP can be used to level your guilds even at 40.
+ Ranked Vendors and Quartermasters have been added to the War Quarter in Altdorf for Order, and to The Undercroft in The Inevitable City.
+ Quartermasters rewards weekly bonus.
+ New tome unlocks have been added for playing and for winning certain number of Ranked matches. There's also tome unlocks added for getting a top placement in a season in total or for your class.
Note:
The weekly ranked event ends at noon on Mondays, just like the warfront.
Spoiler:
- You can still buy Season 1 gear in Season 2.
+ The Triumphant and Victorious armor set now have a new jewelry piece added. This is a slot 3 Jewelry piece that is able to harness stalwart talismans, just like the Sentinel jewelry. This means these sets will now have eight pieces in total, however they will only have set bonuses up to seven pieces. That being said, you can pick which pieces you want to use.
Each of these two rings will cost 2000 War Crests and 50 Triumphant Insignias.
+ Some of the trophies and cloaks are unique and will be only available after the season if you place 1st to 3rd of your class in either Ranked Solo or Ranked Group.
+ They also sell 90 day mounts for 500 Triumphant Emblems & 20 Triumphant Insignias. Which mount you can buy depends on your race and class:
- Greenskin: Wyvern
- Dwarf: Rhinox
- Empire: Imperial Heroes Warhorse
- Chaos: Juggernaut of Khorne or Nurgle Warhorse
- Magus: Midnight Arabian disc
- Dark Elf: Dark Steed
- High Elf: Unicorn or Strawberry Roan Charger
End of Season 2 Rewards:
All of these rewards will be available for both the winners of Ranked Solo and Ranked Group. Which means that both playstyles have been taken care of.
At the end of the season you will receive Triumphant Emblems based on your total ranking on the scoreboard, but also additional ones if you are among the top four players within your class.
The top players will receive additional Triumphant Emblems based on their leaderboard placement at the end of the season:
#1: 1000 Triumphant Emblems
#2: 950 Triumphant Emblems
#3: 900 Triumphant Emblems
#4: 850 Triumphant Emblems
#5: 800 Triumphant Emblems
#6: 750 Triumphant Emblems
#7: 700 Triumphant Emblems
#8: 650 Triumphant Emblems
#9: 600 Triumphant Emblems
#10: 550 Triumphant Emblems
#11: 500 Triumphant Emblems
#12: 495 Triumphant Emblems
#13: 490 Triumphant Emblems
# ...
#100: 55 Triumphant Emblems
The top players of each class will also receive additional Triumphant Emblems:
#1: 1000 Triumphant Emblems
#2: 750 Triumphant Emblems
#3: 500 Triumphant Emblems
#4: 250 Triumphant Emblems
There is also a new vendor in Altdorf and the Inevitable City that will sell unique mounts, unique trophies and unique new titles! As for the top players, who ranked between 1st and 10th position within each class, more rewards will be available for them. Some of these rewards are unique to those who placed 1st within their class.
Spoiler:
+ Release: 07/12/2019
+ First Preseason start: 20/01/2020 (MMR reset)
+ First Season: 29/04/2020 (MMR reset) -12/08/2020 (not announcing the Season 1 end on time))
+ Second Preseason: 16/12/2020 - 27/06/2021
+ New MMR rating system introduced: 18/06/2021 (MMR reset)
+ Second Season: 28/12/2021 (MMR reset) - 13/09/2021
+ First Preseason start: 20/01/2020 (MMR reset)
+ First Season: 29/04/2020 (MMR reset) -12/08/2020 (not announcing the Season 1 end on time))
+ Second Preseason: 16/12/2020 - 27/06/2021
+ New MMR rating system introduced: 18/06/2021 (MMR reset)
+ Second Season: 28/12/2021 (MMR reset) - 13/09/2021
Spoiler:
You can find a lot of useful information here: The Return of Reckoning - Cheat Sheet.
Ranked is all about coordinating to land kills, this is generally achieved through removing/punting tanks, disabling healers and bursting down one of the damage dealers (DD). Some team comps will do it through seer AoE damage (e.g. Magus+Choppa, slayer+slayer, etc.)
To do this each player has to fulfill their primary role:
Tanks
Needs to mitigate damage, debuff, snare and try to punt/disable both opposing tanks at the same time, right before DD starts their burst and then fire of their own burst with MA. Defensively your main tool is guard, parry and block is used for all types of damage (melee/parry, magic/disrupt, projectiles/dodge) meaning as 2H tank stacking parry mitigates a lot of damage, making Reflexes IV (18% parry renown) mandatory.
A good indication of if you have too little parry is if you require direct single target healing when you are not being focused.
Healers
Needs to heal, cleanse, anticipate incoming burst and for your own team's burst assist MA with debuffs and try to disable/silence opposing healers. You need to have a balance of being tanky enough yourself while having enough AP sustain and heal power to keep team alive.
Damage Dealers
Needs to coordinate bursts and tests all enemies for squishies. Balance between being able to kill and not dying too fast, you will be the primary focus and will need to survive burst without guard for some time.
Ranked is all about coordinating to land kills, this is generally achieved through removing/punting tanks, disabling healers and bursting down one of the damage dealers (DD). Some team comps will do it through seer AoE damage (e.g. Magus+Choppa, slayer+slayer, etc.)
To do this each player has to fulfill their primary role:
Tanks
Needs to mitigate damage, debuff, snare and try to punt/disable both opposing tanks at the same time, right before DD starts their burst and then fire of their own burst with MA. Defensively your main tool is guard, parry and block is used for all types of damage (melee/parry, magic/disrupt, projectiles/dodge) meaning as 2H tank stacking parry mitigates a lot of damage, making Reflexes IV (18% parry renown) mandatory.
A good indication of if you have too little parry is if you require direct single target healing when you are not being focused.
Healers
Needs to heal, cleanse, anticipate incoming burst and for your own team's burst assist MA with debuffs and try to disable/silence opposing healers. You need to have a balance of being tanky enough yourself while having enough AP sustain and heal power to keep team alive.
Damage Dealers
Needs to coordinate bursts and tests all enemies for squishies. Balance between being able to kill and not dying too fast, you will be the primary focus and will need to survive burst without guard for some time.
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Discord
Ensure you are on RoR Ranked discord, while DPS and tanks should be vocal, always join to listen in even if you don't talk.
Optimize Game Performance
Make sure your game runs smoothly (frame loss can be game loss), if you have to sacrifice visuals (including seeing spell effects) do so.
and does not crash (dc for healers and tanks especially will almost certainly lose you the game even if you are ahead)
If you have performance issues you can start here Reduce Lag, Crashes, Disconnects - Complete list of things you can do.
Required Addons
- Buffhead: gives clear visuals of buffs and debuffs and may be the most impactful addon of all.
List of Always Show (de)buff Ids here
- Enemy: gives markers (handy for many things, such as marking tanks
- Tether: gives a clear indicator between you and your guard, every second counts
- SwiftAssist: there will be two macros associated with this addon, one called SetAssist use this once on the Main Assist and another called Assist put this on one easy to access hotkey as you will need to switch targets fast
- Scenario Alerter: Currently missing a game will count as a loss - if you are trying to get to +1K MMR this addon is a must have. It does not start automatically, so either add it to your
You can save up to 5 specs and switch between them by talking to the quest giver in the SC, while you can't switch gear, you can change tactics+morales and renown+mastery spec, this will allow you to have specific builds for/against certain classes.
Note that first time you load a spec it just switches Mastery, second time switches tactics and ability layout, third click switches Renown spec.
Talisman
Please ensure all your gear is equipped with +22-24 talismen, if in doubt go with wounds. Lot of guilds will give for free, especially for Vanq and above gear.
Special Talisman
These are considered BIS for many classes and builds, not only is the ring strong by itself, but the stalward stone talisman has many options that will provide 4-6% of special stats. Even if you are not using multiple sent pieces, the talisman is so strong you should always have it for ranked.
Completing 3 runs of Gunbad and 4 runs of BBBE/CT will get you 2 rings, put a +24 of choice in one and use special talis in the other for ranked.
Event Slot Item
You can buy a fairly powerful one from the Ranked vendors, otherwise try to get the lesser version from the weekly SC event.
2023 also saw incredibly strong 90 Day Event Slot Items (% heal, pilfer, absorb).
Potions
You'll need a minimum of 7 different potions. Of good quality (blue), if you don't have gold consider picking up a profession and doing PvE, cultivation+apothecary is a slower almost passive gold generator, if you are only interested in pvp.
- PvE Heal potions: you need Potent Draught Of Recovery (instant 2700 HP), it's also good to have a set of Potent Lasting Elixir of Restoration (4.3k HP over 18 sec).
- PvP Heal Potions: Conq/dominator or above heal potion
- PvE Absorb Potion: Fleeting Potion of Aversion (2.2k absorb) is fine, but if you have enough gold get the lasting/blue version
- PvE AP Potion: Potent Draught of Invigoration
- PvP AP Potion: Conq/dominator or above AP potion
- Beastlord Pocket: You should get this item, you can keep track of your teams AP or your own and pop it as convenient.
- Armor potion: Lasting Stauchion Unguent, if available you may also want the Potent version against physical comps.
- Liniments/stat potion: bring multiple linis to adjust for buffs from all classes. If you do intend on using single stat potion make sure it's the 100 version, though these still tend to be less value than linis.
Linis tend to have stats less covered by other buffs and some have secondary stats that no other buffs give, so can give up to 40 renown points worth of stats over a 100 STR potion that gets covered completely by a buff from an ability.
- (Optional) Lasting Tacky Bomb: throw for 20% snare for 7 seconds.
And you may think that's a lot and yup, it is, welcome to endgame. A single SC could easily cost you over 10g.
You can of course can get away with using green potions, some games will be stomps one way or another, but ranked tend to be close and healing 6.5-8.5k from potions instead of 1500 will definitely be the difference between winning and losing/tieing some matches. Same goes for AP pots, 3-4 extra casts could be a tipping point and very noticeable when Flee!+AP Potting.
Assuming you already have green versions of above potions, and you can't afford to upgrade/maintain all at the same time, this is the order I think you should get better ones: instant blue heal potion (2.7k), multiple sets of liniments, blue AP potion, blue slow hp recovery, green lasting absorb, blue armor pot, blue absorb.
Being in a large active guild will have better chances of someone giving you discounts.
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Archmage
Spoiler:
Sov+2 - 13-0-13 - Healer
Gear: 4-3p vanq, 3-4p invader/sent 6-7p sov, 3-2p sent/triumphant. 4p invader, 5p triumphant. Staff: The Sight, Fortess Longstaff, Purple SC Staff.
There are two R70 branches of this build, one dropping Silence and Magical Infusion, and one dropping Funnel Essence and picking up Apotheosis or Storm of Cronos.
Morales: Isha's Ward is decent, if you think you'll get focused run it Focus Mind, otherwise run Divine Favor with Blinding Lights
R70 - 0-13-9 - DD AM
Use Dispel Magic against DOK/Zealots instead of Discerning Offense if you are not getting disrupted.
To burst cover with Rain Lord, Law of Age and Storm of Chronos, then TF > LoC > RG > STW > steal life M1 if you have > DI or FoA > ST > FoA. By stacking 5 Tranq before SoC and going back to 5 after using TF, you can increase burst by 20% to around 10k over 3 sec, though rarely happens as you'll be stuck at 5 Force.
Gear: 4-3p vanq, 3-4p invader/sent 6-7p sov, 3-2p sent/triumphant. 4p invader, 5p triumphant. Staff: The Sight, Fortess Longstaff, Purple SC Staff.
There are two R70 branches of this build, one dropping Silence and Magical Infusion, and one dropping Funnel Essence and picking up Apotheosis or Storm of Cronos.
Morales: Isha's Ward is decent, if you think you'll get focused run it Focus Mind, otherwise run Divine Favor with Blinding Lights
R70 - 0-13-9 - DD AM
Use Dispel Magic against DOK/Zealots instead of Discerning Offense if you are not getting disrupted.
To burst cover with Rain Lord, Law of Age and Storm of Chronos, then TF > LoC > RG > STW > steal life M1 if you have > DI or FoA > ST > FoA. By stacking 5 Tranq before SoC and going back to 5 after using TF, you can increase burst by 20% to around 10k over 3 sec, though rarely happens as you'll be stuck at 5 Force.
Shadow Warrior - Incomplete
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Sword Master
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R70 - 13-0-9 - 2H SM
Gear: Bloodlord 5-6p, 3-2p warlord/sov off/sent/vict. 2p off sov, 2p warlord, 2p sent, 3p bloodlord. 5p vict, 4-2p sov off, 0-2p sent. 3p bloodlord (shoulder, belt, gloves), 3p sov off, 3p sent/vict
Renown: against sorc/magus 4 Reflexes, 4 Deft Defender, 3 FS. Against melee 4 Reflexes, 5 Might, 2 FS
I think bloodlord is particularly strong, no bad bonuses or stats.. But of course it is a mid tier set so overall less stats.
This build is focused on assisting MA doing as much burst as possible. You can swap Phoenix Wing and Calming Winds for extra points in Khaine tree. PW is primarily nice for proc'ing Nature's Blade. Calming Winds only needed against spell casters. If you are in a double Armor debuff team, Deep Incision can be better or as good as Enscrolling Agony, as opponents will often have at least 20-30% spirit resistance after WoH, if you are against comps without Chosen (e.g. Only removable resist buffs) EA and Potent Enchantment will be better.
Burst involves starting setting up dots (BS, EB and/or QI) while having WoH up and using taunt follow by ED.
R70+2 - 13-0-13 - 2H SM
Gear: 6-7p sov off/warlord, 3-2p sent/vict.
While using many sov pieces and giving up on BA is a significant dps/burst loss, having WW while 2H is very strong, especially strong boost for healers and to spam PoH. So will win/tie you matches you about as many matches as you lost/tied due to not having the extra burst.
WW also opens up spamming Intimidating Blow which can be good against morale dependent classes.
R70+2 - 0-11-13 - Shield Master
SnB is a decent option as you can pick up the ST punt and WW, however you'll lose more than 50% dmg and that's if you go offensive squishy tank, even more if you go turtle. If you don't have +2 sov, drop RT as you need CA and PD for the increased block chance for punt.
White Lion
Spoiler:
R70 - 13-9-0 - WA+CtW
Gear: 6 sov 3 sent (gloves, boots, ring), or 5 sov 2 sent (ring, gloves) 2 vanq (boots, belt)
Liniment: Savage Vigor (toughness + melee crit)
Open with Cleve Limb (if there's no snare and enemies are cleansing), Armour Debuff, Echoing Roar, Shattering Blow, Blindside (i.e. stack 3 bleeds).
Hit pack assault, then whirling axe - after 2s of whirling axe guard should be punted, interrupt channel with coordinated strike.
Cull the weak if below 50% and/or morale, Slashing Blade to finish kill. Slashing Blade is also filler damage (low AP + high damage with tactic)
Can swap in Revenge for either hack n slash or brute force, esp if they have a shield DoK.
Gear: 6 sov 3 sent (gloves, boots, ring), or 5 sov 2 sent (ring, gloves) 2 vanq (boots, belt)
Liniment: Savage Vigor (toughness + melee crit)
Open with Cleve Limb (if there's no snare and enemies are cleansing), Armour Debuff, Echoing Roar, Shattering Blow, Blindside (i.e. stack 3 bleeds).
Hit pack assault, then whirling axe - after 2s of whirling axe guard should be punted, interrupt channel with coordinated strike.
Cull the weak if below 50% and/or morale, Slashing Blade to finish kill. Slashing Blade is also filler damage (low AP + high damage with tactic)
Can swap in Revenge for either hack n slash or brute force, esp if they have a shield DoK.
Engineer - WIP
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Runepriest
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R70 - 13-0-11 - Runepriest
Tactics: Ancestor's Blessing if team needs AP pump, otherwise Regenerative Shielding or Restorative Burst.
Renown: full FS or TB, rest in heal crit or other def stats.
BIS Gear: 6p Triumphant + 3p sov + fortress staff, with exquisite Gunbad Diamond + 1 other OR 2p Genesis.
Talis: wounds + init mix
Game plan/Win Condition: drop Master Rune of Adamant and HoTs, heal as required.
Look for opportunities to land Stagger + Silence (go into attack mode and back) on each healer in coordination with burst attempt.
See Zealot for more details.
Tactics: Ancestor's Blessing if team needs AP pump, otherwise Regenerative Shielding or Restorative Burst.
Renown: full FS or TB, rest in heal crit or other def stats.
BIS Gear: 6p Triumphant + 3p sov + fortress staff, with exquisite Gunbad Diamond + 1 other OR 2p Genesis.
Talis: wounds + init mix
Game plan/Win Condition: drop Master Rune of Adamant and HoTs, heal as required.
Look for opportunities to land Stagger + Silence (go into attack mode and back) on each healer in coordination with burst attempt.
See Zealot for more details.
Slayer
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R70 - 9-0-15 - Standard Dual Wield Slayer
Rampage is a priority Shatter Enchantment target, try to have it covered by other enchantments and facing tanks before popping.
Same goes for Numbing Strike, have it covered as it represents a huge burst window.
Building to M3 and coordinating burst with a morale bomb is a good way to land some kills.
Always be ready to exhaust rage, especially if you are not double guarded! While it sometimes may be worth keeping rage if you are winning the pressure battle and you might land a kill if you keep going, often it's better to be on the side of caution as ranked is sometimes a game of getting a single kill which can quickly go either way.
Basic Renown
Adjust to your gear and different preferences
Bright Wizard
Spoiler:
R70 - 13-9-0 - Before BIS BW
R70 - 13-9-0
Gear: setup for BW will be 5 sov,4 ranked I think. Sov helm, shoulders, gloves, cloak, ring, rest offensive ranked. Minmax talis so you have 1050 intel
Renown: full magic crit, 3 FS, rest in Int (if not close to 1050) and wounds if at 1050
Rotation varies depending on targets hp, you wont use the full rotation on every single target, for instance Boiling blood is highly telegraphed against good healers with a proper UI setup
But the fireball, into sear, nova, fireball barrage/withering heat, is not.
Ranked on BW is all about playing off the rotation of the BW in the party, its more on the tanks and their ability to punt your target/guarding tank on the bb and keep the melee train snared more so they are not on the BW itself.
Most of the games will be against a ranged dps, so keeping then detaunted when they push up to pressure is a priority assuming your not dpsing them,your tanks should have the enemy melee blob snared and CCed (hopefully).
Practice kiting and dpsing on the move, while this is a staple to perform well on all ranged dps, its essential in ranked, you will be pressured in most games and you must be able to fire off rotations on the move with a tail of enemies following close by. The reason atleast from my experience playing against a lot of ranged dps is their inability to kite well even when they have good tanks to help them.
Test everybody with a rotation (this actually goes for all dps at least against unknown players) and make their tanks work don't load up the same target for 10 mins! even try the tanks! Some people are ill equipped against your damage either low wounds/toughness/no FS or little to no disrupt, gear check them with a full burst and see how they react.
R70 - 13-9-0
Gear: setup for BW will be 5 sov,4 ranked I think. Sov helm, shoulders, gloves, cloak, ring, rest offensive ranked. Minmax talis so you have 1050 intel
Renown: full magic crit, 3 FS, rest in Int (if not close to 1050) and wounds if at 1050
Rotation varies depending on targets hp, you wont use the full rotation on every single target, for instance Boiling blood is highly telegraphed against good healers with a proper UI setup
But the fireball, into sear, nova, fireball barrage/withering heat, is not.
Ranked on BW is all about playing off the rotation of the BW in the party, its more on the tanks and their ability to punt your target/guarding tank on the bb and keep the melee train snared more so they are not on the BW itself.
Most of the games will be against a ranged dps, so keeping then detaunted when they push up to pressure is a priority assuming your not dpsing them,your tanks should have the enemy melee blob snared and CCed (hopefully).
Practice kiting and dpsing on the move, while this is a staple to perform well on all ranged dps, its essential in ranked, you will be pressured in most games and you must be able to fire off rotations on the move with a tail of enemies following close by. The reason atleast from my experience playing against a lot of ranged dps is their inability to kite well even when they have good tanks to help them.
Test everybody with a rotation (this actually goes for all dps at least against unknown players) and make their tanks work don't load up the same target for 10 mins! even try the tanks! Some people are ill equipped against your damage either low wounds/toughness/no FS or little to no disrupt, gear check them with a full burst and see how they react.
Knight of the Blazing Sun
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R70 - 7-9-7 - Knight
You pretty much have only 1 spec as KotBS.
Gear: stack as much parry as you can, not only does it prevent guard damage, it also makes you less likely to be punted. You can also run a Set which provides an armor debuff, especially if there is no IB on the team, an armor debuff proc from a set can be a big help.
Renown Points: Full Parry, 3 Futile Strikes (can go for 4 if you want), 1 point in Quick Escape, rest free to put where you want.
The only difference is that you can swap out the tactic "Focused Mending" for "Juggernaut" if you have 2 KotBS in party. As far as important skills go, you run these auras: "Stay Focused" "Gather Your Resolve" "To Glory!". These auras are essential. The only situation where you want to swap them out is if you have 2 KotBS in a group, or you have double Shield WP (the tactic "Focused Mending" doesn't work with Grace WP, so you can swap "Stay Focused" aura for Toughness or Strength aura). Arcing Swing is a very important debuff and should be used as soon as it comes off cooldown, since it has a 100% uptime. Generally, as with any tank, you want to play on the outside. Have the enemy back towards you and not expose your back to the enemy tanks. If you see the enemy tank heading towards you, try to face him so you can parry his punt. There isn't much else to KotBS, most of his benefits are passive. The other abilities, like punt, shatter, knockdown, etc. are same for all tanks.
You pretty much have only 1 spec as KotBS.
Gear: stack as much parry as you can, not only does it prevent guard damage, it also makes you less likely to be punted. You can also run a Set which provides an armor debuff, especially if there is no IB on the team, an armor debuff proc from a set can be a big help.
Renown Points: Full Parry, 3 Futile Strikes (can go for 4 if you want), 1 point in Quick Escape, rest free to put where you want.
The only difference is that you can swap out the tactic "Focused Mending" for "Juggernaut" if you have 2 KotBS in party. As far as important skills go, you run these auras: "Stay Focused" "Gather Your Resolve" "To Glory!". These auras are essential. The only situation where you want to swap them out is if you have 2 KotBS in a group, or you have double Shield WP (the tactic "Focused Mending" doesn't work with Grace WP, so you can swap "Stay Focused" aura for Toughness or Strength aura). Arcing Swing is a very important debuff and should be used as soon as it comes off cooldown, since it has a 100% uptime. Generally, as with any tank, you want to play on the outside. Have the enemy back towards you and not expose your back to the enemy tanks. If you see the enemy tank heading towards you, try to face him so you can parry his punt. There isn't much else to KotBS, most of his benefits are passive. The other abilities, like punt, shatter, knockdown, etc. are same for all tanks.
Warrior Priest - Incomplete
Spoiler:
Witch Hunter
Spoiler:
R70 - 0-9-13 - BaL Spec
Gear: 5vanq (shoulders-chest-gloves-belt-boots) 2senti (jewel-helm) 3 beastlord (cloak-jewel-pocket) 2 genesis (remnant-aspect) 5sov(shoulders-chest-gloves-cloak-jewel) 2senti (jewel-helm) 2conq (boot-belt) 2 genesis (remnant-aspect) 6sov(shoulders-chest-gloves-cloak-jewel-belt) 3senti (jewel-helm-boot) 2 genesis (remnant-aspect)
Weapon: sword: fort-bloodlord-CnT( Penitence snare proc ) pistol --> fort-bloodlord-CnT( Wit armor debuff proc ) Weapon mix --> sword fort+bloodlord pistol sword bloodlord+Wit (if no armor debuff) sword Penitence+bloodlord pistol (against rdps, proc trigger on physical and magical hit) sword Penitence+Wit (against rdps and no armor debuff) (even if opener WH can provide armor debuff, WiT is more reliable
BIS Gear: usually 5sov+2senti+2conq is the best starter gear for solo ranked. 5sov+4triumph look solid on WH for BaL spec
sword/pistol bastion, sword/pistol invader, Penitence + Wit
tactic set : inquisitor's fury can be swapped with prolonged confession allowing more use of finishers. With prolonged confession burn heretic is used to stack dot damage on ur target along with fervor and bal.
Renown build --> crit4 fs3 parry2 1 point left (wound-str) (excom) crit3 fs4 parry2 wound1 if you feel insecure about holding ur moral.
R70 - EW/PW Spec
Builds WH with 6p sov:
R70 - BaL Spec
BaL will provide a lot of sustain, it's generally the one we use when paired with SL/Engi/AM, building damage by stacking dot (fervor-bal-burn heretic).
R70+2 - EW Spec
EW will provide a good burst and the best toughness debuff, it work when paired with high burst class like WL-ASW-BW.
R70+2 - Excom
Excom build, first before using this build look if other team have snb dok or choppa+sham (lifetap bypass excom). Be carefull if you are using Seal of Destruction, you can't afford using ur m1. Few tips --> Ask for champion challenge to not let them run away. On WE be sure to force vanish before pop excom otherwise WE will run away easily It's better to use excom after forcing heal pot, generally the less hp they have and higher is the chance to kill.
R70+20 - Anti 2xSnB DoK
This build only work against double snb DoK, it will provide you another defensive tool and make u close to 100% armor pen.
Gear: 5vanq (shoulders-chest-gloves-belt-boots) 2senti (jewel-helm) 3 beastlord (cloak-jewel-pocket) 2 genesis (remnant-aspect) 5sov(shoulders-chest-gloves-cloak-jewel) 2senti (jewel-helm) 2conq (boot-belt) 2 genesis (remnant-aspect) 6sov(shoulders-chest-gloves-cloak-jewel-belt) 3senti (jewel-helm-boot) 2 genesis (remnant-aspect)
Weapon: sword: fort-bloodlord-CnT( Penitence snare proc ) pistol --> fort-bloodlord-CnT( Wit armor debuff proc ) Weapon mix --> sword fort+bloodlord pistol sword bloodlord+Wit (if no armor debuff) sword Penitence+bloodlord pistol (against rdps, proc trigger on physical and magical hit) sword Penitence+Wit (against rdps and no armor debuff) (even if opener WH can provide armor debuff, WiT is more reliable
BIS Gear: usually 5sov+2senti+2conq is the best starter gear for solo ranked. 5sov+4triumph look solid on WH for BaL spec
sword/pistol bastion, sword/pistol invader, Penitence + Wit
tactic set : inquisitor's fury can be swapped with prolonged confession allowing more use of finishers. With prolonged confession burn heretic is used to stack dot damage on ur target along with fervor and bal.
Renown build --> crit4 fs3 parry2 1 point left (wound-str) (excom) crit3 fs4 parry2 wound1 if you feel insecure about holding ur moral.
R70 - EW/PW Spec
Builds WH with 6p sov:
R70 - BaL Spec
BaL will provide a lot of sustain, it's generally the one we use when paired with SL/Engi/AM, building damage by stacking dot (fervor-bal-burn heretic).
R70+2 - EW Spec
EW will provide a good burst and the best toughness debuff, it work when paired with high burst class like WL-ASW-BW.
R70+2 - Excom
Excom build, first before using this build look if other team have snb dok or choppa+sham (lifetap bypass excom). Be carefull if you are using Seal of Destruction, you can't afford using ur m1. Few tips --> Ask for champion challenge to not let them run away. On WE be sure to force vanish before pop excom otherwise WE will run away easily It's better to use excom after forcing heal pot, generally the less hp they have and higher is the chance to kill.
R70+20 - Anti 2xSnB DoK
This build only work against double snb DoK, it will provide you another defensive tool and make u close to 100% armor pen.
DESTRUCTION
Spoiler:
Black Orc - Incomplete
Choppa
Shaman
Squig Herder
Black Guard
Disciple of Khaine
Sorcerer
Witch Elf
Chosen - Incomplete
Magus
Marauder - Incomplete
Zealot
Spoiler:
Choppa
Spoiler:
R70 - 15-0-10 - Dual Wield Choppa
Tactics:
Iam da biggest (wounds between 10-11k)
Brute force
Dont wanne live forever
Stab u godder or flanking
Gear:
5sov/3vanq(triumphant)
Weapons: bloodlord/anathema
Or for more survivability:
5 def sov /3 dd sov for Max armor and wounds
Weapons: 2x deff-anathema
(Def set seems to win more matches)
Renown - 4 Parry, 4 FS, 2 Crit
Choppa need high renown for ranked, don't queue under 70 or better 80.
Choppa's best skill to kill in ranked is the m4 from the left tree. So he needs to survive till its up.
If the you are too weak you will be main target and die very fast even with guard.
Best way to secure kills is using the M4 which must be well coordinated, and have all team members use their burst.
Burst Rotation: Yer all bleedin now --> heal debuff --> throat slasha --> Furious choppin/bring it on
Tactics:
Iam da biggest (wounds between 10-11k)
Brute force
Dont wanne live forever
Stab u godder or flanking
Gear:
5sov/3vanq(triumphant)
Weapons: bloodlord/anathema
Or for more survivability:
5 def sov /3 dd sov for Max armor and wounds
Weapons: 2x deff-anathema
(Def set seems to win more matches)
Renown - 4 Parry, 4 FS, 2 Crit
Choppa need high renown for ranked, don't queue under 70 or better 80.
Choppa's best skill to kill in ranked is the m4 from the left tree. So he needs to survive till its up.
If the you are too weak you will be main target and die very fast even with guard.
Best way to secure kills is using the M4 which must be well coordinated, and have all team members use their burst.
Burst Rotation: Yer all bleedin now --> heal debuff --> throat slasha --> Furious choppin/bring it on
Shaman
Spoiler:
R70+2 - 13-0-13 - 6p Sov DSU+FoDG
R70 - 13-0-13 - DSU+FoDG
Gear: Full Vanquisher/Triumphant until you have at least 6 pc sovereign. After that its full sovereign until the end.
Weapon: purple SC staff or fortress staff.
Renown: Futile Strikes 4,Deft Defender 4,Crit heal 2
Shaman is the worst healer for ranked until you get full sovereign. Be prepared for that. With full sovereign you will have a slight edge against burst oriented setups due to having more panic buttons (crit shield, shrug it off).
Some tips for people who know the basics (most of them apply to Archmage as well):
R70 - 0-13-9 - DD Shaman
R70 - 13-0-13 - DSU+FoDG
Gear: Full Vanquisher/Triumphant until you have at least 6 pc sovereign. After that its full sovereign until the end.
Weapon: purple SC staff or fortress staff.
Renown: Futile Strikes 4,Deft Defender 4,Crit heal 2
Shaman is the worst healer for ranked until you get full sovereign. Be prepared for that. With full sovereign you will have a slight edge against burst oriented setups due to having more panic buttons (crit shield, shrug it off).
Some tips for people who know the basics (most of them apply to Archmage as well):
- Watch your hots. Shaman is the only destro healer that uses enchantments as hots. Meaning that a typical order setup with SM & KOTBS can remove your hots fast. In that case you need to adapt to a direct heal centric heal style.
- Your AP drain is an important tool for AP management as well as crowd control. Test at the start of a fight if the opposing healers cleanse regularly. Just throw some debuff on them and see what happens. If they cleanse you need to cover your AP drain with said debuffs.
- In general, you want to AP drain a DPS to reduce incoming damage. However, some DPS classes have larger AP problems than others. You want to amplify the AP problems of AP intensive classes for example Slayers and single target WL. WE/WH/Sorc/BW in general have fewer AP problems.
- Maintain your basic hot on all tanks and DPS but don’t do the same with “Do Sumfing Useful”. Use the toughness hot only on the targeted or about to be targeted player.
- Figure out who the next target will be before HP start to drop. Good indicators for an about to be focused player are heal debuff, armor debuff and other strong defense debuffs like Drop da Basha/Numbing Strike.
- At the upper end you will also need to watch the punt immunities of the tanks. For equally matched groups nothing dies through guard. Typically.
- Run away from Rune Priests. If a RP starts to run in your direction, he probably wants to stagger you. Just run away. He will probably still stagger you in the end but it will either delay any coordinated action or it won’t be in sync with it. Meaning that you can still throw out your panic buttons before you’re useless for 6 sec.
R70 - 0-13-9 - DD Shaman
Squig Herder
Spoiler:
R70 - 9-0-13 - Ranged SH
Gear
BIS - 5p WL + 4p Triumphant, weapons: Bloodlord + fort
Pre-bis: 5p WL + 2 Vanq + 2 Sent or 5p WL + 3p Vanq
Last tactic and mastery point optional.
Gear
BIS - 5p WL + 4p Triumphant, weapons: Bloodlord + fort
Pre-bis: 5p WL + 2 Vanq + 2 Sent or 5p WL + 3p Vanq
Last tactic and mastery point optional.
Black Guard
Spoiler:
R70 - 13-9-0 - CD+WoS Standard 2H
Last tactic on your choice (recommended: Unstoppable Juggernaut or Rugged)
Gear:
1) BIS: 5 off Sov + 4 Victorious (Helm,Back,Boots with Jewelry) and 2x genesis warrior (Fragment + Remnant or Aspect)
No-Ranked gear suggestions:
2) 5 off Sov, 2 sentinel (Jewelry, Helm or gloves), 2 Warlord (Back,Boots) for high strength
3) 5 off Sov, +3 (other set , for example Bloodlord or Sentinel or maybe Warlord but low survive) for 2x strenght and 2x wounds bonus
4) 3 off Sov (body, back, ring) - 3 Sent (boots, gloves, ring), 3 Bloodlord (belt, shoulder, helm) for 3x strenght and 3x wounds bonus
5) 5-6p Bloodlord, 3-2p Sent/Warlord/Victorious (high parry, str and crit, low toughness, wounds).
Weapon: Memory of Kalgalanos, otherwise some builds use Fortress or SC weapon if defensive proc is not needed.
Gear for New Player:
6) 4 Vanquisher, 3 Redeye (Back, Helm, Bots) - harder survive, but good defensive proc (which lasts until you can farm Memory of Kalgalanos, note 4p Vanq and MoK procs does not stack) + Jewelry: Rough Gunbad Ruby, Rough Gunbad Amber, 2xGenesis
7) full bloodlord (glass build , not recomend , but farm easy than 5 off.Sov pc,s)
8) any mix of low/mid tier sets: Invader, bloodlord,sentinel,oppressor
Weapon: Subjugator
R70 - 13-0-9 - CD+Heal Debuff
Last point "AP drain" or "Parry/Disrupt buff" (AP drain preferred)
Last tactic on your choice (recommended: Unstoppable Juggernaut or Rugged)
Squishy (without parry tactic), but with outgoing Heal Debuff and potentially two AP drains.
With 6 off sov/warlord (FoF Build) not as good since FoF nerf (no armor stacking and 15% reduced crit instead of 45%), but still a decent option:
R70+2 - 13-13-0 - CD+FOF
Last point on your choice (parry tactic, AoE snare, crit tactic, wound debuff tactic)
Renown, depends on gear but good setups:
3 FS, 4 Parry, 4 Dodge/Disrupt
OR 3 FS, 4 Parry, 3 Melee Crit
OR 3 FS, 3 Parry, 3 Melee Crit, 3 Dodge/Disrupt
Morales:
M1: CC or Demo
M2: Away Cretins!
M3: Distracting Bellow
M4: Immaculate Defense
Last tactic on your choice (recommended: Unstoppable Juggernaut or Rugged)
Gear:
1) BIS: 5 off Sov + 4 Victorious (Helm,Back,Boots with Jewelry) and 2x genesis warrior (Fragment + Remnant or Aspect)
No-Ranked gear suggestions:
2) 5 off Sov, 2 sentinel (Jewelry, Helm or gloves), 2 Warlord (Back,Boots) for high strength
3) 5 off Sov, +3 (other set , for example Bloodlord or Sentinel or maybe Warlord but low survive) for 2x strenght and 2x wounds bonus
4) 3 off Sov (body, back, ring) - 3 Sent (boots, gloves, ring), 3 Bloodlord (belt, shoulder, helm) for 3x strenght and 3x wounds bonus
5) 5-6p Bloodlord, 3-2p Sent/Warlord/Victorious (high parry, str and crit, low toughness, wounds).
Weapon: Memory of Kalgalanos, otherwise some builds use Fortress or SC weapon if defensive proc is not needed.
Gear for New Player:
6) 4 Vanquisher, 3 Redeye (Back, Helm, Bots) - harder survive, but good defensive proc (which lasts until you can farm Memory of Kalgalanos, note 4p Vanq and MoK procs does not stack) + Jewelry: Rough Gunbad Ruby, Rough Gunbad Amber, 2xGenesis
7) full bloodlord (glass build , not recomend , but farm easy than 5 off.Sov pc,s)
8) any mix of low/mid tier sets: Invader, bloodlord,sentinel,oppressor
Weapon: Subjugator
R70 - 13-0-9 - CD+Heal Debuff
Last point "AP drain" or "Parry/Disrupt buff" (AP drain preferred)
Last tactic on your choice (recommended: Unstoppable Juggernaut or Rugged)
Squishy (without parry tactic), but with outgoing Heal Debuff and potentially two AP drains.
With 6 off sov/warlord (FoF Build) not as good since FoF nerf (no armor stacking and 15% reduced crit instead of 45%), but still a decent option:
R70+2 - 13-13-0 - CD+FOF
Last point on your choice (parry tactic, AoE snare, crit tactic, wound debuff tactic)
Renown, depends on gear but good setups:
3 FS, 4 Parry, 4 Dodge/Disrupt
OR 3 FS, 4 Parry, 3 Melee Crit
OR 3 FS, 3 Parry, 3 Melee Crit, 3 Dodge/Disrupt
Morales:
M1: CC or Demo
M2: Away Cretins!
M3: Distracting Bellow
M4: Immaculate Defense
Disciple of Khaine
Spoiler:
https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/c ... ,5016,4985
or
https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/c ... ,4985,4980
and vs AM/SM
https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/c ... ,4985,4996
Gear: vs try hard teams use 4wl+4sov + def anathema + -2% anticrit in my head
vs normal - 5wl + 3sov
in victorious or sentinel jewelry use -6% armor penetration
https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/c ... ,4977,4974
Gear: it's for max dps - 5 victorious + 4 wl
really fun, max heal + dps, buuuut, if you have bad team - you will die fast!
or
https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/c ... ,4985,4980
and vs AM/SM
https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/c ... ,4985,4996
Gear: vs try hard teams use 4wl+4sov + def anathema + -2% anticrit in my head
vs normal - 5wl + 3sov
in victorious or sentinel jewelry use -6% armor penetration
https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/c ... ,4977,4974
Gear: it's for max dps - 5 victorious + 4 wl
really fun, max heal + dps, buuuut, if you have bad team - you will die fast!
Sorcerer
Spoiler:
https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/c ... ,5415,5399
Gear: setup for Sorc will be 5 sov,4 ranked I think. Sov helm, shoulders, gloves, cloak, ring, rest offensive ranked. Minmax talis so you have 1050 int
Renown: full magic crit, 3 FS, rest in Int (if not close to 1050) and wounds if at 1050
Rotation varies depending on targets hp, you wont use the full rotation on every single target, for instance word of pain is highly telegraphed against good healers with a proper UI setup
But the doombolt, into gloomburst, impending doom, hand of ruin barrage is not.
Ranked on sorc is all about playing off the rotation of the sorc in the party, its more on the tanks and their ability to punt your target/guarding tank on the WoP and keep the melee train snared more so they are not on the bw itself.
Most of the games will be against a ranged dps, so keeping then detaunted when they push up to pressure is a priority assuming your not dpsing them,your tanks should have the enemy melee blob snared and CCed (hopefully).
Practice kiting and dpsing on the move, while this is a staple to perform well on all ranged dps, its essential in ranked, you will be pressured in most games and you must be able to fire off rotations on the move with a tail of enemies following close by. The reason at least from my experience playing against a lot of ranged dps is their inability to kite well even when they have good tanks to help them.
Test everybody with a rotation (this actually goes for all dps at least against unknown players) and make their tanks work don't load up the same target for 10 mins! even try the tanks! Some people are ill equipped against your damage either low wounds/toughness/no FS or little to no disrupt, gear check them with a full burst and see how they react.
Gear: setup for Sorc will be 5 sov,4 ranked I think. Sov helm, shoulders, gloves, cloak, ring, rest offensive ranked. Minmax talis so you have 1050 int
Renown: full magic crit, 3 FS, rest in Int (if not close to 1050) and wounds if at 1050
Rotation varies depending on targets hp, you wont use the full rotation on every single target, for instance word of pain is highly telegraphed against good healers with a proper UI setup
But the doombolt, into gloomburst, impending doom, hand of ruin barrage is not.
Ranked on sorc is all about playing off the rotation of the sorc in the party, its more on the tanks and their ability to punt your target/guarding tank on the WoP and keep the melee train snared more so they are not on the bw itself.
Most of the games will be against a ranged dps, so keeping then detaunted when they push up to pressure is a priority assuming your not dpsing them,your tanks should have the enemy melee blob snared and CCed (hopefully).
Practice kiting and dpsing on the move, while this is a staple to perform well on all ranged dps, its essential in ranked, you will be pressured in most games and you must be able to fire off rotations on the move with a tail of enemies following close by. The reason at least from my experience playing against a lot of ranged dps is their inability to kite well even when they have good tanks to help them.
Test everybody with a rotation (this actually goes for all dps at least against unknown players) and make their tanks work don't load up the same target for 10 mins! even try the tanks! Some people are ill equipped against your damage either low wounds/toughness/no FS or little to no disrupt, gear check them with a full burst and see how they react.
Witch Elf
Spoiler:
R70 – 0-15-9 - Crit + witchbrew
Gear: usually 5sov+2senti+2conq
Weapons: Fortress + bloodlord
Talisman: Most talis put weapon skill
Main skill is AW + witchbrew. Requires perfect positioning.
R70 – 15-9-0 - Carnage
Gear: BIS 5 sov (helmet it’s a must for 4% armor pen) + 3 vanquisher/4 triumph
Weapons: Fortress + bloodlord
Talisman: Strength / Wounds
Armor pen build / morale pump OYK to M3 ASAP.
Renown
Rotation: Stack x3 eblades + WP, buff yourself with PA and unload RA at 5
Gear: usually 5sov+2senti+2conq
Weapons: Fortress + bloodlord
Talisman: Most talis put weapon skill
Main skill is AW + witchbrew. Requires perfect positioning.
R70 – 15-9-0 - Carnage
Gear: BIS 5 sov (helmet it’s a must for 4% armor pen) + 3 vanquisher/4 triumph
Weapons: Fortress + bloodlord
Talisman: Strength / Wounds
Armor pen build / morale pump OYK to M3 ASAP.
Renown
Rotation: Stack x3 eblades + WP, buff yourself with PA and unload RA at 5
Chosen - Incomplete
Spoiler:
R70 - 13-9-0 - Standard 2H Chosen
Note: the builder is not updated so Mixed Defenses is actually Corruptive Power
By default, auras are Dreadful Terror, Discordant Instability.
If against heavy melee team (sDoK/sWP, double mDPS), Dreadful Fear can be the last choice. Otherwise, Corruptive Wrath.
Note: the builder is not updated so Mixed Defenses is actually Corruptive Power
By default, auras are Dreadful Terror, Discordant Instability.
If against heavy melee team (sDoK/sWP, double mDPS), Dreadful Fear can be the last choice. Otherwise, Corruptive Wrath.
Magus
Spoiler:
R70 - 15-0-9 - ST Ranged Magus
Gear: 7x Sov, 2x Sentinel, Oppressor Staff
Talis: get int to +1k, then rest in wounds
Combo: Baleful Transmogrification -> Withered Soul -> Bolt of Change -> Mutating Blue Fire -> Surging Violet Fire -> Indigo Fire of Change
Gear: 7x Sov, 2x Sentinel, Oppressor Staff
Talis: get int to +1k, then rest in wounds
Combo: Baleful Transmogrification -> Withered Soul -> Bolt of Change -> Mutating Blue Fire -> Surging Violet Fire -> Indigo Fire of Change
Marauder - Incomplete
Spoiler:
Zealot
Spoiler:
R60 - 13-0-11 - Zealot
Gear:
5sov 2sentinel 2triumphant/vanquisher
5sov 3warlord
Full Vanq (Minimum required)
or if you want to play without restorative burst you can go 7sov 2sent/triumphant (but you'll need the jewel)
Talisman: armor or wounds
Renown: 3 FS, 3 heal crit, 4 DD, adjust as your gear allows.
Tactics: Restorative burst - Discipline - Blessing of Chaos - Tzeench's Gift, switch out as gear allows and if there's another Zealot BoC won't stack.
1) If there are two Zealots on the team, consider having one switch out the "Blessings of Chaos" tactic as they do not stack. The Zealot using the tactic should use the heal ritual to try and make that tactic proc on group members, the other Zealot can switch to the AP ritual.
2) The "Endless Gifts" tactic that removes the cooldown on your cleanse does wonders against DoT/Debuff classes. If facing a team that wants to apply a lot of curses/hexes (for example, BWs and Sorcs in ST build) then strongly consider this tactic.
3) The armor and reduced armor penetration from Warping the Spirit counts as an ability buff, so don't spec it expecting everyone to have an extra 1050 armor. Potions are also ability buffs, so if everyone is using the good blue potions then you're only adding 200-ish extra armor on top of that. The reduced armor pen can be nice though as there are very few other buffs that provide it. Also, Warping the Spirit is currently bugged and can also proc when you cast Tzeentch's Cordial (it should just be when the HoT actually heals) which can help you get the procs going.
4) Rune Priests are typically running the tactic that reduces stuns, and this also affects your stagger which will reduce it to 3 seconds. If your aim is to just shut down their healing rather than try to prevent the Rune Priest from running then consider silencing them instead as that will last for 4 seconds. Silences do risk being countered by Focused Mind though. You should still test Rune Priest with a stagger to see if they have the tactic on.
5) A big strength of the Zealot is having a stagger and a silence to make the lives of enemy healers annoying. To ensure you don't waste it, make sure you have the relevant immunities showing up on BuffHead along with Focused Mind. Turn off the feature of BuffHead that fades out effects close to them ending as this can make you think the target is not immune when actually they had another second of immunity left.
6) Don't forget that you can hand out other buffs besides Willpower/Init. While that's usually the go-to buff, if your team is lacking a resistance buff then consider using Mark of the Vortex instead, especially if facing a team that can output non-physical damage. If there are two Zealots in your group then work out between you who will do what buffs (i.e. one does will/init, the other resistances or damage stats). You typically have a minute before the ranked match starts so make use of that time to coordinate.
7) Ironbreakers and Blackguards have an outgoing heal debuff. You can cleanse this. Don't be bad like me and forget to clense it. The buff is pretty much spammable so sometimes BGs/IBs like to attach themselves to you to keep you perma heal debuffed. You will probably need to call out for help from team mates to get the tank off you.
8) If there is an RDPS putting a load of pressure on your team, consider using your stagger (any) or silence (magic only) on them to turn off their damage so you can heal up. Keep in mind that this will give them CC immunity which can make it harder to catch/kill them in the future. This should be used as a last resort/panic option to keep your team alive.
9) Harbinger of Doom has a 20s cooldown which is also the same as your stagger. To get a bit of extra disrupt strikethrough, turn on HoD, use stagger, then turn off HoD. HoD is not affected by the global cooldown so this won't cost you 2 "empty" global cooldowns. However, HoD does have a bit of a delay before triggering, so switch over 1-2 secs before casting, this will gain you 23-15% Disrupt Ignore.
10) Use M1 Tzeetch's Talon MA target when they are about to burst, using it too early will give it away and the armor debuff does not stack with tank's M1 Demolishing Strike so don't waste it.
Gear:
5sov 2sentinel 2triumphant/vanquisher
5sov 3warlord
Full Vanq (Minimum required)
or if you want to play without restorative burst you can go 7sov 2sent/triumphant (but you'll need the jewel)
Talisman: armor or wounds
Renown: 3 FS, 3 heal crit, 4 DD, adjust as your gear allows.
Tactics: Restorative burst - Discipline - Blessing of Chaos - Tzeench's Gift, switch out as gear allows and if there's another Zealot BoC won't stack.
1) If there are two Zealots on the team, consider having one switch out the "Blessings of Chaos" tactic as they do not stack. The Zealot using the tactic should use the heal ritual to try and make that tactic proc on group members, the other Zealot can switch to the AP ritual.
2) The "Endless Gifts" tactic that removes the cooldown on your cleanse does wonders against DoT/Debuff classes. If facing a team that wants to apply a lot of curses/hexes (for example, BWs and Sorcs in ST build) then strongly consider this tactic.
3) The armor and reduced armor penetration from Warping the Spirit counts as an ability buff, so don't spec it expecting everyone to have an extra 1050 armor. Potions are also ability buffs, so if everyone is using the good blue potions then you're only adding 200-ish extra armor on top of that. The reduced armor pen can be nice though as there are very few other buffs that provide it. Also, Warping the Spirit is currently bugged and can also proc when you cast Tzeentch's Cordial (it should just be when the HoT actually heals) which can help you get the procs going.
4) Rune Priests are typically running the tactic that reduces stuns, and this also affects your stagger which will reduce it to 3 seconds. If your aim is to just shut down their healing rather than try to prevent the Rune Priest from running then consider silencing them instead as that will last for 4 seconds. Silences do risk being countered by Focused Mind though. You should still test Rune Priest with a stagger to see if they have the tactic on.
5) A big strength of the Zealot is having a stagger and a silence to make the lives of enemy healers annoying. To ensure you don't waste it, make sure you have the relevant immunities showing up on BuffHead along with Focused Mind. Turn off the feature of BuffHead that fades out effects close to them ending as this can make you think the target is not immune when actually they had another second of immunity left.
6) Don't forget that you can hand out other buffs besides Willpower/Init. While that's usually the go-to buff, if your team is lacking a resistance buff then consider using Mark of the Vortex instead, especially if facing a team that can output non-physical damage. If there are two Zealots in your group then work out between you who will do what buffs (i.e. one does will/init, the other resistances or damage stats). You typically have a minute before the ranked match starts so make use of that time to coordinate.
7) Ironbreakers and Blackguards have an outgoing heal debuff. You can cleanse this. Don't be bad like me and forget to clense it. The buff is pretty much spammable so sometimes BGs/IBs like to attach themselves to you to keep you perma heal debuffed. You will probably need to call out for help from team mates to get the tank off you.
8) If there is an RDPS putting a load of pressure on your team, consider using your stagger (any) or silence (magic only) on them to turn off their damage so you can heal up. Keep in mind that this will give them CC immunity which can make it harder to catch/kill them in the future. This should be used as a last resort/panic option to keep your team alive.
9) Harbinger of Doom has a 20s cooldown which is also the same as your stagger. To get a bit of extra disrupt strikethrough, turn on HoD, use stagger, then turn off HoD. HoD is not affected by the global cooldown so this won't cost you 2 "empty" global cooldowns. However, HoD does have a bit of a delay before triggering, so switch over 1-2 secs before casting, this will gain you 23-15% Disrupt Ignore.
10) Use M1 Tzeetch's Talon MA target when they are about to burst, using it too early will give it away and the armor debuff does not stack with tank's M1 Demolishing Strike so don't waste it.
This is a work in progress (17 of 24 classes completed), if you are interested in helping complete it for your class(es) of expertise and have landed in top 5 of your class in a completed season or feel confident in your knowledge of the class in ranked, please post it below, in my PM or discord Shaheena#1673.
Please provide the following if missing:
1) link to build with morales, tactics and specs from https://builder.returnofreckoning.com/
You can leave points/tactics/morales blank if there are multiple builds with only small or situational differences, then describe the options and when to take instead of giving multiple builds (but do as you prefer if you rather link many builds).
2) link to or description of renown spec and multiple ones if specific to the build/gear
3) Gear (1 or more sets for example: BIS, Pre-BIS and minimum required)
4) Tips and tricks specific to your class, burst rotations if application
Some incomplete classes will have links to builds which are my best guess for a common build or taken from RoR Ranked discord.
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