biqbox wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 2:52 pm
Toldavf wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:44 am
https://www.returnofreckoning.com/armor ... me=Khorlar My gear looks like that atm.
its pretty decent, i swapped to conq to keep a 2 merc pieces and I'm also running 4 beast lord as the 3rd/4th set bonuses have increased my dps grammatically.
I would like to swap some of my jewels for 2 genesis, but atm RNG is treating me poorly so i will have to wait, or get a tenth cloak
I am aiming to get my damage bonus over 230 with my current setup.
You seem to have put some thought into Marauders.
I'm a new player and I'm getting my Mara up in levels.
I'm on track with your opener rotation for first few abilites. -heal, -armor, -wounds, cripple etc. What I'm having thoughts about is the final spam or "anytimes/fillers", namely Impale. If I can not 100% flank with Impale, which other attack should I use as a filler? You can't be "filling" that long since debuffs will start to wear off / get dispelled. Is Rend terrible? Is it worth spamming to 3x stacks?
From just looking at it (not high enough lvl to try it) it seems risky to leave Savagery Mut if I can't guarrantee backstabs with Impale. I could see switching to Brut for "execute" with Guillotine.
TL;DR: Is the point to debuff with Sav and sit in Brut for DMG, or can I sit in full Savagery and still kill things?
Your other spamables basically fall flat damage wise, flail is horrible for anything other than procing your claws, corruption is low damage and a debuff type that is generally redundant because tanks have toughness debuffs that they use and rend is like most melee dots very weak both while applying and while ticking.
I have been known to use one rend when prepping a hard target, but you generally have a fair bit of time to kill those anyway (after all at this point the squishes should be dead). I would never use 3 stacks the damage increase is minimal and a waste of action points. The only time i've ever used more than one is when im messing about in pve.
As Ten said the thing you are looking for with impale is the piercing bite contribution to damage, if you can get the bonus ignore from the rear all the better, but it's not the end of the world as you should be chewing through plenty armour anyway.
And of course you are right leaving sav is a risk because that is where all the front loaded damage is, brutality has good burst under comparatively circumstantial and a very short lived duration (at best 2 gcd's and a borrowed TB then you are down to impale till swap) So timing of when you make the switch is up to you, because mistiming a switch can let a target escape at times.
The trick is to be flexible and open to learning especially from yourself.