Ruby orbs still tops for DPS?
Ruby orbs never were close to being the best. But now their crit damage has been slashed by more than 50 %, so they are even worse than before.
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Ruby Orbs were only a choice due to their cheapness. Scholar Runes will be better most of the time. Not sure about the new runes…)
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There is quite a wide range of options viable now, I’m not sure about the top dps, but I run a mix of solider and zerker gear and have found wurm runes to be the best for me now
thought ruby beat scholar unless you were >90% for 28% of the time. I could be mistaken though. anyone got any early suggestions from this patch for highest DPS?
^^ It’s something like this yes … Just like berzerker armor is still top DPS, ruby will stay near the top for the same reason. It’s definitely not top though.
Pre-patch info:
In an ideal setup scholar runes were better than ruby orbs.
I think Nike from DnT did some calculation on that quite a while ago.
If you pug, I’d stay with ruby orbs unless you are very confident that you can keep your health above the threshold long enough.
Post-patch:
Maybe someone will bother to do the math, but I’d be surprised if anything really changed.
Ruby orbs are an excellent choice since pre-release and they certainly still are.
And they are by far cheaper than some runes out there.
Note: Those statements are only valid for PvE of course.
You probably want scholar. I would suggest strength but its sooo expensive, you’re better off with scholar
Scholar since guardian’s have low might buffing and easy to maintain health with blinds/blocks/other stuff