post your soul beast build
I’m kinda new here and looking for opinion on how good or stupid my build are. I’ll make it short. I’m thinking about going full Valkyrie sets. With Longbow and Short bow as my choice of weapons. With Sigil of Energy and Doom attached on both of them. Oh, and full of Rune of Evasion for the armors. The traits are WS/MM/SB
WS
Adept – Taste for Danger- The 2nd reason I pick valkryrie because of this “expertise”.
Master – Refined Toxins – More Vitality means keep above the health threshold, then keep on the poison strikes
Grand master – Poison Master – For more poisons damage.
MM
Adept – Stoneform- IF you fall below the health threshold, its activate Signet, which gain Fury, which activate Remorseless and gain Opening Strike.
Master – Brutish seal – For more Fury.
Grand master – Remorseless – to regain Opening Strike when you gain Fury.
SB
Adept – Unstoppable Union – To be unblockable.
Master – Predator Cunning – This build playing on poison, steal health means we can manage our health above the threshold.
Grand master – Oppressive Superiority – see this, if you could keep your health above your enemy, means its more damage!
Skills:
Healing – IDK much about this, which one is good so I’ll leave it to you all to pick it for me.
Utilities 1 – Signet of the Hunt – For the unblockable and movement speed
Utilities 2 – Signet of Stone – Survival. Make HP stay as it is.
Utilities 3 – Vulture Stance – You know why, Poison and Might.
Elite – Strength of the Pack! – Fury, Might (its yours when you meld.)
Choice of pet:
Tiger- For the pounce. Its give fury. Hey! More Fury.
Cave Spider- This one is the focus for Meld, more ferocious and power, poison, and the Worldy Impact.
The reason I’m going for Rune of evasion to regain Fury when you dodge roll. And due to Sigil of Energy and Natural Vigor, we can keep the endurance to gain Fury and Opening strike which is 100% Crits thanks to Precise Strike. This build didn’t need for Precision due to how to calculate crits chance are. Why You need Precision if Opening Strike is all you need for Crits. All we need to do then keep our ferocity and power high enough to be powerful. And this build is all I can think of to maximize the minors on SB(the MM and WS too) traits that we cant avoid to pick/choose like the major.
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
I was a power ranger before it was cool.
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I was a power ranger before it was cool.
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This might be a contender for a benchmark test honestly…
You can tweak that build to pull out a fair bit more damage imo. Sharpened Edges over Trappers Expertise for starters and Flame Trap over Spike Trap which is also a fire field to leap and finish, it’s a bit more damage and without the trait so you can use SE. Also, I think the Iboga/Tiger may be better pets for it, imo.
Thanks for your additions.
I had another look at it, and indeed Flame trap does more damage.
I didn’t calculate it well enough, and although having a 15k bleed proc on the trap seems much compared to a 2k burn (per pulse, so x3 = ~6k), but I didn’t account for the very big cooldown difference. Can actually use Flame trap 3 times for 1 Spike Trap, and flame trap also deals more power damage (logical right..
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And this was with the trap trait on (60% duration). Sharpened Edges is indeed more overall dps, maybe slightly less when using 2 or more trap skills but definitely not when using just 1.
I am just hoping Poison gets a bit more love, If Poison Master and Predator’s Cunning get buffed a bit then I can really see a Poison focussed build being a competitor with this bleeding focused build.
At this moment though it is really trying to figure out what 2 spec combo gives the most out of the following 3:
Skirmishing gives:
+ 20% crit chance (when flanking)
+ 250 ferocity
+ 33% more bleed damage
Tier 1 trait (Sharpened Edges)
Wilderness Survival gives:
+ 5.6% condi duration
+ 150 condi damage
20% skill recharge (this could actually be pretty big thinking about it)
+ 25% poison damage and a silly secondary
+ ~200dmg bonus on every poison application (Predator’s Cunning)
Requires: Using a dagger or torch in either hand, preferably on both weapon sets, meaning giving up on a superior Power configuration of Sword/Axe. You can still use either of these, like Sword/Torch + Dagger/Axe or something, or even dropping sword for Dagger / Axe + Axe / Dagger or Torch.
Beastmastery gives:
+80 power or condition damage (based on pet merge)
20% Shout cooldown reduction (Sic’Em, if we average Sic’Em @ ~20% dmg increase, this trait gives a 4% dps increase)
+ 550 Ferocity
?? Loud Whistle, if this works you get a 10% damage increase
Requires: Using axes, preferably on both weapon sets
And then there is the Grieving vs Viper comparison which comes down to:
Grieving: +42.2% crit damage (and 38 power through Sharpen Stones)
Viper: + 42.2% condi duration
With the ~90% crit chance we have when flanking if using Skirmishing the above makes Grieving deal 38% more damage on all Power attacks (basicly everything you do which gets even further enhanced by things like Sic’Em and Quickness on auto attacks, which more than makes up for the 4% damage difference from Viper).
Without Skirmishing this goes down to ~30% more damage so then it becomes a question if the other spec that replaced Skirmishing to pull its weight on the Power side of things.
I myself just don’t like Condi duration as a stat that much, I mean it is a damage increase pure and simple, but as with damage over time effects, when they fall off or the target dies before your dots fall off then you did not gain the full value from the stat, where is with more Crit damage, as long as you can keep hitting for most of the time you will guarantee that you have dealt the damage you invested in with stats.
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