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spear on thief fucking blowwss ass 11k max crit ,,

Safe to say this is meta until patched. But rev is the least played profession.

@@Jay-el9iz > But rev is the least played profession. Are we playing different games?

@@blackdunes6087 he prolly meant rene lmao

@@blackdunes6087 are we? Check the stats then come back

​@@Jay-el9iz obv its the least played profession overall in the game because its not a free to play class but apart from that where is the correlation to the discussion of it being meta? it is still meta

Theres g2+g4+mine+2 auto chains = 9 actions which follows the rules. You could do mine-g2-g4 but that creates a problem where the next time you want to use g4 in the following loop at 0:47 it will be late and there will be a big aftercast on the g2 beforehand. To fix that aftercast delay we do mine-g4-g2 since we have some freedom in delaying g2, we just need to fix that g2 delay after the next electrowhirl by using 1 skill first which is g5 at 0:35. Afterwards its back to normal and we can do electrowhirl-g2 with no issue. You could do g2-g4-mine but thats means mine isnt up in time for the electrowhirl-electrowhirl section at 0:40 which means u have to use spare capacitor instead and the next throw mine at 0:51 isnt up in time (I think). Its a knock on effect. You have to prioritise throw mine somewhat because its a good skill and has an awkward cooldown. If you didnt it would take a backseat to other skills and you wouldnt get as many casts in over time while losing some access to another filler skill. So overall its higher dps to use it over other skills as long as it doesnt delay anything key.

@@benglemon I see thank you for the answer. What I am also curious about is the opening. if you place "throw mine" and wait a bit before you start the rota, the cd would have been gone when you explode it and you could have casted it right away a second time. Would that been a dmg decrease overall? (It probably is because you dont do it, but since mines and nades are so much value I am trying to figure out the reason behind this decision). I also want to know how you open up in raids and strikes, since some bosses require moving in to the boss. is it the same opening or can you switch something around to make it more efficient? Can you throw in mines without triggering the boss? (More of a really beginner question since I actually never tried out scrapper outside the golem room).

Benchmarks need to be realistic which is where mines becomes a problem since we are so heavily incentivized to precast them wherever possible. As a compromise I precast them but dont use the 2nd minefield/throw mine until they would be up had I not precasted them at all. So the opener should be doable everywhere. For real encounters if you have to run in you can throw mine as you run and cast minefield while moving onto the boss since the cast time is long and the mines arent placed until the cast is complete. You can place throw mine such that it wont put you into combat but will still hit bosses when activated and I would be careful doing that, try it on the golem first. You could also open with nades/mortar, its up to you and there isnt really a bad option as long as youre doing something rather than nothing. You are correct if throw mine is up then you can use it earlier but I would still wait till after the first electrowhirl to do so.

The setting for that is in Options > General options > Scroll to user interface part of the menu > Look for the option: "Show Simple Condition Floaters" > Make sure that box is un-ticked. That should make the condi's show with there icon intstead of spewing a bunch of white numers.

mantra is higher dps than rain of swords but rain is bursty damage so it can be situational which one to drop.

Key diffrence: one does power damage, the other does condi dmg which one is better? Depends entirely on your enemy, condi is easier to play tho if you are struggeling with any mechanics in new fights. Both are really powerfull right now. Utility is kinda the same since you can swap in the same skills (both have one skill that can be rather safly swapped out since the dps gain isn't imense) Technically Power utility is a bit better since you already have booncleanse built in (gsw 4 and phantasmal disenchanter) but again, that's only theoretical usefullness and highly depends on the encounter

gs2 bounces are bugged and will go between you and allies instead of you and the boss. In the golem area this isnt such an issue since you only have clones around you and you can rng till u get 4 hits every time but in actual encounters having lots of allies makes it unlikely to get the full damage out. This expected loss is adjusting gs2 dps for a realistic number of bounces.

@@benglemon ah i see thank you

th-cam.com/video/hE3P7XHsGnU/w-d-xo.html read some comments here about dropping skills, tldr mines/nades are worth a lot

Bit of extra superspeed uptime, skip it and you probably wont see the difference.

u mean wheres the dmg coming from? use elixir x-> hope u get lich -> use lich4 -> exit lich -> carry on with opener.

@@benglemon i meant to type how comes your burst is lower in the lich log compared to the no lich log sorry

Lich explosions take time for full value but you can see after 10-15s there is 5-6k dps difference. Theres also weaponstrength rng and AAR procs that affect peak burst. One log is a grinded benchmark and the other is a single pull.

If you are above crit cap with full Berserker's you can swap some to Dragon's to gain survivability from the vitality. On Weaver, for example, you only need 60% critical chance to reach crit cap, so I swapped some pieces to Dragon's to gain some health.

This is a benefit but not the main reason. Power Builds aim to balance the power/ferocity ratio and since we overcap crit chance we can sacrifice some precision by swapping some berserkers pieces to dragons. We are essentially just moving stats around (and sometimes gaining a couple points) as 100 ferocity is worth more than 100 power when we already have so much power. Its different for every build but for this build the dragons pieces are roughly 160dps better than full berserkers.

@@benglemon Just 160 dps? So instead of 43177 it's 43017???

every little helps and its pretty much free

@@anonymousbloke1 Snowcrows builds are optimized for the absolutely biggest number achievable, but only the top 1% of content in this game actually cares about squeezing every single digit of damage out.

Yes because you don't get fencer's finesse stacks

sounds pretty good for high ping tbh

Short answer is no, missing stats wont be that big a difference. Most likely you are not fast enough if you arent cancelling anything. Signet of the ether after first cast should always be on cooldown as a marker for speed.

@@benglemon Thanks for your answer. That makes sense, i'm just gonna practice a little bit more and see if i get some higher numbers with higher speed and a cleaner rotation. Thank you!

no change

The start of the next burst which begins with disench-d2-sw5-d3 are all skills which take a while to get full value from. Phantasmal disenchanter and swordsman arent affected by fireworks, bladecall the blades have to return which takes a few seconds and unstable bladestorm doesnt start hitting straight away while also taking a few seconds for full dmg to come out. We get the fireworks buff half a second after that d3 cast starts which means we have fireworks for; the return of d2, the whole of d3, the phantasmal blade from sw5 and possibly the disenchanter. so in essense we only "lose" the fireworks buff for the first 3 hits of d2, the physical hit from sw5 which isnt a lot (and possibly the phantasmal blade from the disenchanter but its close). Doing the distort after harmony gives us full value out of the extra fireworks uptime, while also having enough blades for a 5 blade requiem.

Make sure you have the golem/traits/gear setup properly before anything else, those by themselves should net you over 30k with some button mashing. For the actual rotation the goal is to use signet of the ether off cooldown. We use it to refresh the greatsword phantasm because of the phantasmal blade trait combining with the bountiful blades trait. We get 2 berserkers which gives two phantsmal blades which do a lot of dmg. As for bladesongs we prioritise bladesong harmony as it does the most dmg, using it twice per loop, all the other bladesongs are to keep up the deadly blades/firework relic buffs.

Even without distort fireworks is better than thief. I havent done any math but you should still be able to get over 43k with thief.