Sub Rogue Do Shadow Blades Do Extra Dmg
- Sub Rogue Do Shadow Blades Do Extra Dmg Drive
- Sub Rogue Do Shadow Blades Do Extra Dmg Work
- Sub Rogue Do Shadow Blades Do Extra Dmg Download
For sub rogues I feel this talent is the go-to choice as the spec relies on quick swaps so heavily, so making sure you have the energy to do so is important. Your entire Shadow Dance can be ruined because you had to garrote or gouge someone else right before a swap and left you with too little energy to execute your dance properly.
Sub Rogue Do Shadow Blades Do Extra Dmg Drive
Comments
- edited February 2016Just some friendly input, take it for what you will:
- class features of First Strike and Skillful Infiltrator are nice and all, but if you're MI, do consider Invisible Infiltrator and Infiltrator's Action. You'll get more bang for your buck with those. Stealth -> encounter power -> Daily -> re-stealth -> encounter power is just plain silly dps when you need it.
And if you're WK, I'd instead suggest the Adv Pos + Op Dark route, given that you can re-stealth usually within 6 sec as an Exe that gives you perma CA which is just plain fun. Not to mention the artifact offhand powers can give you either -20% damage taken (Adv Pos) or slow a target by 50% (OpDark). Both have value in both PvE and PvP.
- stealth -> Dazing Strike is all fine and dandy if the mobs are densely packed. In my experience, they seldom are - or if they are, the second you stealth one or two tend to run after the next target (your companion, a teammate, etc.), which again messes things up. Throw in CWs blasting things across the room, Paladins doing similar, and so on, and it can get frustrating pretty quick at times. This can also mess up your SoD, as the game will randomly apply it to one of your targets and not necessarily the one you want. Consider stealth -> Smoke Bomb -> Blade Flurry for AoE trash, and for single-targets..well, it gets a bit trickier. Have a look at my 'SoD help' post on page 1 for some further tips for maximizing SoD damage.
- dailies -> again, you'll probably get more out of Lurker's + one other of your choice.
- don't discount the value of Wicked Reminder for single target fights. It rocks, especially from stealth. If you enter stealth at the end of a Flurry, you'll get auto-crit on the bleed and still have enough stealth to throw out a WR, starting your SoD. You can then Lurker's to re-fill your stealth bar (thanks to Invisible Infil), and then throw out another encounter (Lashing blade for crazy dmg, but only available every other SoD; Dazing otherwise). Great SoD damage that way.
- Sly Flourish vs. Cloud of Steel is debatable. I prefer CoS, as it gives me a range dps option when there's a long-standing AoE red circle around the boss that I had to tumble out of.
- class features of First Strike and Skillful Infiltrator are nice and all, but if you're MI, do consider Invisible Infiltrator and Infiltrator's Action. You'll get more bang for your buck with those. Stealth -> encounter power -> Daily -> re-stealth -> encounter power is just plain silly dps when you need it.
And if you're WK, I'd instead suggest the Adv Pos + Op Dark route, given that you can re-stealth usually within 6 sec as an Exe that gives you perma CA which is just plain fun. Not to mention the artifact offhand powers can give you either -20% damage taken (Adv Pos) or slow a target by 50% (OpDark). Both have value in both PvE and PvP.
So, a number of things. I'm not OP, but I found some of your Class Feature recommendations a little strange. While I do agree that every PvE MI should run Invisible Infiltrator, I'm curious as to why you'd recommend Combat Advantage over a straight-up percentage increase of +4% Critical chance, which equates to 1600 crit that you don't have to stack (which gives you flexibility if you want to stack something else or stack Crit even higher). To put that into perspective, that's more than two Rank 12 Azures (+1400) combined, and slightly lower than 4 Rank 12 Brutals (+1680 crit) combined. So even at the highest level, that's a lot of points.
In PvE group play, a rogue will always have combat advantage because of party members positioning. And if a TR is not positioning itself for combat advantage, then the TR is at fault for being a bad TR (in the same vein that a TR who does not use WR on bosses is a bad TR). Wouldn't that make InfilAction redundant? Especially when you consider that it means unslotting First Strike, Tactics, or Skillful Infiltrator. Skillful Infiltrator is not only superior for solo play (movement speed, deflect bonus), but CA isn't that necessary for campaign areas anyway since everything dies quickly.
On Oppressive Darkness: since this is a PvE build, I also find it strange that you recommend Oppressive Darkness. Sounds great on paper, but it adds literally HUNDREDS to your overall damage output. That's not great. OD does not reap the benefits of buffs/debuffs, it's not affected by your power, and it accounts for a very small percentage of your overall damage. You can test it yourself if you'd like. I think it's based on weapon damage, which for rogues is pretty terrible in PvE.- Two quick comments before I run off to work:
1 - you won't always have CA. At least I don't. Solo, skirmishes, or even dungeons where there's plenty of mobs / spawns, even assuming there's a tank that'll mark stuff, they might be busy holding off that big ugly monster in the corner and expecting the rest of you to clean up the 30 little guys on the other side of the room. And keep in mind, CA = +15% damage. That outweighs a potential +4% crit (and let's be honest here, it's probably +3% - most don't have plenty of extra power points to take this to R4).
2 - OpDark shines with AoE. Throwing out blade flurry x 8 or so (if using Lurker's) = several hundred damage x number of targets hit x number of hits (in this example, 8).
So yes, OpDark could use a boost, but the damage still adds up, especially with certain builds. - Okay. You seem to love the idea of Oppressive Darkness, which is fine because it sounds great on paper, so I don't think I'll be able to convince you that it can't 'shine' in PvE. Maybe I can convince OP, if OP needs convincing, to not use Oppressive Darkness even in conjunction with Advantageous Position.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter/#/discussion/1209115/oppressive-darkness-in-pve
There's a thread on Oppressive Darkness. Let's assume you hit the maxed observed hit EVERY TIME (unlikely, but I want to show that even in optimal conditions, it sucks) for Rank 4 OD: 756. You hit the maximum amount of targets with Blade Flurry: 5. You use Blade Flurry x8. Taking your formula:
756 x 5 x 8= 30,240 extra damage from Oppressive Darkness.
OD is not boosted by Lurker's Assault, Crit Severity, Crit chance, Power rating, buffs, debuffs. It will not hit higher than the amount observed, and if it does (someone in that thread mentioned it may be based on weapon damage, and a new Legendary set may raise the damage ceiling), it will be less than 100 extra damage.
30,240 damage spread across 5 enemies. That's a little over 6k extra damage per enemy, assuming you are hitting the maximum amount of targets with the maximum amount of damage with the maximum amount of attacks possible. Toward SoD, that adds 3k to ONE enemy.
One enemy takes 9k damage, 4 others take 6k damage, total added damage from OD: 33k.
That's LESS than the amount of added damage than OP's First Strike (with offhand feature) stealthed lashing blade, a gap that gets bigger with the more crit severity OP has. I just tested this: Rank 4 First Strike + offhand feature + specced exactly as described above + a greater vorpal (38% severity) nearly doubled the damage of the first hit: for LB, I hit 50-60k sans FS, 90-100k with FS. On top of that, SoD adds 25-30k and 45-50k at the very least, respectively. For Dazing Strike, 30kish sans FS and 50-60k with it, plus 50% of those totals from SoD
So one could add a collective 30k damage using up a daily and a class feature spot, or one could add that damage to the first strike of combat and have 3/4% extra crit to take advantage of buffs/debuffs for the rest of the fight, extra deflect for defense, and extra movement speed for CA positioning.
(I'm admittedly a bit lost on your first point of CA--how you don't always have it. If you're not attacking the target everyone else is attacking, why not just use dazing strike, smoke bomb, or both to automatically grant yourself combat advantage in your one on one battle with the add? Why does one need to dedicate a feat to something they can easily obtain by moving a bit more? Also, do you have a specific example/fight where a tank would pull a tough enemy and leave you to attack an enemy that you can't get combat advantage on and have to fight one on one despite being in a party with four other people? A common one is the scorpion pull in elol, but 3 others attack the non-pulled one with you.) - edited February 2016@kurtb88:
Sorry for not addressing your original post! Question:
You took some Deflect feats rather than other feats that could potentially increase your damage output. Am I right in assuming that rather than building to maximize damage, you're aiming to achieve a good damage output and some semblance of survivability at the same time?
Edit: Oh whoops. You said that. That being said, how do you compare to people who run bonding runestones? I see you use an augment, and in my experience any GWF, SW, and CW running Rank 10, 11, and 12 bonding stones leave me in the dust in terms of damage when I use my augment (it's a lot easier to keep up when I run bonding stones and get Companion Gift stacks). Do you have the same experience or do you manage to keep up with properly specced players who run the bonding strategy? - edited February 2016
@kurtb88:
Sorry for not addressing your original post! Question:
You took some Deflect feats rather than other feats that could potentially increase your damage output. Am I right in assuming that rather than building to maximize damage, you're aiming to achieve a good damage output and some semblance of survivability at the same time?
Edit: Oh whoops. You said that. That being said, how do you compare to people who run bonding runestones? I see you use an augment, and in my experience any GWF, SW, and CW running Rank 10, 11, and 12 bonding stones leave me in the dust in terms of damage when I use my augment (it's a lot easier to keep up when I run bonding stones and get Companion Gift stacks). Do you have the same experience or do you manage to keep up with properly specced players who run the bonding strategy?
Hi, thanks for your question. Yes I favor balancing some survivability with damage output, which is why a chose to take a few deflect boons and a feat. I have not seen that it handicapped my dps in any significant way, but it really made my character able to survive because my deflect is 40% atm.
As for your question about Bonding Stones. I actually have never tried it. I have seen how powerful they can be and will try it in the future unless it gets nerfed or something. Right now I am satisfied with the Augment, but yeah, when i get more AD and can afford the high level Bonding Stones I will set it up.
Thanks for the input. In short, I hate lashing blade. I don't like that style of play. It may indeed deal more aoe dmg but I just don't like doing it. As for using OPDarkness setup, I don't agree that it is better. Maybe it PvP? But in PvE I don't think so.Just some friendly input, take it for what you will:
- class features of First Strike and Skillful Infiltrator are nice and all, but if you're MI, do consider Invisible Infiltrator and Infiltrator's Action. You'll get more bang for your buck with those. Stealth -> encounter power -> Daily -> re-stealth -> encounter power is just plain silly dps when you need it.
And if you're WK, I'd instead suggest the Adv Pos + Op Dark route, given that you can re-stealth usually within 6 sec as an Exe that gives you perma CA which is just plain fun. Not to mention the artifact offhand powers can give you either -20% damage taken (Adv Pos) or slow a target by 50% (OpDark). Both have value in both PvE and PvP.
- stealth -> Dazing Strike is all fine and dandy if the mobs are densely packed. In my experience, they seldom are - or if they are, the second you stealth one or two tend to run after the next target (your companion, a teammate, etc.), which again messes things up. Throw in CWs blasting things across the room, Paladins doing similar, and so on, and it can get frustrating pretty quick at times. This can also mess up your SoD, as the game will randomly apply it to one of your targets and not necessarily the one you want. Consider stealth -> Smoke Bomb -> Blade Flurry for AoE trash, and for single-targets..well, it gets a bit trickier. Have a look at my 'SoD help' post on page 1 for some further tips for maximizing SoD damage.
- dailies -> again, you'll probably get more out of Lurker's + one other of your choice.
- don't discount the value of Wicked Reminder for single target fights. It rocks, especially from stealth. If you enter stealth at the end of a Flurry, you'll get auto-crit on the bleed and still have enough stealth to throw out a WR, starting your SoD. You can then Lurker's to re-fill your stealth bar (thanks to Invisible Infil), and then throw out another encounter (Lashing blade for crazy dmg, but only available every other SoD; Dazing otherwise). Great SoD damage that way.
- Sly Flourish vs. Cloud of Steel is debatable. I prefer CoS, as it gives me a range dps option when there's a long-standing AoE red circle around the boss that I had to tumble out of.Just some friendly input, take it for what you will:
- class features of First Strike and Skillful Infiltrator are nice and all, but if you're MI, do consider Invisible Infiltrator and Infiltrator's Action. You'll get more bang for your buck with those. Stealth -> encounter power -> Daily -> re-stealth -> encounter power is just plain silly dps when you need it.
And if you're WK, I'd instead suggest the Adv Pos + Op Dark route, given that you can re-stealth usually within 6 sec as an Exe that gives you perma CA which is just plain fun. Not to mention the artifact offhand powers can give you either -20% damage taken (Adv Pos) or slow a target by 50% (OpDark). Both have value in both PvE and PvP.
- stealth -> Dazing Strike is all fine and dandy if the mobs are densely packed. In my experience, they seldom are - or if they are, the second you stealth one or two tend to run after the next target (your companion, a teammate, etc.), which again messes things up. Throw in CWs blasting things across the room, Paladins doing similar, and so on, and it can get frustrating pretty quick at times. This can also mess up your SoD, as the game will randomly apply it to one of your targets and not necessarily the one you want. Consider stealth -> Smoke Bomb -> Blade Flurry for AoE trash, and for single-targets..well, it gets a bit trickier. Have a look at my 'SoD help' post on page 1 for some further tips for maximizing SoD damage.
- dailies -> again, you'll probably get more out of Lurker's + one other of your choice.
- don't discount the value of Wicked Reminder for single target fights. It rocks, especially from stealth. If you enter stealth at the end of a Flurry, you'll get auto-crit on the bleed and still have enough stealth to throw out a WR, starting your SoD. You can then Lurker's to re-fill your stealth bar (thanks to Invisible Infil), and then throw out another encounter (Lashing blade for crazy dmg, but only available every other SoD; Dazing otherwise). Great SoD damage that way.
- Sly Flourish vs. Cloud of Steel is debatable. I prefer CoS, as it gives me a range dps option when there's a long-standing AoE red circle around the boss that I had to tumble out of.
Sorry I was tired and didnt mean to type i hate lashing blade (lol), i meant to say i hate using lurkers assault + blade flurry. it feels like a very boring, robotic way to play hitting the key 8 times in a row: swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, etc. it's fine for others, but just not my play style.- ^^ lol, I can't disagree with that, but it is effective nonetheless.
- edited March 2016ill give a build out but this build isn't for lazy people if u want to play it u gota put effort into it ive been told ive tripled ppl's dps from what they had b4
https://account.xbox.com/en-us/screenshot/8813cdce-a0b9-4200-91e6-d1df9e87fb6f?gamertag=Respectpays&scid=8dd60100-6cc0-42f2-bb3e-c47b184a79f5
ps: if u think you want to be serous send me a msg on xbox - Posts: 729Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User
@respectpays thats a standard MI Exe build with Shadowborn taken instead of Dying Breath. You made it seem like you are going to release some kind of a secret.ill give a build out but this build isn't for lazy people if u want to play it u gota put effort into it ive been told ive tripled ppl's dps from what they had b4
https://account.xbox.com/en-us/screenshot/8813cdce-a0b9-4200-91e6-d1df9e87fb6f?gamertag=Respectpays&scid=8dd60100-6cc0-42f2-bb3e-c47b184a79f5
ps: if u think you want to be serous send me a msg on xbox - I have high recovery how many of you have over 10k recovery? lol theirs more to build then you think u can't just build crit like a gwf if u do your homework a lot tr's in future build recovery question is why
- Posts: 729Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User@respectpays
Mostly PvP rogues go for high recovery so they can have their Shocking Execution up as quickly as possible. PvE rogues do not need that much recovery in the current state of the game because power is simply superior in every way up to a certain point when it comes to playing an end-game PvE MI Exe. While I agree that recovery is a really strong stat for the Master Infiltrator rogue's overall damage increase, the dungeon layouts and the difficulty of the trash mobs do not require you to have your dailies up at every group of monsters to be able to cut through them. The scenario where you'd need your daily up is first and foremost in high HP pool single target fights(boss fights). But even then, running with a heavy buffer/debuffer group allows you to basically finish the fight before you can get your 2nd daily cast off.
Recovery (especiall AP gain) is a really strong stat for the purposes of outscaling challenging content. But right now, Exe TRs can't even fully utilize their existing feat bonuses, because fights just don't take that long and there aren't mechanics that would require you to finish off low-health opponents quickly. It all comes down to Paingiver in the end. - Posts: 2,878Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc UserRecovery is an extremely bad stat.
Here, wrote something similar, and to lazy to write agian:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/49t9ky/recovery_question/
There are places where recovery can work great, Sabo for example, or if you use lurker->BF (tc4) but even there to much of it and it's a significant loss.
Especially for mi-exe, nothing lives 6 seconds for SoD to proc. You need a boss to even get to the second rotation. So recovery is not the stat I would take.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/46kr1i/help_with_tr_stat_distribution/
(I'm not using/talking about the build in the thread, this is in general)Guild: The Imaginary Friends
If you disagree with me: My opinions are my own and do not reflect on my guild and friends.
If you agree with me: My opinions are totally the guild official policy ! - if it would work the way its supposed to it be amazeing lol but everything in games like this is pretty much broken
- Posts: 729Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User
@respectpays what are you talking about?if it would work the way its supposed to it be amazeing lol but everything in games like this is pretty much broken
- edited March 2016if u put 400 into any other stat in the game u get 1% more damage /crit dr defelect chance towards you where recovery because how they made it work or how they thought it was correct your only getting about 40% of what u actualy stack into recovery=busted stat lol that's y no one uses it. in other words when it tells you you get 1% recharge speed it should be off the original cd not from what you already have example with 4k recovery your lb is 15secs at 13k rec its at 10.8secs it should be at 7-8secs if it would cut the original cd in half
- Posts: 4,897Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User
@respectpaysif u put 400 into any other stat in the game u get 1% more damage /crit dr defelect chance towards you where recovery because how they made it work or how they thought it was correct your only getting about 40% of what u actualy stack into recovery=busted stat lol that's y no one uses it. in other words when it tells you you get 1% recharge speed it should be off the original cd not from what you already have example with 4k recovery your lb is 15secs at 13k rec its at 10.8secs it should be at 7-8secs if it would cut the original cd in half
Recovery reduces your cooldowns and boosts your action point gain. Although the stat itself is linear and works by providing 1% recharge speed increase for every 200 points and 400:1% AP gain, the way it reduces your cooldowns is not. The way it works is as follows:
New CD = Old CD/(1+Recharge Speed Increase)
Which means that at low levels of recharge speed increase, it reduces your cooldowns quite quickly but the higher you get, the less it reduces your cooldowns. It also means that if you have 100% recharge speed increase, it halves your cooldowns. Here is a nice picture for you of how recovery works:
Here is a graph as an example, with an ability with a 20 second base cooldown and looking at 0% recharge speed increase to a 400% recharge speed increase:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+20/(1+B),+B+=+0+to+4
and here is a graph showing the return on investment:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=derive+20/(1+B),+B+=+0+to+4
You should be able to see that at very low recovery levels, it gives much better return on investment then at higher recovery levels. This is very easy to test yourself, just put points into recovery, look at how much it increases your recharge speed increase, then look at your cooldowns. Then take the base CD of your ability and divide it by 1+recharge speed increase. You should find the tooltip CD matches the CD given by the formula.0 - just urks me that they punish dps classes so hard on that stat when a cleric /pally benefit massively from it in future a pally can build 40k recovery having 180% recharge speed and well over 100% ap gain because they have a way to double their recovery/ imo they should be diminished differently for each class gd example of this is a tr armp is scalled differently then every other class in the game it diminishes at a much lower rate then others for a tr to get 60% armor pen they need 7150 armor pen where other classes only need 6470 for 60% armor pen I guess the scaleing system is ticking me off that's all
There is a boon available that gives 3% RI that you are likely missing (third tier Dread Ring boon 'Forbidden Piercing'). This is how others (and myself) get 60% RI at 6470 ArPen.gd example of this is a tr armp is scalled differently then every other class in the game it diminishes at a much lower rate then others for a tr to get 60% armor pen they need 7150 armor pen where other classes only need 6470 for 60% armor pen I guess the scaleing system is ticking me off that's all
Campaign - Trail of the Imaskarcana (NWS-DMFG77QOF)- A Mere Expedition! (NW-DIAAPG3S4)
- Work In Progress on Part 2
- Posts: 2,878Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User
All stats scale the same, 400:1 for most (Power, Crit, Defense, Deflect, LS), 100:1 for ArP, 200:1 for recovery (400:1 AP gain from recovery) . ArP has slight DR and goes 110:1 towards 8k.just urks me that they punish dps classes so hard on that stat when a cleric /pally benefit massively from it in future a pally can build 40k recovery having 180% recharge speed and well over 100% ap gain because they have a way to double their recovery/ imo they should be diminished differently for each class gd example of this is a tr armp is scalled differently then every other class in the game it diminishes at a much lower rate then others for a tr to get 60% armor pen they need 7150 armor pen where other classes only need 6470 for 60% armor pen I guess the scaleing system is ticking me off that's all
Those are main and secondary stats, CA,AP gain, are all the same for all classes but are not linear.
Your gripe is completely unfounded, and Incorrect. And especially the claim about recovery.Guild: The Imaginary Friends
If you disagree with me: My opinions are my own and do not reflect on my guild and friends.
If you agree with me: My opinions are totally the guild official policy ! - I have all the boons/im a xbox player some reasons when I googled something it came up on pc forum -_- even tho I put xbox in 's
- Greetings Rogues of Neverwinter,
So I have not played neverwinter in over 2 years and was just wondering about the following, When I stopped playing my character had some awesome gear, I just want to find out what can I get now that is better? This is what I have.
Armor
Murderous Jester's Helmet
Battlefield Scavenger's Armor
Battlefield Scavenger's Bracers
Elusive Agent's Boots
Demonweb Wrap
Minor Grand Fugitive's Belt of Revolt
Trickster's Embroidered Shirt
Fancy Leather Pants
Weapons
Battlefield Scavenger's Long Dagger ( Plague Fire Enchantment )
Cruel Dagger of Parrying
Equipment
House Xorlarren Signet
Temperred Evader's Ring
Any advise would be appreciated
Kind Regards
Farmboy102 - Posts: 729Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User0
- Save the skins if they are good, but, for stats, actual in-game gear is far better.
- Thank you for this write up. I was a founder and beta tester when Neverwinter came out and I got my TR and CW up to the level 60 cap and was a bad dude at the time, but I lost interest and left for a few years. When I came back I was still a bad dude.. Fighting lvl 40-50 mobs, once I went to a lvl appropriate zone, I became very sub-par.
After reading this and making the changes, I am back to being a bad dude again, so just wanted to say I appreciate the write up.
Sub Rogue Do Shadow Blades Do Extra Dmg Work
Comments
- edited February 2016Just some friendly input, take it for what you will:
- class features of First Strike and Skillful Infiltrator are nice and all, but if you're MI, do consider Invisible Infiltrator and Infiltrator's Action. You'll get more bang for your buck with those. Stealth -> encounter power -> Daily -> re-stealth -> encounter power is just plain silly dps when you need it.
And if you're WK, I'd instead suggest the Adv Pos + Op Dark route, given that you can re-stealth usually within 6 sec as an Exe that gives you perma CA which is just plain fun. Not to mention the artifact offhand powers can give you either -20% damage taken (Adv Pos) or slow a target by 50% (OpDark). Both have value in both PvE and PvP.
- stealth -> Dazing Strike is all fine and dandy if the mobs are densely packed. In my experience, they seldom are - or if they are, the second you stealth one or two tend to run after the next target (your companion, a teammate, etc.), which again messes things up. Throw in CWs blasting things across the room, Paladins doing similar, and so on, and it can get frustrating pretty quick at times. This can also mess up your SoD, as the game will randomly apply it to one of your targets and not necessarily the one you want. Consider stealth -> Smoke Bomb -> Blade Flurry for AoE trash, and for single-targets..well, it gets a bit trickier. Have a look at my 'SoD help' post on page 1 for some further tips for maximizing SoD damage.
- dailies -> again, you'll probably get more out of Lurker's + one other of your choice.
- don't discount the value of Wicked Reminder for single target fights. It rocks, especially from stealth. If you enter stealth at the end of a Flurry, you'll get auto-crit on the bleed and still have enough stealth to throw out a WR, starting your SoD. You can then Lurker's to re-fill your stealth bar (thanks to Invisible Infil), and then throw out another encounter (Lashing blade for crazy dmg, but only available every other SoD; Dazing otherwise). Great SoD damage that way.
- Sly Flourish vs. Cloud of Steel is debatable. I prefer CoS, as it gives me a range dps option when there's a long-standing AoE red circle around the boss that I had to tumble out of.
- class features of First Strike and Skillful Infiltrator are nice and all, but if you're MI, do consider Invisible Infiltrator and Infiltrator's Action. You'll get more bang for your buck with those. Stealth -> encounter power -> Daily -> re-stealth -> encounter power is just plain silly dps when you need it.
And if you're WK, I'd instead suggest the Adv Pos + Op Dark route, given that you can re-stealth usually within 6 sec as an Exe that gives you perma CA which is just plain fun. Not to mention the artifact offhand powers can give you either -20% damage taken (Adv Pos) or slow a target by 50% (OpDark). Both have value in both PvE and PvP.Dmg 3.0. Your disk image will appear in Finder exactly as you designed it.Disk images, delivered with style– Simplified design.
So, a number of things. I'm not OP, but I found some of your Class Feature recommendations a little strange. While I do agree that every PvE MI should run Invisible Infiltrator, I'm curious as to why you'd recommend Combat Advantage over a straight-up percentage increase of +4% Critical chance, which equates to 1600 crit that you don't have to stack (which gives you flexibility if you want to stack something else or stack Crit even higher). To put that into perspective, that's more than two Rank 12 Azures (+1400) combined, and slightly lower than 4 Rank 12 Brutals (+1680 crit) combined. So even at the highest level, that's a lot of points.
In PvE group play, a rogue will always have combat advantage because of party members positioning. And if a TR is not positioning itself for combat advantage, then the TR is at fault for being a bad TR (in the same vein that a TR who does not use WR on bosses is a bad TR). Wouldn't that make InfilAction redundant? Especially when you consider that it means unslotting First Strike, Tactics, or Skillful Infiltrator. Skillful Infiltrator is not only superior for solo play (movement speed, deflect bonus), but CA isn't that necessary for campaign areas anyway since everything dies quickly.
On Oppressive Darkness: since this is a PvE build, I also find it strange that you recommend Oppressive Darkness. Sounds great on paper, but it adds literally HUNDREDS to your overall damage output. That's not great. OD does not reap the benefits of buffs/debuffs, it's not affected by your power, and it accounts for a very small percentage of your overall damage. You can test it yourself if you'd like. I think it's based on weapon damage, which for rogues is pretty terrible in PvE.- Two quick comments before I run off to work:
1 - you won't always have CA. At least I don't. Solo, skirmishes, or even dungeons where there's plenty of mobs / spawns, even assuming there's a tank that'll mark stuff, they might be busy holding off that big ugly monster in the corner and expecting the rest of you to clean up the 30 little guys on the other side of the room. And keep in mind, CA = +15% damage. That outweighs a potential +4% crit (and let's be honest here, it's probably +3% - most don't have plenty of extra power points to take this to R4).
2 - OpDark shines with AoE. Throwing out blade flurry x 8 or so (if using Lurker's) = several hundred damage x number of targets hit x number of hits (in this example, 8).
So yes, OpDark could use a boost, but the damage still adds up, especially with certain builds. - Okay. You seem to love the idea of Oppressive Darkness, which is fine because it sounds great on paper, so I don't think I'll be able to convince you that it can't 'shine' in PvE. Maybe I can convince OP, if OP needs convincing, to not use Oppressive Darkness even in conjunction with Advantageous Position.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter/#/discussion/1209115/oppressive-darkness-in-pve
There's a thread on Oppressive Darkness. Let's assume you hit the maxed observed hit EVERY TIME (unlikely, but I want to show that even in optimal conditions, it sucks) for Rank 4 OD: 756. You hit the maximum amount of targets with Blade Flurry: 5. You use Blade Flurry x8. Taking your formula:
756 x 5 x 8= 30,240 extra damage from Oppressive Darkness.
OD is not boosted by Lurker's Assault, Crit Severity, Crit chance, Power rating, buffs, debuffs. It will not hit higher than the amount observed, and if it does (someone in that thread mentioned it may be based on weapon damage, and a new Legendary set may raise the damage ceiling), it will be less than 100 extra damage.
30,240 damage spread across 5 enemies. That's a little over 6k extra damage per enemy, assuming you are hitting the maximum amount of targets with the maximum amount of damage with the maximum amount of attacks possible. Toward SoD, that adds 3k to ONE enemy.
One enemy takes 9k damage, 4 others take 6k damage, total added damage from OD: 33k.
That's LESS than the amount of added damage than OP's First Strike (with offhand feature) stealthed lashing blade, a gap that gets bigger with the more crit severity OP has. I just tested this: Rank 4 First Strike + offhand feature + specced exactly as described above + a greater vorpal (38% severity) nearly doubled the damage of the first hit: for LB, I hit 50-60k sans FS, 90-100k with FS. On top of that, SoD adds 25-30k and 45-50k at the very least, respectively. For Dazing Strike, 30kish sans FS and 50-60k with it, plus 50% of those totals from SoD
So one could add a collective 30k damage using up a daily and a class feature spot, or one could add that damage to the first strike of combat and have 3/4% extra crit to take advantage of buffs/debuffs for the rest of the fight, extra deflect for defense, and extra movement speed for CA positioning.
(I'm admittedly a bit lost on your first point of CA--how you don't always have it. If you're not attacking the target everyone else is attacking, why not just use dazing strike, smoke bomb, or both to automatically grant yourself combat advantage in your one on one battle with the add? Why does one need to dedicate a feat to something they can easily obtain by moving a bit more? Also, do you have a specific example/fight where a tank would pull a tough enemy and leave you to attack an enemy that you can't get combat advantage on and have to fight one on one despite being in a party with four other people? A common one is the scorpion pull in elol, but 3 others attack the non-pulled one with you.) - edited February 2016@kurtb88:
Sorry for not addressing your original post! Question:
You took some Deflect feats rather than other feats that could potentially increase your damage output. Am I right in assuming that rather than building to maximize damage, you're aiming to achieve a good damage output and some semblance of survivability at the same time?
Edit: Oh whoops. You said that. That being said, how do you compare to people who run bonding runestones? I see you use an augment, and in my experience any GWF, SW, and CW running Rank 10, 11, and 12 bonding stones leave me in the dust in terms of damage when I use my augment (it's a lot easier to keep up when I run bonding stones and get Companion Gift stacks). Do you have the same experience or do you manage to keep up with properly specced players who run the bonding strategy? - edited February 2016
@kurtb88:
Sorry for not addressing your original post! Question:
You took some Deflect feats rather than other feats that could potentially increase your damage output. Am I right in assuming that rather than building to maximize damage, you're aiming to achieve a good damage output and some semblance of survivability at the same time?
Edit: Oh whoops. You said that. That being said, how do you compare to people who run bonding runestones? I see you use an augment, and in my experience any GWF, SW, and CW running Rank 10, 11, and 12 bonding stones leave me in the dust in terms of damage when I use my augment (it's a lot easier to keep up when I run bonding stones and get Companion Gift stacks). Do you have the same experience or do you manage to keep up with properly specced players who run the bonding strategy?
Hi, thanks for your question. Yes I favor balancing some survivability with damage output, which is why a chose to take a few deflect boons and a feat. I have not seen that it handicapped my dps in any significant way, but it really made my character able to survive because my deflect is 40% atm.
As for your question about Bonding Stones. I actually have never tried it. I have seen how powerful they can be and will try it in the future unless it gets nerfed or something. Right now I am satisfied with the Augment, but yeah, when i get more AD and can afford the high level Bonding Stones I will set it up.
Thanks for the input. In short, I hate lashing blade. I don't like that style of play. It may indeed deal more aoe dmg but I just don't like doing it. As for using OPDarkness setup, I don't agree that it is better. Maybe it PvP? But in PvE I don't think so.Just some friendly input, take it for what you will:
- class features of First Strike and Skillful Infiltrator are nice and all, but if you're MI, do consider Invisible Infiltrator and Infiltrator's Action. You'll get more bang for your buck with those. Stealth -> encounter power -> Daily -> re-stealth -> encounter power is just plain silly dps when you need it.
And if you're WK, I'd instead suggest the Adv Pos + Op Dark route, given that you can re-stealth usually within 6 sec as an Exe that gives you perma CA which is just plain fun. Not to mention the artifact offhand powers can give you either -20% damage taken (Adv Pos) or slow a target by 50% (OpDark). Both have value in both PvE and PvP.
- stealth -> Dazing Strike is all fine and dandy if the mobs are densely packed. In my experience, they seldom are - or if they are, the second you stealth one or two tend to run after the next target (your companion, a teammate, etc.), which again messes things up. Throw in CWs blasting things across the room, Paladins doing similar, and so on, and it can get frustrating pretty quick at times. This can also mess up your SoD, as the game will randomly apply it to one of your targets and not necessarily the one you want. Consider stealth -> Smoke Bomb -> Blade Flurry for AoE trash, and for single-targets..well, it gets a bit trickier. Have a look at my 'SoD help' post on page 1 for some further tips for maximizing SoD damage.
- dailies -> again, you'll probably get more out of Lurker's + one other of your choice.
- don't discount the value of Wicked Reminder for single target fights. It rocks, especially from stealth. If you enter stealth at the end of a Flurry, you'll get auto-crit on the bleed and still have enough stealth to throw out a WR, starting your SoD. You can then Lurker's to re-fill your stealth bar (thanks to Invisible Infil), and then throw out another encounter (Lashing blade for crazy dmg, but only available every other SoD; Dazing otherwise). Great SoD damage that way.
- Sly Flourish vs. Cloud of Steel is debatable. I prefer CoS, as it gives me a range dps option when there's a long-standing AoE red circle around the boss that I had to tumble out of.Just some friendly input, take it for what you will:
- class features of First Strike and Skillful Infiltrator are nice and all, but if you're MI, do consider Invisible Infiltrator and Infiltrator's Action. You'll get more bang for your buck with those. Stealth -> encounter power -> Daily -> re-stealth -> encounter power is just plain silly dps when you need it.
And if you're WK, I'd instead suggest the Adv Pos + Op Dark route, given that you can re-stealth usually within 6 sec as an Exe that gives you perma CA which is just plain fun. Not to mention the artifact offhand powers can give you either -20% damage taken (Adv Pos) or slow a target by 50% (OpDark). Both have value in both PvE and PvP.
- stealth -> Dazing Strike is all fine and dandy if the mobs are densely packed. In my experience, they seldom are - or if they are, the second you stealth one or two tend to run after the next target (your companion, a teammate, etc.), which again messes things up. Throw in CWs blasting things across the room, Paladins doing similar, and so on, and it can get frustrating pretty quick at times. This can also mess up your SoD, as the game will randomly apply it to one of your targets and not necessarily the one you want. Consider stealth -> Smoke Bomb -> Blade Flurry for AoE trash, and for single-targets..well, it gets a bit trickier. Have a look at my 'SoD help' post on page 1 for some further tips for maximizing SoD damage.
- dailies -> again, you'll probably get more out of Lurker's + one other of your choice.
- don't discount the value of Wicked Reminder for single target fights. It rocks, especially from stealth. If you enter stealth at the end of a Flurry, you'll get auto-crit on the bleed and still have enough stealth to throw out a WR, starting your SoD. You can then Lurker's to re-fill your stealth bar (thanks to Invisible Infil), and then throw out another encounter (Lashing blade for crazy dmg, but only available every other SoD; Dazing otherwise). Great SoD damage that way.
- Sly Flourish vs. Cloud of Steel is debatable. I prefer CoS, as it gives me a range dps option when there's a long-standing AoE red circle around the boss that I had to tumble out of.
Sorry I was tired and didnt mean to type i hate lashing blade (lol), i meant to say i hate using lurkers assault + blade flurry. it feels like a very boring, robotic way to play hitting the key 8 times in a row: swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, etc. it's fine for others, but just not my play style.- ^^ lol, I can't disagree with that, but it is effective nonetheless.
- edited March 2016ill give a build out but this build isn't for lazy people if u want to play it u gota put effort into it ive been told ive tripled ppl's dps from what they had b4
https://account.xbox.com/en-us/screenshot/8813cdce-a0b9-4200-91e6-d1df9e87fb6f?gamertag=Respectpays&scid=8dd60100-6cc0-42f2-bb3e-c47b184a79f5
ps: if u think you want to be serous send me a msg on xbox - Posts: 729Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User
@respectpays thats a standard MI Exe build with Shadowborn taken instead of Dying Breath. You made it seem like you are going to release some kind of a secret.ill give a build out but this build isn't for lazy people if u want to play it u gota put effort into it ive been told ive tripled ppl's dps from what they had b4
https://account.xbox.com/en-us/screenshot/8813cdce-a0b9-4200-91e6-d1df9e87fb6f?gamertag=Respectpays&scid=8dd60100-6cc0-42f2-bb3e-c47b184a79f5
ps: if u think you want to be serous send me a msg on xbox - I have high recovery how many of you have over 10k recovery? lol theirs more to build then you think u can't just build crit like a gwf if u do your homework a lot tr's in future build recovery question is why
- Posts: 729Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User@respectpays
Mostly PvP rogues go for high recovery so they can have their Shocking Execution up as quickly as possible. PvE rogues do not need that much recovery in the current state of the game because power is simply superior in every way up to a certain point when it comes to playing an end-game PvE MI Exe. While I agree that recovery is a really strong stat for the Master Infiltrator rogue's overall damage increase, the dungeon layouts and the difficulty of the trash mobs do not require you to have your dailies up at every group of monsters to be able to cut through them. The scenario where you'd need your daily up is first and foremost in high HP pool single target fights(boss fights). But even then, running with a heavy buffer/debuffer group allows you to basically finish the fight before you can get your 2nd daily cast off.
Recovery (especiall AP gain) is a really strong stat for the purposes of outscaling challenging content. But right now, Exe TRs can't even fully utilize their existing feat bonuses, because fights just don't take that long and there aren't mechanics that would require you to finish off low-health opponents quickly. It all comes down to Paingiver in the end. - Posts: 2,878Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc UserRecovery is an extremely bad stat.
Here, wrote something similar, and to lazy to write agian:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/49t9ky/recovery_question/
There are places where recovery can work great, Sabo for example, or if you use lurker->BF (tc4) but even there to much of it and it's a significant loss.
Especially for mi-exe, nothing lives 6 seconds for SoD to proc. You need a boss to even get to the second rotation. So recovery is not the stat I would take.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/46kr1i/help_with_tr_stat_distribution/
(I'm not using/talking about the build in the thread, this is in general)Guild: The Imaginary Friends
If you disagree with me: My opinions are my own and do not reflect on my guild and friends.
If you agree with me: My opinions are totally the guild official policy ! - if it would work the way its supposed to it be amazeing lol but everything in games like this is pretty much broken
- Posts: 729Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User
@respectpays what are you talking about?if it would work the way its supposed to it be amazeing lol but everything in games like this is pretty much broken
- edited March 2016if u put 400 into any other stat in the game u get 1% more damage /crit dr defelect chance towards you where recovery because how they made it work or how they thought it was correct your only getting about 40% of what u actualy stack into recovery=busted stat lol that's y no one uses it. in other words when it tells you you get 1% recharge speed it should be off the original cd not from what you already have example with 4k recovery your lb is 15secs at 13k rec its at 10.8secs it should be at 7-8secs if it would cut the original cd in half
- Posts: 4,897Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User
@respectpaysif u put 400 into any other stat in the game u get 1% more damage /crit dr defelect chance towards you where recovery because how they made it work or how they thought it was correct your only getting about 40% of what u actualy stack into recovery=busted stat lol that's y no one uses it. in other words when it tells you you get 1% recharge speed it should be off the original cd not from what you already have example with 4k recovery your lb is 15secs at 13k rec its at 10.8secs it should be at 7-8secs if it would cut the original cd in half
Recovery reduces your cooldowns and boosts your action point gain. Although the stat itself is linear and works by providing 1% recharge speed increase for every 200 points and 400:1% AP gain, the way it reduces your cooldowns is not. The way it works is as follows:
New CD = Old CD/(1+Recharge Speed Increase)
Which means that at low levels of recharge speed increase, it reduces your cooldowns quite quickly but the higher you get, the less it reduces your cooldowns. It also means that if you have 100% recharge speed increase, it halves your cooldowns. Here is a nice picture for you of how recovery works:
Here is a graph as an example, with an ability with a 20 second base cooldown and looking at 0% recharge speed increase to a 400% recharge speed increase:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+20/(1+B),+B+=+0+to+4
and here is a graph showing the return on investment:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=derive+20/(1+B),+B+=+0+to+4
You should be able to see that at very low recovery levels, it gives much better return on investment then at higher recovery levels. This is very easy to test yourself, just put points into recovery, look at how much it increases your recharge speed increase, then look at your cooldowns. Then take the base CD of your ability and divide it by 1+recharge speed increase. You should find the tooltip CD matches the CD given by the formula.0 - just urks me that they punish dps classes so hard on that stat when a cleric /pally benefit massively from it in future a pally can build 40k recovery having 180% recharge speed and well over 100% ap gain because they have a way to double their recovery/ imo they should be diminished differently for each class gd example of this is a tr armp is scalled differently then every other class in the game it diminishes at a much lower rate then others for a tr to get 60% armor pen they need 7150 armor pen where other classes only need 6470 for 60% armor pen I guess the scaleing system is ticking me off that's all
There is a boon available that gives 3% RI that you are likely missing (third tier Dread Ring boon 'Forbidden Piercing'). This is how others (and myself) get 60% RI at 6470 ArPen.gd example of this is a tr armp is scalled differently then every other class in the game it diminishes at a much lower rate then others for a tr to get 60% armor pen they need 7150 armor pen where other classes only need 6470 for 60% armor pen I guess the scaleing system is ticking me off that's all
Campaign - Trail of the Imaskarcana (NWS-DMFG77QOF)- A Mere Expedition! (NW-DIAAPG3S4)
- Work In Progress on Part 2
- Posts: 2,878Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User
All stats scale the same, 400:1 for most (Power, Crit, Defense, Deflect, LS), 100:1 for ArP, 200:1 for recovery (400:1 AP gain from recovery) . ArP has slight DR and goes 110:1 towards 8k.just urks me that they punish dps classes so hard on that stat when a cleric /pally benefit massively from it in future a pally can build 40k recovery having 180% recharge speed and well over 100% ap gain because they have a way to double their recovery/ imo they should be diminished differently for each class gd example of this is a tr armp is scalled differently then every other class in the game it diminishes at a much lower rate then others for a tr to get 60% armor pen they need 7150 armor pen where other classes only need 6470 for 60% armor pen I guess the scaleing system is ticking me off that's all
Those are main and secondary stats, CA,AP gain, are all the same for all classes but are not linear.
Your gripe is completely unfounded, and Incorrect. And especially the claim about recovery.Guild: The Imaginary Friends
If you disagree with me: My opinions are my own and do not reflect on my guild and friends.
If you agree with me: My opinions are totally the guild official policy ! - I have all the boons/im a xbox player some reasons when I googled something it came up on pc forum -_- even tho I put xbox in 's
- Greetings Rogues of Neverwinter,
So I have not played neverwinter in over 2 years and was just wondering about the following, When I stopped playing my character had some awesome gear, I just want to find out what can I get now that is better? This is what I have.
Armor
Murderous Jester's Helmet
Battlefield Scavenger's Armor
Battlefield Scavenger's Bracers
Elusive Agent's Boots
Demonweb Wrap
Minor Grand Fugitive's Belt of Revolt
Trickster's Embroidered Shirt
Fancy Leather Pants
Weapons
Battlefield Scavenger's Long Dagger ( Plague Fire Enchantment )
Cruel Dagger of Parrying
Equipment
House Xorlarren Signet
Temperred Evader's Ring
Any advise would be appreciated
Kind Regards
Farmboy102 - Posts: 729Member, NW M9 PlaytestArc User0
- Save the skins if they are good, but, for stats, actual in-game gear is far better.
- Thank you for this write up. I was a founder and beta tester when Neverwinter came out and I got my TR and CW up to the level 60 cap and was a bad dude at the time, but I lost interest and left for a few years. When I came back I was still a bad dude.. Fighting lvl 40-50 mobs, once I went to a lvl appropriate zone, I became very sub-par.
After reading this and making the changes, I am back to being a bad dude again, so just wanted to say I appreciate the write up.
Sub Rogue Do Shadow Blades Do Extra Dmg Download
- Two quick comments before I run off to work: 1 - you won't always have CA. At least I don't. Solo, skirmishes, or even dungeons where there's plenty of mobs / spawns, even assuming there's a tank that'll mark stuff, they might be busy holding off that big ugly monster in the corner and expecting the rest of you to clean up the 30 little guys on the other side of the room.
- As a rogue gains experience, she learns a number of talents that aid her and confound her foes. Starting at 2nd level, a rogue gains one rogue talent. She gains an additional rogue talent for every 2 levels of rogue attained after 2nd level. A rogue cannot select an individual talent more than once.