Maximizing Overall Damage

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Maximizing Overall Damage May 29, 2017 19:59:32 GMT -5

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The 3 major components to maximizing your overall damage are Armor Penetration, Power, and Critical Strike.

1. Armor Penetration - In my research Armor Penetration should be your first priority. 60% Armor penetration is the maximum amount of armor penetration that can be applied towards mobs, anything more will not be applied, and is essentially waste. To minimize wasted stats/ resources if you were to target getting your armor pen to approximately 50-55% unbuff. Once you are buffed, and you are also getting your companion stats you should be right around 60% give or take a couple % points.

2. Power and Critical strike - These 2 components are equally important, and DPS classes should generally go by a 2:1 Power to Crit ratio, until your DPS class has reached the desired Critical strike percentage. Once you have reached your desired critical strike % you should look to put everything else towards power. From my understanding it seems like DPS should try to maintain a Critical strike percentage of 80-90%. In most cases I have found that pushing your critical strike to 100% actually hurt the overall damage, due to having to take big hits to your armor penetration and power.

Gear – Gear is obviously the most important part of any class make up. You will need to keep a number of things in mind when setting your gear. Gear Score & Stats, Enchantment slots, set bonuses.

In my opinion, until you can get the brand new relic gear, your best bet for Head, Armor, Arms, and Feet would be going 2 Dragon flight, and 2 Dusk due to set bonuses. Neck, Waist, and artifact would be the next set to get, and for the most part it was recommended to get the Lostmauth set until you can get the Demogorgon set. Lostmauth set is fairly cheap in comparison to demo and will probably run you around 300-400K if you bought the set.

Rings – In my opinion are users choice, but just go for 2 enchantment slot rings. Below is a short list of rings I recommend.
1. Ring of Rising Power (Demogorgon)
2. Ring of Precision (Madness)
3. Ring of Brutality (Demogorgon)
4. Mako’s Ring (Quest reward Cold Run)
5. Ostorian Ring of Dod (FBI/ SVA)
6. Ostoriam Ring of Hellig (FBI/ SVA)

Artifacts – At level 70 you can have 4 artifacts equipped, and at epic quality each of those artifacts generally give you 3 increases to certain stats (Uncommon Artifacts give 1 stat, Rare gives you 2). It is very important to continue to increase the quality of your artifacts, because it not only gives you a large increase in your gear score, but also the stats on that artifact.
Artifacts that I personally recommend.
1. Lantern of Revelation
2. Kessell's Sphere of Annihilation
3. Thayan Book of The Dead
4. Wheel of Elements
5. Lostmauth;s Horn of Blasting (to finish the set)
6. Shard of Orcus' Wand (to finish the set)
7. Eye of the Giant
8. Sigil of the Controller

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Maximizing Overall Damage May 29, 2017 20:01:38 GMT -5

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Enchantments – Enchantments are stones that you can attach to your gear that will give you additional bonuses towards specific stats. Currently, you can get enchantments that increase 1, 2, or 3 stats. Keep in mind that the more stats that are being increase the lower the increase in those stats.

At this junction of the game, a level 70 should not have any reason to have anything below a rank 7 enchant in their gear. The primary single stat enchants can be purchased from the AH for a couple thousand AD, or for 6 trade bars on the trade bar market place. On top of being cheap, rank 7 enchants take right around 34,500 refinement points before it is ready to be refined to 8.

**You get an additional 9 gear score points for each rank an enchant is increased.**

Armor Reinforcement kits and Jewels - Armor Reinforcement kits (Head, Chest, Boots, Gloves) and Jewels (Neck, Belt, Rings) come in 4 tiers Lesser - Green (25 points stat increase, 0 GS points), Regular - Blue (50 stat increase, 10 GS points), Greater - Purple (100 stat increase, 20 GS points), and Major - Purple (200 stat increase, 35 GS points). I do not believe you can remove the kits from gear once you have put them on so make sure you are thinking big picture when you put them on. Go with stats you will always need, and can make up for stats that will be temporary with enchantments and insignia stats.

Mounts – Epic and Legendary mounts come with a special equip power. When buying an epic or legendary mount be mindful of which power would best suit your character. When selecting a mount think functionality not “Cuteness”.

Insignias and Insignia Bonuses – Insignias and insignia bonuses are often forgotten about, but are incredibly helpful when it comes to increasing ones overall damage, and or survivability.

Insignias – There are 5 types of insignias (Crescent, Enlightened, Barbed, Illuminated, and Regal) that come in a number of categories. DPS related categories for insignias are Dominance (+Power, +Companion influence), Skill (+Critical Strike, +Combat Advantage Bonus, and Aggression (+Armor Pen, + Action Point Gain).
Insignias generally give you an increase in 2 stats, and come in 3 tiers. Uncommon (Green) generally give you +50 of 1 stat like Armor Pen, and +25 of a second stat like action point gain. Tier 2 Rare (blue) generally gives your +100 of 1 stat, and +50 of a second stat, and Tier 3 Epic (purple) generally gives you +200 of 1 stat, and +100 of a second stat.

Insignia Bonus – Insignia bonuses are bonuses you get from equipping insignias in each of your mounts in your stable. Your stable can hold up to 5 mounts which in turn can give you 5 insignia bonuses. Go through the insignia bonus page which is found under your mounts in options, and figure out which bonuses best suit you.

***Insignia Bonuses do stake, but at a rate of 25% of the original buff. So if you have a buff that gives you 4% Power and Defense, and then you add a second mount with the same buff you will then get 5% overall for that buff. ***

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Maximizing Overall Damage May 29, 2017 20:05:43 GMT -5

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Companions - Things to keep in mind are Active bonues, buffs/debuffs from companion powers, and survivability. For instance ranged companions are generally the “preferred” summoned companion; they will die a lot less than melee companions, and ranged companions will attack immediately, whereas melee have to run then start attacking. This is important because stats you get from your companion from Bonding stones are reset every time your companion dies, and the more time a companion is dead the less time their buffs/debuffs can be applied.

The end goal is to upgrade your “active” companions to Epic quality (Purple), and your summoned companions to legendary quality (yellow). If you do not intend to ever summon a specific companion do not waste the AD or Upgrade tokens to get it to Legendary.

Each quality upgrade up to Epic will generally give you a slight upgrade to your active bonus
Each quality upgrade including to legendary will give your companion a 10% stat increase.

Here is a short list of companions that I personally have used and think are the best for DPS. Obviously, I have not tried out every companion, and could easily be missing other great options. So please if you feel I have forgotten any feel free to add.
1. Fire Archon (Summoned) – Active Bonus Increases your damage against targets with less than 50% Hit Points by +7%, each additional active Archon increases this bonus by .5%
2. Air Archon (Summoned/Active) – Active Bonus Increases your damage against targets not at full health by +5.0%. Each additional active Archon increases this bonus by .5%
3. Earth Archon (Active) - Increase your damage against targets by 6% when you are at full health. Each additional active Archon increases this bonus by .5%
4. Erinyes of Belial (Active) – Active Bonus +10% Critical Severity
5. Dancing Blade (Active) – Active Bonus +5% Critical Severity
6. Siege Master (Active) – Active Bonus Deal +4% increased damage. This effect is increased to +8% damage while on Stronghold map.
7. Young Yeti –Active Bonus On Damage Taken 10% chance, for you or your companion, to become blood thirsty, increasing damage dealt by 10%.
8. Wild Hunt Rider – Active Bonus On Encounter Use 5% chance to increase damage by 10% for 5 seconds. (Procs fairly regularly).
9. Cambian Magus (Active) - Active Bonus 10% Critical Severity
10. Con Artest or SellSword (Summoned) - Attack debuff that reducses 10% of the target's defense.

Bonding Runestone - In my opinion are the single most important investment when it comes to DPS. Bonding Runestones should quite frankly be the only runestones anyone uses in their non-augmented companions. Used in an offensive slot will give the companion Power, and when used in a defensive slot will give your companion Defense.

The thing that makes Bonding Runestones so important is that for every bonding runestone you have equipped on your summoned companion you will get a percentage of your companions stats applied to you. If you have 3 Rank 12 Bonding Runestones attached to your companion you will get 385% (95% for each) of your companion’s stats.

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