Testing all single target builds

roboferal

Edit: Updated 3 September 2020

Been a while since I posted. Current project is at http://www.tinyurl.com/feralshadowlands

Rankings atm for raid: Venthyr > Night Fae > Kyrian >> Necrolord

Noting that

  • Venthyr is bugged giving 20% crit per stack rather than 2%.
  • Night Fae slightly worse in raid as it will cast more healing spells – you can get more mastery by casting heals between Convokes.
  • Kyrian does not work as intended and healing spells will steal your DPS
  • Necrolord giga undertuned.

I will be testing approximately 80 builds. Here are some comments regarding Covenants so far:

Venthyr

  • Probably the best for raiding due to current tuning also gives you big burst at the start, but hardlocks you into being a 3minute class
  • Can spam Remove Corruption (no cooldown) on yourself to generate stacks.
  • Stack generation has an internal cooldown so you can’t use all off GCD abilities. Can use a variety of non DPS spells like Regrowth, Barkskin, Mighty Bash. I’ve been using Remove Corruption on self but note this is a 1.5s GCD rather than 1s GCD.
  • Encourages big FB gameplay (i.e. Sabertooth) to the point where you only cast Shred/FB during Berserk.

Necrolord

  • The most involved playstyle change in that you need to manage uptime on Adaptive Swarm.
  • Has negative synergy with jagged wounds legendary.
  • Even with Adaptive Swarm and the most dot centric build, Ferocious Bite is a huge chunk of your damage so this is probably a very poorly scaling Covenant (you will do more FBs as your generator stats increase).
  • Has Travel Time.
  • Requires 300 IQ because you can juggle. 25s cd with 12son/off/on = 36s. Refreshing adds 3 stacks and sets to 12seconds. There are multiple strats
    • You can get everyone in the raid to /cancelaura to get 92% uptime on Single Target
    • If that gets patched you can alternate between boss and you, gives you 72% uptime.
    • Letting it drop off completely and casting gives you 66% uptime.
    • Using a complex juggling strategy you can get 85% uptime, by having a 2 stack debuff on a friendly player while your Adaptive Swarm is off CD. Basically you refresh on the boss at 1s remaining to build it to 5 stacks, then as it bounces back to boss it is now 3 stacks and you are off CD. As soon as this drops off Boss, cast AS onto boss. This 3 stack will be refreshed at 1second by the 2 stack on the friendly player and you can have close to 95% uptime but every cycle you will drop a second. Then to reset the cycle you can refresh to 5 stacks.

Night Fae

  • Frequently casts a lot of Ferocious Bites making this heavily SBT favoured. You will always end at 5CP. Need a weakaura to track how to proc bloodtalons at end of channel (I have one, to be posted later).
  • Good for cleave as well as it has Rake cleave. There is a bit of RNG here.
  • Good to channel about 2/3rd into of Berserk if energy starved and you can be smart and get a fresh TF as one of the spells (could possibly abuse clicking off TF).

Kyrian

  • Very undertuned at the moment. The bleed clear basically carries this covenant for raid.
  • High risk/reward because if your partner dies you can’t use covenant, have a prepared cancelaura and new target to place in combat.
  • After the 10second burst window you have up to another 10seconds to use the damage pool (30% of each players output).
  • You can be super smart and swap between players burst phases to maximise this in a raid encounter.
  • Can convert this to a “sub rogue zul” type damage, where one player does big AoE and the other play does pure Single Target with basically a 30% dam buff for 20 seconds (the other play gets negligible cos they are AoE sads). Currently testing on dummies seems to prevent you doing this though, unsure if bugged or if there is a PER TARGET cap which would be extremely unintuitive.

 

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