New 14 Nov 2017 Saturn Nymph Combat HR11 views0 comments
Edited: Jan 21st 2018
Update - This is my old build and is still fairly effective but I have now switched to Pathfinder spec which I prefer and for me anyway does a lot more damage.
My current Item Level is 14K2 but I seem to keep up fairly well with some 16k + dps classes (I can't tell you why because I don't know lol) With bondings I now have 85% deflect chance and 59.5% without them With the combination of pets, feats and boons I am around 133% crit severity will post screen shots of stats when I can. Both below links below are done by SUMI and they are fantastic, offence slots and info etc. are done by me (Saturn Nymph) as those of us in the real world (not 4k plus and don’t have 99 million AD in the bank) need pets and gear etc that we can afford. Neverwinter: Building a PvE Combat HR Mod 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0K8EuH6B-g Neverwinter: Playing a PvE SW Combat HR Mod 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG3c_hw1EA0 Spells that I use (some are different to what Sumi suggest to use and I saw a significant dps increase when I switched to my current spell set. Dailies - Seismic shot and Cold Steel Hurricane (a pain to aim but great damage) Encounters
Throw Caution - this is the meat & potatoes of our damage use this right and watch your target melt.
Gushing Wound - A nasty bleed (damage over time)
Plant Growth - A tone of damage and can keep you alive against trash mobs
At Wills
Aimed strike - serious damage for an at will - apply every 10 seconds or so (you can see when on bosses as is usually the 1st debuff showing on the target (of the left)
Split Strike - You will use this constantly, I usually just hold down my left mouse button and rotate my mouse accordingly so it acts like as aoe even though technically it isn't.
Offence Slots - Azures in most slots now as have recently swapped out two azures for brutals to gain some extra power, given our class feat skirmishers Gambit reduces our crit by 10% in order to gain 50% crit severity. At lower levels (sub rank 10 you will need all azures to maintain a usable amount if crit.
Defence Slots
Currently silveries all the way , deflect is our friend and we can get loads of it, and boons further down the road mean we do damage when we deflect so more damage for free. However due to the way shadowclad works and the way it is required to prov I will most likely be dwapping these out for Demonics which are deflect, lifesteal and hitpoints.
Armour enchant I use a Rank 11 Shadow clad which I cannot recommend enough
Weapon Enchant - I use a Transcendent Flaming enchant which works fantastic. I have used a trans lightning and a greater vorpal in the past but they do not compete (my brain finally realised that a chunk of my damage came from my At-Wills Specifically Split Strike - at this point I can not say for sure which works best for us though flaming is my current favorite.
Weapons I currently have are the Abolith Set from river district
Combat Unlike Trapper or Archery spec hunters we in my 'opinion' do not want nor need the Lost mouth set or even the Demorgorgon set
Neck – I use Baphomet’s Infernal Talisman – Good stats for us – Power, Crit and Deflection Waist – Greater Twined Rope of Dexterity
Artifacts – doesn’t get any cheaper than this, all free if you have these classes and all have the stats we want Sigil of the hunter Sigil of the Rogue Sigil of the Scourge Lantern of Revelation
Guild Boons
Offence – Power
Defence - Life Steal for solo and possibly hitpoints in higher level dungeons when with a pally tank.
Companions - needs updating as currently out of date except for shadow demon and Remorhaz
(Saturn Nymph is currently running 3 x rank 13 bondings) In a nut shell you need active companions that increase your DPS, and ideally ones that give you a % increase over a basic stat increase e.g 2% crit v’s 120 crit, we do not really need pets to increase our deflection as I have around 50% with rank 9 silveries. I currently do not have a full set of companions I am happy with but have listed some options below.
Shadow Demon Epic– 3 offence - My Summoned companion. No Idea why I do so much damage with this guy but I do more with this guy than I do with a pet with 3 offence slots ie phase spider, his active bonus is nothing to write home about but bonding’s proc as soon as you enter combat and he doesn’t die very often, especially for a melee companion.
Wild Hunt rider – Green – Active bonus 2% chance to increase damage by 10% for 5 seconds - we hit very fast on this class so this procs a lot more than you may expect.
Blink dog– Green - 2% Combat advantage Alchemist Experimenter Epic- 165 crit and 165 recovery (I was using a yeti in this slot but a buff once a minute seemed pants compared to static stats all the time - of all my pets this will most likely be the only one I change, even though its epic.
Remorhaz - Epic - when you attack your opponent has a 5% chance to combust doing fire damage each second for 5 seconds
Full list of companions and their abilities listed here - http://neverwinter.gamepedia.com/Companion Companion Gear DO NOT USE SUDDEN & RISING RINGS they no longer work with pets. Avenger gear if you have it already is great as is the girdle of the striker, however is you like I do not own it and don’t have a million AD lying around to buy each piece then make the personalised waist and neck of recovery or armour pen. the extra recovery is beneficial to us for our encounters and dailies but in light of recent changes we need more armour pen as well. I current use a +4 Fierce belt (offensive), a +3 Bold Necklace (offensive) and a +4 sturdy swordknot (defensive) IG Gold is the only other place to get good companion gear the +4's are either 2 offence or 2 defence and the +5's are either one offence and one overload or one defence and one overload. The +3's are available on AH and are either 1 x offence or defence. With the IG I Highly recommend you get 1 piece of equipment with 2 defence slots for the extra deflection, with bondings I aim to get upto 100% deflect eventually (im around 75% atm)
Companion EnchantsOffence – I run 2 demonic rank 10's and one Savage rank 10 - The demonics give me a nice chunk of armour pen without sacrificing my other stats
Defence – All Silvery
Hope this helps Saturn Nymph