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Zerk and IOD

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  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    FelipeThomaz wrote: »
    You just need a little bit of crit and will be fine. No biggie. Get a corvette / shadowgate crit mixed jewelry, keen 2 etchings (both glove and wep) and a +12 inner. You will have 265-270 crit on dps stance, and 225 at intimidation stance.

    I would rather farm using def stance than dps for t3. Specially hydraths, because their frontal range is shorter than our 8m TS, so you can roll backwards and load, axe counter has a nice dps as well. And there's no cyclone and no awful ES to frustrate you. Carving double pounding and wrathful are my crystals to make it.

    Hmm. An extra pounding instead of a focused? Is the fight going to last enough to make the boss be out of enrage for longer than it's enraged? I mean, in my case I try to DPS fast because the bam enrages at certain HP thresholds. By using a focused one can do enough DPS to break the next threshold without the bam losing the enrage from the previous. Basically the bam, once first enraged, never loses the status until it dies. Again, if DPS comes fast enough.
  • FelipeThomazFelipeThomaz ✭✭
    Sorry nopi. I Guess i'm too sleepy.
    Pounding, Focused, Carving, Wrathful.
    Double pouding would mean a huge dps loss. My bad.
  • YellowGemYellowGem ✭✭
    I know dstance gave me a easier time doing BAMs just like how lancer deal with them. But idk where i'm doing wrong I always feel like when I do it as DPS style it is always a bit faster.
  • NopiNopi ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2016
    YellowGem wrote: »
    I know dstance gave me a easier time doing BAMs just like how lancer deal with them. But idk where i'm doing wrong I always feel like when I do it as DPS style it is always a bit faster.

    DPS stance is stronger in terms of overall damage. Intimidation may be easier and with enough practice with it you will be able to kill faster, of course. But practicing with normal stance will make you even faster. Also, having the bam facing a single direction makes it attack more frequently because it doesn't have to look for you.

    Again, some bams can be pretty stubborn, and some will rotate quickly or even in an instant for no reason at all, so a balance must be done if going for back crit build and tactics. One shouldn't spend most of the fight running, or your DPS will be even lower than if fighting always from the front.
  • FelipeThomazFelipeThomaz ✭✭
    edited August 2016
    YellowGem wrote: »
    I know dstance gave me a easier time doing BAMs just like how lancer deal with them. But idk where i'm doing wrong I always feel like when I do it as DPS style it is always a bit faster.

    That's not a fact for zerks right now, people.
    @Ultemecia wrote a bit in zerk guide about DPS em DStance as zerk nowadays and it's a pretty new hybrid way of playing zerk.
    I don't doubt you can modify the standard dps dstance rotation to a solo dps rotation and farm just as well as a zerk dps or a zerk tank. Even better, who knows?
  • TerminusixTerminusix ✭
    edited August 2016
    Doing bams in dstance is lower dps without overall since u will be spending more time front critting (since staggering strike doesnt turn the boss for you in dstance) and wont be using cyclone at all which has a double crit glyph (double crit glyphs are the most important thing for zerks and you should spend as much time as possible utilizing them).

    I do iod bams with 2 power 3 crit setup (+200 crit factor) and my crit is just fine.

    Anyone who says Intimidation Stance is higher DPS for zerks is a [filtered] idiot
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