Hello there,
since loadouts are now here on console I bought plenty of them to be flexible.
I was a SB Damnation back in Mod 9, switched to HB Fury after Mod 10.
Since then I played just a few time with SB Fury but my 'main' was always HB Fury.
I have now a SB Fury build only for the purpose of boss melting, tested it today 2 times in mspc and hell yeah the single target dmg is awesome.
After those runs I realized how fun it is to play SB again and now I'm looking for proper rotations for AoE.
On bosses I run:
Encounters: KF, SS and BoVA
Daylies: IS and TC (TC is slotted but I only use IS)
Passives: ACC, BT if I need heals/ Deadly Curse for little extra dmg/ Warding Curse if boss has a 1 hit attack which I can't survive (helps sometimes)
For AoE hard (like fbi, msva etc.)
Passives: ACC, Dust to Dust
Daylies: IS, TC
Encounters: well i think the same as above? KF, SS, BoVA?
For AoE trash (like CN etc.)
Passives: ACC, Dust to Dust
Daylies: TC and Accursed Souls maybe?
Encounters: I think on these mobs it is not enough time to get benefit from SS so it would be this I think?
KF, FB, AoH?
Btw. on this loadout I use a full Fury build and use a Dread and Wheel. Question is also if it would be better to swap Wheel for DC Sigil for better TC uptime?
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I run:
AoE: BovA, FB (or HG for the lightning proc), SS together with lightning. Artifact: DC sigil
IF (important) you run with 2 very good DC and great cooldown reduction you can try AoH, FB, KF.
Single Target: HG, KF, SS together with feytouched. Artifact: Wheel
Passives: Dust to Dust and ACC
At-Wills: ED, DSA
Daylies: TC (mobs), Spirits on bosses
I love the combination of lightning and feytouched (relics and aboleth setup). The only trick is here to get your crit severity higher without dread/vorpal. Companions, potions...it's a bit expensive but worth it. And feytouched is important to get the most out of the SB in my opinion.
I don't care about lower dungeons like CN, but the lightning performs very well there too and together with FB/HG it's all dead in seconds. And yes...I would use wheel only on bosses and DC sigil for the trash.
And the fey has to be trans for it to be effective?
thanks
Yes... on single target it's way stronger. If your rotation and setup is good, you crush any HB on bosses like Drufi...
In AoE you loose a bit, but that's not important...you are the boss melter... but you can really shine in the first in high dungeons like fbi. CN or something like that the HB is faster with the trash.
And how hard you can hit depends on your group.
In FBI, SW against SW, the SB should crash every HB down at the same gear and IL... with HB for trash and SB for bosses loadout setup it's different.
In a good group I've no time to curse before every SS (on bosses I do for sure). So I spam if ready...SS/FB... I loose damage if I curse from tests...it takes too long if all dies so fast...
On the blades from what I can say...yes...(I'm on PS4 and can only say what I can see). On every SS yes...not on ticks what I saw...
I've much better results with lightning on mobs then with fey or dread... and with barkshield I can stand in the trashgroups most of the time...
On this rotation I talk only from high end content...in CN, Spider or whatever run whats fit for you (f.e. the AoH/FB/KF rotation works great).