Flaming or Bilethorn for PvP?

sinisteel

Has anyone done any testing on this matter? I'm trying to make a decision on what weapon enchantment I should purchase for PvP. My funds are pretty limited and I can't afford to buy them both at the moment. Does anyone have any input or data? Which one would be better for melting stealth rogues and GWFs?

ikeepit3hunna

Bilethorn is much, much better then flaming. Plaguefire is better than flaming. If you insist on dot dmg enchant then do bile if your gwf/tr and plague for gf/gwf. I would recomend vorpal though, its good all around

fondlez

Bilethorn has the highest upfront DoT of all weapon enhancements so makes it better suited for draining stealth from TRs.

But for uptime against high mitigation targets like GF or GWF, nothing beats either a Vorpal or Greater Plague Fire (come Module 2 when its fixed to do its normal 9% damage increase at 3x stacks of debuff).

In general, you can never go wrong with a Vorpal on a TR, even a normal rank Vorpal - the enchant is practically built for the class due to TR's 40%+ crit, stacking crit severity and crit bleeds. If you're not using a Vorpal on a TR, you better know your build in great detail why (and there are some successful builds that do not use it)...

noxisst

fondlez wrote: »

Bilethorn has the highest upfront DoT of all weapon enhancements so makes it better suited for draining stealth from TRs.

But for uptime against high mitigation targets like GF or GWF, nothing beats either a Vorpal or Greater Plague Fire (come Module 2 when its fixed to do its normal 9% damage increase at 3x stacks of debuff).

In general, you can never go wrong with a Vorpal on a TR, even a normal rank Vorpal - the enchant is practically built for the class due to TR's 40%+ crit, stacking crit severity and crit bleeds. If you're not using a Vorpal on a TR, you better know your build in great detail why (and there are some successful builds that do not use it)...

Exactly. Use Vorpal, and even then the only alternative should be BileThorn but only in specific feat/party builds.

sinisteel

noxisst wrote: »

Exactly. Use Vorpal, and even then the only alternative should be BileThorn but only in specific feat/party builds.

Thank you for your input. Just curious, when is the appropriate time you mentioned to be using bilethorn?

ikeepit3hunna

Bile is good vs everything but cw

xelliz

ikeepit3hunna wrote: »

Bile is good vs everything but cw

I'm curious why its not helpful vs CW? Is this because of their shield?

ikeepit3hunna

Shield is garbage. And because with vorpal u can just 3 impact and gg. Bile makes your impacts hit like snow. Better for knocking down shields/stealth/ delayed dmg that hits gwf after unstop but you lose burst unless u can land a duelist on cw