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Executioner vs Saboteur
ganzj
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Hi , i am a 50% pvp and 50% pve player and i wanted to ask which tree is better executioner or saboteur . I refuse to build Scoundrel because its only attack is daze and it cant stealth really in a long time . Once your target dodge your daze and you are not tank enough you are 75% dead . So back to the exe and sab tree . I tried both trees and i think both trees got its own goods and bads . Sab is for stealth and dont have much damage like exe but exe cant survive really long if there are more than 2 enemies . So what do you guys think ? Exe or Sab are better for player like me .
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i just want to kill my target without dying . What tree are you ?
since you say you are doing half of pve and half pvp, you should go executioner capstone, you are dealing high amounts of damage to elite mobs and bosses but at the same time executioner pathstone has a lot of damage bonus and resistance ignore feats so you can one shot people with SE and LB in pvp. this is est so you can do your pve and pvp thing.
sab is purely pvp, you can perma stealth without high int score, cool down reduction feats so you can use SS and BS to reenter stealth quickly, and piercing damage in stealth so you can kill opponents and run around perma stealthed with this feat path. in pve this doesnt have as much strength compared to executioner because of the capstone change, SoD main damager for executioner, but with high enough gs you can do any content without much trouble, just harder with sab b/c it lacks the pure dps, but u gain pvp survibablity and ulitility with this feat path. if you do all pvp and suffer in pve damage wise then this would be a fun path to go.
edit: i would go executioner if you want to do well in pve and quicken dungeon runs but still own in solo que/ one shot style lol
I kinda have to disagree, mi exec is not the best survivor of the class but it does not have to be a glass cannon. Between stealth, itc, and daze, you can survive a lot. My rotation is generally stealth>lashing>smokebomb>duellists flurry>itc>duelists flurry>stealth>repeat. The smokebomb comes immediately after lashing because if I miss I don't wanna get creamed, and if the target dodges outside the range of smokebomb, I go immediately into itc instead of dropping smokebomb. Smokebomb is just a safety net, mainly to avoid getting killed after the one-shot by the targets teammates. People tend to stand together for some stupid reason which makes dazing strike a tempting alternate to either lashing or smoke bomb.
It is plausible to slot all "survival" encounters and no damage encounters and still shred enemy players with duelists flurry alone and survive for prolonged periods of time while contesting a node in a 1v1 vs superior geared players, 2v1 vs same geared players or 3 or 4 v 1 vs lesser geared players.
PVE essentially the same, as mobs tend to stand close together, trash mobs in a tight group around one Strong; so lashing from stealth vs the strong followed instantly by smoke bomb, the strong should be one-shotted by lashing and the trash melted by smoke bomb, anything remaining can easily be DF'd away. Aside from cw, I never cleared mobs as quick as I do with my tr, even my sw is not as fast.
I'm no expert and this is just my opinion, but in that opinion players who make super-uber damage mi execs who can't contest a node for long really aren't doing it right at all.
By the way, I wonder when the devs are going to fix SoD.
It works on bosses and allows 25% bonus damage effects.y
It has a decent amount of DPS in PvE and a good amount of control power in PvP + survivability.
Executioneer is still DPS machine number 1 in PvE. Shadow of Demise does an insane amount of damage.