OK TR's - What encounters do you use in Dungeons, and why?

axemthegreat

Title says it all. Blitz? Smoke Bomb? Lashing Blade? Different encounters for different dungeons?

I've seen a couple of different opinions on the subject. What do you open with out of stealth on a group of enemies? Blitz for the slow, dazing for the cone of daze, or smoke bomb for less damage but both a daze and slow?

What dailies? Courage breaker? Whirlwind? Lurker's?

Also, what companion do you use during your runs? Stone/cat for the stats? A healer to keep you alive?


Discuss......

sinibyte

As a Saboteur, I can double stealth. So stealth smoke bomb, step back, stealth dazing strike. This simple rotation leaves nothing but heavies left (with the right GS and stats, you can get away with just stealth dazing strike to destroy all normal weight enemies). That's when you start with the lashing blade (or stealth lashing blade) on those heavies.

I prefer courage breaker on bosses - then I don't need to dip out of heavy attacks or AOEs - and the power boost is nice. Whirlwind for groups of enemies.

I use red stone as my companion, for stats - although it seems to still aggro enemies while I'm in stealth as if I had a normal companion out - which is incredibly annoying.

thezer0flux

I use Wicked Reminder, Lashing Blade, and Smoke Bomb or Path of the Blade. I use Smoke Bomb for adds or during the normal dungeon run and will swap to Path of the Blade for bosses or when there are more heavies than weak mobs. Depending on group composition, sometimes I'll leave it on one or the other. Wicked Reminder does great damage, recharges quickly and provides a stacking defense debuff on enemies. Lashing Blade... well, it's Lashing Blade.

For dailies I use Lurker's Assault and Shocking Execution. I only use the latter if the enemy is below 30% health and I can get all my AP back for Lurker's Assault. Nothing beats Lurker's Assault in terms of damage potential... as long as you use it correctly.

I use the Red Dragon Ioun Stone stacked with Armor Penetration at the moment.

akapolo

I'm probably one of the few tr's that don't use lashing blade much. For me it really depends on the dungeon and the team setup. Probably my most common rotations will be SS/ smoke bomb, blitz, path of blades. For boss fights I'll usually run smoke/ITC , daze, lashing. Out of all of my characters my tr is definitely the most "busy" always changing encounters around. If were farming or speed running or soloing I'll usually just do ITC, SS, bait, up until boss fights.

Dailies I always run lurkers and execution. Don't really see a need to change those up.

Still run plague fire over vorpal. Saw somewhere on here that it procs shadow of demise 100% of the time and this is indeed true. Apparently it was a bug but I'm not complaining lol

Speced into as much crit as possible. Seconding arm pen. Just because this is what I was told to do and I never really felt a need to respec. And have a ioun allure because I just felt like buying one for all my characters lol.

Heard cats really good for tr's but I've yet to buy one to see how good.

I really want to try out saboteur and a stealth build but I love the dps from Exo build so I'll most likely make another tr.

upinyaslayin

Depends, for most dungeons especially those with lots of mobs i go with cloak, DS, POB, Smoke and my daily is WOB. for ones with a small amount of big targets like lostmauth (or on boss fights) i go cloak, LB, DS, POB and Daily of CB