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DC in PvP – need help
odskyr
Member Posts: 42 Arc User
hello everybody, i hope you can help me. I’d like to play my DC in PvP and I need some help. It would be nice if some of you could give me some advice. I’d like to know what powers, feats, boons and insigniabonuses are useful. Which equipment should I use, which artifacts and which enchantments. I’m aiming to be a tanky DC and not dps-focused.
I also prefer playing PvE, so I don’t want to spend millions of AD’s in buying new PvP stuff. But if there are some gamebraeking items I would spend some for it ;-)
At the moment I use a Unp. Holy Avenger and a Unp. Negation. All offence slots with Radiant, defense with Blackice (because of PvE). Oghmas’s token as main artifact, the Tiamat-Set and the everfrost-underwear.
I also prefer playing PvE, so I don’t want to spend millions of AD’s in buying new PvP stuff. But if there are some gamebraeking items I would spend some for it ;-)
At the moment I use a Unp. Holy Avenger and a Unp. Negation. All offence slots with Radiant, defense with Blackice (because of PvE). Oghmas’s token as main artifact, the Tiamat-Set and the everfrost-underwear.
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If you can withstand a toxic environment with mane, stealths, oneshots, drains and clueless teammate, welcome to pvp then. Goodluck.
I am a PC player, and playing a DC is currently more difficult in this meta of hard hitting classes and post DC astral shield nerf and further healing depression nerfs. Out of the top 100 players on PC, only 5 are DCs. I'm currently the number 1 ranked DC, and 17th player overall (though this does fluctuate fairly easily, especially if I am on a losing streak!).
Here is a link to my current build, an AC Faithful DC:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e_vTWV8tlIYzwaQvTt_mGOP3Y7fxsRWtoR8Yugk5-2U/edit?usp=sharing
The healing DC is only really as good as the team mates you have on your team. If your team mates cannot survive one shots, one-rotates, strays too far off node that you cannot target them easily with healing (even with gift of faith, as it only really helps prevent a one-rotation, then is used up) then you won't win the match.
Enjoy the build. Let me know what you think.
@vordayn - your build Looks pretty similar to my own. Only 2-3 boons are different. Now i know, that my way was not the wrongest one
I only did some runs with my warlock in mod 15, even though I witnessed some DC´s out there ding good as faithfull (AC or DO).
I also saw some high defense builds in mod 14 that did good, those ones run at 80% defense, but I am not aware how this works properly in mod 15 in times aof mega burst from GF´s dealing double the dps they should due to bugged SWW.
@vordayn how much defense deflect do you run on your DC actually?
But in terms of stats, I have about 60% defense and 40% deflect. I've seen some DCs with 70-90% defense and 70-80% deflect however.
These also does not include damage mitigation from other sources such as from: 1) Feytouched (-20% damage from opponent at Unparalleled), 2) Valhalla (-15% damage at full stacks), 3) Encounters such as divine Exalt, Break the Spirit, Divine Glow or Astral Shield, 4) Dailies from Hallowed Ground, 5) Class Features from Foresight etc, 6) Class Feats such as Have Faith, 7) Armor Enchantments such as Negation or Shadowclad, 8) Other items such as PvP Wards and the Ring of Sieging.
There are a number of ways to get damage mitigation, and this to me makes different DC builds quite interesting once you get down to the mechanics of the class. And as long as I keep moving and casting, I can 'share' some of this damage mitigation to allies as well.