Thus in any sustained DPS situation Perseverance may be sub-optimal but will be better in situations where burst DPS is most important.Īlso, the tactical imposes an opportunity cost with regards to the use of Force Clarity. In comparing it to Cauterized Coronary, the consistent additional DoT damage should significantly outperform incremental additional critical damage from Zealous Leap.
Combined with the 2 GCD duration 20% critical chance buff, it makes the discipline's burst hit very hard. Focused Burst should be a guaranteed crit and get buffed damage, Concentrated Slice has the highest base damage for the discipline, and Zealous Leap does less damage than those two but still very high damage overall.īy making Zealous Leap an auto-crit when using Force Clarity, it offers the potential for most rotations to have a 3 GCD window with 2 guaranteed critical hits and the discipline’s strongest base ability. Concentration provides high burst DPS capability in the front half of its rotation. This approach is difficult to implement because it requires far more attention on the player’s buff bar and likely is a DPS loss because it will apply the 25% damage buff to filler abilities in some instances rather than the core abilities of Concentrated Slice, and Zealous Leap.Īnalysis: This tactical seems to be designed with burst DPS in mind and particularly PVP. The second option is to prioritize using Force Clarity when the 10% damage buff is about to expire to maintain its uptime. I recommend this approach since it is simpler and easier to remember/execute in a stressful boss encounter. This ensures the 25% damage buff is applied to the heaviest hitting ability and any additional charges affect Zealous Leap as next ability in the rotation and another heavy hitting ability, but risks some downtime on the 10% damage buff. They can use Force Clarity each rotation on Concentrated Slice as recommended below.
Skilled players will have to decide between two approaches to a rotation and their use of Force Clarity.
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One DoT has partial uptime and the second has full uptime, so combined they provide multiple additional chances to trigger the set bonus and provide additional 25% ability damage buffs and better and more consistent uptime of the 10% overall damage buff. These changes are improved significantly by the Burning Slices DoT applied by Blade Barrage and the Cauterized Coronary DoT (requires the tactical item of the same name) applied by Concentrated Slice. Given the low chance, there is a decent probability that the typical rotation will not have full uptime of the 10% damage buff without careful attention by the player. Generating a charge via the 6 piece set bonus triggers a 5 second cooldown before it can trigger again, though it only has a 10% chance to do so after the cooldown and only 2-3 GCDs to trigger and ensure it is refreshed before expiration. The 10% damage buff lasts for 10 seconds and can be refreshed by generating a charge or using a charge. The set bonus should provide fairly high uptime on a straight 10% damage buff. It lost a little ground to Watchman in sustained damage due to the Spiteful Saber tactical being more powerful for that discipline than Cauterized Coronary, but should still be a very strong option for all fights.Īnalysis: The only set bonus that is BIS across multiple advanced classes, Descent of the Fearless is BIS for all Guardian and Sentinel DPS disciplines. Combined, the two provide Concentration with nearly full uptime of a 10% damage buff, consistent 25% damage buffs to its heaviest hitting ability in Focused Burst, and an additional DoT that should have full uptime on most fights.Įarly in 6.0, the verdict is that Concentration will retain its reputation for having exceptional burst damage and strong sustained damage.
In 6.0 the discipline received a healthy buff via a great set bonus in Descent of the Fearless and a nice buff to its sustained damage via the Cauterized Coronary tactical item. The discipline also performed very well in PVP due to its burst and use of Zealous Leap as a second leap that ignores certain movement debuffs. Concentration was one of the strongest DPS disciplines in 5.X due to great burst damage and very strong sustained damage that is competitive with Watchman.
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