Toxicity - Stamina Dragonknight PVE Build

The easiest way to maintain up times on your damage over time skills is to add the ability bar timers to your UI. The way to do this is to go into “Options” and then from there go into “Combat”. There are settings there to show ability timers for both your front and back bars (as explained and demonstrated in the video). Make sure they are both ON.

The damage over time skills on this build have over time been dramatically increased duration wise so instead of having a solid set in stone rotation (which you can still have, there will just be overlap) is to maintain up times by tracking your timers. Again this is explained and demonstrated in the Rotation section (with a time stamp) in the video.

Having the above in mind, follow the process below.

Note: There are two ways to do this, both shown in the video. The more optimal one is stated first.

Be sure to have Flames of Oblivion already running. Only once if you do not have the whip slotted. But 3 x if you do. Then start with Barbed Trap. It has 1.5 seconds before it arms so technically you have room to swap to the back bar and wind up Endless Hail. After endless hail, follow with , Light Attack, Poison Injection, Light Attack, Noxious Breath, Weapon Swap.

If you are in combat already, then you can lead with Endless Hail on the run into the fight, just be sure to get Barbed Trap down as soon as you can get close enough.

The rest is as follows.

Front bar: Light attack, Rapid Strikes, Light Attack, Venomous Claw, Light Attack, Rending Slashes, Light Attack, Soul trap.

From here on out you basically spam Light Attack, Rapid Strikes over and over until you need to activate the other abilities that are due to run out on your back bar. You front bar dots are longer so your back bar WILL run out first.

Whenever you bar swap from the front to the back, use Light Attack, Barbed Trap. This creates both a smooth transition from one bar to the other and also adds another reset and initial POP of the trap. The trap does the same damage every tick no matter what (unless you crit etc) so recasting it is a simple overlap. No plus or minus to it, BUT the initial pop IS more dps, so you lack less damage dropping while swapping bars and plug the gap.

You want to maintain your Seething Fury stacks from your whip bonus if you are using it, so Flames of Oblivion will need to be maintained to keep up at least the 15 second timer of the buff. So track that one at least fairly heavily. Of course Noxious breath contributes too but you you track Flames Of Oblivion you will never lose the buff.

Once you have reapplied anything on the back bar if necessary (Poison Injection, Noxious Breath, Flames Of Oblivion or Endless hail) go back over to the front bar and continue to spam Light Attack, Rapid Strikes until the front bar dots are due to run out.

Consuming trap and rending slashes don’t matter too much if you overlap them early, but Venomous Claw should last it’s full duration as it gets stronger over time.

SO to simplify…

Light attack, Rapid strikes, then apply your 3 major dots. Then keep an eye on your back bar, and if any are about to run out, use Light Attack, Barbed Trap, and swap. Light, Attack between the application of the necessary skills you need to recast, and then go back to the front and continue to Light Attack, Rapid Strikes, until you need to swap to the back again, OR you need to reapply your front bar dots.

Remember, it is crucial that you rapid strikes in order to buff the dots with the maelstrom daggers buff.

Alternative:

You can have a simpler rotation as explained in the video. It will do an incredible amount of damage, be easier to maintain with less tracking, but it will mean a little less dps because of overlap and dropping buffs etc.

If you are finding the above too tricky (check the video) this will help you get started.

Front bar: Light Attack, Rapid Strikes, Light Attack, Venomous Claw, Light Attack, Rending Slashes, Light Attack, Consuming Trap, Light Attack, Barbed Trap, Weapon Swap.

Back Bar: Light Attack, Endless Hail, Light Attack, Flames Of Oblivion, Light Attack, Poison Injection, Light Attack, Noxious Breath, Bar swap.

Front bar: All of your front bar damage over time is running on a long timer, so THIS rotation, simply spam Light Attack, Rapid strikes 4-6 times, then Light Attack, Barbed Trap, Weapon swap. It’s a free to spam rotation section where you are literally just filling with spams while the dots work.

THEN repeat the back bar the same as above, and start again from scratch.

By the time you are on the front again, you will be restarting all of your original dots and everything should line up.

Again, this is a SIMPLER rotation, with gaps, with less damage but easier to digest.

To simplify:

Front bar is Light Attack, Rapids, + 3x dots. Then Light Attack, Rapids , Light Attack, Trap, SWAP

Back bar: All your back bar stuff.

Front bar: Spam Light Attack,  Rapids and then when done spamming, swap with a Trap…

Repeat!