Feddot Posted October 31, 2015 Posted October 31, 2015 What do you think, is it a good idea to stack alacrity for lethality? Take all augments, maybe some implants too. I want try to reach 10% alacrity. Lethality has a lot of dots and hots, so alacrity must be pretty useful.
Mubrak Posted October 31, 2015 Posted October 31, 2015 (edited) What do you think, is it a good idea to stack alacrity for lethality? Take all augments, maybe some implants too. I want try to reach 10% alacrity. Lethality has a lot of dots and hots, so alacrity must be pretty useful. It won't do anything to your burst phases. Some alacrity will make it easier to squeeze 5 corrosive assaults, shiv and stim boost in your 10s burst window, but 10% will only affect the pause between bursts. With 0% Alacrity toxic blast is off cooldown after 5s, and meanwhile you have to spend 4,5s (3 GCDs) to refresh the dots and use shiv, this leaves you with a 0.5s buffer for stiff fingers and other unforseen things. With 10% alacrity, TB is available after 3.5s but the 3 GCDs are only reduced to 4s, so half of the possible gain depends on you functioning absolutely perfect. 10% alacrity will increase your dps by reducing your pauses between bursts, but only in a perfect rotation. This really only works in PVE. In PVP this advantage is quickly lost when you have to chase them or use a heal or DCD If you want to play Lethality as a hot'n'dot class with fluff damage that is only good for numbers on the leaderboard, though, then by all means, go for it. Edited November 1, 2015 by Mubrak
Feddot Posted October 31, 2015 Author Posted October 31, 2015 I thought, that lethality is pressure spec of OPs, while concealment is burst spec. And i wanted to have 10% alacrity baseline, cause with stim boost up, it will be 20% for 15 sec. I think, 20% is preay godd if i want to kill someone fast. So i can do more pressure with dots and have a little burst window, when needed.
Mubrak Posted October 31, 2015 Posted October 31, 2015 (edited) I thought, that lethality is pressure spec of OPs, while concealment is burst spec. And i wanted to have 10% alacrity baseline, cause with stim boost up, it will be 20% for 15 sec. I think, 20% is preay godd if i want to kill someone fast. So i can do more pressure with dots and have a little burst window, when needed. Just look at the puny damage of the dots, what's the point of making them tickle a bit faster? If you want to kill someone fast, you melt them with a series of fully empowered corrosive assaults. I'm not saying that a bit of alacrity won't help, but going for 10% is a high investment, even if you completely ignore the toxic blast / corrosive assault mechanics, investing a lot of this in crit seems a better choice. Edited October 31, 2015 by Mubrak
-Healius- Posted November 5, 2015 Posted November 5, 2015 Yeh stick to 100% accuracy and either power/crit, its just not worth it imo.
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