Mahael Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 (edited) So I'm one of those guys that always likes to do things my own way. Fully expecting that not everyone will like my play style, I hereby open myself to critique. Here is the build I use, which I call "Thrashless Full Darkness" I run the standard Wither/Shock to 3 stacks for a HD cast. Instead of filling it with Thrash I find in pvp that I have a lot of chances to Maul (and Maul again, and Maul some moar), Assasinate and Discharge. I use the 2 set tank bonus and apply spike to peoples' faces liberally. Along with OCSing, stiming, pulling, taunting, stunning, and overloading I don't find myself filling with SS very often and usually have enough force for whatever comes next (something I felt I was lacking trying to consistently fill with thrash). I usually stay in my tank roll and gaurd things like healers and nodes. In a fight I try to make sure that the discharge debuff, taunt and wither are up on as many as possible. I run in dps gear with a little defense (since I'm itemized to 27% crit 75% surge the rest power). I'm comfortable soloing most people when it's a clean fight and can usually take out 1 1/2 in a 1v2. My dps seems to be on par with other tank/tank-hybrids. Thoughts/Suggestions? Edited January 31, 2013 by Mahael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastWizard Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 So....no proc for shock? No thrash? Yeah....good luck. I run 10-13 specs for my assassin, I'd never use a thrashless darkness. Seems like a waste of time honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahael Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 So....no proc for shock? No thrash? Yeah....good luck. I run 10-13 specs for my assassin, I'd never use a thrashless darkness. Seems like a waste of time honestly. It's true, I only proc off of Assasinates. But what use is an auto-crit shock when your out of force? And if you only thrash once in a while (rather than twice every cycle which is nearly force-exaustive in 31/0/10) then you only get the proc once in a great while... not a huge sacrifice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastWizard Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 It procs more than that. At least for me. You'd be better running 31/3/7. Recklessness with shock is crazy. If you don't mix the 2 you're losing plenty of dps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyanzes Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 (edited) It's true, I only proc off of Assasinates. But what use is an auto-crit shock when your out of force? I like to use the PVE gear set bonus granting +50 power. Works wonders IMHO. You can still have 1200+ expertise. Or you can grind off-hand to fill the shells and have max expertise. I use it for deception so I have 160 force in total. You could still have 150 though. Edited February 5, 2013 by Kyanzes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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