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Originally Posted by Ennewi
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Piercing is the one exception, but then the best knight weapons are 2hs.
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The best are better but the best 2hs aren’t much better than the best piercing.
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That’s why my paladin alt uses. His dps (for a knight) is absolutely nuts. Bonus fries abound when hunting undead. 725 nearly unresistable dmg (20dps) and with its duration and decent dexterity - it’s got a lot of uptime. Delay is in a sweet spot for dmg bonuses and it’s slow enough to get most casts off between swings.
There are only 5 other weapons in game with as good or better ratio. The only 3 I would consider using are rocksmasher (looks cool, 41% haste, and hp), tunare sword, and vulak axe.
Also consider that the casual knight’s BotB is Narandi lance and paladins get that sweet 225 skill cap vs 210 for sk.
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You can also include Banshee Aura in any situation where the SK is not grouping with a class that has a better damage shield to cast on them.
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Dmg shields are always nice but this assumes nobody else has a better DS to cast on you, you don’t want to use a DS potion when another DS isn’t an option, and that the mobs are unslowed.
That’s a lot of assumptions.
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Shroud of Death/Undeath is also giving you a bit of extra DPS, it procs for 50 damage each time.
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A handy proc indeed but don’t conflate the dmg output it does. Buff procs fire about 2x a minute regardless of dexterity - so that’s 1.66 dps. Fairly confident level 60 Yaulp buff will net you greater returns than that on white damage alone.
So yeah - Knight dps is fairly identical. The difference is really only the pet, and only if the pet is summoned, and only to the extent to which that the pet is buffed.
How often have we SKs summon their pets? Pretty rarely.