Blam Stick on Bard

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Originally Posted by Crede [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bard with epic using all 3 chant dots and meleeing twisting in the 60 slow and ds as well is probably putting out like 100 dps?

tl;dr: I do get close to 100 dps against the Froglok Forager with tuna dagger + epic + bis instruments.

Froglok Forager cycle (I'd like an iksar mask) is one of the only places where I end up meleeing + loading up single target dots.

Forager conveniently seems to always have 6k hp, so a one minute kill time equals 100 dps. The other day before I saw this post I noticed I was often about 60s on most of my kills, but I was getting a jump on the damage by pulling with the 60 slow and the two Tuyen's drum dots, and my parser didn't start the timer until I was meleeing it.

So I pulled in a few today without pre-dotting for some clean tests.

First, melee only to test the Forager's hp:

6034 damage kill in 123 seconds = 49 dps
6027 damage kill in 120 seconds = 50 dps
6074 damage kill in 128 seconds = 47 dps
6047 damage kill in 117 seconds = 52 dps
6007 damage kill in 120 seconds = 50 dps

Yep, Forager has 6k.

Second, my usual Forager twist but I let it get to camp before landing a dot: 60 slow dot then a Tuyens Flame (drum dot) / Tuyens Ice (drum dot) / Denon's Bereavement (lute dot) / Selo's Cords of Cessation (lute dot) / Regen twist, tapping in prime hand instruments right as the songs land:

62second kill = 97 dps (47 of it from melee)

Third, I tried hitting the slow dot then cycling all 6 other dots, tapping in prime hand instruments:

56seconds kill = 105 dps (46 of it from melee)

What about damage shield? I got hit a total of 27 times in the last two parses. My bigger damage shield is 23. Small sample but that puts it in the ballpark of 5 dps, so I think I'm better off dotting here.