Rage dps loadout

Soke_Remy_Gambit · Oct 18, 2018

I havent been on in a while and my loadout doesn't seem to do the damage it used to. Any help with a loadout would be great. And if anyone want to share a tank loadout be awesome to. Melee dps please. I'm a up close and personal fighting person.

Schimaera · Oct 18, 2018

Soke_Remy_Gambit said: ↑

“I havent been on in a while and my loadout doesn't seem to do the damage it used to. Any help with a loadout would be great. And if anyone want to share a tank loadout be awesome to. Melee dps please. I'm a up close and personal fighting person.”

Schimaera said: ↑

“Let's start with tanking: What I previously wrote and what you quoted is still true for me. The only thing I'd do is to max Health frist. If you have enough SP, I would advise to get health and dom to 100 first, then put the rest in health until it's maxed. Don't bother with Crit Innates and only take what you need to get to the plain stats.

Severe Punishment, Eviscerating Chain, Ire, Ragebringer, 2 Slots. I prefer Hard Light Shield + Redirected Rage, since I don't like Remorseless Recovery. Doing pretty good.

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DPS Melee:

This is an interesting topic because there is a certain parting of ways amongst rage players. I try to be as precise as I can be without getting to much into numbers:

Power Interaction

For melee there are two reasonable choices: Violence or Galling Eruption. While Violence has the higher base damage on one target, Galling Eruption has a wider range. On training targets it parses higher because of that. However, Violence is mobile since it applies PI to everything around you for the duration. If you move to other targets, it applies Plasma burn there as well, where Galling Eruption is a stationary AoE field. When things die fast (alert adds, small raid add groups) and on single target, Violence is stronger because of that.

The aggressive defense

No rage melee player should go without Severe Punishment. In DPS role it heals back 50% any incoming damage every other second. Also, it damages enemies nearby you.

Outrage

This is your main damaging ability and should be used on cooldown. It has a tap melee and hold melee combo, you should use both and clip the hold melee combo with the next power.

Other Damaging Abilities

Lacerate: High damage, low power. Interruptable. It has great damage on sparring targets and is great for AoE rotations.

Dreadful Blast: While it is a ranged ability, it is also a heavy hitter and still good on melee.

Revenge: Low cost, decent damage on the combo, imo the strongest for Single Target fights.

Relentless Anger: Supercharge generator. The more aggressive you wanna play, the more you wanna use this abiltiy, since your supercharge is one of the strongest, if not THE strongest Melee Supercharge (Berserk).

Many players use Outrage+Lacerate+Filler (Revenge, Relentless Anger) and in combination with Galling Eruption it parses highest on Sparring Targets. However, in actual content where things die fast and you move from add group to add group, I found that the following setup is the strongest. So far, I've beaten every competitive rage player I came across with it:

Severe Punishment | Violence | Outrage | Revenge | Relentless Anger | Berserk

Outrage (2x combo) and Revenge (1x Combo) line up perfectly and you can use Relentless Anger either on CD (requires you to delay Outrage for half a second since you wanna use Revenge after that, or everytime before SP and Violence come off cooldown. It's a delay of like 1s but not that often.

All of your melee abilities are lunge abilities here which makes you traverse rooms faster; you close the gap between adds faster than almost every other power while still doing damage where others would melee lunge with their weapon to get closer faster. That's why I believe that this loadout is the strongest when you are not on immovable sparring targets.

Berserk is awesome in general. It does great damage on add groups and even greater on Single Target since it does not split. By that I mean that even though your damage dealt is higher on adds, the impact on single targets is stronger considering there are some dps checks in the game. Though use it with caution since it does not do damage by itself but par se, but rather deals damage based on the damage you deal with your other abilities. So in the optimal scenario you use it right after a breakout along with other buffs to abuse your gained immunity to CC effects.

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Ranged rotation:

Power Interaction

Either Galling Eruption (mid range, higher damage) or Plasma Retch (max range, lower damage). Reapply every 12 seconds or when reaching a new add group.

Dreadful Blast

Your bread and butter abilitiy. Max range, two Hold-Range-Combos. Use it on cooldown. This is important since all your other abilities theoretically exceed DB's cooldown duration. The second DB-combo is clipped with one of your other abilities.

Other Damaging abilities - AoE and ST

For AoE encounters, Frentic Bombardment is what you wanna go for. It has a low power cost and does reasonable good damage. Typical spam ability. It has four tap-range-Combos. However, remember that you wanna use Dreadful Blast as soon as it comes off cooldown. That's why you're only want to combo Frentic Bombardment three times and clip the last combo with Dreadful Blast again. That's basically it for AoE

On Single Target you have the choice of (Amplified Heat Vision) and Channel Hate. Both deal good single target damage and can be rotated between Dreadful Blasts. Yet here again, I advise to not use them for the whole duration because DB even in ST situations does amazing damage. That's why you wanna Jump Cancel (a)HV as soon as DB is ready again and Channel Hate is canceleed by range-tapping your weapon when DB is ready and clip your ranged tap with it.

Supercharge

Either Neo Venom Boost (boosts your damage greatly) or Infuriate (boosts the groups Crit damage and crit chance). I usually go with NVB.
Berserk is also possible, but consider that Berserk only triggers in melee range. That means for it's duration you have to be very close to the enemies to make this supercharge work. If you can pull it off, well, Berserk is one of the best Supercharges. If you can't or if it's too risky, go with the aforementioned SCs.

With that being said, you can pretty much sum up your ranged rotation. I usually go either for something like

Plasma Retch | Channel Hate | Dreadful Blast | Frentic Bombardment | Robot SIdekick/Shield | Neo Venom Boost (for a lazy mixed loadout with ST and AOE potential

or replace Frentic Bombardment with amplified Heat Vision for pure single target.

In my eyes the most optimal AoE rotation however would be something like this:

Galling Eruption | Bloodlust | Dreadful Blast | Frentic Bombardment | Robot Sidekick | Neo Venom Boost (AoE)

Galling Eruption | Bloodlist | Channel Hate | Dreadful Blast | Amplified Heatvision | Neo Venom Boost (Single Target)

Which brings me to..............

Mods

Weapon: Blast Adapter

Head: Supercharged Berserk (melee) / Critical Bloodlust (ranged). Bloodlust for ranged since there is no Superchared NVB mod. So I just take the 2% increased Crit Chance. Your loadout isn't as stuffed as other powers' LAs. You have space for Bloodlust :3

Neck: Escalating Might

Back: Berserker

Chest: Core Strength/Penetrating Strikes seem kinda whacky atm. So go with Extended Supercharge. It also helps greatly in Melee rotations since MOAR BERZERK >>>> 2% plain damage increase

Legs: uuuuuuhh...Restorative Revenge? It's pretty useless but why not...

Hands: Max Damage

Feet: I go with Innertial Innervation (speedster) but basically you can use whatever floats your boat

Sooooo that's basically it. That's everything that comes to my mind right now. For the moment, I'm playing with other powersets and my main won't be Rage for a while. I don't think there are huge changes coming to the Powerset anytime soon. If they come, I'm back to Rage in a blink of an eye.

I wrote the whole thing on my way to work. So anyone who finds typos can keep them :3”

Schimaera said: ↑

“Before I forget, let's get to Augments, Artifacts, and stuff like that.

For Augments, four Might ones should be self explanatory. Same goes for the Cybernetic Cores. Might as well.

As Artifacts, I use the pftt DPS standard of Scrap of the Soul Cloak, Tetrahedron of Urgund and Solar Amplifier. The latter for the plain 5% might buff and the Amplified Heatvision (+10% damage). I won't use aHV for the whole duration but the 10% buff does suffice.

If you find yourself playing melee more often than ranged, go for 160 Soul Cloak first (Beeeerrzeeerkkkk). Otherwise go for the Amplifier first (imo). You should get all of them to at least 120 though.

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As a tank Dom Augments and the same for Cyber Cores. As for Artifacts, there aren't any good Tank artifacts, except from the Dilustel Refractor.

Furthermore, the Cog of Mageddon gives 5% health and 3% dom, the Legionnaire's Sparring AI gives 3% Health, 5% dom. Good stats.

The soul cloak is useless for tanks. Only Atomic can utilize it a bit since they have an 8-man-shield as SC.

For both roles, Rank 8 Bottled City Soder is a no brainer. Go for it, it takes less XP to max it than to get to Rank120 on an artifact.”

Schimaera said: ↑

“Weapon: Absorbtion Adapter

Head: Nothing to see here. Move along. Energized Eviscerating Chain? I guess?

Neck: Fortified Assault

Chest: Quick Healing or Hearty (either more healz from healers or 5% Health increase). Quick Healing does not improve your self-heals since they are based on the damage received.

Legs: Duuuuhhh.

Hands: Regenerative Shielding

Feet: Whatever floats your boat.”

ThePhilosophy · Oct 19, 2018

Well there ya go lol

Soke_Remy_Gambit · Oct 20, 2018

That's mate for sure. Helped loads. I'm doing massively more damage then I ever was.

Melusine Midnight · Oct 20, 2018

Wow! Good stuff there. Hey, so is Ire back to working 100% of the time? It was buggy a while back and I gave up on it. I use the same tanking LO aside from using Without Mercy in place of Ire. I never crash though, so I'm not sure if I miss it. If it's working again, I'll try it out though.

Schimaera · Oct 20, 2018

Melusine Midnight said: ↑

“Wow! Good stuff there. Hey, so is Ire back to working 100% of the time? It was buggy a while back and I gave up on it. I use the same tanking LO aside from using Without Mercy in place of Ire. I never crash though, so I'm not sure if I miss it. If it's working again, I'll try it out though.”

Heyo Melusine Midnight, I'm not aware of any Ire Bugs atm. What are/were they? I mainly used it for control immunity and this effect works all the time.

Schimaera · Oct 20, 2018

Soke_Remy_Gambit said: ↑

“That's mate for sure. Helped loads. I'm doing massively more damage then I ever was.”

Glad I could help you

Melusine Midnight · Oct 21, 2018

Schimaera said: ↑

“Heyo Melusine Midnight, I'm not aware of any Ire Bugs atm. What are/were they? I mainly used it for control immunity and this effect works all the time.”

When I was first back in March, it seemed like it worked fine most of the time, but but then maybe 20% it would go onto CD and nothing would happen. No heal, no breakout, no immunity. Glad to hear it's fixed! I may give it a try, thanks

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