STR First choice

Well its a dmg boost not much to say there, along with the Stamina regen is nice addition

CON

CON
All Character’s HP Base is 23,540.4 (Sharp)

CON works based off your Character’s HP Base 23,540.4, doesn’t work off MHP with gear ect and it’s not relative increase.

Formula
HP increased
(23,540.4 / 100 ) • %
DI Increase
1% per point of CON

*Example

(23,540.4 / 100) • 12
235.404 • 12 = 2,824.848
Then take your answer n’ add it to the base. ^-^

10 CON | 0% HP | 23,540.4
11 CON | 2% HP | 24,011.208
12 CON | 4% HP | 24,482.016
13 CON | 6% HP | 24,952.824
14 CON | 8% HP | 25,423.632
15 CON | 10% HP | 25,894.44
16 CON | 12% HP | 26,365.248
17 CON | 14% HP | 26,836.056
18 CON | 16% HP | 27,306.864
19 CON | 18% HP | 27,777.672
20 CON | 20% HP | 28,248.48

10 CON | 0% DI |
11 CON | 1% DI |
12 CON | 2% DI |
13 CON | 3% DI |
14 CON | 4% DI |
15 CON | 5% DI |
16 CON | 6% DI |
17 CON | 7% DI |
18 CON | 8% DI |
19 CON | 9% DI |
20 CON | 10% DI |

*Effected by Constitution Focus Feat.

DEX

All Character’s Critical Base is 5%.

For each point spent in DEX is 1% Crit chance, and 399.775 Critical Strike is 1%.

Okay so your a new level 70, or a progressing campaign character, then it’s rather simple Primal gear from 12B is now sold in the Seal Merchant For Seals of the Brave which replaced the old “common” seal, Seal of the Protector, so doing Non-Leveling Dungeon Content you’ll be rewarded the seals for the gear.
You can use that till you get your hands on the Omu/Ravenloft gear. ^-^ That should get cha through till then.

This gear shouldn’t necessarily be used forever, more or less a buffer between the BiS n’ Non BiS.

What it is:

First of all you’ll find the Overload Slots on your Head, Arms, as well as some Companion gear, but I wouldn’t recommended the old pre-M14 IG +5 Companion gear, hence the reason those are excluded from this.Overall they are something to further increase your effectiveness, but are not mandatory and can get quite repetitive to re-stock.

Where to get them:

Depends on which you are using at the time, most of the ones you’ll be slotting and switching between often will be the Slayer Marks, which can be found within your Stronghold, at the merchant to the right of the entrance to the Guilds Hall. While others such as the Dragon or BlackIce, that you may use when you’re in lower tier content, or have no need to slot another enchantment you may find on the AH, or within certain content such as KR, Elol,Tiamat, or EsoT.
https://giphy.com/gifs/gwf-slayermarks-QmEWa3Im5OLnetd4t9
(PH transferring n’ tweaking my old info.)

Not ground breaking by any means, granting a tiny bit more Critical Strike and a decent boost in defense compared to its combatant, and its bonus is only good for those that use Savage Advance since Slam doesn’t do all that much dmg, and may not actually get the bonus, if it’s like Fear Bringers Daily effect on slam.

Not a bad bonus, won’t make or break you’re character, why we use it over some others is the stats are fairly beneficial for us, gaining some power back from Steely Defense, and the extra bit of Lifesteal.

Alternate options

• Shirt of the Chultan Merchant
• Berserker´s Gemmed Exquisite Elemental Chainmail
• Everfrost Tunic
• Drowcraft Tunic
• Soldier’s Gemmed Exquisite Elemental Chainmail

The Bonus is fairly eh, but still is a minor stat increase compared to Pants of the Chultan Merchant, both suffering from the lack of up-time on the bonus, yet any increase to movement is alright since it’ll keep ya alive in certain situations, recommended to every GwF as long as you don´t need other stats that other gear may provide.

Alternate Options

• Pants of the Chultan Merchant
• Berserker´s Gemmed Exquisite Elemental Chausses
• Everfrost Tights
• Drowcraft Undercoat
• Soldier’s Gemmed Exquisite Elemental Chausses

Just to give you a little more Everfrost Resistance, since no other Armor Kit can be slotted of your shirt n’ pants, just in case you ever have to run FBI, or Everfrost ridden content.

The bonus will practically always be active in groups, as well as normal content with exception to very slow attacking enemies, will lose to the MW III set in M15. There’s really no reason to use any of the prior sets go immediately for the Primal.

BiS in M15, the Weapon Damage really helps, along with the bonus from you and other players this’ll be ahead even if you were getting 8% from allies and not using the set yourself, you’d be losing out if you were using anything else. This set should be used by everyone in this pointless mod. ^-^

Single Target

Sure Strike

AoE/Campaign

Weapon Master’s Strike

If you’re going with a singular Off-hand then go with Destroyer since it’ll benefit both, mainly wanting it to benefit AoE since ST doesn’t need much movement speed, while for Campaign/speed build can fall under both, depending on your taste of powers.

Single Target

Wrathful Determination

AoE

Destroyer

• Combat Advantage Damage (390-400)

Not much has changed in this department still using the same set as always… It’s for bosses due to the differing HP pools vs Adds where ya wouldn’t really benefit from it, not that it’s really needed.

Set Bonus

In most cases there really isn’t such of a reason to make a AoE set, but if ya just like to run with questionable groups you can grab this just remember it is a debuff so it’s being diminished.

Set Bonus

Either the Grade II or III will work, II will be a lot cheaper overall, this set serves its purpose for Campaign use/AoE speed running. ^-^

Set Bonus

For those on a budget, or just don’t have there hands on the Demo set go with this old Thing, slowly getting better as our Weapon Damage raises. c:

Set Bonus

Either works just pick the cheaper one. cx They won’t make much of a difference.

For those still trying to catch up, use any of the following. Lower Grade Rings at the top and the better ones near the bottom. c: These rings are just primarily for the stats, and that they are easy to get your hands on.

• Primal Restoration Ring
• Primal Raid Ring

Beaded n’ Bronzewood rings will be a ring that could be be in your Arsenal for quite a bit, but at this stage it’s more for that crowd that pays their way into Power, their decent rings, but their bonuses don’t work on comps, and can’t beat % based rings. ^-^ Good for da stats.

Can easily be obtained early on from the Barovia Campaign, and is equivalent to the Undead +5, so you won’t have to farm it. c:

Remember the same grade doesn’t stack so +4/5 -w• 

This’ll be the ideal choice for the front page due to the Bonus, along with the wonderful stats included, only exception would be to switch out for a Dmg % ring against a Type of enemy such as Undead.

Not the best on the front page due to its eh bonus, though the stats are quite nice to play with, though the Bonus effect does work on comps.

If ya lack both Shadowstalkers, taking on one of these isn’t a bad idea, though the stats don’t help as much, compared to others, though it’s bonus is a nice compromise.

I don’t recommend this ring in most cases due to the chance you’ll just end up replacing it on the front page, but if RNG doesn’t treat you well then sure go for it. :3 Unlike with the backpage where the same case applies, but at least this has the stats you’d want, plus they got a lil’ boost with M15.

These are rings that’ll be ideal for certain dungeons/Skirmishes/Raids, with the rings mentioned under the contents name..

Tomb of the Nine Gods

In most cases this’ll be the ideal choice over the Yuan-Ti but neither of these two rings are needed at all, but this is a Damage increase against undead, even though their differing items the 5% bonuses don’t work together.

This is for those wanting to maximize the use out of their Campaign load-out efficiency and get this done as long as they can sacrifice a lil´ dmg.

Simply for the purpose of speed, acts like you have an additional dark slotted. :3

Allows you to gain an additional utility slot for even more increased movement with the use of a Dark, but if you don’t want to bother just use the Battledancer rings.

ST

The best ST artifact, effected by buffs unlike WoE, and shines in boss fights/Elite mobs in groups of Adds. Yet isn’t needed in campaign zones.

Pre-BiS AoE

As long as you grab the fire this is a great Artifact for AoE, yet most beneficial in content with lots of Adds, n’ not really any elite mobs.(straight in front of you when casted, maybe hard to get off sometimes since group mates can deny you from getting the fire with their own wheel, or taking it before you, mind you sharp turns may mess up where the wheel casts the elements, but it would be ideal to have a wheel buff slave instead.

BiS AoE

It takes advantage of all the GWF’s Damage unlike the Wheel of Elements.

Campaign/Speed build

For the sheer purpose of Speed this artifact would be your go to choice either it be a speed build in a AoE situation in a dungeon(since someone else can throw down wheels wind for you) n’ you likely dont need the dmg, or just running around in a campaign zone. :3

Pre-BiS

Lostmauth’s Horn of Blasting

Not a amazing Set/artifact by any means, but it’s the best one to grab prior to the Demo Set, so this’ll be your Artifact.

BiS ST

Shard of Orcus’ Wand

Ideal Set for us, hasn’t changed in quite a while and still the best one when it comes to the damage dished out to bosses, plus it provides Movement for Campaign Load out.

BiS AoE

Apocalypse Dagger

If ya care to maximize or help aid lesser groups a bit more then you can take up this set to help in the case of Adds.

ST/AoE

Starter

Lantern of Revelation

The first Artifact you’ll get ya hands on, useful up to the point you don´t need that much Armor Per. (When you get to the Mid range content, and your comp has you Covered), then Look into replacing it. ^-^

Pre-BiS

Heart of the Blue Dragon

A decent upgrade from the Lantern, since the recovery it turned into power, due to da Feat.

BiS

Eye of the Gaint

A quite interesting artifact due to its Large amount of Stats given With HP benefiting towards AoC, Power directly towards Dmg, Crit n’ Armor Pen for help towards our Caps(plus power increase, due to Armor Pen), and Defense turning into more Power due to our Feat. ^~^ Overall a nice Artifact. In the case that you’re running this for the Campaign load-out switch this back to Wheel of Elements.

Campaign/Speed

Aurora’s Whole Realms Catalogue

Generally wanted for the Movement, but the bonus Gold Gain is also quite nice.

ST/AoE

Pre-BiS

Sigil of the Controller

Decent artifact to start with since it’s free. ^~^ Plus the stats are decent with the exception to Control Bonus.

BiS M14

Fragmented Key of Stars

While losing out on a bit of Critical, you’ll gain Armor Pen which is a lot more beneficial in our build, not much else to be said.

BiS M15

Waukeen’s Horde

You know my stance on Stats, Armor Pen first, Crit second, Power third, perfect artifact for the stats. ^-^

Campaign/Speed

Decanter of Atropal

Grants you both Movement and Armor Penetration to keep your self capped at the general Armor pen cap. Don’t worry about the Critical Strike Loss its just Campaign… cx

All the following can be replace some of the starting artifacts listed above, but the BiS ones are still those above.

ST/AoE

Kessell’s Sphere of Annihilation

Sigil of the Great Weapon

Thyan Book of the Dead

Campaign/Speed

Tacticians Banner

Symbol of Air

Siege Master’s War Horn

Heroic Feats

Column 1

Unstoppable Action

You need to spend atleast 1 extra Feat points in the first two columns.

Between Unstoppable Action/Fast Runner/Armor Specialization these choices are the less desirable feats with not really any noticeable effects, or out right broken. Out of the three this one’s the best yet as I said it doesn’t make much of a difference even if for some reason you did 5/5 you wouldn’t notice much AP gain difference since you earn a lot of AP naturally.
ST/AoE
For the purpose of Bosses and Most cases for AoE this would be where the point would be spent, since unless you run with a great group in AoE you may need the extra damage, if not see Fast Runner or Campaign/Speed loadout.

Disciple of Strength

Disciple of Strength Formula
[1+(2/4/6*(1+(STR-10)*0.01))*0.01*(1+(STR-10)*0.01)]
(Sharp made it a bit more complicated. cx )

Example*
[1+(6*(1+(30-10)*0.01))*0.01*(1+(30-10)*0.01)]
1.0864% Dmg Increase

STR provides 1% Increase DMG naturally, of coarse with Diminishing, as shown below.
(Janne’s~)
Simply put with 28 STR the feat provides 1.02/1.05/1.08 per STR, very slightly increases with more STR, but not enough to change the Increase as it diminishes naturally.
ST/AoE/Campaign
Pretty much required for all loadouts wonderful feat that will always benefit us.

Toughness

Toughness Formula
MHP/(1-0.03/0.06/0.09)
Examples*

150,001 MHP divided by(1-0.09)
164,837 MHP (Granting 14,837)

This feat grants more HP than you’d expect per rank.
ST/AoE
If a Pally is present running AoC then it’s a must, practically every run at End-Game there’s a pally so this shouldn’t leave those Loadouts. In the case of lower tiers I’d recommend still keeping it on for survivability.
Campaign
Depends, if you’re with a pally friend sure due to AoC though if you’re alone then it can still go both ways if you’re too squishy and need the HP then go ahead, but if you’re fine without it the more often Primal Weapon set Bonus has a chance to proc, compared to other feats you can justify switching this one.

Column 2

Fast Runner

https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter/#/discussion/comment/13043049

ST
Doesn’t really serve any purpose to help ST since you don’t need any faster movement in a boss fight.
AoE/Campaign
If you don’t mind a drop in damage n’ just wanna get to places faster it’s wonderful for Campaigns, as for AoE same case revolving around damage, if you can suffice a lil’ damage with your group then it’s a why not case. -w- Used in Campaign/Speed Loadout.

Endless Assault

Falls under Feat buffs
(Janne’s pic Edited n’ Sharp’s “leveling WD”~ )
Endless Assault formula
*relative increase, per rank Of the 3 ranks.
Rank 1 Orginal dmg (1-0.02)
Rank 2 New dmg (1-0.02)
Rank 3 New dmg (1-0.02)

If ya wanna test it:
Leveling WD GWF 173.309784
Test weapon WD 100
Power your using for example IBS 3.51 at R4
Endless Assault formula
STR

All Content
Pretty much a manditory feat there’s literally no reason not to take this, benefiting IBS and HD, along with all the other damage encounters. ^-^

Armor Specialization

https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter/#/discussion/1230450/armor-specialization

3/3 Armor Specialization is -6.76% at 16k Def
2/3
-4.51% at 16k Def
1/3
-2.25% at 16k Def

(Most have around 6k Def)
So if ya did 3/3 AS it’d give you around -5.7% DT-ish.

*Non-Visual on stat sheet.
Not touching this one when it comes to explaining it in detail. Just hope it works the same between GF/Gwf. No one would want to double check this, either way there’s better feats to pick.
Column 3

Steely Defense

Steely Defense Formula
Defense/100(4/8/12/16/20)
Examples*

6,000 Defense divided by 100 = 60
60 times 20 = 1,200 Power. (Roughly a GWF’s Defense)
14,000 Defense divided by 100 = 140
140 times 20 = 2,800 Power. (Defense Boon)

It’s affected by all sources of Defense such as Shepard’s/Protector’s/Cavalry’s/Comp Legendary Bonus/Bonding Defense Sharing

All Content
Pretty much a must have, while it doesn’t scale that great the more defense you have it’s still a Dmg increase.

Constitution Focus

For each point of CON CR increases CON Base HP effect increase by (.1(23.5404HP)/.2(47.0808HP)/.3%(70.6212HP)) and DI increase by (.05/.10/.15). See Attribute class effects within Attributes If you wish to see base gain.

Base CON / HP % / Base HP
10 CON | 0.0% HP | 23,540.400(0.0%)

%Gain each point of CON from CR
11 CON | 0.3% HP | 24,057.560(2.3%)
12 CON | 0.6% HP | 24,621.802(4.6%)
13 CON | 0.9% HP | 25,162.503(6.9%)
14 CON | 1.2% HP | 25,702.840(9.2%)
15 CON | 1.5% HP | 26,243.542(11.5%)
16 CON | 1.8% HP | 26,784.243(13.8%)
17 CON | 2.1% HP | 27,324.580(16.1%)
18 CON | 2.4% HP | 27,865.281(18.4%)
19 CON | 2.7% HP | 28,405.982(20.7%)
20 CON | 3.0% HP | 28,954.692(23%)

Base CON/DI %
10 CON | 0.0% DI |

%Gain each point of CON from CR
11 CON | 0.15% DI | 1.15%
12 CON | 0.30% DI | 2.3 %
13 CON | 0.45% DI | 3.45%
14 CON | 0.60% DI | 4.6 %
15 CON | 0.75% DI | 5.75%
16 CON | 0.90% DI | 6.9 %
17 CON | 1.05% DI | 8.05%
18 CON | 1.20% DI | 9.2 %
19 CON | 1.35% DI | 10.35%
20 CON | 1.50% DI | 11.5 %

If you run my Attribute Setup (18 CON), you’d gain 564.969 HP and 1.2% DI.
All Content
A fairly poor feat due to how CON works since it’s based on literal Base HP and not MHP and it doesn’t grant much DI, in our current content there’s not much of a reason to use it, though with M14 were getting a lot of Extra Crit, yet not enough to the point were you’d switch out points from Weapon Mastery.

Grit

Column 4

Weapon Mastery

Pretty basic it increases your Crit Chance by 1/2/3% covering 399.775/799.55/1,199.325 Critical Strike, yet most can only take 2/3 for two reasons. One, most are Half-Orc or the Greasy expensive Lizard since they’re ideal for what they provide and don’t have any extra heroic points to spend, yet Human still will be acknowledged. Due to the additional Heroic feat points(3x) it could pick up 3/3 of this feat yet still will have 1% less Crit Chance and see Unstoppable Recovery or Constitution Focus for the extra 2 points, nothing else will benefit ya much more. Secondly there’s nothing worth dropping for 1% extra Crit Chance, for the Half Orc, nor anymore for theGreasy pants.

All Content
In most cases you’ll keep this feat, though if there isn’t any big change to stats coming up in M15 then we’ll likely start needing less and less Critical Strike, as seen already with M14, but it’d be a last case Scenario, so keep it as is, if that ever does occur switch to Constitution Focus.

Devastating Critical

Ubiquitous Shield

Instigator Feats

Column 1

Student of the Sword

Fleet Footed

Column 2

Vicious Advantage

Stunning Florish

Reinforced Surge

Coulmn 3

Warrior’s Rush

Flanking Maneuvers

Column 4

Nimble Runner

Allied Opportunity

Column 5

Group Assault

Crippling Strike

Capstone

Instigator’s Vengeance

Destroyer Feats

Column 1

Great Weapon Focus

Deep Gash

Column 2

Disciple of War

Staying Power

Improved Reaction

Column 3

Mighty Blade

Unfettered Strikes

Column 4

Executioner’s Style

Relentless Battle Fury

Column 5

Focused Destroyer

Battle Awareness

Capstone

Destroyers Purpose

Sentinel Feats

Column 1

Unstoppable Recovery

Scale Agility

Column 2

Powerful Challenge

Grim Promise

Battle Trample

Column 3

Living Wall

Countless Scars

Column 4

Grudge Style

Intimidation

Column 5

Master at Arms

Defiance

Capstone

Sentinel’s Aegis

Old info *
Constitution Focus – This Feat won’t be used in most cases, it’s simply a min/max feat. If you get to the point of next to everything being maxed out and no where to drop the extra Critical you have for other useful stats than I’d suggest this over Weapon Master.

Weapon Mastery – This Feat is typically used in any build simply due to it providing Critical Chance, yet can become obsolete in the future if they don’t increase caps.

Disciple of War – Grants a decent amount of Power depending on your Armor Penetration n’ Recovery, nothing spectacular. Understandably dropped for Mighty Blade if there’s more than one enemy present. ^.^

Mighty Blade – Since the re-work to a useless feat made wonderful for AoE purposes, rarely ST in most cases this’ll be a ideal feat for most content, once again if there’s more than one enemy.

Staying Power – If you’re running the IV variant this feat wouldn’t be an option so you’d likely use Disciple of War, and Mighty Blade.

Unfettered Strikes – For the purpose of campaigns, you’d drop Disciple of War for this, just due to the increased movement speed, since this boost in dmg is quite minor and not needed.

Relentless Battle Fury – Very situational it´s good for the CDR of BF, and increased Duration of BF, yet could be made obsolete with group CDR effects, yet allows you to dish out a bit more powers (Typically At-wills) during before re-casting. Can be preferred over the other option due to that reason.

Battle Awareness – Depends on your style of play, take advantage of Slam, Battle Awareness while the CDR effect of SA can be negated by Artificers Persuasion/Influence if used together, not including the group CDR effects.

Both are fairly similar in Dmg output, Slam can pull ahead if it’s a fairly short fight while BF extension pulls ahead the longer it gets.

Slam ST Build

Pro – Increased Power, on Base Power. (15% to 3% Dmg increase, decreases as your power increases from buffs.)
Pro – If your one hit K.O’ing with IBS with minor SS.
Pro – Slam has a very short cast.
Con – Casting BF more often.
Con – Personal Buff Window is smaller.
Con – Only Slam’s Initial hit can trigger Destroyer.
Con – Have to keep casting slam.

BF ST Build

Pro – Prolongs BF to extend dmg Output before having to recast, granting you more lenience on your groups CDR.
Pro – Granting you more lenience with your Dmg output n’ keeping all buffs active longer since BF would be the first to run out.
Con – Only Increases duration, not a direct dmg increase so it can technically be beaten by BA in rare instances.

For End-game AoE(You can typically stick with you ST variant), this load-out really won’t alter in anyway throughout your play I’d recommend this, but you can use either personally I’d take RBF due to the faster Battle Fury to get throughout the dungeon faster.

Sole purpose is for speed, knocks down our dmg but if you don’t need it then this is a better approach to getting things done.

If you’re in a group lacking a GF, this is for bosses ST for marking purposes and Dealing the best dmg, if there’s a lack of Adds in the Boss fight. Same case applies as Load-out 1 with BA n’ RBA so read Load-out 1.

Go here and view any of the powers you’re curious about, I finished updating all their notes on Jan 31st, removed the images here since a few of em were quite outdated n’ it’s easier for me to reference you there for now. c:

Great Weapon Fighter Wiki

At-Wills: SS / WMS
Encounters: BF / HD / IBS
Daily: Slam / Crescendo
Passives: Destroyer / (WD/Bravery)

At-Wills: SS /  (TR/WMS)
Encounters: BF / HD / (IBS/DS)
Daily: Slam / Crescendo
Passives: Destroyer / WD

AoE Self Buffs – Don’t use em on easy/far apart Adds if there’s a stronger larger group just around the corner, use em wisely.

Soul Sight Crystal – Technically BiS in both situations of ST/AoE since elite adds are typically last one to die while others get vaporized in a hit or two.

Wheel of Elements – Not ideal for you to use the wheel yourself, it’s best if a support provides the Fire Buff for you for Bosses, AoE not typically needed with a good group.

RBF – Build around Relentless Battle Fury.

SM Slam(GF Marking)

(Add GiF)

SM Crescendo(GF Marking)

(Add Gif)

AoE (GF Marking)

Discontinued for now since AoE and campaign loadouts is fairly useless now a days.

These play-styles is if you’re group is lacking a GF/2nd weaker gwf, though IV lacks AoE, so if you’re group can’t kill a boss quickly and adds are present consider to go with the SM variant with your preferred daily to cover the AoE with WMS,or if you prefer not having to switch loadouts.

IV Slam

Once a boss fight is commenced wait for Pally to take aggro. •^• While going (left/right/center) coordinated with your group so your not in the way of the tank and open for the buffers to buff, Start with Slam, the initial tick can grant a Destroyer stack, not any further ticks though, as well as granting Shepherds Devotion to you and your group make sure to animation cancel out of it. Moving into Threatening Rush on the boss for the Mark and Debuff along with chance at a Destroyer stack, animation canceling it once the target is hit. Next set off your (Tenser’s/Trex buff/Swarm) to buff up and grant Cavalry’s Warning n’ lead into BF animation cancel, and use HD for the buff giving you another chance of gaining a Destroyer stack and animation cancel again. Cast Soul Sight Crystal for the buff as well as Artificers, make sure to animation cancel and trigger your (Full)Determination once again animation cancel n’ IBS immediately, followed up with either (SS/IBS) depends on your groups CDR you may cast multiple IBS’s(1-3 times), throughout your Determination this’ll grant Destroyer stacks and Destroyer Purpose stacks just remember most of your buffs will run out just as your determination is pretty much finished. Rinse n’ Repeat if the boss isn’t dead.

IV Crescendo

Once a boss fight is commenced wait for Pally to take aggro. •^• While going (left/right/center) coordinated with your group so your not in the way of the tank and open for the buffers to buff, Start with Crescendo, all the hits can grant Destroyer stacks through Focused Destroyer giving you 4 chances, you want to animation cancel out of the final hit, as well as granting Shepherds Devotion to you and your group. Moving into Threatening Rush on the boss for the Mark and Debuff along with chance at a Destroyer stack, animation canceling it once the target is hit. Next set off your (Tenser’s/Trex buff/Swarm) to buff up and grant Cavalry’s Warning n’ lead into BF animation cancel, and use HD for the buff giving you another chance of gaining a Destroyer stack and animation cancel again. Cast Soul Sight Crystal for the buff as well as Artificers, make sure to animation cancel and trigger your (Full)Determination once again animation cancel n’ IBS immediately, followed up with either (SS/IBS) depends on your groups CDR you may cast multiple IBS’s(1-3 times), throughout your Determination this’ll grant Destroyer stacks and Destroyer Purpose stacks just remember most of your buffs will run out just as your determination is pretty much finished. Rinse n’ Repeat if the boss isn’t dead.

SM Slam

Once a boss fight is commenced wait for Pally to take aggro. •^• While going (left/right/center) coordinated with your group so your not in the way of the tank and open for the buffers to buff, Start with Slam, the initial tick can grant a Destroyer stack, not any further ticks though, as well as granting Shepherds Devotion to you and your group make sure to animation cancel out of it. Move into Daring Shout for the mark along with the chance the Dmg Res buff to grant a Destroyer stack if 3 enemies are hit. Next set off your (Tenser’s/Trex buff/Swarm) to buff up and grant Cavalry’s Warning n’ quickly follow with WMS to apply the debuffs, also giving you another chance to gain a Destroyer stack on the initial hit, of coarse animation cancel n’ lead into BF animation cancel, and use HD for the buff giving you another chance of gaining a Destroyer stack and animation cancel again. Cast Soul Sight Crystal for the buff as well as Artificers, make sure to animation cancel and trigger your (Full)Determination once again animation cancel n’ use Sure Strike, throughout your Determination this’ll grant Destroyer stacks and Destroyer Purpose stacks just remember most of your buffs will run out just as your determination is pretty much finished. Rinse n’ Repeat if the boss isn’t dead.

SM Crescendo

Once a boss fight is commenced wait for Pally to take aggro. •^• While going (left/right/center) coordinated with your group so your not in the way of the tank and open for the buffers to buff, Start with Crescendo, all the hits can grant Destroyer stacks through Focused Destroyer giving you 4 chances, you want to animation cancel out of the final hit, as well as granting Shepherds Devotion to you and your group. Move into Daring Shout for the mark along with the chance the Dmg Res buff to grant a Destroyer stack if 3 enemies are hit. Next set off your (Tenser’s/Trex buff/Swarm) to buff up and grant Cavalry’s Warning n’ quickly follow with WMS to apply the debuffs, also giving you another chance to gain a Destroyer stack on the initial hit, of coarse animation cancel n’ lead into BF animation cancel, and use HD for the buff giving you another chance of gaining a Destroyer stack and animation cancel again. Cast Soul Sight Crystal for the buff as well as Artificers, make sure to animation cancel and trigger your (Full)Determination once again animation cancel n’ use Sure Strike, throughout your Determination this’ll grant Destroyer stacks and Destroyer Purpose stacks just remember most of your buffs will run out just as your determination is pretty much finished. Rinse n’ Repeat if the boss isn’t dead.

• A good portion of your stats come from your Companion, primary being Power (When you reach R14 your power should be around 10k) with Critical as your secondary with Armor Penetration as your third.

Pretty much should never leave ya tray of comps, since the bonus is up all the time the second you deal any damage to a enemy, plus gains bonus for each additional Archon.

For End-game Groups most of the time, though if you can keep your HP full with Boons n’ Lifesteal in PuG’s it’ll be a viable option all round.

Around a 8% Damage increase, varies heavily but that’s at roughly full CS/CA effectiveness, it’ll replace the lowest Dmg increasing Comp you were using in its place prior to M14

As long as someone is marking it compliments every playstyle we have, along with its consistent Dmg Buff.

Fire Archon

Non-Consistent Dmg Companion that provides 7% naturally, but also granted an extra 1% to its bonus since you should be using Earth and Air Archons as well as granting .5% more towards those two Archons. It’s personal preference when it comes whether or not you want to use it in the end it’ll be 8% half-time and 1% consistent.

Siege Master

The below companions depend on the amount of Critical Severity/Combat Advantage you already have, in most cases you’ll have the Critical Severity already making these below companions useless. Simply add up your total CA and CS and if it’s past 100% then the additional 10% from CS companions will start to deal less than 5% Damage Increase, causing other Companions to become better options like the ones used above this section. Seek Critical Strike section within Stats for further information.

Erinyes of Belial

Cambion Magus

May also equipped Area specific Companions such as the ones below, or other options to getting the better comps.

• Mage Slayer– “Doubles drop rate of Portal Stones in the River District. Increase damage against the Cloaked Ascendancy’s minions by 10%”
• Yeth Hound-“+5% damage versus Gyrion’s minions.”
• Lava Galeb Duhr-“+5% damage versus Nostura’s minions.”
• Blue Fire Eye-“+5% damage versus Kabal’s minions.”
• Repentant Dragon Cultist-“+2/3/4% Damage (additional 1% against dragons) against targets at greater then 50%.”
• Tamed Velociraptor
  
• Alpha Compy

• Azure(Def)
• Brutal(Def/HP)
• Radiant(HP)
• Draconic(HP/Def/LS)
• Savage(HP/LS)
• Dark(LS) 

• Azures, since it’s defense we benefit from it in having more power overall, yet a very minor increase in damage in the end, as we do from Recovery and Armor Penetration, and isn’t as situational as other options would be.

• Radiants, granting you the greatest amount of HP, for Aura of Courage granting you a bit more dmg vs full on defensive, provided you have a pally running the AoC. ^.^
• Savage, a nice choice compared to Radiants, allowing ya to gain a bit more Life Steal and Hit points, For those that feel they need more life-steal. c:

• Fey Blessings(RP)
• Quartermaster’s(RP)
• Dragon Hoards(RP)
• Darks(Movement)
• Azure’s(Exp)

These are the following Weapon Enchantments that are viable in their respected situation, so heed the text below each one.

In most cases you’re going to outright ignore this Enchantment, since it does effectively ruin your damage output, with one exception to IBS spamming (not literally spamming the button) causing it technically being BiS, but you’re better off with Fey in most situations. So if you’re BiS n’ running in the best of the best groups try it out. -w•

For quick boss fights. The boss fight must last no longer than 15 seconds for this to really be worth the AD to use it, though it’s out-shined in most groups due to Fey or Dread, barely ahead of Lightning in ST, primarily benefiting SS.

Poor player’s Holy Avenger, since it does everything Holy does without the extra dmg bonus, other than that rock it if your group doesn’t have one due to buffs. ^-^

All Armor enchantments are pretty eh in PvE they won´t make or break your character, yet they all serve some purpose.

A wonderful combat power we’ve had for a long time, first off the 10% power is always nice (roughly 4-5k power). As for the movement it’s nice to have, but not necessarily needed.The +2 STR/DEX/CON/AC providing nice additional amount of stats, allowing it to push ahead of the Trex Combat Power for personal DPS/Main DPS.

Wonderful addition to our Combat Powers, this is more targeted towards Support/Low-end DPS, though if you’re group dishes out decent DPS then it’ll serve its purpose for you n’ them.

Apparatus of Gond
Guard Drake
Heavy Giant Spider
Heavy Twilight Nightmare
Purple Owlbear
Whirlwind

Arcane Whirlwind
Black Ice Warhorse

White Owlbear
Leopard of the Chult
Fungal Flail Snail
Apparatus of Kwalish
Enchanted Courser

Tenser’s Floating Disk

Your Ideal choice is 4k Power, though take the 4k Recovery if you only have the 2k Power due to feats, remember more Recovery more power. Unless it’s between 2k Power vs 2k Recovery, then it’s more beneficial to take 2k Power.

Offensive

Nothing beats Power. ^.^ The only time you should take Armor Penetration is if your characters new n’ has practically no Armor Penetration. ^-^

Defensive

(AoC)With AoC the best pick is Hit Points. while Defense is better for the lack of AoC, and for solo purposes. Lifesteal is good for soloing harder content that doesn’t one-shot ya. ^-^
(No AoC) If you trust the group enough whether it’s a group made or PuG then go with Defense just for the additional Power transferred. But if ya don’t trust people or don’t already have a decent amount of Health restoring meathods then go with Life-Steal.
(Campaign) Personally my choice is Life-steal since most cases the enemies are fast attacking and it’ll just help keep you capped over in HP for the Earth Archon Dmg buff.

Utilities

(AoE/Campaign) Simply Mount Speed since you can use you’re mount to get around, yet running is faster in some cases.
(ST/Bosses) Revive Sickness is ideal for those situations when bosses sneak in a hit on ya, between your teams buffs. ^.^ Plus you don’t need to ride your Mount in a boss fight.

Simple choice Power is greater than Defense. c:
Critical Strike is the only thing worth PvE wise.

(AoC)For Damage purposes HP would be best due to AoC Pally.
(No AoC/Campaign)No reason to increase HP, if no Pally is present, so Action Points Gain would be preferred.
First off personally I’d go with HP simply because the damage is so tiny in most cases, and the healing can help keep you topped off for the Earth Archon, and other cases saving your life, though if you can get to a point in a End-game group your load-outs for those groups can use the damage boons, yet they still won’t make next to any difference.

(ST) Elven Resolve, can be made worthless due to BF, but so could EF since the sheer lack of Mobs.
(AoE/Campaign) Elvish Fury, since the sheer abundance of Mobs between bosses, n’ within Campaign zones.

In most cases this’ll be Power due to the very small Dmg increase, but in certain cases you may go for Critical Strike for the purpose of Min/Maxing, if ya lacking a bit.

(ST/AoE) Evoker’s Thirst simply due to the fact that you’re not focusing on Life-steal like Campaign.
(Campaign) Either can technically work, but I’d go with Illusory Regeneration Simply because I run with Life-Steal Boon from the Guild Boons and don’t really need the extra Life-steal, but I could understand the appeal.
Helps you reach Resistance Ignored cap for the content you’re in.
Both don’t do quite much due to the 80 sec Internal cool down, Enraged Regrowth Is another thing that can help save you n’ keep you capped out for the Earth Archon, along with the bonus Defense. Though Shadowtouch, goes along with the other Damage boons, And suffers from the internal cooldown. If you never get hit this will be the Boon for ya.
Can’t complain with extra Power/Life-steal/Regen, Power for extra damage, Lifesteal to help keep you alive, Regen to do the same.

Simply put increases your damage furthermore when ya have Combat Advantage. -w-
Not much to say on this, a decent base amount of Stamina gain is nice. ^-^
Simply go with Critical Severity.
CR would be the ideal since while it doesn’t do much, it’s atleast something compared to the measly 2k taken off an attack.

(ST) Avalanche is the best choice due to the lack of Mobs in most boss fights so its more consistent than Winter’s Bounty since WB can end up like other boons, useless in situations.
(AoE/Campaign) Winter’s Bounty For the purpose of Mobs to keep Slam going, along with mount Insignia’s.

Power wins hands down in both cases.
Due to us being a critical build go with critical strike, but it your to a point of min/maxing and you´re a bit high on critical strike you may drop it for the life-steal.
A flat 10% increase to Combat Advantage Damage will not be looked over. (Mind you it doesn’t appear in your stat sheet.)
Simply put you´re not going to be controlled often, if you do you’re typically dead by the end of it, go with the stamina.
Straight up increased damage against demon enemies, of coarse only applying to PvE content.

(AoC)The Dragonheart is ideal for a AoC group due to the increase of HP.
(No AoC/Campaign) Dragon’s Claws for the flat increase of power.
You’ll go with the Critical, no need for the Deflect.
Highly recommend Draconic Armorbreaker, since you’ll need it to break the required Armor Penetration of 85% with my builds, if you switch it for Dragon’s Defense it may drop you into 84% while next to maxed it’s quite hard to find a way to lose a proper amount of stats.
This one’s simple go with the Lifesteal.

Simply go for the Critical Severity 3/3.

Simply go for the Lifesteal Severity.
Go with the Combat Advantage for increased Damage, control isn’t really cared for.
I’d recommend the Stamina Gain, since you get your Dailys quick enough.
Due to the inconsistency n’ unreliability of Baphomet’s Might I’d only recommend it for those under 100% Critical, preferably Displace Fate is ideal option.

Go for the Power/HP of the purpose of Damage.
Go with the Life Steal Severity, it’s more Beneficial.
Same case applies here when it comes to Min/Maxing if you need the Critical use it, if not go with the recovery. ^-^
If you’re still in the process of reaching 100% Critical Strike, you may use Gate of Retribution for extra Critical n’ to restore some HP.
(ST) Wall of Wind would benefit someone with 100% Critical n’ fighting a singular target.
(AoE/Campaign) Bolstering Storm would be for someone with 100% Critical with multiple Mobs.

Go with Life Steal Severity n’ HP, not much use for the Control Res.
Best choice is the Stamina gain n’ Everfrost, I don’t care for Incoming Healing that much.
Both are pretty crappy, while in a End-game group both of these can be made practically useless, the ideal one to go with is Chilled Determination, since it’ll get some up-time.
(AoC) Glacial Strength once more the Hit Points due to AoC.
(No AoC) Vengeful Heat not great by any means, but it’ll serve its purpose.
Chill of Winter is ideal since it’s the only boon that works regularly in a PvE situation.

(Groupped) Aura of Hope if you’re groupped up, yet doesn’t benefit bosses all that much.
(Solo) Aura of Despair
Go with the Critical Sev with HP. -w-
Personally Is take the Life-steal to once more aid in keeping my HP capped for Earth Archon. ^-^ Though the Recovery isn’t bad either, just not my taste.
Vision of Beyond due to you having 100% Critical Strike (or hopefully close to it) It should be up consistently.

(AoC) When it comes to groups Tyrant’s Terror, will be your first pick with Chult 3/3 gaining the max of Power n’ HP. Next up with Omu Points you’ll go with Shamanic Grace, 1/3 since there’s AoC n’ it grants the most HP. Next Overgrown, 1/3 granting both Def n’ HP. Finally Fight Not Flight, 1/3 granting you the power Power/HP for a AoC Group, along with benefiting AC if ya use it. -w•
(No AoC) With the lack of AoC Tyrant’s Terror Is your first pick with Chult, along with Overgrown with the points from Omu due to HP not mattering that much.
(Campaign) When it comes to Solo Content, Tyrant’s Terror, will be your first pick with Chult 3/3 gaining the max of Power n’ HP. Next up with Omu Points you’ll go with Beast’s Burden, 3/3 granting increased Dmg towards Dino’s n’ Some extra HP, for the purpose of recent content.

Soul Syphon will be my first recommendation for ya to pick up with Chult, all of these boons don’t do much, but the HP restore it the best pick, followed by either another point in Soul Syphon or Lingering Curse which is a very minor damage increase, versus the other to keep your HP topped.

Critically Acclaimed, The one I recommend the most for common use since taking this over power will allow you to switch out crit enchants etc, So you’ll have a higher base Crit for when your Companion is dead as well as still gaining a bit of power since more crit can be replaced.
(Campaign)Supplements Paychecks, due to the new profession system I’d recommend this for campaign area’s since none of the boons will really be needed at all in these cases and any gold gain is better than none. ^~^

(Direct Dmg)None of these will make or break you with personal choice, though Severe Criticism obviously is the best for damage, not much overall but it’s something at least.
(Solo)Life-draining Job, not needed for most end-game gwf’s or in-general, but it’s quite helpful for more solo’ing hard content.
(Campaign)Hustling, for Campaign n’ getting things done quickly since Dmg isn’t needed, though Taking Break could also be helpful I just can’t see it being as useful for Campaign area’s sake.
(Recovery note)Taking Break, I can’t see this helping much in groups due to recovery being so absurdly high and due to how many CDR sources n’ power transfer with artificing.

• General increase in Damage being dealt.

 While fully self-buffed (All Boons / Companion / Buffs / Mounts / Insignia’s Combo / Potions etc, active.) Prior to group buffs.

*Slam not account for*

Pre-Bis

50-65k

R13’s

65-90k

R14’s

90-105k

In the high 60-70% before companion bonding’s, after Comp Buff it should be near 99-100% is best. ^-^

Combat Advantage Bonus Breakdown

127% Crit Sev, 55% CA as a base, prior to Combat Advantage Bonus (My recommended DB CS/CA)

127 + 55 = 182%
90% Base (CS/CA Bases Added together)
182 – 90 = 92%

Critical Hit, no CA
Dragonborn
75 to 127% Severity = 29.7% Dmg Increase
Adding 5% = 2.2% Dmg Increase
Adding 10% = 4.4% Dmg Increase

Half-Orc
75 to 132% Severity = 32.57% Dmg increase
Adding 5% = 2.15% Dmg Increase
Adding 10% = 4.3% Dmg Increase

CA, no Critical Hit
Dragonborn
15 to 66.11% CA = 44.44% Dmg increase
Adding 5% = 3.01% Dmg Increase
Adding 10% = 6.02% Dmg Increase

Half-Orc
15 to 63.91 CA = 42.53% Dmg increase
Adding 5% = 3.07% Dmg Increase
Adding 10% = 6.1% Dmg Increase

Critical Hit, and CA
Dragonborn
90 to 193.11 CA/CS = 54.27% Dmg Increase
Adding 5% = 1.7% Dmg Increase
Adding 10% = 3.41% Dmg Increase

Half-Orc
90 to 195.91 CA/CS = 55.45% Dmg Increase
Adding 5% = 1.69% Dmg Increase
Adding 10% = 3.37% Dmg Increase

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 Majority of Armor penetration is recommended on you, since companions aren’t so reliable.

Having a decent bit of recovery helps out with encounter powers, so having about 3-6k un-buffed passively granted is fine, with the use of Mount Insignia combo’s it’ll knock ya to 17-25k among other CDR will come quite in handy for fast Encounters.

Around 8-14k in the end accounting for Assassin’s Covenant with the End-Group Load out, while 16-22k with Pug Load-out.

Most GWF’s are around -27% with the stats(6,801) n’ CON (18) Armor Class (30) and you want to hit -80%. Plus covering Enemy DI -15%

Nice to have to keep up your HP topped, but isn’t entirely needed, just helps keep your Earth Archon’s bonus going, you’ll likely have 4k causally with 8k in combat at times.

Having 5-20% is nice, May range due to mount insignia’s/Boons. ^-^

100-111%.

Wild Storm Elixir

Due to the Extra Critical Severity, to help get ya to the 150%, as well as the tiny increase in Critical Strike.

Squash/Pumpkin Soup

Due to the Extra Critical Severity, though you could implement it into your build if ya have a unlimited supply of em due to the increased critical chance that also is granted.

Superior Flask of Potency

For extra speed in Campaign/AoE speed farming, doesn’t have to be Vintage

Greater Potion of Dragon Slaying

Increased damage against Dragons, may find it useful in Malabog/Tiamat/Lostmauth’s, and a few Campaign areas/quests. ^.^

Potion of Repcap Slaying

For new players in Sharandar, n’ useful a tiny bit in Malabog’s Castle.

Scroll of Protection from Dragons

Useful if ya feel a bit squishy fighting certain bosses that are labeled being dragons, or going solo.

To grant a little more Everfrost resistance along with the damage increase set bonus on Relic gear, and to grant you more power with your Jarl’s Gaze if you have it.

Empowered Chain of Scales

Providing a nice range of buffs, but I´d only recommend the Mythic quality Chain. Though it can out-class the Adorable Pocket Pet.

Adorable Pocket Pet

Provides a range of effects, in which we really only want one of em(“Go for the Vitals” Buff), its not reliable to get the Critical Severity, but its more consistent than it´s new counterpart the Empowered Chain of Scales.

Tymora’s Lucky Coin

A small increase to a random stat, may not be much, but its something, though due to the odd changes you’ll likely just end up using the Pocket pet.