Rubbinns wrote on Nov 4
th, 2018 at 10:40am:
VKF is probably the best auxiliary tree in all of heroics for focused dps. If the build is twf or swf then it should probably be using daggers and VKF for heroics. The returns on every AP break point are immense.
5 ap 20% doublestrike.
10 ap a haste boost and +1 damage.
15 ap 5 doublestrike and 5 offhand doublestrike, +1 dmg, and +1W.
20 ap 5 doublestrike and 5 offhand doublestrike, +1 dmg, 20% offhand attacks, or 20 melee power.
There are a good amount of powerful daggers in game, at all levels now. Starting at lv 4 and 8/9 are Spectral, Sky Pirate, Flotsam, and the Ravenloft pair.
Yep. Only thing I can add is it only takes 3 ap for the 20% doublestrike. Also:
30 ap- an additional +1/+1 crit/range, +3 dmg, and the best defensive clickie in the game.
I decided to take this build up into epics and honestly it has only gotten stronger. With all my AP I'm finally using the synergies behind using Wisdom for everything and it is OP. It is the "battle cleric" of my dreams of old.
The thing that I wasn't really giving enough credit to is all the ways I can make stuff helpless. It's like I'm both the CC wizard AND the super high dps barbarian. However, my helpless CC might actually be better than a wiz because I can helpless undead and constructs and damn near everything else in the game in multiple ways.
In a typical fight I use a bird strike (from any distance) as I run up on the most dangerous champ/reaper. Then I instantly kill that foe, then snowslide through the mass of champs that has surrounded me. Kill all the new helpless mobs in that pile, then use my other bird strike to helpless any stragglers and kill them.
In the meantime, if I'm really challenging myself and solo'ing epic R2 or 3 as I level, sleetstorm is still no save blindness and my earthquake puts damn near everything on its ass.
I can't even imagine all the helpless CC I'll have once I get Dire Charge.
At level 20 I maxed out a Sacrificial Dagger with full prowess and mp and it is working great. Neg levels everywhere scale well into higher R settings.
Still solo'ing R1 or R2 even as I'm severely undergeared as I try to hit level 29 (when I go full Ravenloft).
The one thing I am mostly keeping up on gearing is Wisdom as it gets me: attack, dmg, 50% bonus atk/dmg, spell dc, bird strike dc, AC increase, will save, dire charge dc.
One last thing, this build should actually go 17druid/2monk/1rogue. I'll maybe amend the OP but level 17 gets you all the level 9 spells you need (snowslide and mass regenerate) and done right you can now trap as well as get some bonus sneak attack. I took rogue at 20 but of course you could and should take it earlier.
PS- Just talked myself into a elite Strahd/Baba LFM asking for only level 29-30 characters when I was level 23 because I told them I would be a healer. I switched to ML 10 Ravenloft heaing belt and my healing gear and did perfectly fine casting mass regenerate and spot heals on the entire raid. You can totally be a raid healer if you want.