Zak DPM Flex Thread

It's not the mage's fault single target attackers aren't being mindful of evening out arm hps to maximize the effectiveness of the ults. I'd posit that the others are doing non-effective damage in that case. Especially relevant when the fire weak arm is always the first to be killed too.

Ultimately though, you have to really try to make a composition that can fit an archmage that can't also finish arms in 5 or less, especially if the bishop is there. Plus, it feels really nice watching zak go from 5 arms down to 2 almost dead arms in a literal second.

 

MW20/SI/SE/Echo
Arm DPM5: Wasn't paying a lot of attention so definitely stayed in 1 cleave spot too long after an arm died. Also ran out of mp pots so i had to ginseng a couple times to get MP which pushed me out of zerk range.


Body DPM10: A lot more magic cancels than weapon cancels. The previous run I had about 5.3m dpm with an even amount of weapon/magic cancels. I also got shielded more on this run.

 

tried this out for fun, would say there was more magic cancels main body. (did not hit mobs when it was weapon cancelled.
MW30/15atk beholder/Echo/SE/SI

Arms DPM5

Body DPM10

Body DPM1 burst during magic cancel

 

Here to res a dead thread:

MW20/SE/SI/Echo/Cider

Arm DPM5


Body DPM10: still not perfect dmg framing the stuns but improved. Lost SE a few times since I was running with a party of 14x-15x in a 5man.

 

Been running zak lately, best run so far:

Mw20, Echo, Cider, SE

Arms DPM5: Got to cleave 4 arms for the entire test, so don't think there's much room to improve here.



Body DPM10: If I'm the only cleave I usually just bstep + nate for 2nd/3rd bodies as it helps with mobs. I've tried tanking body to use 5th hit of nate but it's pretty annoying, sometimes if I get hit the last hit of nate won't come out, or sometimes I just get stuck in dark sight, or I'll just die. I'm sure with better use of 5th hit and selectively using bstep when mobs spawn I can increase dpm.

 

(MW 20, Cider, Echo, SE)

Zak Arms DPM 5:

Still got to cleave 4 arms for the entire test but a little less efficient this time.



Zak Body DPM 10:

Only about 2 weapon cancels during the test. Decided to tank body the entire time and use full nate, while bstepping mobs on spawn.

 

Body DPM10: Got lucky with WCs this run (2 total). (MW20, Rage, Echo, SE)

 

Arm DPM5: MW30 SE SI Echo Cider


Body DPM10: SE SI MW30(5min), MW20(5min), echo cider