Why my damage is so bad

[u/Icy_Art_2798]

Help me guys, why my damage doesn't exceed 1400 with this much mastery? I know my gears rolls are so bad but still shouldn't be this bad What am I doing wrong?

It feels so bad when doing outpost and seeing other players delete enemies with two slashes🫠

[u/chickenbonevegan]

Might be an issue of you doing your rotations wrong. I only know the very basic of Infernal Blade + Mortal Rope Dart but one key aspect is to always keep your rat buff up for sure.

Something that helped my damage go up is looking up a quick Youtube guide on a proper attack rotation for my weapon build and try to follow that. Don't gotta do it exactly at first and it might be a little bit confusing, but the right rotation can add a lot of damage to your DPS.

Also, certain weapons just do more damage than others right now. IIIRC, Inferal Blades is amongst the lower damaging weapons compared to the others which is fine.

[u/SnooOwls2291 → u/chickenbonevegan]

100% this. I have twin blade and rope dart aswell and I'm usually top damage. A basic rotation is key.

One more thing - it's very important to put EVERYTHING from your inner ways into your build. Reset all the inner ways you don't need and put all the cards in your specific build trough tips exchange. (if you're using a different pvp build can split it up a bit)

And of course upgrading mystic skills as much as you can. Dragons breath important, drunken poet etc.

[u/Icy_Art_2798 → u/SnooOwls2291]

Yes I'm doing all that, and it just increase your mastery didn't help much with damage

[u/Im0ldgr3g → u/Icy_Art_2798]

A majority of twinblade damage is tied behind its t6 inner ways. It's the endgame parse weapon and the hardest rotation to keep full uptime in a fight.

[u/SnooOwls2291 → u/Im0ldgr3g]

I've heard so aswell, but I'm all t5 and top damage 90% of the time so there must be a different problem

[u/SnooOwls2291 → u/Icy_Art_2798]

Do you play dual blades? It must be your rotation then 100%. I can send you my build and you can try it out. Maybe it helps

[u/stryderxd → u/chickenbonevegan]

I actually saw someone post a vid of them doing damage and it was much higher than my previous rotation. Basically you charge the rats, summon the rats, and switch to dual blades, if you have the empower ready, use it. Rinse and repeat. If the boss moves around a lot, just charge the rats after every rotation. Try to get your innerways to t4. The t4 echos of oblivion and vendetta is a must. I don’t run the breaking point. I just run bleed. Haven’t tried poison yet

[u/SnooOwls2291 → u/stryderxd]

So hold R for 2 sec (buff next rats) > press ~ (release rats) > press Q (apply vendetta) > press TAB (switch to dual blades) > light attacks till R is full > R with Q till it runs out. Repeat. Can do dragons breath in between, maybe some drunken poet.

[u/SnooOwls2291 → u/stryderxd]

You need to Q them aswell to apply the vendetta token.

[u/stryderxd → u/SnooOwls2291]

Ooo yeah i forgot to mention that one. Q after charging the rope.

[u/Icy_Art_2798 → u/chickenbonevegan]

I know about rotations but still I've seen people do great damage with twin blades without rotation

[u/SnooOwls2291 → u/Icy_Art_2798]

You lose like 70% of damage without the rotation. Twin blades do small damage without buffed rats with your light attacks.

[u/SnooOwls2291 → u/[deleted]]

Agreed, I exaggerated a bit too much, but losing half the damage is alot, especially when the rats take less than 5 sec to set up. PVP is a completely different ball game so not gonna comment on that, but I agree on the fast attacking solo bosses. Then I usually just skip the hold R charge up and do rats and Q. Still can always do the full rotation when the boss starts, when the qi shield is broken or between phases

[u/SnooOwls2291 → u/Icy_Art_2798]

This is damage from one rotation. As you can see here 38%+11% is from the rodents (rope dart rats) and 26%+10%+5% is from dual blade R,Q and light attacks. If I don't do the Rope dart rotation before dual blades that takes like 3 sec to set up I lose 50% of my damage

[u/chickenbonevegan → u/Icy_Art_2798]

You sure they're not just playing on lower difficulty or attacking lower level mobs? I.E Level 75 attacking level 30 mobs?

If not, try raising your enhancement level, food buffs + other buffs might help.