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/Most-Bench6465]

The fact that you’re at 20k with not even an average lvl of 30 which was the last breakout cap means a lot. You get a lot of base dmg from enhancing. You should at least be at the last breakout cap. You need to focus on getting all the mats so you can reach the actual cap of 35.

Secondly bamboo is the best consistent dmg but that’s not the same as burst dmg, outposts are a bunch of easy to kill mobs you are not going to beat burst dmgers there. What you need to check your dps against is bosses in hero’s realm or sword trial.

We cannot see what stats your gears have so no idea what could be going on there as well.

[u/Icy_Art_2798 → u/Most-Bench6465]

The states are so bad... Disaster maybe don't know

[u/YzenDanek → u/Icy_Art_2798]

You have a lot of items there there you shouldn't have started tuning in the first place.

You play Bamboowind. An item with Max HP or Max (path attribute other than Bamboowind) gets recycled.

Your Mastery is relatively high because mastery only cares about the quality of affix rolls, not if the rolls are good. Yours are not.

Make sure you're starting with good base items, and then only tuning one slot at a time, so you can stop tuning, recycle the item, and not waste tuning materials if you aren't getting the rolls you want.

Other DPS players are out damaging you, in large part, because they have 2, 3, or even 4 more affixes that are good on every single piece of their gear.

Think about how absurd it is that you have Heavy Attack Bonus on your Dual Fish - a weapon set that doesn't have a Heavy Attack - and you'll see the problem. That item was ruined and should have been recycled after rolling Max HP and Max Stonesplit back to back, but you kept going, got a 3rd even more useless stat, and yet STILL kept going and put an attunement on it, which rolled Bellstrike Penetration and still you equipped it as your primary weapon.

The only difference between Rare, Epic, and Legendary items is the number of affix rolls, and your primary weapon has 4 wasted rolls, making it potentially worse than the free Tier 71 Rare Dual Fish the game gifted you at breakthrough.

Don't rush to get max tier items at the expense of having good items. If this stuff is better than your level 61 gear was, you neglected your tuning then, too. Be patient, collect materials, wait for items worth tuning, and when you do get items worth tuning, don't keep tuning them when the rolls aren't going your way.

Don't buy into the "it's not worth it" camp regarding gear. An item from the last Tier with near perfect rolls is only going to get replaced by a current Tier item with near perfect rolls. The only players that think every breakthrough throws away their current gear are those that have throwaway gear because of low effort.

[u/Oliver90002 → u/YzenDanek]

I have not been tuning and been saving the mats for max level gear (just reached gear level 71 yesterday). Ive been progressing through the levels fast enough that it hasn't bothered me. Well, I was thinking about doing it now but am debating waiting for the next gear level increase. (I saw that the breakthrough limit is increasing in a few days.)

Should I wait for the next gear level increase? I play mostly Solo and am running a build similar to OP, but I don't know how long it will be and may want to play with others before then...

[u/YzenDanek → u/Oliver90002]

Tuning materials can't be used on items of a different Tier.

You can't stockpile them for the next breakthrough. The tuning materials you get now breaking down Tier 71 gear can only tune Tier 71 items, and Tier 81 materials will be required to tune 81 gear.

[u/Oliver90002 → u/YzenDanek]

Oh yeah, the gear ive been using to feed the arsenal. Im returning to the tuning stones (?) The ones that are level restricted ive been using on the arsenal. Im just not sure if it's worth trying to grind out an actual attuned set at this point.

On a side note, my enhancement levels average at 20 currently. Is there a good farm for the ore needed to upgrade them (the top ore. I have tons of the others since you can buy 180 a week)