Combat Opener with 4pc + SC + Classtrinket

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What's your combat-openeing routine with 4pc + soul capacitor + classtrinket?

Here's mine:
Ambush -> SND -> SS -> SS -> AR -> KS -> SS -> EVIS -> Vanish -> Ambush -> Evis -> SC Procc (Mostly).

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Why are you using AR before KS ?

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Why are you using AR before KS ?

15% increased damage to KS

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Yeah but aren't you affecting the rest of your rotation as you will have longer to wait between KS

[MannDuo]

What about Revealing Strike?

[shaithis]

Yeah but aren't you affecting the rest of your rotation as you will have longer to wait between KS

The whole point is to take advantage of SC proc, which boosts everything you do by 30%. As for waiting longer between KS, well, you are not using any Evis until later anyway.

That said, OP you need an RvS in there. Also potentially vanish ambush before KS providing SC procs immediately, which is generally what you will see.

My opener once I get 4pc tier and SC procs on pull: Ambush -> RS -> SnD-> AR -> Vanish -> Ambush -> KS -> SS / Evis until Soul Cap timer done -> probably time to refresh SnD, start pooling cp / energy as normal for unloading during medium / high insight

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I do RS, just forgot to add in my list.

Ill try yours shaithis

[Virium]

The whole point is to take advantage of SC proc, which boosts everything you do by 30%. As for waiting longer between KS, well, you are not using any Evis until later anyway.

That said, OP you need an RvS in there. Also potentially vanish ambush before KS providing SC procs immediately, which is generally what you will see.

My opener once I get 4pc tier and SC procs on pull: Ambush -> RS -> SnD-> AR -> Vanish -> Ambush -> KS -> SS / Evis until Soul Cap timer done -> probably time to refresh SnD, start pooling cp / energy as normal for unloading during medium / high insight

You would be energy capped for the entirety of that opener, that's just really wasteful. SC in your opener means very little as Combat, just do a normal opener. SC matters when it procs at the start of a wave of adds or something, I don't know why you would want to blow everything in a really wasteful opener just to get like 100k more damage done during your starting SC proc.

[T18Z]

You would be energy capped for the entirety of that opener, that's just really wasteful. SC in your opener means very little as Combat, just do a normal opener. SC matters when it procs at the start of a wave of adds or something, I don't know why you would want to blow everything in a really wasteful opener just to get like 100k more damage done during your starting SC proc.

Good post.

Combat has one of the weakest opener DPS of any spec, so trying to make use of SC at the start is rather useless.

[shaithis]

Good points, thanks.

[Riverr]

Is this the kind of thing that is fight dependent though? On Xhul for example, I started with AR (similar to above but without SC, class trinket and only 2+2) and that times red buff perfectly with the first wave of imps where I blow KS. Iskar on the other hand, I'd do KS first as it should be back up I think by the time adds comes out. I'm a bit of a combat noob though.