Falstaff's Slacker Warrior DPS Build !

Right now our best DPS spec is 51 para, but it is getting nerfed next week, has little AoE and requires almost constant uptime on the boss to do well. This spec is for 51 Riftblade 15 paragon. Third soul can be reaver for the zero point dot, void knight for Void buff, or when SL comes out Tempest for the zero point buff and the ranged attack.

NOTE!! If you use a more complex rotation than me you will do more dps! But like the title says I am a slacker warrior.

Soul Breakdown

Riftblade

 5/5 Elemental Flux

5/5 Elemental Precision

2/2 Surging Energy

3/3 Elemental Empowerment

1/1 Fiery Burst

1/1 Windspear ( can drop this for affinity if you want since they nerfed it)

1/5 Afinity

2/2 Scald

1/1 Blade of Elemental Affinity ( can also dump this into affinity since it sucks too if you want)

2/2 Improved Avatar

3/3 Elemental Touch

1/1 Fork

5/5 Burst Capacitor

1/1 Stoneshield

1/1 Synergy

2/2 Enchanced Burst

1/1 Rift Storm

2/2 Elemental Weapon

2/2 Rift Familiarity

1/1 RIft Barrage

2/2 Downpour

2/2 Improved Frost Stike

1/1 Quick Burst

3/3 Intensify

1/1 Implosion

Paragon

5/5 Combat Precision

5/5 Teaching of the five rings

5/5 Devoted Training

MACROS!! ( Author is not responsible for any spelling errors in these macros!)

Builder

#show Searing Strike

suppressmacrofailures

cast Riftwalk

cast Rift Strike

 cast Stonespear

 cast Searing Strike

Finisher

#show Fiery Burst

suppressmacrofailures

cast Fiery Burst

cast Icy Burst

AoE Spears

#show Stonespear

suppressmacrofailures

cast Stonespear

cast Flamespear

AoE Finisher

#show Storm Burst

suppressmacrofailures 

cast Rift Storm

cast Storm Burst

cast Earth Burst

cast Fiery Burst

cast Icy Burst

Key Bindings ( this is just how I do it, feel free to lay it out however works best for you)

1. Riftwalk

2. Builder

3. Finisher

4. Frost Strike

5. Flamespear

6. Soul Sickness

7. Rift Implosion

8. Rift Storm

alt1 Fork

alt2 AoE Spears

alt3 Thunder Strike

alt4 AoE Finisher

I also hotkey Breakfree, Stoneshield, Metamorphic rune, elder tablet, etc...

Rotation ( As the title says I am a slacker warrior, so I have a very simple rotation. If you use a more complex one like some of the ones on the rift forums you will do more dps.... you know you want to.. be an achiever !! )

Single Target is all about keeping up Frost Strike FLamespear and soul sickness effects. You can either manage them manually or download and setup Karuul Alert.

I normally start by riftwalking in, then get frost strike and flamespear going, then finisher for fiery burst. Then use builder and soul sickness and finisher again. Then builder to rift implosion and rift storm. Right now riftwalk hits like a truck so that is why we want to use it every time it is up along with keeping our 3 debuff / dots rolling. There are fights where riftwalk will get you killed ! Do not use it in those fights! (helpfull hint tm)

AoE Rotation Start with Fork, hit the AoE Spear macro twice, then thunderstrike then AoE Finisher. THen thunderstrike 3 times and then finisher over and over til fork/spears are back up and then redo them. Easy Peasy.

I hope this build helps some people out, tweak it to your hearts content !

I forgot to add that I would try both 2hand and dual wield on the dummy to see which parses better for you. Certain builds most noteably paragon are doing 300ish more dps with dual wield atm. It is supposed to be fixed soon, but check to see what works better. Lastly I am using the riftblade crystal with this spec.

Nice guide, as a side note if you are extra lazy you can macro soul sickness, flame spear and frost strike together and hit that macro 3 times every 15 seconds.

Thanks Falstaff... I definitely need to give it a try... and yes Falir... I am that lazy