The Knife Master PVP

Armor Types

Gear and Item Set Info

2 Mighty Chudan Heavy Head Light Shoulders: Divines.

5 Sword Dancer: Divines (Impen in non-cp pvp).

All armor with Stam Glyphs.

5 Leviathan: Jewellery all Infused Stam Recovery. Daggers: Precise.

Back Bar: 2 Perfected Asylum Daggers.

Shadow Mundus

Dubious Camoran Throne Food (or next best)

General Info

The idea is to buff up and then throw out your trap. Switch to main bar and pick a target and open with Shrouded Daggers followed by Ambush, Light attack and weave between Light Attacks and Shrouded Daggers. Use Thrives in Chaos when the opportunity best presents itself. Try and hit as many players as possible for the damage boost. Try keep a mental note of how long is left on on the DoT from your ult and switch bars and hit affected enemies with Steel Tornado to prolong the effects of your ult by a further 10 seconds. Shuffle is to deal with pesky snares and immobilizations and is cheaper than dodge rolling and is best way to deal with skills such as Permafrost and other skills that snare heavily.

This is a high crit build and as such your healing will be very good both on yourself and allies.

Contrary to popular belief Crit builds are very viable but you have to commit and the rewards will pay off. Less so in non-cp but this build is devastating to enemy players that like to stack and will force them to seperate allowing your single target orientated allies to pick off stragglers.

Generally a lot of players tend to go all impen and this offers about 27% reduced crit damage and yet with this build your crit damage is gonna be around 105% with below CP investment. So unless the enemy players have 100 points into Resistant and are wearing all Impen you can be hitting on crit for an extra 77% damage in cp games. I have listed full stats below.

You can drop Shrouded Daggers for Rapid Strikes or Bloodthirst but you will lose out on Major Brutality.

Champion Point Tips

The Lady: Hardy 35, Elemental Defender 35.

The Steed: Medium Armor Focus 100, Resistant 100 (In non cp wear all impen and put 100 into Spell Shield instead).

The Ritual: Precise Strikes 100, Piercing 100.

The Atronach: Master-At-Arms 70 (You may put 75 in here for Butcher bonus if you wish).

The Shadow: Tumbling 100.

The Lover: Mooncalf 100.

The Tower: Warlord: 70.

Stats with all gold gear and glyphs:

Health R: 367

Mag R: 611

Stam R: 2446

Weapon Damage: 2511

Weapon Crit: 75.7%

Weapon Crit Damage: 105%

Weapon Crit Healing: 95%

Spell Resistance: 20179 (30%)

Physical Resistance 25096 (38%)

Crit Resistance 1650 (25%)

Tooltip Damage Buffed with Minor Berserk and Major Brutality.

Shrouded Dagger: 7281

Ambush: 5309

Trap: 3825 + 8643

Thrives in Chaos: 22664

Remember in PVP your enemy recieves 50% less damage from all sources, however with 80% extra crit damage vs all impen you will be a force to be reckoned with except against very tanky players.

On a final note you do not need to use Steel Tornado as an execute unless against a very large group or vs a solo player as your  2nd and 3rd bounce on your Shrouded Daggers actually deals more damage anyway. With crafty play and positioning you can control your bounces. 

Strengths: Good vs Groups, quite tanky for a medium armor set up. Good heals. Consistent high damage pressure, hard to pin down with good escape tools. 

Weaknesses: Not optimal vs solo players, struggles vs shields, gank builds, requires good management of stamina. 

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