Hunger Reapers wants a balance between Specialization and Swiftness stats to maximize damage output as you do not want to activate Persona state since the engraving damage increase is only when you are in Chaos mode which wants you to charge up 2 identity gauge and use your Dagger and Shadow skills to refresh Chaos mode duration. Reminder that Dagger and Shadow skills are the only skills that can refresh Chaos mode duration.Use your Swoop Skills based on situation awareness, so you can get the most out of their utility like using Glowing Brand to reposition to the back of certain bosses while damaging them and Silent Rage doing damage while closing the gap when you're far away.Since it is also a really low cooldown skill with Quick Prep, cooldown gem and high Swiftness stats, it is the best candidate to pair it with Quick Recharge for a higher chance to get cooldown refresh procs further enabling the build to be even more spammy. Spam Shadow Vortex whenever it's up to reduce the cooldowns of your Swoop Skills and to help maintain Chaos mode duration.Distortion grants movement speed buff to synergize with Raid Captain damage increase before bursting your Swoop Skills.Nightmare and Distortion are your priority skills to use for re-position to the back of bosses as most of your damage comes from back attacking, but they also generate a decent amount of Chaos Gauge if you need to use them to get into Chaos mode quickly.If you have no Gauge at all at the beginning of the encounter, use Lunar Eclipse: Cadenza to get a full gauge of Persona Gauge then use Shadow Storm, Nightmare and Shadow Vortex to quickly get into Chaos mode to activate Hunger engraving for damage increase before you start dishing out damage with your Swoop Skills.The guide clearly isn't about old surge.So in this case these are the general gameplan and reminders while playing the build: Old surge habits were never referenced nor encouraged. It's only mentioned to allow players to know what to do when they need to put damage out in less than 12 seconds rather than not pressing z at all and waiting for transition.Ĭommon old surge short stacks were popularly 14 which later became 12 due to higher spec allowing easier execution. No where in the guide indicates that you should be doing them constantly. 12 and 16 are just arbitrary breakpoints for 1 orb and 2 orb recovery respectively. If you also take another moment to read what was below 12 and 16 stack rotations, it already states they do not allow you to do more dps and 20 stacks is always superior if you can get it. Old description also indicated that the increase was linear but in the guide's description, words were carefully chosen to not suggest this, hence 'up to X%'

Please take a moment to actually read what is there rather than assuming it's the old description. Old surge was up to 150% bonus, not 120% which is clearly different from what was mentioned. If you take a moment to look at the numbers in there, it states new values. The surge engraving description was rephrased to make it less wordy and easy to understand. Since the rehaul of the surge engraving, they just aren't that viable anymore, because you will either push to 20 anyways or surge if not enough time to build more stacks. These were generally much used rotations with the old engraving, as you could fill 3 orbs and get the max surge buff with 16 stacks. They have mentioned 16 and 12 stack rotations, if the boss' hp bar is already low or you just need a quick kill.

When Death Trance ends, gain up to 100% Death Orb Meter for each Surge Enhancement effect you have.'

This effect causes Deathblade Surge Damage to increase up to 120%, Damage increases even more with larger stacks. When Death Trance is activated and skills other than Basic Attacks and Awakening Skills hit, the Surge Enhancement effect stacks every 0.4 seconds to a max of 20 stacks. Current Deathblade Surge does not activate the effect of Remaining Energy. 'Lv. 3 (Nodes 15): Deathblade Surge is cast at the max level of Surge Zero form, regardless of the number of Death Orbs you have. Yes, and the description of the Surge class engraving is the old one.

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