What are your opinions on Cadence on your playthrough? (Melee oriented)

[Dank_Rafft]

There is one way to make Cadence work for melee (only one thoguh :undecided:)

There are two: the one you mentioned and adding WPS procs to Cadence. That requires additional skill points, though.

[eralduspr]

I’m not going to argue cadence is an omg amazing skill, but there are scenarios where it is a solid choice. My warder build is bleed based and I only go up to tier 5 in soldier. If I had an infinite number of skill points, blade arc might be better, but there were too many other things I wanted to get.

If I’m not mistaken, Savagery causes Bleed and it’s charges also increases DoT damage, so a maxed Savagery with a maxed Blade Arc (especially with the Clean Sweep transmuter) would be much better for DoT damage… I remmeber doing almost 10k DoT on lvl 50.

[system]

If I’m not mistaken, Savagery causes Bleed and it’s charges also increases DoT damage, so a maxed Savagery with a maxed Blade Arc (especially with the Clean Sweep transmuter) would be much better for DoT damage… I remmeber doing almost 10k DoT on lvl 50.

Thank you for bringing that up. In the back of my mind, I had it in my head that savagery only affected itself, forgetting that it is a buff. I need to rethink some things…

[system]

I forgot 60% more crit damage on Arc in my comparison. Sorry.

Anyway, you forgot to include Deadly Momentum into your calculations.
It’s more like 160+160+275(x135%) ph. damage.

Further on, that 312 (x135%) bonus ph. damage gets further enchanted by your bonus ph.damage, and on high levels that really make this absolutely not “negligible”. With your 4xx% that number will become 1981+ ph.dam, not that small, yeah?

Yeah, thing is I don’t have the access to ultimate levels of those skills to make correct comparison, so I have to use what’s available :).

thats not how it works. The physical damage is additive with all your other phys damage and cunning multiplyers so is hardly noticable. Once you get above 400-500% multiplier (and probably a 150-250% cunning addition on top of that) 100% more phys damage is hardly noticable.