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Core Rotation Philosophy
The guiding rule of the Stamina Arcanist is simple: Every global cooldown (GCD) spent casting anything other than Pragmatic Fatecarver is a DPS loss.
Your entire back bar is built as a "fire-and-forget" staging platform. You swap to the back bar quickly, drop your persistent damage-over-time effects, and jump right back to your front bar to channel your beam.
The Step-by-Step Rotation Loop
- Buff & Pre-Cast (Back Bar):
- Keep Inspired Scholarship active on your front bar.
- Drink your Essence of Weapon Power potion right before pulling or on cooldown during the fight to maintain Major Brutality and Savagery.
- The Back Bar Setup (DoT Application):
- Cast Stampede to leap into/maintain contact with the target and lay down your AoE trail.
- Cast Bloody Contingency (armed with your max bleed scripts) and Fulminating Rune.
- Cast Barbed Trap to lock down Minor Force (reapply every 15–20s).
- Cast your back-bar ultimate (Tide-King's Gaze) when available, guiding it to track mobile bosses.
- The Front Bar Burn (Crux Generation & Spammable):
- Swap to your Dual Daggers front bar.
- Cast Cephaliarch's Flail 1 to 2 times to generate Crux (each flail instantly grants Crux and pulls you into ideal melee range).
- Channel Pragmatic Fatecarver: Fire off your fully empowered beam. The built-in damage shield will protect you from incidental trial AoE while you melt the boss's health pool.
- Use Quick Cloak periodically for Minor Protection and movement speed during heavy repositioning phases.
- The Loop:
- When your back-bar DoTs expire (roughly every 15 to 20 seconds), swap back, refresh Stampede, Bloody Contingency, Barbed Trap, and Fulminating Rune, and immediately jump back to your front bar to resume beaming.
Key Things to Know for Trial Success
- Manage Your Coral Riptide Stamina: Because Riptide scales your weapon damage based on your missing stamina, avoid over-saturating your sustain with heavy attacks unless you are about to run completely dry. Let your recovery and potions handle the flow so you hover in that sweet spot of high resource utilization.
- Keep Moving Your Beam: Pragmatic Fatecarver locks you into a channel, but you can move slowly or dodge-cancel out of it if a boss telegraphs a one-shot mechanic. Don't die trying to finish a tick of your beam.
