Both Rotations seem to perform similarly, all rotations can easily hit over 90k though 98k is possible consistently, finding the sweet spot for execute range and spam execute range are what make up around 10k+ DPS. This is with Maelstrom's Lightning and a Shock enchant on the front bar. This is to provide concussion/minor vulnerability/off balance to the team. For more damage swap to Maelstrom's Flame and use either Flame enchant or Poison enchant on front bar, Unstable Wall of Flames does more damage then Unstable Wall of Storms, plus Wall of Flames does even more damage to burning targets. Overall if you're looking for higher overall damage go flame especially if you have a DK providing Engulfing Flames on enemies for up to an extra 6% flame damage. This will buff Wall of Flames, Vampires Bane, Shooting Star/Elemental Rage, the Flame Staff Heavy Attack DOT, Zaan's Set, and the Flame enchant if you go for that one. It's possible that CP Wrathful Strikes would be better as Master-At-Arms.
-General Modifications:
1) If you're in a group where there's a lack of penetration swap out CP Fighting Finesse for Force of Nature
2) Swapping barbed trap and vampires bane in the rotation, swapping the order of barbed trap to solar barrage into solar barrage to barbed trap same applies if barbed trap is swapped with vampires bane.
3) This build doesn't have a burst heal in case of an emergency but if you use Spell Power Potions you can remove Degen for a burst heal
4) Might be better to run Lightning Staff front bar instead. Radiant Oppression is becoming Direct Damage instead of DoT
Table of Contents:
LA = Light Attack/ HA = Heavy Attack/ ULT = Main Ultimate if available/ BS = Bar Swap/ RR = Restart Rotation/
-Start Up: Degeneration, BS, Barbed Trap, HA, Vampire's Bane, BS, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, LA, Shooting Star/Elemental Rage
-Rotation 1: LA, Ritual of Retribution, LA, Channeled Focus, LA, Degeneration, BS, HA, Barbed Trap, BS, LA, Solar Barrage, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, LA, ULT, BS, (LA, Puncturing Sweep) x10/11 or x9/10 if ULT was used, LA, BS, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, BS, LA, Vampire's Bane, BS, RR.
-If <35% HP Rotation 1: Ritual of Retribution, LA, Channeled Focus, LA, Degeneration, LA, Solar Barrage, BS, HA, Barbed Trap, BS, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, LA, ULT, BS, (LA, Radiant Oppression) x5/6 or x4/5 if ULT was used, LA, Vampire's Bane, BS, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, RR.
-If <25-20% HP and around <4M HP start Spam Radiant Oppression until end if possible with minimal buffs
-If you use the higher rep count (x11) LA into a Vampires Bane and then use LA, Wall of Elements before restarting the rotation instead of BS, LA, Wall, BS, LA, Vamp Bane. I believe you can push a little bit more damage this way.
2nd Rotation
-Start Up: Degeneration, BS, Barbed Trap, HA, Vampire's Bane, BS, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, LA, Shooting Star/Elemental Rage
-Rotation 2: LA, Degeneration, BS, HA, Barbed Trap, BS, LA, Solar Barrage, LA Ritual of Retribution, LA, Channeled Focus, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, LA ULT, BS, (LA, Puncturing Sweep) x9/10 or x8/9 if ULT was used, LA, BS, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, BS, (LA Puncturing Sweep) x2, LA, Vampire's Bane, BS, RR
-If <35% HP Rotation 2: LA, Degeneration, BS, HA, Barbed Trap, BS, LA, Solar Barrage, LA Ritual of Retribution, LA, Channeled Focus, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, LA ULT, BS, (LA, Radiant Oppression) x4/5 or x3/4 if ULT was used, LA, BS, LA, Unstable Wall of Elements, BS, (LA Radiant Oppression) x1/2, LA, Vampire's Bane, BS, RR
-If <25% HP and around 4M HP Spam Radiant Oppression until end if possible.
Subclassing is possible to open up access to a burst heal in case of an emergency while still giving us access to all our necessary buffs. A possible option is Storm Calling in place of Restoring Light. Using Hurricane as a substitute for the lose of Major Resolve and Ritual of Retribution. It also benefits from the increased damage with Physical attacks in the passive. As for Major Sorcery/Brutality we can now use Critical Surge instead of Degeneration although you'd lose some damage but gain a little bit more healing. And for the burst heal we can use Resolving Vigor giving us Minor Resolve as well. Passives also make us do Reverse Berserk for more damage at the start of a fight and extra Magicka recovery. Due to not using Ritual of Retribution we will save ourselves with some Magicka sustain even though we are losing some from not having the Rune anymore. We will be using some stamina abilities and hopefully those are sustainable, our heal is also stamina since we have no other burst heals. Perhaps Scribing skills can provide a better burst heal.