Inferno / Greatsword PvP Build

I have always wanted to try this build.. Greatsword and Fire Staff both have excellent AOE damage and mobility. If your looking to do big damage to lots of targets, this is the build for you!

I prefer to play in light armor, but this setup would be great at any weight!

100 CON is my preference in light armor, if you want to run more feel free to take some points out of DEX.

350+ STR is a must for both weapons damage (Inferno doesn’t show the weapon damage increase on your tooltip but this is just a visual bug!).

I opted for 100 DEX for that increase to Greatsword base damage, and the jump points help out fire staff a bunch too! If you want to focus more on Fire Staff damage vs Greatsword you can move these points into STR or even go for 150 INT.

I would recommend at least 50 INT since we have so many bleeds / burns.

Strength

• 25: +5% light attack damage. +10% mining speed.

• 50: +10% heavy attack damage. +25 encumbrance.

• 100: +10% physical damage. +50 encumbrance.

• 150: +15% stamina regen rate while exhausted. -10% weight of mined items.

• 200: +10% damage on stunned, slowed, or rooted enemies. +20% mining speed.

• 250: +33% stamina regen rate while performing basic melee attacks. +10% yield increase when mining.

• 300: +7% base damage while under 90% health. 25% chance to mine an ore with a single swing.

• 350: +10% base damage increase to abilities and the final attack in a melee light attack chain. +10% chance at finding rare items while mining.

Dexterity

• 25: +5% critical hit chance. +10% skinning speed.

• 50: +5% damage while at full health. +20% haste for 3s after skinning.

• 100: +5% damage while stamina is not full. +50 encumbrance.

Intelligence

• 25: +5% damage increase to backstabs and random critical hits. +10% harvest speed.

• 50: +5% damage increase to targets inflicted with a damage over time effect. +5% chance for 1 azoth when harvesting.

Constitution

• 25: All health consumables are 10% stronger. +10% Logging speed.

• 50: +10% physical armor when at or above 50% health. 10% reduction on durability loss for tools.

• 100: Increase max health by 10%. +50 encumbrance.

Inferno hits like a truck with Empowering Fireball, my perk of choice.

This Greatsword is fantastic offensively, but I would like to try having Energizing Counter on it when using calamity counter.

The armor has fantastic perks, ideally I would have 5 Shirking Heals, 5 aversion perks, refreshing / weapon skill. Shirking energy is always nice in light armor!

Energizing Counter and Critical Rush would be the weapon perks to add that I am missing! I don’t really like leaching cross cut for PvP since I hardly ever land the final hit.

The jewelry is perfect!

As always use the best food you can find, honing stones, and health / mana / regeneration / OP new super potions introduced in the expansion! Of course remember to use the desert sunrise drink to give you more DOT resistance! This build being STR based struggles with mana sustain, so you will HAVE to run mana potions with it!

Greatsword

Fire Staff