DRK Fell Cleave - Viable? Or Just A Bad Dream.

Well I've been shooting around ideas with a few friends, and by friends I mean friend, and by friend, I mean myself. But the idea sounds good to me, Fell Cleave with Souleater... Eh, who knows, but has anyone tried this? And with what results?

I know Mighty Strikes forces it to crit, and it normally doesn't have a crit mod, so I was wondering if the extra damage from souleater would act as a quasi-MS.

It's not just MS that WAR has going for it, it's retaliation. That said, no it wouldn't be totally awful- but definitely inferior.

If souleater applies to AoE WSs, probably will kill yourself.

It works fine on DRK, you just wont kill anywhere near as efficiently as BLU and WAR.

I remember the same discussion going off several months ago. The overall consensus was that due to the lack of Retaliation (and secondly Mighty Strikes) a DRK's Fell Cleave would've been much less convenient than WAR's.

However, the new JA they gave to DRK might make up for it to some extent.

I haven't had time to level DRK past 90 so i can't tell from my personal experience, but the way the Scarlet Delirium sounds, in addition to the previously available JA's (including LR for the Haste DB Trait activation) might be fun to try.

If, however, Souleater's damage increase applies to AoE WSs, it could get you killed, so a greater focus on -PDT gear to protect yourself from damage taken might be necessary.

New DRK JA isnt going to do anything for you, the damage calculated that determines the % is based off the first hit you take.

For Example you get hit for 50 Damage the damage boost will be calculated from that 50 Damage, its a pretty shitty JA.

Situationally it can be good but in the majority of things you do its pretty worthless :/

This made me lol.

Oh well..

Well the new trait reduces damage you take from Souleater by 50% at 90.

I believe souleater activates on all the mobs you hit. I've tried, and nearly died laughing after seeing my HP go from 2900 > 100 or so.

DRK can FC burn, but as everyone has stated its much much slower than a WAR due to retaliation.

Bonus w/ a DRK is dread spikes to self pull, but honestly if you're going for a full on FC burn, you should have a healer. So that makes the dread spikes pretty useless.

be faster to just level war.........

souleater + fell cleave = immediate death

best does when alot of ppl have sucky AoE weaponskills and all just the suck all at once to kill everything.