Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 51 minutes ago

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Average: 127-128K

Took about 2 hours of crit farming. I wonder if 135K is doable, tho you'll probably need 100% Languid crits haha. Bit unfortunate my damage kinda fell off around 70-75% but it picked up in the second half.

As usual for arc dummy parsing, the banner is DoT (Flame focus), Class mastery, and Savagery/Prophecy (or you can do Heroism and use Weapon Power pots)

For dungeons/trials, Magical and Shattering (AoE) Banner are most popular, depending on situation or group comp. Fiery Banner is usually only seen in vAS where DDs are mostly Arcs and Bowplars. As for the Affix in content, usually either Minor Berserk or Minor Courage, but Heroism works too (your raid lead should communicate this).

Nothing changed for the Arc specifically this patch, but U45 fixed Azureblight which now correctly scales off of AoE/Direct Damage modifiers, instead of ST/Direct. That means AoE (multi-target) banner will be BiS where Azure is used.

As a reminder, Update 45 drops on March 10 for PC and March 26 for consoles.
 
I also recommend checking out Alduin's 133K U44 Arc:
youtube.com/watch?v=YWYVVJDBoZI

- - - - - ⚠️ What's New in U45 ⚠️ - - - - -
Tbh, this patch isn't much different than U44 in terms of PvE combat, but there were a few small fixes and changes:

1.) Azureblight modifiers fix (as mentioned above)

2.) Null Arca multi-proc fix
- From Week 4 notes: "This set [can] no longer proc multiple times before its cooldown is applied [...]"

In terms of Single Target (ST), this is really only a noticeable nerf for nightblades (and Runeblades/Force Pulse builds) due to all their instant cast skills/hits. Runecarver/Null arcanists will also take a hit, but I don't think that setup was very meta anyway.

In my opinion, it's still a good set in general for pure ST fights, especially in short bursty fights less than 1 minute. But for the Arc specifically, Coral will basically always win as it has been for a while.


3.) Relequen stat lines change
- 2 piece: 657 Critical Chance ➤ 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
- 4 piece: 657 Critical Chance ➤ 1487 Offensive Penetration
- Perfected bonus: 1096 Max Stamina ➤ 129 Weapon and Spell Damage

This isn't relevant for the Arc since Relequen isn't meta for them, but in general this can either be a good or slightly bad change depending on your build or content focus.

It's good for players that can make use of the pen line (i.e. casual players, solo or 4man content, etc). If you fall within that group of players, expect a 1-2% overall damage buff compared to old Rele.

However, it's a little bad for Stam DPS in optimized trial groups or dummy parsing (where the pen line isn't useful) with an overall damage loss of 1.5 to 2% (depending on your stats). So if you were a Stam DPS doing 100K with Rele before, expect a 1-2K DPS loss. According to damage calculator, it's technically a very slight nerf for Mag DPS chars as well (~0.5% loss).


- - - - - 🔥 About The Parse 🔥 - - - - -

As always, this is a dynamic rotation, so I'm just spamming and refreshing DoTs when they run out.

I used Nirn/Charged here but it's basically the same as Charged/Charged for the Arc. I do wanna say the theoretical ceiling is higher in Nirn/Charged for Arc (status effect passive)... but I could be wrong.

Either Cloak morph is fine, but I think Deadly Cloak morph is a tiny bit better for dummy as it might help you proc the Implacable Outcome passive a little more often. The passive gives you 4 ult when you consume crux and can occur every 8 secs. With Quick Cloak you Beam ➤ Flail ➤ Beam a little more often and therefore missing the proc by 1 second. Proccing this passive to get your Languid ready for Off-Balance phases is pretty important for 130K+ parses. In content though, Quick Cloak is more popular.

⚠️ Prebuff and Opener:
Dump Stamina to ~30% ➤ Prebuff Cloak and Scholarship at a distance ➤ Scalding Rune while walking in ➤ Trap ➤ (Start Light Attacking now) Languid ult ➤ Blockade and Flail (either one first) ➤ Beam

💥 Skill Priorities:
Blockade ➤ Inspired Scholarship ➤ Cloak ➤ Trap ➤ Fulminating Rune and Scalding Rune ➤ Flail and Beam

🗡️ Execute:
- At 15-20% refresh Inspired Scholarship one last time
- At 10-15% cast Cloak, Trap, Fulminating, and Scalding Rune one last time
- At ~10% refresh Blockade one last time
- Under 10% spam Beam

Other Info:
🧬Race - Dark Elf
🧃Potion - Ult pots
✨️Mundus - Thief
🍲Food: Green Max Stam Food

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Narvent - Strange Memory