First off, I'd like to dedicate these guides to my good friend Blood Fever, you shall be missed.
Secondly, as Rifthead no longer supports these built in links, you can't hover over them anymore to see their tooltip, but it's good enough I suppose :-).
Let me know if you have any questions or if I screwed anything up please :-).
The Build - 61 Void Knight / 15 Paladin / 0 Riftblade
https://rift.magelo.com/en/soultree#4kGGGGllllkg/98h0/2
The pally stuff can be swapped to defensive if you'd like, but VK already hits hard so why not make it hit harder if you can already take the beating :-P.
Masteries - Shield Wall, Protective Aura or Soul Regeneration (depending on the fight), Runner’s Training, Deliberate Strikes, Power Variation.
Legendaries: Void Summon, Reckless Strike, Unstable Void, Retaliation, Searing Strike (you can swap Retaliation for Pacifying Strike if you don't need mit but your raid does)
As a note, it's optimal on multi-tank fghts to run one tank with Soul Regeneration as their level 62 mastery (or w/e their class equivalent is), and then another with Protective Aura.
Cooldowns
- Fusion of Flesh
Use when needed (almost dead or expecting a big hit) A shield for 75% of your max hp (OGCD)- Power Shield
Use when expecting a big hit. A 20% mitigation boost for 4s, 30s CD (OGCD)- Protective Shield
Great CD once again now, 30% damage mit for 5 seconds (at 5 pacts) that awards 1 AP (OGCD)- Rift Shield
This CD is now amazing, 25% (with 5 pacts) of your HP as a shield on any target (OGCD)- Devouring Shield
Fairly weak shield, but useful to just pop if you need a quick ~10k shield. OGCD- Power Variation
HP regen channel over 3 seconds - MAKE SURE TO TARGET YOUR INTENDED HEAL TARGET IF INTENDED AS A HEAL
Taunts
- Spark
Single Target Taunt- Airburst
AOE Taunt- Void Summon
AOE taunt/pull/root, amazing ability for dungeons. Legendary will boost your hp based on targets hit- Rift Summon
ST taunt/pull/root, again, amazing for dungeons
Builders
- Aggressive Block
Keep this up 100% of the time for a block bonus- Reckless Strike
This hits HARD with 10 pacts, main builder- Discharge
Ranged builder (uses pacts)- Void Storm
AOE semi-ranged builder (uses pacts)- Tempest
AOE builder- Ragestorm
AOE builder - consumes 3 pacts- Searing Strike
Keep up for 3% mit
OGCD
- Retaliation
Reactive
Finishers
- Devouring Blow
Main finisher, great damage at 10 pacts- Unstable Reaction
High damage 6 second channel, very nice to gain pacts extremely quick- Rift Reversal
Reflects the next 3 spells
Utility
- Shock Burst
AOE silence- Shock
ST ranged silence- Spellbreaker
Self cleanse of a curse, gain 1 pact- Spell Sunder
Purge the enemy, gain 1 pact. You can also purge nothing and gain 1 pact, but with 61vk this isn't really necessary at the rate of which you gain pacts.- Spell Destruction
Great for AOE cleanses and AOE purges simultaneously. Can be used on boss fights when needed to cleanse your raid or purge the boss...or both!- Impunity
30% damage mit on target, use to keep someone alive
Buffs
Macros
#reckless strike
suppressmacrofailures
cast reckless strike
cast retaliation
What to do for max Mitigation:
Keep up Aggressive Block and Searing Strike , then spam Reckless Strike to get AP (or Tempest / Ragestorm / Void Storm if AOE). When at 3 AP, use Devouring Blow . [url=http://www.rifthead.com/ability/-15444940/reckless-strike] (with mastery)/ Discharge at range. If you are aoeing, use Unstable Reaction , otherwise stick with Devouring Blow . You can also use Unstable Reaction to gain pacts very quickly. It's very efficient to use Power Shield and then Unstable Reaction immediately after to regain your pacts.
When pulling large groups, use Void Summon as it's incredibly efficient as a root/taunt/pull and for an hp boost.
What to do for max DPS:
This is a super tough rotation to pull off, but here it is! To pull, use a 3 point Unstable Reaction or Reckless Strike if you have Soul Regeneration and basically just spam Reckless Strike x3 -> to get 3 AP and then finish with Devouring Blow . Due to the AP scaling, once you get some raid gear this is a higher DPS rotation over the old one which I have deleted. Weave in AOE’s when needed to keep threat or deal damage to multiple mobs. If running low on pacts ( < 5 ) use Unstable Reaction . Make sure to use Retaliation on cd (it's in the builder macro). You can also use Power Variation for DPS if you know you don't need it as a tank CD. For AoE, spam Ragestorm until you reach 3 pacts, then Void Storm because it's more DPS at 3 pacts due to Destructive Forces, then get your pacts back with Unstable Reaction .
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