I have a 1460 arcanist with 6 pieces of nightmare and +21 weapon and five lvl3 engraving. only deal 2 million damage per second within 3 mins. and my friend 1460 bard can do that dps easily.
And i tried switfness emperor or spec emperess which I copied the build from youtuber, deal very low damage with most the tripod and lvl7 gem.
Do you even test the class before you release it? Or is this a bug?? so frustrating when you don’t have the power to solo the 1460 guardian…
did u turned ur PC off and on again?
lol i really hope it would work that way
well I think the biggest problem will be between monitor and chair since this is arcana post.
and I almost forgot. you need to pray to RNGod
What a bard!
I am pretty sure if u use the engraving service in trixion your tripods and/or gems getting disabled. Aren’t sure what it was.
Plus 2 Mio dps on an hit Master class isn’t uncommon.
Tripods, lvls / skill points, gems, the right engravings and the right rotation are the major damage factor.
And let’s not forget that u shouldn’t copie builds from kr streamers cause alot of the builds they play require gear we don’t have yet. Wasn’t clear from ur post what builds u tryed to copie.
Its simple. In the end, it comes down to u.
If ur char doesn’t deals the damage it should, if u have everything above mentioned in order. And ur char is geared nicely. its cause ur bad on the class and you need more practice.
If all else fails, just do checkmate build. Easy to execute, not much to learn, cheap and decent DPS (got slight nerf in PTR tho).
Basically quoting from arcana intermediate faq+technical info - Google Docs ( which is companion piece to In-depth Arcana/Arcanist guide by Eruca - Google Docs which in turn I highly recommend to read)
You will begin asking why do I feel so weak. I promise you this feeling will happen, Or you may ask when will I be strong? If you look up this question on inven you will get a lot of results for a reason; it is inevitable that you feel this despair. In this scenario you should ask the following questions:
Did I do my gems? (lv10)
Did I do my tripods? (lv5)
Did I do my engravings? (max)
Did I do quality?(:P)
If you still are losing in the dps department it is a #skill-issue
Your damage seems fine. You can do better with better rotation. Idk about arcanist but HM classes should able to do 2.5-3m dps with your gear in general.
Not any 5x3 but BiS engravings and +5 tripods on all skills matter a lot.
i tried so many different build including emperor side, and honestly i don’t think any arcanist can solo 1460 guardian unless you are a big whale 
this class just do poor performance as a dps in steam version is what I feel. bc my friends have almost all classes 1460 and none of them with 6 set four engraving +20 wep would deal that low amount of dps.
Every build from the youtuber’s name Jiudau. and i changed spell one by one to make a test by myself. firstly at 1415 i thought theres maybe i dont have 6 set of relic gear so i don’t have dps to kill 1415 guardian easily which i did with 18 mins. then i reach 1460 with 6 set of nightmare 4 lvl3 engraving and 1 empress, still doing bad and very risky to solo argos p2 by myself (i can easily done with my sorc shadowhunter glavier) even i solo that still took double times than other class with same gear level.
I’m jealous that I can’t even do 2 million damage per second. That’s 360 million damage in 3 minutes. What a big number.
if a class do decent dmg only when you use one fixed set & rotation or put insanely high investment in it, I dont think that is playing a game. But I only spent 15 days to learn this class and go to trixion everyday to test its dps, just wonder did the dev have tested it or not.
I already do 2.1 million damage in trixion in ilv 1430, I don’t know what to tell you.
(And I’ve seen Arcanas doing 5 million 2 mins in 1490 too on KR) but ultimately damage of Arcanas and trixion varies like always, specially on her imho.
how long you tested it? did you use ur awaken 2 times at once or no?
I use the awakening opener, as it’s main deal with her, And I tested around 1:11 mins. However, Arcana isn’t a burst class so Dps usually goes higher or stays around the same with time, I got 3 ruin gems lv 8 and the rest are lv 7 and some tripods lv 4 and 3 in general. Also my weapon is +19.
Also a heads up: Automatically when you reach lv 55 you gain 20% more ruin damage full stacked. no need of lv 11’s on skills since they don’t add the ruin damage which is the big one.
Same will happen within lv 60 and that’s quite the boost too
i am lvl55 and if you can deal 2million dmg over 3 min please tell me more detail about it. i really dont mind being wrong. please share more bc for what ive known 1mins dps test run only is click bait test not for a raid/overall data.
for what ive known 1mins dps test run only is click bait test not for a raid/overall data.
I already stated what happens if you go further 1 mins+ with Arcana and the same could be said with all trixion tests, cards variation, serendipity crits, etc.
Look at this for example… do you see a big difference in 1 min and 5 mins?
he has 5 lvl3 engraving 1 lvl2 engraving and lvl1 empress do you saw that