Deep Wound - How Much Does It Help?

Golden Fang Strike (deep wound, or +100 damage) or Wild Strike (stance removal and +~30 damage).

I think I'd use the deep wound. actually with r10 asura+wild strile its +55 and stance removal

dw is great, specially sin ur a sin. if u were a warrior, if ur using a sword u have to apply bleeding first oh nos, damn sword warriors having to use two skills to apply deep wound!
oh wait. golden fang strike is an offhand

oh nos, damn sword warriors having to use two skills to apply deep wound!
oh wait. golden fang strike is an offhand
don't forget you also have to be enchanted for it to apply DW. not much of a problem if you have NF but it's one more thing you have to worry about.

I use deep wound on a Paragon..alot! Good at any time because of the 50% reduction in healing and great if you pop a target thats at 20% health, its over.

Ant 20% reduction in healing. see post #3.

As someone said, it depends on what ur aim is as a sin in pve. If ur aim is to drop a single target fast, then DW helps. If your aim is to do AoE dmg via moebius DB spam, that I wouldnt bother with deep wound or asuran scan. If ur using deep wound & asuran scan, foes will (possibly) drop to fast to be worth using moebius as ur elite. This is y with hh, its often worth it to make them attack another target, so ur target is only getting him by you.

The other thing to consider is that whilst deep wound is+100 damage, its +100 once. If you use wild strike twice under scan, which someone said makes it +55, and that sounds about right, then ur doing an extra 110 damage. Assuming they dont get healed for more then 50 during that time, uve come out equal or ahead.

In other words, consider the bonus's and negatives for using fang instead of wild.

Also at ur original post, you wont be entirely unblockable. Moebius and Death Blossom are both blockable, so if thats ur entire arguement for using wild instead of fang, its flawed and dont bother. you are missing the fact that wild strike removes the stance that makes you BLOCK and thus he cannot block ANY thing

you are missing the fact that wild strike removes the stance that makes you BLOCK and thus he cannot block ANY thing Stances are not the only source of blocking.


IMO with Asuran Scan and a high rank you will probably find Wild Strike to be slightly more effective. The actualy hit will do damage in the same ball park as a deep wound and you do get the added benefit of it not being blockable. Normally I love deep wounding attacks but you can kill quickly enough with the wild strike version of the combo to not worry about DW.

If you run into a foe using enchants to block then the Golden Fang version has only the lead attack as reliable damage. With Wild Strike you have both your lead an your offhand. With Asuran Scan those are enough : )

Stances are not the only source of blocking. In practice, Stances are seen way more often than block spells, and for those instances one can have Rip on a Hero bar.

If you're not worried about blocks in a particular area, by all means slot Fang. But do swap out Golden Fox for Unsuspecting if you do, with Asuran Scan it's just hilarious