One of the biggest misconceptions about the lore-master class is that they are a ranged tactical nuking class, like a fire mage or archetypical magician in other fantasy games. However, while it’s true that lore-masters can put out fantastic burst tactical damage with some flashy skills, especially in AOE situations, due to the fact that our big tactical damage skills are all gated by fairly significant cooldowns a surprisingly high amount of our sustained DPS actually comes from our melee skills and melee auto-attacks. This post will outline some general DPS tips and rotations and provide some statistics to show why if you are looking to do damage as a lore-master then you should be in melee range unless there is a very good reason not to be.

I won’t go into a detailed discussion of legacies in this post, but I will assume that you have at least the two most important staff legacies for lore-master DPS – + tactical skills damage and –staff strike cooldown (maxed, this reduces it to 5sec). These are critical legacies and any lore-master trying to kill stuff should have them on their staff. I also assume that you have the sword and staff legendary slotted because it’s an absolutely indespensible legendary trait.