STRONGEST SUBCLASS SOLO GUIDE

• Cephaliarch’s Flail - an AoE spammable that generates Crux, heals you if you hit any enemy and increases the damage enemies' take from you by 5%. It will also trigger the Splintered Secrets passive, increasing your penetration by 1240
• Pragmatic Fatecarver - extremely powerful Crux spender that deals full damage in AoE, has massive range of 22 meters and grants you a big damage shield while you channel it. It will also trigger the Splintered Secrets passive, increasing your penetration by 1240
• Inspired Scholarship - an ability that deals lots of damage and ensures you'll have at least 1 Crux when your beam ends. It will also trigger the Splintered Secrets passive, increasing your penetration by 1240
• Quick Cloak - an ability that grants a short burst of movement speed, Major Evasion buff which reduces your damage taken from AoE attacks and deals damage over 30 seconds. The damage it deals can proc your weapon enchantments, which is important because you can't proc them with Light Attacks while beaming
• Camouflaged Hunter - this ability will passively grant you the Major Savagery and Major Prophecy buffs, which will increase your critical chance by 12%. It will also grant you the Minor Berserk buff which increases your damage done by 5% for 5 seconds after you deal Critical Damage from enemy's flank, which has a very wide radius and can be done by simply walking to the side. It will also trigger the Slayer passive, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 3%.
• Soul Harvest - a cheap ultimate that increases target's damage taken from you by 20%. This is the ultimate you should use in Single Target fights. You need it on your frontbar to trigger passives of the Assasination skill line. Having it slotted will also cause you to regain 10 Ultimate whenever you deal a final blow against an enemy
• Hurricane - an ability which provides a crucial Major Resolve buff which provides 5948 armor and it deals very good damage. It also grants you a 15% movement speed buff during its duration
• Relentless Focus - an ability that will passively grant us 400 Weapon and Spell Damage. Do not consume the stacks
• Elemental Susceptibility - an extremely loaded ability that does a multitude of things. It’s completely free to cast so it'll help you sustain. It applies Major Breach, which reduces enemies’ armor by 5948 which is a massive damage increase. It also applies Burning, Chilled and Concussed status effects at the beginning and then every 7.5 seconds. All of these Status Effects deal decent damage, but Concussed will also apply Minor Vulnerability for 4 seconds, increasing enemies’ damage taken by 5%. Chilled will also apply Minor Maim for 4 seconds, reducing enemies’ damage done by 5% and it will also apply Minor Brittle for 4 seconds if you were on your Ice Staff bar while the Chilled effect procced, which is always going to happen at the beginning when you cast Elemental Susceptibility. Minor Brittle increase Critical Damage taken by 10%. The Chilled proc will also synergise with our Elemental Blockade
• Elemental Blockade - this ability will constantly apply your Weapon Damage enchantment. It will also constantly apply Minor Breach to enemies who are Chilled, and they’ll be Chilled thanks to Elemental Susceptibility
• Barbed Trap - a DoT that will also apply Hemorrhage status effect at the start and grant you Minor Force buff, increasing your Critical Damage by 10%
• The Languid Eye - an extremely powerful ultimate that deals damage in a small AoE. Use it in AoE fights or when you start fights with high amount of Ultimate stored up

Quick Cloak is the first skill that has to go when you need to slot something situational, unless the situational skill specifically says that it's replacing something else

• Banner Bearer (Shock, Class Mastery, Courage) - banner with this combination will increase your Direct Damage by 6%, generate Crux every 5 seconds and grant you Minor Courage, increasing Weapon and Spell Damage by 215. Use it instead of Quick Cloak and Barbed Trap whenever you're using Velothi Ur-Mage’s Amulet instead of Ring of the Pale Order as your Mythic in easier fights
• Resolving Vigor - use it for more difficult fights where the pressure is constant and thus you need the Minor Resolve. It can also be used as your main source of healing before you obtain the Ring of the Pale Order Mythic or in fights with invulnerability phases where you can't heal with Ring of the Pale Order
• Critical Surge - ability that will heal you for 3300 whenever you deal critical damage, up to once every second. The heal itself can also be a critical heal. Use it whenever you need more healing
• Silver Leash - a chain ability that you can slot in trash packs to stack enemies and get through them faster
• Ulfsild's Contingency (Bleed, Gladiator's Tenacity, Force) - a replacement for Barbed Trap in fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a delayed AoE damage that also grants you 8% damage reduction for 8 seconds and Minor Force for 22 seconds, which increases your Critical Damage by 10%. You should recast it every 8 seconds when under pressure and every 22 seconds otherwise. Having it slotted on your frontbar will also trigger the Magicka Controller passive which will slightly improve your magicka sustain
• Revealing Flare - slot it for more difficult fights where you need more damage mitigation. It's a skill that passively grants Major Protection, reducing your damage taken by 10%. It will also trigger the Magicka Aid passive, which increases Magicka Recovery by 10%
• Consuming Trap - a very weak DoT which replenishes your resources when the affected target dies, it can provide you with a lot of sustain in fights which constantly spawn weak adds
• Precognition - an ultimate that breaks you out of some otherwise unavoidable stuns, you'll need it to get around some mechanics which are otherwise impossible or very difficult to solo, like for example Inferno's Hold in Zaan the Scalecaller fight
• Ball of Lightning - an ability that teleports you forward. Use it in fights where you need more mobility or in fights where this teleport allows you to invalidate some mechanic

Priority List

I don't use a static rotation so this is just a list of priorities. Simply recast abilities when they run out and follow this list of priorities when there are multiple things to refresh

• Use Elemental Susceptibility
• Use Elemental Blockade
• Use Barbed Trap
• If it's an AoE fight or you're starting at or close to 175 Ultimate, use The Languid Eye
• If it's a Single Target fight, use Soul Harvest
• Use Hurricane
• Use Inspired Scholarship
• Use Quick Cloak
• If not at 3 Crux, use Cephaliarch’s Flail
• If at 3 Crux, use Pragmatic Fatecarver

Pre-buff

These abilities can be pre-cast before entering combat

• Inspired Scholarship
• Quick Cloak
• Hurricane