What rotation do you use to maximize the tidal stacks and play well for Water Blast

[desarix]

As a  sentinel I am very interested in Water Blast since it works differently from my other Sentinels. I am however of the opinion I am not maximizing my damage potential and using the mechanics properly since I just started playing it. I think I also paired it with Bio and am therefore quite a busy bee what with trying to keep an eye on whether to use defensive or offensive adaptation. So far I have left it at balanced since I'm a little too busy in groups trying to keep the attacks and whirlpool up for the encounters.

 

I would appreciate any advice on how to play this Water Blast/Bio build since it seems to be quite an interesting mix and could perhaps be very well done if I know how to play it effectively.

 

I am using Underfyre's build. Of course I am far from level 50 just in my mid 20's so everything is not even slotted well. I would like to develop a good rotation or be aware of some of the common mistakes with these types of combo mechanics. I would be grateful for any help.

Edited Friday at 02:36 AM by desarix

[BazookaTwo]

Your combo sounds very situational, and that's not a bad thing, I tend to use tidal+AOE most of the time for openers, and once everything is flopping I target the boss for single target until the AOEs are back up. You build tidal stacks with certain attacks, and spend them when you get the orange ring. 

 

One of the single target blasts does a tidal quick recharge. I'd put the Decimation build up  proc in that power. Anything with kb can use a FF +recharge, but especially AOEs. Whirlpool is especially great for its proc options. 

 

I leave Ablative Carapace on auto on pretty much every bio character I play. 

 

As far as rotations? I would apply AOEs with secondary effects first, then do the same with ST. 

 

I tend to push recharge on my heaviest AOEs but I pay for that in end cost. 

 

 

[Hjarki]

For ST, I tend to go AB->HB->AB->WJ->WJ, with Water Jet as heavily proc'd as possible. Dehydrate instead of Hydro Blast is also an option.

Edited Friday at 03:17 AM by Hjarki