Melee Holsters

Melee DPS are the powerhouses of Delubrum Reginae. Along with being some of the highest DPS roles, they are given arguably the strongest (and easiest) to use actions. Both actions should be combined together every 2 minute window to maximize their effectiveness.

Your Pure Essence of the Duelist synergizes with Banner of Honored Sacrifice to extend the banner’s duration to a whopping 30 seconds! It also reduces the damage taken from ~16k to merely 1 (one) damage per tick.

Each holster is split into two sections, one as a “pre-load” holster and an “instance ready” holster. The “pre-load” is for when you first get into the instance. It will contain your pure essence, reraiser, and actions that you will slot in or refresh charges on. The “instance ready” holster has everything you will need for the entire instance. It should often contain extra reraisers, spare copies of lost actions you need, and light curtains. It is strongly encouraged that you fill your holster to as close as full as you can.

Some suggestions on what to include to fill space: Light Curtains, extra Resistance Reraisers, and Resistance Potions.

Pure Essences

You will only need one pure essence each time you enter Delubrum Reginae. Essences do persist through death and are only removed if you remove the buff yourself or you leave the instance.

Table of Contents

• Basic Melee DPS Holster
• Basic Rend Armor Holster
• Basic Mimic Holster
• Excellence Melee
• Physical Excellence Battery

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Basic Melee DPS Holster

This holster is the bread of butter of a melee DPS. Using Font of Power and Banner of Honored Sacrifice together every 2 minutes in the raid buff window will yield the best results. This is the most common bag for new people to bring as it’s economic and easiest to use.

Pre-load

Lost Action
	Lost Font of Power
	Banner of Honored Sacrifice
	Pure Essence of the Duelist
	Resistance Reraiser

Instance Ready

Lost Action		Qty.	Wt.
	Lost Font of Power	1	25
	Banner of Honored Sacrifice	1	10
	Resistance Reraiser	7	56
	Light Curtain	2	2
	Total Weight:		93

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Basic Rend Armor Holster

A supportive variant of the melee DPS. Renders provide a significant 10% increase to the overall raid’s damage. Two players in the alliance will be assigned to run Lost Rend Armor. If assigned, you will replace Banner of Honored Sacrifice with Lost Rend Armor and alternate uses with the other assigned rend armor user to maintain 100% buff uptime on the boss(es).

Pre-load

Lost Action
	Lost Font of Power
	Lost Rend Armor
	Pure Essence of the Duelist
	Resistance Reraiser

Instance Ready

Lost Action		Qty.	Wt.
	Lost Font of Power	1	25
	Lost Rend Armor	3	24
	Resistance Reraiser	6	48
	Light Curtain	2	2
	Total Weight:		99

Lost Rend Armor

This is a gap closer! Using this action will send you towards the target and put you on the edge of their hit box. Rend is also an 10 yalm AoE! Look for good opprotunities to use it in general combat!

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Basic Mimic Holster

This holster will help you understand the signifigance and power of the Mimic action. It also has some extra wiggle room to maybe try out “Excellence Chaining”. The main goal is for you to just see how Mimic works. If you’re looking for guides on how to Mimic, please see the note below the holsters. If you’re looking for a guide on how to Excellence Chain, please see: <link goes here>

Pre-load

Lost Action
	Lost Font of Power
	Banner of Honored Sacrifice
	Pure Essence of the Duelist
	Resistance Reraiser

Instance Ready

Lost Action		Qty.	Wt.
	Mimic	2	24
	Banner of Honored Sacrifice	2	20
	Resistance Reraiser	6	48
	Light Curtain	2	2
	Total Weight:		94

How To Mimic

Mimic is used to copy the actions of another player and fully refresh your actions at the same time! To use it, first slot in Mimic and target the player you wish to copy the actions from. Before you use Mimic, double check their Reminiscence buff! Doing this will ensure you are getting the correct actions. Once ready, use Mimic! After a nifty animation, you’ll recieve both actions the target had and full charges of both!

Extra note: The target will not be affected in anyway. This is how many Delubrum Savage reclears will often smuggle heavier action combinations through the entire instance.

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Excellence Melee

This is truly the easiest and most effective way to output as much DPS as you can on any role, outside of one exception. While this is a rather heavy and expensive bag, it’s effects cannot be understated. Mimic is used before every major Non-Trinity Seeker fight to refresh Font of Power and get Lost Excellence back.

During the opener, you will press Lost Excellence after your first GCD. You will open your holster, select Banner of Honored Sacrifice, and slot it [the banner] over Excellence. Once done, you can press Font of Power and Banner of Honored Sacrifice together. From there, the fight will proceed as normal with you pressing Font/Banner during every 2 minute raid buff window.

If assigned to Rend, you can swap out the Banner of Honored Sacrifices for Lost Rend Armor instead. The opener will function the same unless you’re the second rend. Then you would just delay pressing Rend Armor until the first one falls off.

It is important that you overslot Excellence with your Banner of Honored Sacrifice. Holding Excellence through the whole instance is a massive DPS loss and also could potentially waste the assigned batteries’s Excellence plates.

Pre-load

Lost Action
	Lost Font of Power
	Lost Excellence
	Pure Essence of the Duelist
	Resistance Reraiser

Instance Ready

Lost Action		Qty.	Wt.
	Mimic	3	36
	Banner of Honored Sacrifice	4	40
	Resistance Reraiser	2	16
	Light Curtain	2	2
	Total Weight:		94

Want More Damage?

Drop the reraisers and add two more Banner of Honored Sacrifice. You can reslot another Banner during your opener to extend it’s duration for the entire length of Excellence’s.

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Physical Excellence Battery

This holster replaces a Mimic with Lost Excellence to allow other players to use Mimic on you. Three players will be volunteer/assigned to carry an extra plate of Excellence to slot in at an assigned fight. One will carry it for Queen’s Guard, Trinity Avowed, and The Queen. Once you have arrived at your assigned fight: slot in Lost Excellence over Banner of Honored Sacrifice (keeping Font of Power still) and inform the raid with a message or marking yourself with a triangle head marker to signify that you are ready to be mimicked.

If assigned to Rend, you can swap out the Banner of Honored Sacrifices for Lost Rend Armor instead. The opener will function the same unless you’re the second rend. Then you would just delay pressing Rend Armor until the first one falls off.

During the opener, you will press Lost Excellence after your first GCD. You will open your holster, select Banner of Honored Sacrifice, and slot it [the banner] over Excellence. Once done, you can press Font of Power and Banner of Honored Sacrifice together. From there, the fight will proceed as normal with you pressing Font/Banner during every 2 minute raid buff window.

Pre-load

Lost Action
	Lost Font of Power
	Lost Excellence
	Pure Essence of the Duelist
	Resistance Reraiser

Instance Ready

Lost Action		Qty.	Wt.
	Mimic	2	24
	Lost Excellence	1	25
	Banner of Honored Sacrifice	4	40
	Resistance Reraiser	1	8
	Light Curtain	2	2
	Total Weight:		99

Slotting Excellence

Make sure to slot in your Excellence at the assigned fight! Slotting Excellence too early could greatly lower your damage and waste another person’s actions.