Is Vaseraga a bad DPS character?

[Beelzebubbs]

I have all his masteries and almost a fully upgraded ascension weapon, but I still do less dps than a lot of the other characters. Am I doing something wrong or is he just better used as a tank to aggro?

[Kriss Hietala]

That character is not for doing damage per second. it's for doing big numbers with a single hit. If you want high DPS that's what narmaya, ferry and yodarha are for.

[Cryemore]

Are you using damage cap sigils?

[Nazore]

He does good damage, but if you are damage capping, the only combo you are fishing for for damage is 2 light attacks into 2 charged heavies (the double hit spinning charged attack).

Single light charge attacks are good for gapclosing, and your triple light charged attacks just damage cap too quickly, so they lose out to the double hit one late game.

Edit: Almost forgot to mention, but his skills suck for damage as well. Battalions of Fear is good for a gap close, and Great Scythe Grynoth is good for stun, but their charges lead to the 3rd charge attack which, as previously mentioned, isn't as good at damage cap as the 2nd spinning attack charge.

[SIR RETARDUS]

Originally posted by Kriss Hietala:

That character is not for doing damage per second. it's for doing big numbers with a single hit. If you want high DPS that's what narmaya, ferry and yodarha are for.

I'm not trying to be an ass, just want to give some clarification, dps (damage per second) is just a term of damage dealer. Doesn't need to be a fast attacking character.
If a character is doing 1 instance of damage 100 times within one second, while the other character 1mil damage every 10 second, then the dps, the damage dealer, is still the 2nd character despite only attacking every 10 second. because 1mil per 10 is higher than 100 per 1.

[Konrad]

I recommend checking out the Vaseraga channel on the GBF Relink discord (https://discord.gg/gbfr).

Each damage instance of a charged heavy attack has the dmg cap of 1.6 million (assuming no Glass Cannon). The charged attacks after 2 light attacks has 2 damage instances, so their dmg cap is actually 3.2m. On the other hand, the charged attacks after 1 light attack or 3 light attacks has only 1 damage instance, so their dmg cap is only 1.6m.

You have to do animation cancel to maximize Vaseraga's damage. Let L be light attack, H be heavy attack, D be dodge canceling, and C be charging.

You have to do: L (D), L (D), H (C), H (C), which gives 6.4m for the entire combo. Vaseraga can get 45-50m on the 60-second dummy with his Terminus Weapon and dmg cap sigils.

It is difficult to cap the 1 hit of the 1st charge attack after 2 light attacks. So you want to use 2 Less is More sigils and unequip all 4 skills. All Vaseraga's skills are useless for damaging purposes. Use L (D) + H as a dash to get around.