Exhausting Fatecarver vs Pragmatic Fatecarver — what top parses actually run
A contested Arcanist Stamina DPS choice, settled with data instead of forum arguments: of the measured top-end parses slotting one of the two, 87% run Pragmatic Fatecarver.
measured from 16,943 real DPS parses (ESO Logs public API, Update 50, pulled 2026-07-23)| Exhausting Fatecarver | Pragmatic Fatecarver | |
|---|---|---|
| Builds slotting it | 748 | 4,837 |
| Median DPS of those builds | 111,794 | 91,513 |
Interesting split: the crowd runs Pragmatic Fatecarver, but our neural net values Exhausting Fatecarver higher (+15.0% vs -2.5%) — worth testing both on a dummy.
FAQ
Exhausting Fatecarver or Pragmatic Fatecarver — which should I use?
Among 5,585 measured top-end Arcanist Stamina DPS parses slotting one of them, 87% run Pragmatic Fatecarver. Median DPS: 91,513 with Pragmatic Fatecarver vs 111,794 with Exhausting Fatecarver. That's the revealed preference of skilled players, not theorycraft.