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11 Dominating Presence is a talent in the Crusher branch of the Windrose Talent System. Each kill within 8 meters refreshes or applies a 60-second melee damage buff. Duration does not scale per rank; only magnitude scales.
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33 Summary
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55 PropertyValueBranchCrusherTier2Max rank3Points per rank1PrerequisiteTier 1 Crusher investment
66 Effect by Rank
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88 RankMelee damage buff after a kill within 8m (60s duration)Rank 1+6%Rank 2+12%Rank 3+18%
99 Community Meta
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1111 Strong for any melee build that regularly clears camps. The first kill snowballs into faster clears. Situational in 1v1 boss content.
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1313 Pairs Well With
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1515 MomentumDecimation (Executioner on-kill loop)
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1717 Stacking Modifiers
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1919 Dominating Presence stacks additively with the other melee damage modifiers below, so a clean opening kill on a boarding action can carry all of them on the same swing. The table collects the synergies already noted across this page.
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2121 ModifierSourceInteractionBerserkCrusher talentAdds its melee bonus on top of the on-kill buffMomentumCrusher talentMulti-hit bonus stacks additively, approaching plus 45 percent on late-combo swings in dense campsPikeman SetArmor setTwo-handed weapon damage bonus compounds on the same swing
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2424 Content TypeValueReasonCamp clearsHighThe first kill snowballs into faster clears as chained kills refresh the buffBoarding actionsHighThe 60 second window lines up with a single boarding, kept active by one early trash killSingle boss fightsLowThe boss is the only kill, so the buff lands at the very end when it no longer matters
2525 See Also
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2727 Crusher branch overviewTalent System the four-branch progression frameworkStats and Talents stat allocation and respec
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2929 Build Role
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3131 Dominating Presence snowballs camp clears. The first kill triggers a 60-second melee damage buff that accelerates every subsequent kill in the same pull, and chained kills refresh the 60-second window.
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3333 Math Example
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3535 A first kill within 8m triggers rank-3 Dominating Presence's +18% melee damage for 60 seconds. A second kill within the window refreshes the 60-second clock. In a camp with six enemies clustered around a sergeant, the talent is usually active from kill 2 onward through the end of the fight.
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3737 Notes
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3939 Stacks additively with Momentum's multi-hit bonus. Both together approach +45% on late-combo swings in dense camps.Does not trigger on boss-only fights because the boss itself is the only kill and there is no one to kill first.
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4141 Boarding Synergy
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4343 The 60-second buff window lines up almost perfectly with a single boarding action, which typically wraps up in around the same time. One trash kill in the opening seconds keeps the +18% melee damage active for the rest of the fight, so Dominating Presence is one of the highest-value talent picks for boarding-focused melee builds.
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4545 The talent also boosts the Plague Halberd AoE special. The boom that fans outward from the ground slam still counts as melee damage even though it visually reads as area effect, so any active Dominating Presence stack scales the boom alongside the swing that produced it.
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4747 Best with crowd-clearing weapons: the Plague Halberd and Soul Eater both kill quickly enough that the first proc cascades into a full clear with the buff up the entire time.Less reliable on bosses: single-target boss arenas often have only one kill, which lands at the very end of the fight when the buff no longer matters.Stacks additively: Dominating Presence stacks additively with Berserk, Momentum, and the Pikeman Set two-handed weapon damage bonus, so a clean boarding opener compounds all of those modifiers on the same swing.