Were there any sets you felt were over or under powered compared to current offerings in the live game? Yes, not a new set but Monolith of Storms received an update for U50 and it's still under-powered.

Do you have any other general feedback? See Below

MoS did get a descent buff to damage and provides a nice increase to W/S damage .. however .. that wasn't the main issue with the set, it was the setup / proc that made it awful.

In parsing / dummy testing, sure, one can get solid numbers out of this set, especially when paired with Power Overload, however, parsing / dummy testing isn't reflective of in-game combat use.

The problem MoS has is that getting it setup to it's full potential is so clumsy and unspecific that no matter what the output values are it's unlikely anyone is going to ever realize them. The set procs from a SC ability's "initial hit" or " every 5th tick". If the player is leaning on a DoT such as Hurricane or Flood that means that those skills alone will only ever proc 2 monoliths at the target location. The player will need to combination cast another skill besides SC DoTs in order to setup all 3. Often this would mean spamming an otherwise unnecessary Mages Wrath just to get a Monolith set.

Let's assume a player was going to use Hurricane + Wrath to "setup" MoS. If Hurricane was already active upon entering combat then it won't proc a Monolith until the 5th tick OR unless the player re-casts the skill. The quickest a player could realistically setup all 3 Monoliths is 3 seconds, and that's assuming a Mages spam to set them up. .. Now, none of this is accounting for enemy movements around the play area or outside of an AoE DoT. Given that each Monolith is only up for 10 seconds this means that the player is basically employing a minor focus just to keep the set active with any real, viable uptime.

10 seconds can see the lions share of trash mobs in a Trial defeated, so in most cases MoS won't be contributing much toward total damage output by the time the enemies are gone, and the Sorc caster wouldn't have been as focused on the group coordinated DPS, rather, they'd have a passive focus on setting up MoS.

Then we get to boss fights. MoS is somewhat more effective here as at least a Boss will be up long enough to get the Monoliths up but even then, every 10 seconds the player needs to ensure a SC ability cast just to proc the next Monolith. This can be questionable with Bosses that are highly mobile or have multiple, challenging AoE mechs to manage.

Unless MoS gets adjusted for a better and smoother proc that's more synergized with Sorc, overall, I don't see this ever becoming a preferred set.

Consider that a player can equip 5 pieces of Oblivions Foe and scribe Soul Burst to instantly apply a persistent DoT for 10 seconds that scales to more damage than MoS and has no clumsy proc conditions to set it up. With Foe one can realistically apply the high scaling DoT to every opponent in the are within 2 GCD; MoS can't even be fully set in that time.

MoS represents a neat and cool visual aspect to a Sorcs power on the battel field but the actual real world setup kills it. The lack of any real, heavy intermediate damage during the setup phase only further cripples it. Unless all 3 Monoliths are proc'd the set is only dealing limited damage in 2 second ticks rather than other sets that have an easier proc and tick per second.

It's not about parse numbers with MoS it's about the mechs, and in real world combat use they're poor and what's worse is they don't even synergize well with the new passives. Static Reverberation has a max potential stack rate of every 0.2s yet MoS only deals damage every 2 seconds, that's 10 whole missed Static Reverb opportunities between each tick of MoS.

Here is a suggestion for a change that would make MoS actually appealing & competitive:

(2 Items): Adds 657 Crit Chance
(3 Items): Adds 129 Weapon & Spell Damage
(4 Items): Adds 129 Weapon & Spell Damage
(5 Items): Dealing Shock damage creates a Monolith near the target for 10 seconds, up to 3 in total. Your Monoliths within 28m of each other link together to deal XX Shock damage, scaling off of the higher of your Weapon or Spell damage, every 1 second to enemies near the links (5m), up to once every 1 second per enemy.

Minor Hindrance is applied to enemies affected by your Monoliths for 3 seconds, reducing their movement speed by 40%. This affect can occur once every 30 seconds.

Each Monolith grants you 200 Weapon & Spell Damage.


In this scenario the set will proc off of ANY "Shock" damage. This gives the caster more flexibility and options as to how they want to proc the set, depending on the combat scenario they might face. For example, a caster could use a scribe of Soul Burst to proc all 3 of the Monoliths in one concentrated area, all at once, if they so chose, BUT, the caster would be unable to spawn a new Monolith until those 3 timed out so it's a conscious decision to make. If the player wanted to use a Force Shock or other single target Sock damage method to proc the Monoliths individually in a wider area they could choose to do that as well; but they wouldn't be locked into Storm Calling skills only.

The caster would also have to be attentive to pets as their Shock damage could proc a Monolith so this also creates an additional skill management factor for the Sorc if they're choosing to run pets, which I think is fair.

This approach is similar to DK's Pyrebrand which can proc off heavy attacks rather an being confined to a skill from a specific skill line, opening up flexibility and reducing the time cost of the setup.

The reduction in damage application to every 1 second, down from 2 seconds works to better synergize the set with the new Class Mastery passives and would now see DPS values that actually apply to targets much more similar to other Class sets and even what can be had from over-world sets.

Lastly, the set would apply a named debuff to enemies. This debuff is FAR less than movement debuffs that other class skills apply and I chose to use a named debuff so that the effect can potentially be cleansed by other players for balance purposes.

Sorc Class Mastery passives didn't deliver on buffs or debuffs and Sorc class skills really only offer few of them anyway. This would see MoS as a Class set deliver on a applicable debuff that's relevant in both PvE and PvP.

This is much more simple and straight forward and delivers on power that's in-line with other class sets, without clunky setup mechanics that see this set getting overlooked.