Prayer Shawl Set - Broken or Limited? (Analyze & Suggestion for Developers)

Sukenlihol

it's interesting set with 5 - piece bonus. (with %3 chance, gives mini-bubble around 3k for heal ticks). Actually, i'm not sure about "ticks". Because i tested this set with my healer yesterday, and the result was very big disappointment for me.

When i noticed this set first time, i was so excited. I'm good and experienced healer with HoT's. So, i thought about that : "this could be interesting build for similar healers".

is that true? Barrier style healing can be possible? Prayer Shawl can be "healer's valkyn"?

Nah.. First of all, heal ticks didn't activate bubbles enough. May be problem is here. Because with my style, 4-5 heal ticks can proc on an ally in 1 second. in the "standart group" test, "average bubble activating time" was 8-10 second intervals for per player. I know, %3 isn't a big chance, but 10 seconds means 40-50 heal tick for every player. Math says, there is a chance more than valkyn's has (number of ticks / % chance). But result is, less bubbles than meteors.

it's acceptable, but a new big surprise will come after that: Bubbles disappeared in seconds. (No no, not destroyed). Tooltip says "nothing" about it.

There is a second heartbreaker: These bubbles can't proc or stack.

Plus, Damage absorb bonuses in champion system doesn't affect bubble amount of set bonus.

in short,
magicka regen, spell damage and max magicka are very good bonuses, but set is useless at the moment because of these reasons. in the future, If developers gives a chance to this set, very very interesting and funny healing styles can be born.

Emma_Overload

Nice catch! Sadly, there are TONS of sets like this, glitchy and/or gimmicky sets that really need to be reevaluated and tweaked for ESO 2.X. Here are some of the pervasive problems:

1) Sets that don't synergize with the Champion System. See the OP's Prayer Shawl for an example!

2) Sets for magikca builds that still have bonuses for weapon damage instead of spell damage. e.g. the Elegance set.

3) Sets with inexplicably gimped stats... the spell damage buff on Wrath of the Imperium, for example.

4) Sets with bonuses that just don't seem to work very well, e.g. the 5 pc. bonus for the Soulshine set.

5) Sets that have been rendered useless after 2.X. For example, the magicka regen from the Desert Rose set is completely negated by the shield stacking paradigm that has been forced on light armor users.

When is ZoS going to overhaul the gear sets? This should be a high priority!

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Cinna

Good job testing. Thank you for sharing the info!

Joy_Division

Thx for sharing this information for people who may have been intrigued by this set. Unfortunately 95% of the gear in this game is, to put it kindly, non-competitive. And IMHO that is a glaring deficiency that is easily corrected yet somehow has not been for months now.

Cinna

Some are claiming that prayer shawl does scale with bastion (a templar thread on tamriel foundry) now. I wonder whose testing is more robust? Unfortunately I don't have the set to test with, and it's not cheap to get. This scaling is a huge factor in the usefulness and value of the set. Anyone able to provide furter data?