Twice Born Star set

Junipus · January 2017

Kas wrote: »

Kazya wrote: »

I must admit I am kinda concerned... what is the exploit? Reason I ask is simply that I was told to get the set for one of my characters, and did so. Have been using it while levelling her skills etc, though I was honestly not aware of any exploit so is concerned as I would not want to be part of soemthing like that.

exploit a bug so that you keep the 2nd mundus after taking the set off. won't happen if you play normally and take it off (second mundus disappears), never an exploit while still wearing it. you're not in danger.

on topic:
i don't really care. remove the set, change it, keep as is. to the best of my knowledge the major evasion from hist bark is also exploitable right now, so I'd say TBS cannot be blamed alone.

why not just scan chars for feasibility on login/zone change/whatever. remove any invalid bonus, log the occurrence. investigate repeated cases and ban.

Am pretty sure that it'd cause major lag throughout the server when it has to run all the various operational checks on the number of variables tied to each character when there's thousands logged in at any one time. IIRC there was a noticeable increase in people's ping when they introduced anti-bot measures back around release, and additional checks on everyone's character for any number of odd or "random" values would likely tank the entire system.

Instead, embrace the dark side and only do activities where competitiveness doesn't matter. I hear you can get a lamp from a fish nowadays.

Izaki · January 2017

Darnathian wrote: »

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

AzuraKin wrote: »

SublimeSparo wrote: »

Baconlad wrote: »

I....i do not understand. Players here claiming TBS isn't BiS anymore? What happened? I have scoured patch notes looking for an explanation and cannot find one. Also if not TBS than WTF is BiS for mag/ stam dps numbers in PVE? I understand PvP to be different do not need help in that area.

Tbs was good because the shadow mundus and other sources of chd stacked multiplicitly with the the 30% chd major force from aggressive war horn,
Major force is changed to additive 15% chd, so is basically gutted of it's former glory, and in high crit damage builds (ie typically ones using tbs and shadow mundus) becomes half as effective.
Bis for mag will likely be burning spellweave
Bis for stam likely to be twice fanged serpent (assuming it's working correctly)

please explain to me how burnign spell weave will be bis? 8s uptime max out of every 12s, which is impossible to achieve as even if you have 10 dots going at any given time, you will not and i repeat will not have an 80% chance for it to proc on cooldown, rather it will just be 10 chances for it to proc at 8% chance. this in all acutality, means at best it is on par with julianos.

50% uptime on BSW is easily achievable with Fire Blockade alone. At 50% uptime its the same as Julianos. Max uptime is 66%. The proc has 20% chance to proc off fire spells. Now do your maths.

BSW is best in slot, then comes Scathing Mage.

Would bsw and scathing mage work in pvp? Then 2 heavy 2 piece set?

BSW is amazing in PvP. SM not so much because it doesn't proc on sorcs or anything else using a shield (even a stam DK spamming Igneous).

Cinbri · January 2017

Also drawback of current double mundus mechanic is that you can't weapon swap on 4th piece than swap back on 5pc without loosing 2nd mundus. This is huge problem taht making using this set not that tempting.

QahnaarinDynar · February 2017

Pixel_Zealot wrote: »

unhander_2 wrote: »

Just remove the damn set from the game, if you cant fix it ZOS, we dont want cheaters in the game or good players turning into one to level the field.

See this kids? This is why we can't have nice things.

It takes weeks, if not months to get 9-trait and mats to craft this set. It bloody-well-better be overpeforming the easy one-dungeon-set-drops.

Yes, this is exactly correct (minus the part about the mats though). The OP may as well have asked ZoS to remove all 9 trait sets from the game. Alcast' suggestion and the choir of moaners who sing to his tune have made one of the most stupid pleas I've ever seen on these forums.

Exploits my foot, those are things ZoS can address without ruining a truly wonderful set. Just ban the cheaters or patch the exploit. Stop ruining the game for the rest of us because of a few ***hats who take advantage of bugs. ZoS has access to all the data in game, they can develop the means to detect things like this quite easily. They can apply functions that would counteract the bug quite easily, it's certainly much easier than dealing with the ***t storm that will come from the people who'll be angry because of a nerf.

visionality · February 2017

@Derra

Derra wrote: »

you have to try really hard to achieve bsw uptimes < 55% from my personal experience.

If you're really struggling, you do something wrong. I equipped BSW without any intention to make it proc as much as possible, and just by using wall of fire on my backbar and having two swords with fire enchants on my frontbar, it is up for pretty much 60% in all fights. I checked a lot of fights in Combat Metrics to see how effective it works, and it's really one of the most constantly proccing sets I know in this game.

Derra · February 2017

visionality wrote: »

@Derra

Derra wrote: »

you have to try really hard to achieve bsw uptimes < 55% from my personal experience.

If you're really struggling, you do something wrong. I equipped BSW without any intention to make it proc as much as possible, and just by using wall of fire on my backbar and having two swords with fire enchants on my frontbar, it is up for pretty much 60% in all fights. I checked a lot of fights in Combat Metrics to see how effective it works, and it's really one of the most constantly proccing sets I know in this game.

Well that was what i was saying though.

You have to try really hard to achieve bsw uptimes below 55%.

fyrestrtr88 · July 2017

This is actually my favorite set in the whole game! im working up to crafting it eventually...it should stay the same, in my opinion.

SanTii.92 · July 2017

fyrestrtr88 wrote: »

This is actually my favorite set in the whole game! im working up to crafting it eventually...it should stay the same, in my opinion.

Didn't knew we got necromancer class already. Cool.

Emma_Overload · July 2017

50% is too weak.... Needs to be 100% to equal the power of current TBS.