VaranisArano wrote: »

A fun stam DD/Tank build for normal dungeons: Syvarra's Scales, Thunderbug, and Stormfist. It basically pumps out passive AOEs when you deal or take damage. Its great for mob heavy fights.

Unfortunately, the passive damage falls off in Vet dungeons, but its fantastic for carrying PUGs through normal dungeons without working too hard or doing decent damage if you can't manage a great rotation.

Stormfist is nice when it throws everything in the air lol. A shame I dont see many use it.

Vildebill wrote: »

I have a lich themed magicka necromancer. It uses shroud of the lich, caluurion's legacy and nerien'eth. Looks really cool and does enough damage to complete most content in the game.

Heh, I also gave my necro only necro themed sets but I use Draugrkin, Caluurion and Kjalnar

I also love Coward's on my Bosmer Warden. Tiny fast boi

Honestly, the sets that are the most fun to me are proc sets with added effects like aegis caller or selenes.

I think right now the most fun set to me is overwhelming surge because it just adds so much sustain in aoe situations so I can just spam my skills. I use it on my solo magplar and just faceroll dungeons.

I once tried pairing Morihaus (knock things down when you roll dodge through them) with Eternal Hunt (leave poison on the ground when you roll dodge) for a rolly-trolly setup. Sadly it didn't work very well because the poison on the ground never lined up with where the enemies were when I knocked them down.

I have a DW/2H stamCro that uses Blooddrinker, Dro'Zakar, and vMA 2H Axe. Hardly top-tier but it gets by and the whole idea is to make the best use of some unloved sets.

Come the patch, I look forward to getting a new bleed from vMA Axe (to slightly buff Dro'Zakar) and switching Blooddrinker to Dragon's Appetite. I also want to experiment with dropping a monster hat to use the Blackrose DW front-bar.

GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

5 Prayer Shawl
5 Shalidor's Curse
2 Vykosa

What's the idea behind this?

Nova_J wrote: »

GrumpyDuckling wrote: »

5 Prayer Shawl
5 Shalidor's Curse
2 Vykosa

What's the idea behind this?

No idea behind it, I was just being silly and listing sets that are boring or seriously need an update. For an actual answer, though, I have a build I created just recently that uses:

5 Embershield
5 Overwhelming Surge
2 Iceheart

All three sets surround you in three different types of elemental damage. I put them on a Necromancer and I named the build Skelementalist. The sets are fun and the synergy they have with some of the Necromancer skills is great:

• Necromancer skill Beckoning Armor gives me Major Resolve and pulls enemies into the elemental AOE damage that surrounds me.
• Necromancer skill Resistant Flesh heals me and gives me resistances, which strengthen my damage shields (like Iceheart).
• Embershield Lightning Staff gives me AOE damage heavy attacks and procs the set, which gives me fire AOE and ups my defenses -- even further strengthening my damage shields.
• Necromancer skill Skeletal Arcanist does AOE damage and boosts my recovery.
• Necromancer skill Unnerving Boneyard gives me Major Breach and procs Overwhelming Surge.
• Overwhelming Surge gives me AOE lightning damage and even more magicka sustain.
• My Necromancer is a High Elf, so channeling my heavy attacks will result in 5% less damage taken (from one of their racial passives).

This can easily be run as a one-bar heavy attack AOE build. I'll be using it for VMA runs just for fun when I return to that slog in the next update.

Thunderbug/overwhelming surge on a sorc tank is really fun.

Dang I just realized I posted this in the wrong section lol this was supposed to be in gen discussion.

Thunderbug has always been my favorite.

Thunderbug + Livewire/Auroran Thunder/Overwhelming Surge/Storm Knight + Llambri/Stormfist

So many cool and fun combinations!

Defiler set is fun

I discovered an elemental catalyst mini game for my stamina warden to pursue, trying to hit as many targets as possible with winters revenge, lightning wall of elements and fire rune and get as many weakness to elements stacked as possible.

It’s still technically a stamina build since the cliff racer is used for bleeds along with the poison based subterranean assault, caltrops, barbed trap. It takes a lot of stamina

Next I swapped the front bar from kinras dual wield to a charged ice staff to add the minor brittle debuff to a lot of things since nobody else was doing it in my trial group

Now I’m about to swap my second set into Alkosh, complete with a front bar charged ice staff, since nobody else is doing it and a lot of stamina players are popping up. And maybe I’ll keep a morag tong ice staff on hand in the future when enough poison and disease shows up in a raid

And the fun part is this build is still doing plenty of dps while making everyone else in the group do 10-20% more damage

maxjapank wrote: »

Auroran Thunder was my all-time favorite set. But it's a great disappointment now. It was better when it lasted 3 secs, ticked every 0.5 secs and proc'd every 6 seconds. Sad to see such a unique and fun set collecting dust in my chests.

i still use this on my mag dk (yes a mag dk with auroran lol)

overall it still feels the same is about the same, the dmg per tick went up a lot (just less total ticks), and duration/cooldown/uptime is still effectively the same so it doesnt really feel that different to me

Once upon a time, many patch notes ago I used to have a StamDK, 1H&S DPS, wearing Morag Tong, Viper's Sting, and Tremorscale. 70%ish Crit chance with great burst potential. I LOVED that build.

Then ZOS added a 1sec cast time to Tremor and made proc sets unable to Crit. A single update destroyed it.