When I started playing, Twice Born Star was BIS for certain builds. It's since fallen from importance. Pelinal's Aptitude is still good for certain types of hybrid builds. And New Moons Acolyte is a useful 9-trait set in the current meta.

I'm not convinced we need to change set difficulty to match the current meta, especially not when you would move crafted sets that are pretty viable like Julianos or Hunding's behind months of extra research time. I can't think of anyone who would benefit from such a change, except perhaps master crafters who want to get paid more since less people can craft it.

There are only seven 9-trait sets. And even though it's a big accomplishment to get to 9-trait crafting, it's not bound and cheap to make (except jewelry), so if it was best-in-slot, it would diminish the point of grinding gear.

New Moon Acolyte has been used in some endgame vet DLC trial builds like MagDK last patch, which is great. But it really is so easy to get.

In PvP, Eternal Hunt and New Moon Acolyte are used every now and then. Armor Master is still probly pretty good as a tanky light armor set, but I think it was nerfed somehow? Doesn't seem that bad Morkuldin is a strong proc set, but not as good as other ones. Nocturnal's Favor and Twice-Born Star could absolutely use some buffs.

Feric51 wrote: »

I think Twice Born Star’s final nail in the coffin was when they changed the effect to only trigger if you popped a potion while in combat rather than proactively. This took it away from a lot of bombers or stealth builds that preferred to activate it before engaging to burst down an enemy.

You mean Clever Alchemist, and its actually a very popular PvP set even right now. They have since buffed both the spd/wpd and the duration of the set.
Heck with the 1 piece mythic items, its actually one of the better offensive sets that mesh well with those, since it can be 1 barred and has a good 4 piece bonus.

Firstmep wrote: »

You mean Clever Alchemist, and its actually a very popular PvP set even right now. They have since buffed both the spd/wpd and the duration of the set.
Heck with the 1 piece mythic items, its actually one of the better offensive sets that mesh well with those, since it can be 1 barred and has a good 4 piece bonus.

idk wrote: »

Oh, and adding to my previous comment, TBS is viable. Just not ideal in most situations is was once used for. Also as pointed out, CA is still a very useful set.

What is viable is often personal perception and just as frequently seems to be based on a narrow paradigm.

Yep, completely got my sets mixed up. Also I don't PvP, and didn't realize that Clever Alchemist had made a comeback. As my edit states, don't mind me I'll go back under my PvE rock over here.

For the same reason that not every trial set is viable. Also they can be traded and many players will craft it for the cost of resources.

Oof, this post is so outdated, my last comment still suggested using Pelinal's Aptitude for hybrid builds.