what's with Maarselok now?

moo_2021 · July 23

Saw more than 1 players using Maarselok on average every BG games.

All of them share similar builds - not warden, but sorc based, seems subclass, some with unleashed, but no status effects otherwise, so Maarselok proc was almost useless, but they're very good players, and healing was over the top.

So why Maarselok? Am I missing something here?

Udrath · July 23

Maarselok is a good set even without investing into loads of dots. So if you do something like shalks/curse > crystallised weapon (charge heavy attack)> into rending slashes/dawnbreaker/any spammable= all that damage going off at once. It’s a good combo imo. Static reverberation plays a part too

Luneca · July 23

Players woke up to the fact that stacking instances of damage was more powerful than stacking damage. Always has been, but esp. became true in Gold Road.

Necrotech_Master · July 23

maarselok has been popular in pvp for awhile, especially with how easy it is to stack up negative effects to boost its dmg

ele sus also being popular, provides at least 4 negative effects on its own (ele sus debuff for the breach + 3 status effects)

IZZEFlameLash · July 24

Maarselok + Vate Ice + Disdain/any other damage set had been a thing for a while. It is like the only viable DoT setup for non-DK class

moo_2021 · August 3

You guys misunderstand.

It wasn't about Maarselok alone. It was about Maarselok being used without proper support by a ranged class not designed to inflicit status effects, by good players, and there are several of them encountered in just one night.

As far as I can tell from combat metrics, their Maarselok were useless every time, unprepared and did less half of damage than Bound Armaments.

That couldn't have happened unless someone published some half baked build, or I'm missing some hidden effects or chain reactions here. What's the chance of this? People don't spend monster helm slots randomly.