Equipment improvement should be more...satisfactory

DivZero · June 2014

upgraded my leveling Vr9-11 blue equipment (5+2 med/light,Hundings Rage/Night Mothers Gaze) finally to complete legendary v12 when leveling up (5+2 med/light,Hundings Rage/Night Mothers Gaze).And it was .... meh. Ok, i'm playing a DW Nightblade,so it might be intended.But it *should* be a quite significant increase.Which it is not. Only a few points more AC..may we have some love?

Lyall84 · June 2014

mathias.botheb16_ESO wrote: »

upgraded my leveling Vr9-11 blue equipment (5+2 med/light,Hundings Rage/Night Mothers Gaze) finally to complete legendary v12 when leveling up (5+2 med/light,Hundings Rage/Night Mothers Gaze).And it was .... meh. Ok, i'm playing a DW Nightblade,so it might be intended.But it *should* be a quite significant increase.Which it is not. Only a few points more AC..may we have some love?

Hunding's Rage does not buff any weapon abilities. It should, it even says it does, but it does not. The 5 set is currently broken at the moment.

I would hope ZOS is aware of the issue already but if not, here is an explanation. I crafted new sets to make sure my numbers are exact and the controls are not messed with.

Bottom line: the 5 set reads (at VR 9 white quality) "Increases weapon damage by 18% when using weapon abilities". This reads to me that it increases the weapon abilities damage by 18% of the weapon's portion of the damage.

Base Damage:

Completely ungeared (ie naked) my Executioner IV (two handed morph) deals 81 damage.

Gear: All gear listed is white, with no enchantments or traits, unless otherwise listed.

Level 13 vendor bought great sword (Green) = 40 damage.

VR9 crafted great sword = 134 damage.

VR9 crafted medium hunding's rage set (5 pieces) = 18% increase.

Test:
Naked with green level 13 sword, Executioner does 106 damage. So far it can be noted that a about 62% of the weapon's damage is added to the skill's damage.

Naked with white VR9 sword, Executioner does 166 damage. It appears that this weapon added about 63% of the weapon's damage to the skill's damage. Pretty consistent.

5 Piece Hunding's Rage set equipped with green level 13 sword. Executioner tool tip still displays 106 damage. It appears that the set has 0 effect. Set is broken and useless. Should be around 110 damage if you count the set as only increasing the weapons portion of the effect. Would be around 125 if the set counted to the ability as a whole.

5 Piece Hunding's Rage set equipped with white VR9 sword. Executioner tool tip still displays 166 damage. It appears that the set has 0 effect. Set is broken and useless. Should be around 180 damage if you count the set as only increasing the weapons portion of the effect. Would be around 195 if the set counted to the ability as a whole.

Conclusion: a crafted 6 trait requirement, 5 set bonus, that can do nothing but help any type of weapon skill or stamina build, is 100% useless.