Swarm Mother

Alucardo

I'm really keen to use this on my tank because he's not a DK. As most of you know, chains is invaluable when it comes to gathering up ranged mobs into a neat little pile for the DPS to lay waste to. Swarm Mother, mixed with a range taunt (inner fire) allows other classes to use a similar tactic. It's a pretty cool idea for a set.
You can tell this set was aimed at tanks, so why the stam recovery on the first piece? Is this to mock the fact they don't regen while blocking anymore? I'm not laughing. I was wondering if we could get something more useful on the 1pc, like max health, or do what you did with Chudan and add the max health as an additional bonus on the 2pc.
I'd really love to run this set on my tank, but the 1pc somewhat puts me off.

For those not familiar with Swarm mother, here's the stats



Thanks!

DKsUnite

Because when has anything wrobel has ever done made sense?

BohnT

I actually think that stamina reg is a good bonus for this set as it reduces t time between blocks. If you don't run a full block tank you'll need some stamina from now and then and with a high stamina reg you can cut thi time down to only 2 or 4 seconds instead of 6-8 to regen enough stamina.

Xsorus

Do you even bother blocking anymore in dungeons?

Cause i know on my Stamina DK i don't bother really blocking.... at least not on Trash... on my blazing shield templar its even needed less.

Alucardo

BohnT wrote: »

I actually think that stamina reg is a good bonus for this set as it reduces t time between blocks. If you don't run a full block tank you'll need some stamina from now and then and with a high stamina reg you can cut thi time down to only 2 or 4 seconds instead of 6-8 to regen enough stamina.

Between shards, activating synergies, heavy attack, class skills that return stamina, I personally really have no need for stam regen. Having said that, I don't really rely on blocking much in the first place I guess

Alucardo

Xsorus wrote: »

Do you even bother blocking anymore in dungeons?

Cause i know on my Stamina DK i don't bother really blocking.... at least not on Trash... on my blazing shield templar its even needed less.

Aye my tank is a blazing shield. The only time I block is to stop those attacks that knock me on my butt. I just don't feel like stam regen is as important on tanks anymore. There's nothing wrong with it of course, but tanks could really benefit more from things like max health as most of their defensive abilities scale from that stat. Not to mention there's already plenty of ways to replenish your stamina.

Brrrofski

Yeh, magica regen would be way more helpful for all tanks.

Think it's more there to stop it becoming op in pvp maybe. Like the health recovery on the one that gives minor berserk. If you want a strong two piece, you have to have a subpar one piece. Old school monster sets do the same, health or health recovery.

Then things like velidreth and tremorscale and selene ruin that theory anyway.

Alucardo

Brrrofski wrote: »

Yeh, magica regen would be way more helpful for all tanks.

Think it's more there to stop it becoming op in pvp maybe. Like the health recovery on the one that gives minor berserk. If you want a strong two piece, you have to have a subpar one piece. Old school monster sets do the same, health or health recovery.

Then things like velidreth and tremorscale and selene ruin that theory anyway.

True, even magicka regen would be alright. I wouldn't call Swarm Mother overly op though. It's very niche and you lose out on a lot by wearing it when you consider all these new sets that offer great benefits, so by having stam regen as a 1pc it just hinders it even more.
There's already stam regen on blood spawn, but the 2pc on that is really nice anyway.

psychotic13

It's quite funny as a sorc for duels against noobs, drag them into mines and fire rune for insta win