3 Piece Willpower or 3 Piece Aether for vMA?

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Which is these two is better for a Magicka Templar

I run a combination of two from TBS, Julianos, Skoria, Grothdarr in vMA but which 3 piece is better now that Minor Slayer has been fixed?

It feels like Willpower is better but I just aren't sure.

I feel Julianos, Grothdarr Willpower is the strongest but would love to be corrected....

ryanborror

Not sure if aether stacks well with percentage based damage abilities like sweeps or radiany, but a lot of the really good vma scores use it. Willpower also has the benefit of coming in healthy which can sometimes be helpful. Test them out. I don't think the difference is too noticable.

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I'm mixing up Skoria Grothdarr Julianos Willpower and Aether a lot lately best run is 5 Julianos 2 Grothdarr 3 Aether 555k 2 deaths 45:13 and feels like it hits harder than TBS but I always prefer the extra resources from TBS the damage is maybe 1-2% between TBS and Juli and 2-3% aether willpower I'd say so far but would love the maths to prove me wrong from someone.

Nidro

i guess willpower outperforms the 5% Bonus damage in solo Environment.
atleast it felt like that for me.

As soon you enter content that contains buff for yourself such as dungeons and raids i think that 5% bonus damage is better.

im on PS4 so i dont see any stats.. so i can just rely on my own Feeling about it lol

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Ran again today 5 Julianos 2 grothdarr 3 willpower definetely does more DPS but with 17075 health my god it was tricky. Wiping 2nd boss first centurion first burn was a breeze so was burning 4th boss before it had even dropped for Flame AOE. It all started going wrong stage 4 Arena 8 taking my first 4 deaths poorly only to realise I was Stage 4 vamp so quit the run at 37 minutes knowing willpower outperforms IA in solo content.

Lukums1

I wish I played a temp... then I could get rid of elegant set... for overload... zzz

Danksta

From everything I hear IA>willpower and Julianos>TBS when you don't a very high uptime on warhorn.

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IA better than Willpower without Warhorn doesn't make sense though Agree on Julianos but I feel like Willpower is better than IA in vMA