Kavatch gladiator or night mothers gaze

cornbread923

I am dark elf night blade who uses dualweild weapons as my main attack. Which set is better? Kavatch with the nice increase on weapon damage on enemies under 25% or night mothers with the decreasing physical reistance?

Preyfar

Nightmother's Gaze (NMG). Kvatch is not a good set as the 1,800 weapon damage buff ONLY applies to light/heavy attacks. These are not the bulk of your attack base, making the armor penetration from Night Mother's do far, far more damage long term. NMG will do more damage when the boss is vulnerable to your execute, buffing your Killer's Blade damage. Killer's Blade does NOT get that 1,800 weapon damage bonus from Kvatch.

In addition, the debuff from Night Mother's gaze applies to your entire group, so if you're doing a dungeon, it debuffs your target(s) for the entire party. The bonus does not stack with multiple people using the same set, however.

cornbread923

Sounds good! Thanks for the info

Brokensocket

Kvatch is no good, by the time the targets at 25% it will get burned quickly regardless, like the others said NMG is one of the best group dps sets in the entire game, and easy to craft

oranje_elf

If you compare 5-set gladiator to 5-set NMG, then NMG is better (presuming no one else in a group is wearing it, as it indeed does not stack).

However, if you consider comparing incomplete sets, e.g., 3 NMG vs 3 gladiators, then gladiators may be better, as the first two bonuses of the gladiator set both boost crit chance. I actually once had a setup with 5 Vipers, 1 Monster set piece, 3 Vicious Ophidian and 3 Kvatch gladiators, and I preferred 3 pieces of gladiators to other alternatives for an extra crit chance. However, do not take it as an advice, as in my case it was a temporary solution based on the availability of dropped set pieces.