Proposed value adjustments on old-school sets

Jeezye

First, I want to mention that I am really excited about next patch and welcome all changes that have been made, especially regarding traits, mundus and progsets. That been said, I can see that the developers seem to invest significantly more time this update in balancing sets that are over/underperforming. While all introduced set changes are nice and head into the right direction, I am still really disappointed that there is literally no changes to the older sets that remain in the graveyard.

When creating new build for my toons, I am permanantly seeking to have my own individual touch on each character and therefore explore all sets introduced since lauchn. (Nice websites for listings are fextralife e.g.). While scrolling though the sets, it doesn't take much time to realize that at least 50% of the given sets are underperforming HEAVILY compared to counterparts that were introduced later on. I have always asked myself how the devs can just ignore these old sets and keep introducing new ones that overshadow the old ones.

While I can image it takes a little bit of effort to rebalance or rework old sets, it really cant be that hard to just adjust numbers of these old set's 5 pieces. This is why I wanted to create this thread to collect these old sets and propose new numbers for their 5 pieces values. I mean, seriously, to change these bonuses must take a maximum of 5 minutes per set, and I have hope that this might be in the developer's focus for the upcoming patch.

That been said, I hope we can get these old sets to live, beacuse some of them are really unique, interesting and its a pitty they can't even be considered to be used.

Thanks!

Jeezye

I'll start with my own suggestions:

Classic Light Armor Sets:
Almexias Mercy - increase to 5 k healing
Buffer of the Swift - 10k dmg shield
Curse eater - 40% reduction to negative effects
Lamias Song - 50 Health per point of Ultimate
Light of Cyrodiil - 30% dmg reduction
Noble Duelist- 3 k extra damage
Prayer Shawl - 5 k dmg shield
Undaunted Unweaver - 3k extra damage
Martial Knowledge - 40% extra damage

Classic Medium Armor sets:
Archer's Mind: 10% more crit damage, 5% more out of stealth
Crusader - 0,7 sec increase
Hawk's eye - costreduction and damage increase 10%
Markmans Crest - costreduction and damage increase 10%
Morag Tong - 20% more poison damage
Oblivions Edge - increase heal to 10k
Storm Master - 3k damage
Sunderflame - 3k Flame damage
Twin Sister - 8k dot over 3 seconds, reduce CD to 3 seconds
Wilderqueens Arch - increase snare to 60%
Witchman Armor - increase health and stam restore to 40 per ultimate

Classic Heavy Armor sets:
Affliction - 5k disease damage
Crest of Cyrodiil - reduce CD to 1 second
Duneripper's Scales - 7k resistances
Embershield - 2k flame damage
Footman's Fortune - 12% damage blocked
Glorious Defender - 50% chance on light, 100% on heavy attacks
Hand of Mephala - 8k Poison damage
Hatchlings Shell - 15000 damage shield recharging out of combat
Hide of Morihaus - 3,5k physical damage
Ice Furnace - 2k Flame Damage
Jolting Arms - change 3 and 4 piece bonus to max stam and max magicka
Juggernaut - reduce CD to 30 sec
Nikulas Heavy Armor - change 2 and 3 piece to max stam and max magicka

DLC sets:
powerful assault - 200 wep and spell dmg
Galerions Revenge - 10k damage
Thews of the Harbringer - damage equal to 8% health
Trinimacs Valor - 5k health and damage, CD reduced to 4 sec
Briarheart - heal increased to 1,5k health
Hunt Leader - CD reduced to 4 seconds
Para Bellum - 15k dmg shield
Baharas Curse - 2k dmg
Syvarras Scales - 3k damage upfront and 8k over 6 seconds
Flanking Strategist - 1k weapon damage against enemy players (btw this could be an amazing set!)

Crafted:
Ashen Grip - 5k flame damage
Whitestrake's Retribution - 12k damage Shield
Vampire's Kiss - 30k heal over 6 seconds when killing an enemy player
Song of Lamae - 6k magic damage and heal for 8k
Alessia's Bulwark - no ideas yet, need to be looked at too though
Kvatch Gladiator - 5k damage
Willow's Path - fix the 5 piece for god's sake (doesnt work for like 3 patches)
Redistributor - 8k heal
Varen's Legacy - 8k (could also be a nice set!)
Shalidor's Curse - remove 50% penalty and increase healing to 1,5 k
Oblivion's Foe - no ideas yet, needs to be looked at too though
Spectre's Eye - 15% chance on class ability cast to grant major evasion for 5 seconds
Pelinal's Aptitude - change 1 piece bonus to weapon and spell damage


The values can obviously be discussed and I might have overlooked synergies that can be too strong in certain combinations. It is pretty clear though that there are tons of sets out there that I guess most havent even heard of.

Beardimus

The new proc sets are op, the old proc sets are mostly too weak. So i agree.

Trinimac Value losing its Crit made it less than useless.