What do you think of necropotence nerf?

Aurielle

Vaoh wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

Sigh, so the gear hawkers must have caught wind of the nerf and impending changing meta -- couldn't find any Mother's Sorrow pieces in divines for under 40K last night. I picked up a few cheap pieces in impen, and am wondering if it's even going to be worth it.

I previously ran 5 Necro, 4 Julianos, 2 Willpower (yeah, I know, no Monster sets... I couldn't be arsed to grind for keys while setting up my sorc, and still couldn't be arsed). Based on the minor buffs to Necro (excluding the 5-piece nerf), would I end up losing much if I went 5 Julianos, 4 Necro, 2 Willpower and swapped in bound aegis over volatile familiar for the 8% magicka boost? Or are the buffs to Mother's Sorrow really going to be THAT good? My current Willpower rings aren't arcane, as I wanted to add a bit of extra health for soloing dungeons. I'm wondering, though, if with the extra defense that bound aegis brings, I could swap those rings to the arcane version. Magicka shields kinda negate the need for healthy rings anyway. Thoughts? I'm not looking to be BIS, but I also don't want to be less effective than I was before.

Luckily you won't need monster sets next patch for Magicka Sorc .... well, maybe just one piece which is easy to get.

Mother's Sorrow will be that good. You will find much more success with DPS and have very good Surge heals/War Horn DPS gain from using 5x Julianos (4 armor+double lightning staves), 5x Mother's Sorrow (2 armor, 3 jewelry), and 1x Monster Piece with either Max Magicka or Spell Critical.

Wearing Julianos means you can craft pieces in medium or heavy to get a 5/1/1 setup in order to make full use of Undaunted passives. However, you'll need one Divines monster piece. It can be either head or shoulder, and any weight, as long as it is Divines and of one either the Ilambris, Grothdarr, Infernal Guardian, Iceheart, or Slimecraw sets.

The setup is very good and easy to get at any level. This is for what is essentially the "BiS" setup next patch for endgame PvE on Magicka Sorc.

This is what I was afraid of. I really didn't want to shelve those Necro pieces, which were both expensive and time consuming to obtain. Thanks for clarifying, though. Time to start grinding again... I can't find my way into a good trading guild that doesn't require 15k weekly dues, so I never have enough gold to spread around when ZOS pulls out the nerf hammer. It's at times like these when having the ability to check out gear prices in guild stores across Tamriel would be really handy, as I refuse to pay what the city guild stores are charging for Mother's Sorrow.