5pc set bonuses and switching weapons

Duragon_Darko

I remember a while ago, if you had on like a 5pc set for Ebon or Plague Doctor with weapons or shields, and you switched ability bars, you would lose the set bonus for health and have to recover it. Does that still happen?

Smasherx74

why wouldnt it?

Koolio

This is something they were "looking" into. Never saw the results of their findings

chris25602

I was naively made aware of this with the twice born star set. for most things I would expect the bonus to be turned on or off by switching...but with the mundus stone bonus the effect is just dropped perma until u go back to a stone.

Tasear

Actually should be fixed for ebony, green pact and plague doctor from homestead update.

Skullstachio

your best option would be to have 3 pieces of the set you need in the form of jewellery & any two pieces of the set armor(Excluding helmets & shoulders as those are for monster sets obtained in vet dungeons & undaunted chests.), then when you decide to use a set that is craftable, you wil have complete control on what weapons you need in both Primary & Secondary bars as well as three armor pieces with whichever traits you want(Because there are craftable sets you can make with the right materials.), thus allowing you to retain the two 5-piece set effects on both bars as well as a monster set (Provided you are using dual-wield or one-hand & shield.) thus letting you use up to 3 full sets at once!

Duragon_Darko

Alpha-Lupi wrote: »

your best option would be to have 3 pieces of the set you need in the form of jewellery & any two pieces of the set armor(Excluding helmets & shoulders as those are for monster sets obtained in vet dungeons & undaunted chests.), then when you decide to use a set that is craftable, you wil have complete control on what weapons you need in both Primary & Secondary bars as well as three armor pieces with whichever traits you want(Because there are craftable sets you can make with the right materials.), thus allowing you to retain the two 5-piece set effects on both bars as well as a monster set (Provided you are using dual-wield or one-hand & shield.) thus letting you use up to 3 full sets at once!

So, I actually crafted Tavas sword and shield, with chest, legs and feet. The waist, hands and jewelry are Plague Doctor or Ebony... all with a Bloodspawn monster helm set. It worked perfectly since I never switch one of the health sets. But, in running with a few people in the new trials, the new meta is health. So, just to try it, I wanted to replace my Tavas set with Warrior-Poet... I was just worried about the whole switching weapons thing.

Just so all of you know, I tried it and it does not mess up the 5pc set. With Warrior-Poet and Plague Doctor, all enchantments in health and Structured Enthropy, my health is at 49k... with NO points in health, all attribute points are in magicka as I am a magicka DK tank. If I throw my attribute points in there, I get to 57k. Don't know if its worth it, but it's a different play style, and I needed a change from the Tavas thing. I guess I could really just dump all those points into health and then instead of Volatile Armor, I could run Balance for the resistance and the magicka rebound/regen effect. What do you all think?

Thanks to those that repsonded, I appreciate the feedback. Anything else you can add to the build, please let me know.

Thanks again.

Skullstachio

Just a heads up, some of the sets in the horns of the reach base patch are getting nerfed, & plague doctor is one of those sets to be nerfed, it is going down from 6000 max health to 4000 max health, effectively reducing it by 2000.

Brrrofski

Not sure about twice born.

But sets that gave magica, Stam, health would take it away when weapon swapping and then you'd have to regen it.

Pretty use this isn't the case. I tried it with shacklebreaker and it didn't take it away.

Magdalina

I think they have fixed that, partially at least. You may want to try the specific sets to make sure.

UppGRAYxDD

Its fixed...has been for a bit now. I originally noticed this awhile ago with the Trainee set...

Duragon_Darko

Alpha-Lupi wrote: »

Just a heads up, some of the sets in the horns of the reach base patch are getting nerfed, & plague doctor is one of those sets to be nerfed, it is going down from 6000 max health to 4000 max health, effectively reducing it by 2000.

... damn it. Gonna have to go through the patch notes now. That would essentially make it equal to or weaker then Green Pact?

Runschei

Magdalina wrote: »

I think they have fixed that, partially at least. You may want to try the specific sets to make sure.

Yeah I loose my 2nd mundus stone, aka the 5p bonus, if I run tbs on just one weapon bar. But I only do that when I accidentally equip another weapon .____.