Best MagBlade sets?

Ohhgrizyyy

Last thread of the night I promise xD

Just finished leveling a magblade which a buddy I'm trying to get into this game. Also I just returned after about 11-12 months gone from the game so I need to re-adjust and would need to try and farm trials sets so that being said. What are the best set combos to rock on a magblade that are not trial sets? I've been reading and seeing people say BSW, Julianos and MS are all good sets to combine but my problem is which sets do I put where? Which 2 (or others) would I combine and which would I drop the 4-5 piece while on my backbar? (I have a vMA inferno)

I would hate to have to farm a BSW Inferno but if I have to than oh well.

SvariBK

Farming bsw inferno is a really time consuming thing. Talking from experience. And Ms inferno is pretty expensive. If I was you I'd use Julianos inferno, until you get sth better Julianos and ms should work perfectly fine. Later you want siroria and spell start but siroria and ms/bsw with siroria full body works really well.

Ohhgrizyyy

SvariBK wrote: »

Farming bsw inferno is a really time consuming thing. Talking from experience. And Ms inferno is pretty expensive. If I was you I'd use Julianos inferno, until you get sth better Julianos and ms should work perfectly fine. Later you want siroria and spell start but siroria and ms/bsw with siroria full body works really well.

I've been told Siroria and Spell Strat is kinda rubbish and only good in parses cause it has no AoE and requires you to literally sit in 1 spot which cant always happen in some trials. Could whoever just told me this be maybe not like the combo and he prefers BSW or are Spell Strat+Siroria just way above everything else?

Ohhgrizyyy

SvariBK wrote: »

Farming bsw inferno is a really time consuming thing. Talking from experience. And Ms inferno is pretty expensive. If I was you I'd use Julianos inferno, until you get sth better Julianos and ms should work perfectly fine. Later you want siroria and spell start but siroria and ms/bsw with siroria full body works really well.

I'd also just hate to use Julianos front bar cause you lose that 300 spell damage when not on that bar and I know BSW can proc from blockade even after you swap from back bar

O_LYKOS

I would keep bsw up at all times i think. Pair it with either of the other two and drop the 5th piece on the vMA staff bar. I think you'll want two flame staff set up for the bsw up time.

Otherwise go with juli and mothers sorrow. Still and decent set up and you'll hit decent dps. I'd drop the 5th MS piece personally.

SvariBK

Well it always depends on the boss you are fighting if it's sth like the first boss in hrc which is basically a dummy you will have a good parse with siroria and ss. If you do cloud rest not so much, it also depends on your skill of keeping the siroria buff. I haven't farmed ss yet so I can't compare it. You will do perfectly fine parses with siroria and bsw/ms like I said. And imo you can keep siroria quite easily just a bit of training and with just a few stacks it is stronger than Julianos AFAIK. And ss is only good for singletarget bosses.
Anyways if you hit endgame you prolly want 3-4 different set ups for 1 trial

Ohhgrizyyy

You're right

Ohhgrizyyy

O_LYKOS wrote: »

I would keep bsw up at all times i think. Pair it with either of the other two and drop the 5th piece on the vMA staff bar. I think you'll want two flame staff set up for the bsw up time.

Otherwise go with juli and mothers sorrow. Still and decent set up and you'll hit decent dps. I'd drop the 5th MS piece personally.

I mean I've been told that if BSW is on your front bar that it can proc from your blockade casted on your back bar once you swap back to front

O_LYKOS

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

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O_LYKOS wrote: »

I would keep bsw up at all times i think. Pair it with either of the other two and drop the 5th piece on the vMA staff bar. I think you'll want two flame staff set up for the bsw up time.

Otherwise go with juli and mothers sorrow. Still and decent set up and you'll hit decent dps. I'd drop the 5th MS piece personally.

I mean I've been told that if BSW is on your front bar that it can proc from your blockade casted on your back bar once you swap back to front

I did think this. Because after you swap bar the wall is still ticking. For me personally i'd feel it would do better with double flame staff as i use wall on one bar and flame clench on the other therefore more up time of bsw. I'm not up to date on pve builds tho tbh but i get by ok lol

SvariBK

On a mnb I get about 50-55%bsw uptime with bsw on front bar. Also of course you want double inferno, I think on all combinations even. The best theoretically possible is 60% or sth like that. And I heard bsw front bar is better than ms or siroria.

Ohhgrizyyy

SvariBK wrote: »

On a mnb I get about 50-55%bsw uptime with bsw on front bar. Also of course you want double inferno, I think on all combinations even. The best theoretically possible is 60% or sth like that. And I heard bsw front bar is better than ms or siroria.

Yea so looks like I'm farming a BSW destro boys....R.I.P my sanity

SvariBK

Best way to farm it is on a nightblade looting the chests only. Get a ton of mag recovery and cloak through the first instance of coa1 with mappings you get the locations of the all possible chest spawns and then you use rapid and cloak and sprint through the dungeons. My staff dropped from a chest and it took me about 500 resets or sth like that. Get a group of 4 players for max chance. If you get volunteers lmfao

Kalante

is master architect decent?

Ohhgrizyyy

SvariBK wrote: »

Best way to farm it is on a nightblade looting the chests only. Get a ton of mag recovery and cloak through the first instance of coa1 with mappings you get the locations of the all possible chest spawns and then you use rapid and cloak and sprint through the dungeons. My staff dropped from a chest and it took me about 500 resets or sth like that. Get a group of 4 players for max chance. If you get volunteers lmfao

Holy sh*t

Ohhgrizyyy

Kalante wrote: »

is master architect decent?

I know it was. Not sure if it still is

Gatviper

People say it's still great, but looks like a very situational proc which you'd have to keep an eye on to get better results. Running on Julianos 5x on armor, BSW 5x on jewelry + staves and 2x Valkyn Skoria. Hearing so much about MS being great I got the parts to replace Julianos and tested it, but the resulting dps was lower than Julianos, so there's that.

N3CR01

I was using BSW and Mech. Acuity on my Magblade.
Changed to Julianous and Mothers Sorrow now, seems alot stronger to me.

carlos424

O_LYKOS wrote: »

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Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

O_LYKOS wrote: »

I would keep bsw up at all times i think. Pair it with either of the other two and drop the 5th piece on the vMA staff bar. I think you'll want two flame staff set up for the bsw up time.

Otherwise go with juli and mothers sorrow. Still and decent set up and you'll hit decent dps. I'd drop the 5th MS piece personally.

I mean I've been told that if BSW is on your front bar that it can proc from your blockade casted on your back bar once you swap back to front

I did think this. Because after you swap bar the wall is still ticking. For me personally i'd feel it would do better with double flame staff as i use wall on one bar and flame clench on the other therefore more up time of bsw. I'm not up to date on pve builds tho tbh but i get by ok lol

BSW proc stays active when switching bars, as does spell strategist, that alone makes these two sets better options than julianos or mother’s sorrow. This is assuming that you are front barring them and using maelstrom back bar. Also, I have been running master architect and spell strategist lately on magplar. Just slightly less dps than sororia and spell strat. Still hitting 50k+ on 3mil dummy. Nice group buff and allows for more mobility. Assume it would be the same for magblade.

carlos424

Gatviper wrote: »

People say it's still great, but looks like a very situational proc which you'd have to keep an eye on to get better results. Running on Julianos 5x on armor, BSW 5x on jewelry + staves and 2x Valkyn Skoria. Hearing so much about MS being great I got the parts to replace Julianos and tested it, but the resulting dps was lower than Julianos, so there's that.

Mother’s sorrow can hit harder, but you have to depend on somewhat random crit damage. Julianos is much more consistent. If you want to get your highest dummy parse numbers, use mother’s sorrow and do a bunch of parses. Eventually, you’ll get that one anomaly parse that’s like 2k higher than the others. Then go back to Julianos : )
Personally, if I were double barring right now, I’d go Bsw and spell strat, or master architect and spell strat.

Icy_Waffles

Personally I run ms jewelry and front bar infused fire staff. Bsw body pieces as I move a lot, skoria helm and shoulder (heavy and medium) and infused maelstrom fire staff backbar

Chelo

Destruction Mastery is better than Julianos...