StamDK transition from Hundings/Nightmother to...

Gryph13

STAMDK experts,

I am at 235CP, and running a 5 piece Hundings, 4 Piece Nightmothers, 3 agility jewelry setup for PVE. I managed to lock down a velidreth monster set (Divine medium shoulders, infused helm medium), and want to know what sets I should push for to slowly make the transition from Hundings/NM to relequen/Beserkers. In the interim, I plan to drop the agility jewelry and go with Hundings(5)/NM(5), Velidreth, but trying to acquire briarheart seems a pain. I am wondering if I should just start farming cloudrest normal for relequen, though I am really unsure as to what I would mix relequen with until I am able to farm for beserkers(AY)?

Any suggestions? I appreciate the feedback.

Gryph

Vapirko

Things are gonna change with Wrathstone DLC, so hold on. But I beleive that as of this moment that hundings and briar heart with veli is second BiS if you have no trials gear. You can do the quest in Wrothgar for two unique briar heart daggers you’ll just have to transmute them. Next patch is still up in the air, the Warband set will probably be good though.

darkblue5

Hundings and Spriggans or Hundings and Two-Fanged Snake are better for when you don't have the full penetration trial tanks provide. Hunding/Briar or Relequen/Briar are only better when you for sure have the penetration covered by tanks. Before you worry about the marginal difference between these armor sets, (fairly tiny even at high dps) make a plan for getting Maelstrom weapons. (Though their promise of changing Weapon Set weapons is somewhat chilling on that count.) The Maelstrom weapons after you have decent sets in blue/purple are the biggest dps boosts for magicka and stamina dps. vMA is still much harder on stamina classes, and is easier on sorcs of all kinds.
Certainly Hundings/Spriggans is better than what you have on right now, and often better than relequen in surprising number of fights (whenever you'd lose stacks).

Gryph13

Thanks for the feedback. Likely easier to get spriggans than it is to acquire briarheart (with dolmens allowing for jewelry drops), though I will likey have a hard time getting daggers and a bow with infused.

Thanks

Vapirko

darkblue5 wrote: »

Hundings and Spriggans or Hundings and Two-Fanged Snake are better for when you don't have the full penetration trial tanks provide. Hunding/Briar or Relequen/Briar are only better when you for sure have the penetration covered by tanks. Before you worry about the marginal difference between these armor sets, (fairly tiny even at high dps) make a plan for getting Maelstrom weapons. (Though their promise of changing Weapon Set weapons is somewhat chilling on that count.) The Maelstrom weapons after you have decent sets in blue/purple are the biggest dps boosts for magicka and stamina dps. vMA is still much harder on stamina classes, and is easier on sorcs of all kinds.
Certainly Hundings/Spriggans is better than what you have on right now, and often better than relequen in surprising number of fights (whenever you'd lose stacks).

But if you’re tank isn’t providing major fracture with the taunt and can’t be bothered with a crushing enchant then you don’t reallt have a tank at all.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO

Vapirko wrote: »

darkblue5 wrote: »

Hundings and Spriggans or Hundings and Two-Fanged Snake are better for when you don't have the full penetration trial tanks provide. Hunding/Briar or Relequen/Briar are only better when you for sure have the penetration covered by tanks. Before you worry about the marginal difference between these armor sets, (fairly tiny even at high dps) make a plan for getting Maelstrom weapons. (Though their promise of changing Weapon Set weapons is somewhat chilling on that count.) The Maelstrom weapons after you have decent sets in blue/purple are the biggest dps boosts for magicka and stamina dps. vMA is still much harder on stamina classes, and is easier on sorcs of all kinds.
Certainly Hundings/Spriggans is better than what you have on right now, and often better than relequen in surprising number of fights (whenever you'd lose stacks).

But if you’re tank isn’t providing major fracture with the taunt and can’t be bothered with a crushing enchant then you don’t reallt have a tank at all.

Even if a tank is providing both those things, you still have ~11k pen left for yourself. Hunding/spriggans will always have value.