"new" Bound Armaments???

Joxer61

Question was asked about Wardens bugs and if they any good...worthwhile, so I will ask the same of Bound Armaments.
Anyone tried and tested and if so, thoughts?

Tyrobag

Haven't checked armaments with the new sound they added, but they didn't address any of the crappyness from the last patch so I'm confident that it still looks and works like crap.

Iskiab

I tested it a bit as a magsorc. It looks like any kind of light attack builds stacks including Symbiosis. No idea if there’s a way to take advantage of that, too new to sorc.

I’m tempted to try a pelinal tanky No-CP magsorc using onslaught. Pelinal + bright throat + x monster, 5m-2L 3x weapon damage glyphs.

Xvorg

Iskiab wrote: »

I tested it a bit as a magsorc. It looks like any kind of light attack builds stacks including Symbiosis. No idea if there’s a way to take advantage of that, too new to sorc.

I’m tempted to try a pelinal tanky No-CP magsorc using onslaught. Pelinal + bright throat + x monster, 5m-2L 3x weapon damage glyphs.

Interesting. I have one with Necropotence but she's SB. With pets nerfed I think it's time to go for a different set, so BTB seems quite good

LiquidPony

It's pretty strong. Roughly equivalent to Relentless Focus on a stamblade; doesn't burst quite as hard but takes fewer LAs to proc.

It does about 7-10k DPS on a raid dummy parse depending on how exactly you use it.

Quite nice for bow/bow setups as well.

Joxer61

LiquidPony wrote: »

It's pretty strong. Roughly equivalent to Relentless Focus on a stamblade; doesn't burst quite as hard but takes fewer LAs to proc.

It does about 7-10k DPS on a raid dummy parse depending on how exactly you use it.

Quite nice for bow/bow setups as well.

well that's good to hear but now the kicker...how does it "feel"? fit into a rotation pretty smooth and all that? Im keen to have more Sorc skills because otherwise we are all just weapon wielding pixels with little class ident.

Iskiab

Xvorg wrote: »

Iskiab wrote: »

I tested it a bit as a magsorc. It looks like any kind of light attack builds stacks including Symbiosis. No idea if there’s a way to take advantage of that, too new to sorc.

I’m tempted to try a pelinal tanky No-CP magsorc using onslaught. Pelinal + bright throat + x monster, 5m-2L 3x weapon damage glyphs.

Interesting. I have one with Necropotence but she's SB. With pets nerfed I think it's time to go for a different set, so BTB seems quite good

Tried it and it looks terrible. Glassy and bad sustain. Pelinals lets you get higher spell power then you could normally get with a destro staff, but doesn't look like it'd work on a sorc to me. I tried something similar as a magblade and it did work but sorc's missing cloak.

I missed the range on bound armaments and it has good range, think bound will mainly be used by stamsorcs. Streak will be a nice kiting tool. Here's the spec, not very good, better to be a straight stamsorc bow build I think:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=185050

When I tried it on a magblade it worked but only in no-CP. CP points steer you towards either mag or stam so hybrids have a lot harder time.

Xvorg

Iskiab wrote: »

Xvorg wrote: »

Iskiab wrote: »

I tested it a bit as a magsorc. It looks like any kind of light attack builds stacks including Symbiosis. No idea if there’s a way to take advantage of that, too new to sorc.

I’m tempted to try a pelinal tanky No-CP magsorc using onslaught. Pelinal + bright throat + x monster, 5m-2L 3x weapon damage glyphs.

Interesting. I have one with Necropotence but she's SB. With pets nerfed I think it's time to go for a different set, so BTB seems quite good

Tried it and it looks terrible. Glassy and bad sustain. Pelinals lets you get higher spell power then you could normally get with a destro staff, but doesn't look like it'd work on a sorc to me. I tried something similar as a magblade and it did work but sorc's missing cloak.

I missed the range on bound armaments and it has good range, think bound will mainly be used by stamsorcs. Streak will be a nice kiting tool. Here's the spec, not very good, better to be a straight stamsorc bow build I think:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=185050

When I tried it on a magblade it worked but only in no-CP. CP points steer you towards either mag or stam so hybrids have a lot harder time.

Maybe changing wrath for ele weapon could help, then you have to figure out the rotation. Using armaments as some kind of execute seems to be a better choice

Iskiab

Xvorg wrote: »

Iskiab wrote: »

Xvorg wrote: »

Iskiab wrote: »

I tested it a bit as a magsorc. It looks like any kind of light attack builds stacks including Symbiosis. No idea if there’s a way to take advantage of that, too new to sorc.

I’m tempted to try a pelinal tanky No-CP magsorc using onslaught. Pelinal + bright throat + x monster, 5m-2L 3x weapon damage glyphs.

Interesting. I have one with Necropotence but she's SB. With pets nerfed I think it's time to go for a different set, so BTB seems quite good

Tried it and it looks terrible. Glassy and bad sustain. Pelinals lets you get higher spell power then you could normally get with a destro staff, but doesn't look like it'd work on a sorc to me. I tried something similar as a magblade and it did work but sorc's missing cloak.

I missed the range on bound armaments and it has good range, think bound will mainly be used by stamsorcs. Streak will be a nice kiting tool. Here's the spec, not very good, better to be a straight stamsorc bow build I think:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=185050

When I tried it on a magblade it worked but only in no-CP. CP points steer you towards either mag or stam so hybrids have a lot harder time.

Maybe changing wrath for ele weapon could help, then you have to figure out the rotation. Using armaments as some kind of execute seems to be a better choice

Yea IDK. While kiting you could wrath spam hoping for a frag proc. Frags hard casted is basicly the same thing as snipe. I've never really played a bow build in pvp so am not sure what it needs, played a bit more with it but it might still suck. I think minor and major expedition would be good.

Spec also lacks pen, something onslaught solves that a bow build will struggle with.