Anyone actually planning to farm the Mother Ciannait monster set?

LukosCreyden

Other

I'll run the dungeon once for story and to check out the 5-piece sets. If they buff this set, I may try and get it, if not, I will not bother.

Neoealth

No

They didn't need to ruin iceheart to sell me the dlc, I already bought it.

virtus753

No

Neoealth wrote: »

They didn't need to ruin iceheart to sell me the dlc, I already bought it.

Just curious, how did you buy Harrowstorm already? I didn’t think it was out for another few weeks.

imno007b14_ESO

virtus753 wrote: »

Neoealth wrote: »

They didn't need to ruin iceheart to sell me the dlc, I already bought it.

Just curious, how did you buy Harrowstorm already? I didn’t think it was out for another few weeks.

preorder

virtus753

No

imno007b14_ESO wrote: »

virtus753 wrote: »

Neoealth wrote: »

They didn't need to ruin iceheart to sell me the dlc, I already bought it.

Just curious, how did you buy Harrowstorm already? I didn’t think it was out for another few weeks.

preorder

Where is the option to preorder Harrowstorm? I’m only seeing options for the Greymoor chapter.

D0PAMINE

Yes

Gotta catch em' all

phermitgb

No

I voted no, but to be perfectly fair, I don't really *farm* any set. I don't care enough to set a schedule around acquiring a particular set. I do do a lot of dungeon groups and a fair amount of trials because I enjoy group content though, so usually, I get a mismatched but serviceable set of whatever I'm interested in at the moment, and that mostly works for me.

max_only

I didn’t even use iceheart...
What was Iceheart good for?


Set bonus
(1 item) Adds 833 Spell Critical
(2 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a damage shield that absorbs 9977 damage for 6 seconds. While the damage shield holds, you deal 770 Frost Damage to all enemies within 5 meters of you every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds

Once every 6 seconds I get a a chance at weak damage shield and deal frost damage. Ok. Seems very specific.

And MamaC doesn’t look like it was meant to replace Iceheart. They are two different things with two different conditions. How is it related?

DawnWarrior

See the PTS thread here:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/511037/why-nerf-iceheart/p1

virtus753

No

max_only wrote: »

I didn’t even use iceheart...
What was Iceheart good for?


Set bonus
(1 item) Adds 833 Spell Critical
(2 items) When you deal Critical Damage, you have a 20% chance to gain a damage shield that absorbs 9977 damage for 6 seconds. While the damage shield holds, you deal 770 Frost Damage to all enemies within 5 meters of you every 1 second. This effect can occur once every 6 seconds

Once every 6 seconds I get a a chance at weak damage shield and deal frost damage. Ok. Seems very specific.

And MamaC doesn’t look like it was meant to replace Iceheart. They are two different things with two different conditions. How is it related?

I wish the devs knew these things were different and had different conditions.

Iceheart is niche. There is a thread in the PTS section where people have explained some of its uses, including learning mechanics in vMA, soloing content, doing no-death trial runs, and other things. It’s not really “meta” because it’s a big tradeoff of offensive potential for defense.

Yet Iceheart has been toned down significantly because it would have vastly overshadowed MC. (That much has been admitted.) Anyone wanting to use MC would have found Iceheart more useful: easier to proc if you’re not on a templar, a much bigger shield, and a bit of damage rather than a tinier bit of resource recovery. They did bring MC up somewhat while they lowered Iceheart explicitly in the name of their new standards, but MC still has proc and function concerns that pretty much guarantee Iceheart will still be more useful. So they’ve nerfed a popular niche defensive set that’s been around since One Tamriel to try to promote the use of a problematic new defensive set in an upcoming paid DLC. Meanwhile, MC still has more limited use cases and mediocre stats, so it feels like a popular set and the players who use it are being punished for no real practical end. Making a base game useful thing less useful to try to make an upcoming paid thing more appealing is a concerning approach.

Yamenstein

Yes

Seeing as it procs off heavy attacks I'll farm it. Not sure how often I'll use it though.

essi2

Other

The changes don't change anything, the only effective change is Iceheart now being less appealing,

Athan1

Yes

This set is actually great on a templar jabs build. Templar has about 4-5 skills with a channel time (next patch the aedric ultimate will also be a channel) so this works wonder. You can run around with 10k health and invest all points in dps.

josiahva

Contaminate wrote: »

This is the first dungeon dlc I won’t be purchasing either with my own money or someone else’s.

From the continuing unethical business practices, to the lack of any real vertical progression, to a lack of engaging quest content, to the lack of competency in the combat team, and the complete lack of care the company has for its playerbase.

Name just one MMO that has actual vertical progression and not just the illusion of it. WOW as an example may raise the level cap, introduce tougher mobs, and release new gear...but practically speaking, how are you any stronger than you were afterward? Its just a donkey that never catches the carrot. Honestly, vertical progression would just make all the content in the game even more trivial than it already is...especially things like overland.

precambria

it's sleeper OP, medium attacks proc it and mist form so you can imagine this on a vampire in PvP is very good I used it a lot and got constant whispers about "the blue shield you always have" and it doubles as sustain that you can receive while in mist form because its not regen.