Medusa:
This set's 2-4 piece bonuses are now Spell Critical, rather than Health, Magicka, and Spell Damage.
This set now has an additional 5 piece bonus of 900 Spell Critical.
redspecter23 wrote: »100% uptime on minor force shouldn't be overlooked. You can run this on jewels + 2 heavy for that. Or you can run with jewels and weapon. Either way, you free up the slot on your bar from trap or channeled accel, both of which have some heavy drawbacks compared to just plain having minor force up for doing nothing. The cost is a small amount of crit lost compared to arguably the BIS armor set currently.
Not sure how this is viewed as a bad thing.
Skjaldbjorn wrote: »Medusa:
This set's 2-4 piece bonuses are now Spell Critical, rather than Health, Magicka, and Spell Damage.
This set now has an additional 5 piece bonus of 900 Spell Critical.
This is essentially Mother's Sorrow, but worse. Less crit, less magicka. It's Diet Sad. This change effectively makes zero sense.
Skjaldbjorn wrote: »Medusa:
This set's 2-4 piece bonuses are now Spell Critical, rather than Health, Magicka, and Spell Damage.
This set now has an additional 5 piece bonus of 900 Spell Critical.
This is essentially Mother's Sorrow, but worse. Less crit, less magicka. It's Diet Sad. This change effectively makes zero sense.
..its stronger than mothers sorrow. less crit but the permanent minor force means you dont need to cast trap which does little damage, or channeled accel, which does no damage. its another button press for your spammable or a dot
the only downside is its still heavy armor. it wouldnt be an issue if theyd just add staves to its loot pool, but it is most effective as a double bar set, which is usually best ran in 5 body pieces.
dunno why they buffed the set to a very solid magdps set but kept it in heavy armor
ESO_Nightingale wrote: »Skjaldbjorn wrote: »Medusa:
This set's 2-4 piece bonuses are now Spell Critical, rather than Health, Magicka, and Spell Damage.
This set now has an additional 5 piece bonus of 900 Spell Critical.
This is essentially Mother's Sorrow, but worse. Less crit, less magicka. It's Diet Sad. This change effectively makes zero sense.
..its stronger than mothers sorrow. less crit but the permanent minor force means you dont need to cast trap which does little damage, or channeled accel, which does no damage. its another button press for your spammable or a dot
the only downside is its still heavy armor. it wouldnt be an issue if theyd just add staves to its loot pool, but it is most effective as a double bar set, which is usually best ran in 5 body pieces.
dunno why they buffed the set to a very solid magdps set but kept it in heavy armor
Yeah it's arx corinum right? Song of Lamia is the light set? Could just swap those 2 around imo.
Skjaldbjorn wrote: »Medusa:
This set's 2-4 piece bonuses are now Spell Critical, rather than Health, Magicka, and Spell Damage.
This set now has an additional 5 piece bonus of 900 Spell Critical.
This is essentially Mother's Sorrow, but worse. Less crit, less magicka. It's Diet Sad. This change effectively makes zero sense.
..its stronger than mothers sorrow. less crit but the permanent minor force means you dont need to cast trap which does little damage, or channeled accel, which does no damage. its another button press for your spammable or a dot
the only downside is its still heavy armor. it wouldnt be an issue if theyd just add staves to its loot pool, but it is most effective as a double bar set, which is usually best ran in 5 body pieces.
dunno why they buffed the set to a very solid magdps set but kept it in heavy armor
Watch the asian god video on this.
Although they should have made a mag tzogwin. But this set is good, i personally think i will front bar it if i get it, the choice is either sorrow or this anyway, which are both awful front bar sets, and if i want to body this i can't use 5 1 1
Shhh. Don't you remember what happened with Iceheart when it was mentioned while testing Ciannait?Skjaldbjorn wrote: »This is essentially Mother's Sorrow, but worse.
WrathOfInnos wrote: »Watch the asian god video on this.
Although they should have made a mag tzogwin. But this set is good, i personally think i will front bar it if i get it, the choice is either sorrow or this anyway, which are both awful front bar sets, and if i want to body this i can't use 5 1 1
Yeah I really like the design. Balanced well with Sorrow, about 3% DPS loss but that can be made up if you put the free bar slot to good use. Sustain is a little harder with Medusa, since barbed every 18s saves some Magicka. Personally I’m glad it’s not exactly Mag Tzogvin’s. Carrying over to the off-bar for 5s would have been nice, but the triple Spell Crit is an improvement over a line of Spell Pen.
martijnlv40 wrote: »
JoSePHRiNG wrote: »Combine it with Mother's Sorrow you get %100 critical chance, no joke.
I tested it on PTS, on sorcerer because critical surge %100 uptime + heal could also crit.
Sorcerer is necessary for %100 due to minor prophecy buff.
If sustain was in a better place for Magicka this would be great. As it stands a large number of people (incoming nerf aside) are using FGD for sustain, and typically want that on both bars for the cost reduction. That leaves this set either as front bar only which will dilute the value or 5pc full time, impacting either FGD or monster. As per the comments above, I'm not sure how many Mag setups currently have the spare resources for an extra magicka cast each second anyway to get value from it.