Swamp Raider Set & Poison Abilities for Snipers

mrwizardguy

Now that Titanborn is nerfed to the ground for snipers, it’s got me thinking what build tweaks we can maybe run in bow/2h with the swamp raider set.

In particular, i’m curious how poison injection combined with the disease of relentless focus could fare now as a finisher combo.

Simmering or sated frenzy are probably still essential. Though they are not as strong now without the titanborn proc that made dropping your health worth the shot. I personally hate using the ability but am still running it because it hits hard.

Ideas welcome.

xxslam48xxb14_ESO

mrwizardguy wrote: »

Now that Titanborn is nerfed to the ground for snipers, it’s got me thinking what build tweaks we can maybe run in bow/2h with the swamp raider set.

In particular, i’m curious how poison injection combined with the disease of relentless focus could fare now as a finisher combo.

Simmering or sated frenzy are probably still essential. Though they are not as strong now without the titanborn proc that made dropping your health worth the shot. I personally hate using the ability but am still running it because it hits hard.

Ideas welcome.

I was using swamp raider+new moon, but that is simply not a replacement to titanborn strength. I gave up trying to "one shot" people and just said frick it, its proc meta now. Just equip sheer venom and venomous smite. I see it as revenge for what they did to titanborn strength, while leaving these busted sets as is. Hit them with the snipe->poison inject->soul trap->acid spray to dot them to hell, then cloak away and watch anything without a purge die.

BangX

Titanborn wasn't even that good, you had to be under 50% health to use, sure the penetration was nice for 25K+ resist players but it was pretty annoying having to always be under 50% health. Good riddance to that set imo.

For stonethorn, I'm using many builds, sometimes, I like to run a heavy attack into surprise attack gank build and other times I feel like sniping, for my snipe build, I run torags pact with an infused disease
bow, Swamp Raider and two piece Molag Kena(You can proc Kena in stealth now) it hits like a truck, go shadow mundus since you want that glyph to hit extremely hard since glyphs can crit! amazing right? as for my heavy attack build, that's a secret..

JinxxND

BangX wrote: »

Titanborn wasn't even that good, you had to be under 50% health to use, sure the penetration was nice for 25K+ resist players but it was pretty annoying having to always be under 50% health. Good riddance to that set imo.

For stonethorn, I'm using many builds, sometimes, I like to run a heavy attack into surprise attack gank build and other times I feel like sniping, for my snipe build, I run torags pact with an infused disease
bow, Swamp Raider and two piece Molag Kena(You can proc Kena in stealth now) it hits like a truck, go shadow mundus since you want that glyph to hit extremely hard since glyphs can crit! amazing right? as for my heavy attack build, that's a secret..

Titanborn was the highest dmg setup that you didn't have to setup like stuhn's so yea it was a big hit for 1 shot gankers but anything in full divines will hit like a truck and shadow mundus is overrated in PvP unless you have a very high pen value you still need to go thru a lot of the resistances where Lover on 9/10 builds will do more damage esp if you are using procs even more so on a divines build. Shadow affects 1 hit where as Lover affects everything and unless you are critting constantly with a lot of pen very much like PvE. As far as heavy attack builds unless you do proc based build with lover that is the most damage without having to use off balance for ganks with 2-3 proc sets otherwise you have to get detected and use off balance much like using stuhns set

JinxxND

Also morag tong is one of the best sets due to it's vulnerability debuff for poison and now disease abilities

mrwizardguy

BangX wrote: »

Titanborn wasn't even that good, you had to be under 50% health to use, sure the penetration was nice for 25K+ resist players but it was pretty annoying having to always be under 50% health. Good riddance to that set imo.

For stonethorn, I'm using many builds, sometimes, I like to run a heavy attack into surprise attack gank build and other times I feel like sniping, for my snipe build, I run torags pact with an infused disease
bow, Swamp Raider and two piece Molag Kena(You can proc Kena in stealth now) it hits like a truck, go shadow mundus since you want that glyph to hit extremely hard since glyphs can crit! amazing right? as for my heavy attack build, that's a secret..

I [snip] hated it too. I’m glad they nerfed it because I wanna see new sniper builds and play styles that aren’t just all or nothing “get one kill then die”.

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Palidon

Try Swamp Rider and Deadly Strike setup.

Deadly Strike

2 items increase weapon damage
3 items weapon crit
4 items weapon damage
5 items Increase the damage your physical, poison, disease and bleed damage over time abilities do by 20%

Swamp Rider

2 items weapon crit
3 items Max Stamina
4 items weapon damage
5 items adds X damage to your poison and disease abilities (600 all gear legendary)

Shadow Mundus stone

Monster set optional I personally always run the Ring of the Wild Hunt with any stamina nightblade gank setup for the massive speed boost.

I personally prefer New Moon even though it took a slight nerf and Darloc Brae bow gank setup especially for no cp.
Lover Mundus . With Darloc Brae you will never run out of resources and can remain in stealth indefinitely.

Darloc Brae

2 items Magicka Recovery
3 items Stamina Recovery
4 items Reduces the radius you can be detected while sneaking by 2 meters and reduces the cost of sneak by 10%
5 Items While crouching and not blocking you restore X stamina and magicka and heal x health every second

670 Magicka and Stamina and 716 health all gear legendary that is every second. You can move around in Cyrodiil constantly in stealth all day long. Add the Ring of the Wild Hunt to that setup for a speed boost.

rumple9

I've been doing some serious damage with swamp raider

JinxxND

Why the hell you would use deadly strike a set that buffs dots in burst bow build? Stuff like this is why you realize the general population of the game is so bad and you don't see many good nightblades anymore