Personally, I use gear that increase my stats. And I use drinks instead of food and atronach mundus. I dont think you need more then around 1.7-1.8k magicka regen. Anything more then that and its too much. Just pop a potion for the very few times you actually run out of mana.

Personally I like the healer set very much, cyrodiil light and silks of the sun.

Sandmanninja wrote: »

question:
I picked the mundus stone buff trait to help my magicka regen. Since there is no cap on regen now, I thought I'd get more bang for my buck getting my regen as high as possible. Someone in my guild suggested Infused (if I was going to go with really good enchants).

With no cap on regen rates now, are people still going with Max (magicka/stam) or increase to regen rate?

And if you had to pick 2 set bonuses for a magicka build, which 2 would it be?

Any thoughts?

Depends entirely on what you want your magicka build to do...

If it's a DPS build then the two set bonuses you want are Spell power and then max magicka. Note spell power i smost important.

If it's a healing build then you then need to add in magicka regen.... regen is key in healer builds as you can't afford to run out.
Also if you can get in some extra spell power then great, as that will make your heals more powerful.

If you do a bit of both healing & DPS'ing then you can mix regen, spell power & max magicka, but obviously you won't have the optimal stats for one particular role.

Don't ignore the spell power would be my advice. Its very easy to just add in extra magicka & regen... but without the spell power your DPS & heals will hit like a wet noodle.... and set bonuses are the most efficient place to get a couple of spell power buffs in.

In terms of the trait.... lots of schools of thought. I'm with the one that says in a perfect world I'd go with infused on head, chest & legs and then make sure they had good magicka enchants on those pieces..... that helps with your max magicka the most. And then Divines on the smaller pieces.

At V14 I'd maybe look to get a mixture of a 5 piece healer set (Inc Jewellery) as this covers all bases for you, and then add in 4 piece martial knowledge for magicka & spell power. And then perhaps another 2 piece crafted set for magicka regen.... like Seducer for example. Cost reduction glyphs on all the jewellery. Atronach mundus for healing... if you wanted serious DPS then swap to apprentice.

That should give you a pretty well balanced setup between DPS & heals.

olsborg wrote: »

Personally, I use gear that increase my stats. And I use drinks instead of food and atronach mundus. I dont think you need more then around 1.7-1.8k magicka regen. Anything more then that and its too much. Just pop a potion for the very few times you actually run out of mana.

Personally I like the healer set very much, cyrodiil light and silks of the sun.

Thanks Olsborg

Also thinking of the Twice Born set - double mundus buff and add on top of it enchants to enhance max magicka/reduce spell cost. With 2 mundus buffs, you could have magicka regen & max magicka, or regen/healing buff (The Ritual).

Thanks again for theory crafting/idea bashing around with me.

Really like @Flaminir response, very helpful to me