Why is everyone using Kagrenac's Hope lately?

DannyLV702 · October 2015

I don't get the trend. I see large amounts of people mentioning they use it in all sorts of recent threads. I don't understand what's so great about it. Is there something I'm missing? Are they exploiting something? It requires a whole 8 traits to craft which I can't comprehend why since the bonuses don't seem all that useful. Any insight would be appreciated!

failkiwib16_ESO · October 2015

It provides spell power, and is a good v16 alternative to the glorious v14 Martial Knowledge set, for those who can't or won't invest the time and effort or money in getting the Imperial City DLC, and grind vWGT and vICP dungeons for better sets.

DannyLV702 · October 2015

This is still really confusing. How much spell power would it grant? Or does anyone know WHY it gives spell damage even if it's not part of the bonus set? Maybe I'm just being slow

lolo_01b16_ESO · October 2015

The 5 piece bonus of this set got changed recently and now provides ~200 spell damage.

DannyLV702 · October 2015

Ohhhh that makes sense. Looks like I'm gonna have to make a visit to the crafting station since I can't rely on websites due to recent updates! Now I understand, thanks for the answers!

Ourorboros · October 2015

This set is about to be supplanted by a new crafted set from the Orsinum DLC, the Julianous set, which provides more spell damage as well as spell crit. I'm surprised there is not more chatter about it.

DannyLV702 · October 2015

Yeah I'm excited as hell for the Julianos set. Will do a five piece probably with 3 piece Magnus if I decide to go the two handed sword route

Nestor · October 2015

lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »

The 5 piece bonus of this set got changed recently and now provides ~200 spell damage.

Which is really strange as this is crafted at the Fighter's Guild Forge....

code65536 · October 2015

I'd still prefer Kagrenac over Julianos, actually.

At VR16 gold, the spell damage difference is 299 vs. 234. So, 65 extra spell damage with Julianos. Those two spell crit bonuses come out to around 7% extra crit.

But what's the price of that extra 65 damage and ~7% crit? You lose about 1K of health (and I consider health/magicka to be fungible; if you have extra health from set bonuses, then you can convert health enchants or health attribute points into magicka), 129 magicka recovery, and the resurrection speed bonus. Considering the number of times that people wipe in both PvE and PvP because of resurrection vulnerability, this really isn't something that I'd want to lose.

Kagrenac might not have as much raw damage potential as Julianos, but it is the more well-rounded and arguably overall better set.

Johngo0036 · October 2015

Julianos set is the Hundings Rage set for Magicka users..

Cannot wait.