Mag NB build looking for opinions

Gallaro · January 2016

so I'm thinking of rocking 5 piece spell power cure (currently have 4 of perfect stats) and 5 piece of winter born (maelstrom drop 3 accessories last 2 pieces of gear) and torgs staffs frost/resto. i know everyone is keen on keeping mid weave with fire staff and using the willpower set/kena/Nerien'eth sets. but looking for something that i would say is almost comparable the proc for winter born is aoe and procs a lot with wall of elements, lay that down for boss/aoe if boss just weave funnel if aoe sap essence. the winter born gives you a bit of magica recov, a good 5 piece proc and a single max/spell dmg bonus. any opinions on this? and yes i know it doesn't have the pure raw dmg of willpower/kena but would say comparable to Nerien'eth since i have seen multi proc at a time rather than single proc for the litch also able to proc it with a .5 second dot.

well tear it apart

(TLDR: spellpower/winterborn/torg vs spellpower/willpower/kena/Nerien'eth/torg)

Septimus_Magna · January 2016

Spell Power Cure is definitely a useful set if you dont have a healer with you thats using it.
With Sap Essense and Swallow Soul/Funnel Health the 5pc bonus will proc very often.

Nerienths is a very useful 2pc set, especially on a magicka NB with a lot of CPs into Thaumaturge for increased magic dmg.
Winterborn only procs on cold dmg which is pretty limited besides Frost staff destro abilities and Ice Comet.
If you would use a sharpened Mealstrom ice staff it could be viable with Wall of Elements and/or Pulsar.

Setup: 5x Winterborn, 2x Nerieths, 1x Maelstrom (Ice staff), 2x Torugs Pact (DW swords) and 3x Willpower.

The disadvantage is that your spell dmg would be relatively low because you only get 1x spell dmg bonus from 7 pieces of gear (5x Winterborn and 2x Nerienths).

Personally I would probably go for Julianos or Kagrenacs 5pc with 1x Maelstrom fire staff.
Or something like 4pc Overwhelming and 2pc Torugs Pact.

Gallaro · January 2016

most healers dont run spell power cure on xbox console that i have run into, they tend to keep kags, its usually either sorcs/mag nbs for that, atleast that i have run with, adds more spell dmg than julianos, the total bonus numbers for spell dmg/max mag with the 2 builds would be-

1)spellpower/winter/torg-645/2901+winter proc 5600(unbuffed does buff with dmg bonus/multi proc at once)

2)spellpower/willpower/kena-838/3305+kena proc(33% increase mag cost/516dmg)

3)spellpower/willpower/Neri-709/3305+neri proc 8800(does buff limited to 1 proc per party at a time)

4)julianos/willpower/kena(most popular in game atm)-750/2418+7% crit/kena proc

now at the common conversion rate of 10 mag=1dmg 1) 935 2)1168 3) 1039 4) 991

so the real question is, is a 5600 unbuffed proc that can proc multiple times at a time worth 233 spell dmg? or is a 8800 unbuffed proc woth 129 spell dmg over the set 3 setup? and im not holding my breath on getting the maelstrom ice staff havent heard of one dropping on xbox yet aparently its glitched with only a firestaff dropping but dont hold me to that.