Considering the set of viper and damage viper does, SV seems very weak in case of both AoE and single target damage. Especially that twin set from ICP - scating mage - is considered atm best in the game. But who is this khajiit to judge?
How did we go from discussing a stam set to stating Scathing Mage is BiS? Not sure we you are going with this unless to say that the ICP mag set is BiS and therefore the stam set should be as well.