Flanking Set Damage should really be increased.

Mashille · July 2016

The 330 Weapon Damage when attacking from behind on the 'Flanking Strategist' could really do with increasing, when in fights the extra 30 Weapon Damage over Hunding's Rage doesn't see, worth it at all as it is not easy to continuously hit a target in the back. And in PvP it's basically impossible.

I feel the Weapon damage should either be Majorly increased to something like 500 or so, OR make it so it works from the sides as well by changing the wording to 'When not attacking a target from the front gain 330 Weapon Damage'.

Furthermore Varen's Legacy seems rather useless, I don't know of anyone using or wanting to use it.

UltimaJoe777 · July 2016

Mashille wrote: »

The 330 Weapon Damage when attacking from behind on the 'Flanking Strategist' could really do with increasing, when in fights the extra 30 Weapon Damage over Hunding's Rage doesn't see, worth it at all as it is not easy to continuously hit a target in the back. And in PvP it's basically impossible.

I feel the Weapon damage should either be Majorly increased to something like 500 or so, OR make it so it works from the sides as well by changing the wording to 'When not attacking a target from the front gain 330 Weapon Damage'.

Furthermore Varen's Legacy seems rather useless, I don't know of anyone using or wanting to use it.

Varen's Legacy is a tank-friendly set. However, I have other sets I'd rather run than that one. Personally though I don't think it's a bad set so chances are someone is running it.

Mashille · July 2016

@UltimaJoe777

I dunno, I have a tank and it just doesn't seem appealing to me at all because, as a tank I don't really care for the extra AOE damage, I'd rather it was something like '10% Chance after Successfully Blocking an Attack to gain a X Point Damage Shield', or ''10% Chance after Successfully Blocking an Attack to have your next attack steal X life from the target'

UltimaJoe777 · July 2016

Mashille wrote: »

@UltimaJoe777

I dunno, I have a tank and it just doesn't seem appealing to me at all because, as a tank I don't really care for the extra AOE damage, I'd rather it was something like '10% Chance after Successfully Blocking an Attack to gain a X Point Damage Shield', or ''10% Chance after Successfully Blocking an Attack to have your next attack steal X life from the target'

Those would be great effects without a doubt but some tanks do like to run damage return builds, particularly DKs who have a knack for it.

Ghost-Shot · July 2016

Its actually 159 more weapon damage than Hundings rage since it has a weapon damage bonus on the 4 piece.

IcyDeadPeople · July 2016

Ghost-Shot wrote: »

Its actually 159 more weapon damage than Hundings rage since it has a weapon damage bonus on the 4 piece.

Plus unlike crafted sets Flanking includes jewlery, so it can be more easily combined with many other sets.

Dagoth_Rac · July 2016

Mashille wrote: »

The 330 Weapon Damage when attacking from behind on the 'Flanking Strategist' could really do with increasing, when in fights the extra 30 Weapon Damage over Hunding's Rage doesn't see, worth it at all as it is not easy to continuously hit a target in the back. And in PvP it's basically impossible.

I feel the Weapon damage should either be Majorly increased to something like 500 or so, OR make it so it works from the sides as well by changing the wording to 'When not attacking a target from the front gain 330 Weapon Damage'.

Furthermore Varen's Legacy seems rather useless, I don't know of anyone using or wanting to use it.

You should be running Flanking weapons + jewelry combined with Hunding's armor in PvE, and having tank position boss so you can hit it from behind. If this was an either/or situation, where you could wear Hunding or Flanking, but not both, the Flanking 5-piece would be weak. But you can combine it with Hunding. That is +759 weapon damage set bonuses between the 2 sets when behind an enemy. Which is pretty strong.