Waffennacht wrote: »I didn't know vali + eternal hunt + viper was black rose?
Amberplasm is 1k magicka, 600 spell crit, 130 spell damage and 300 magicka and 300 stamina regen. Pretty damn close when you consider that 185 stam/mag you're giving black rose is conditional on being hit every 4 seconds and exactly at every 4 seconds. Say you're hit at the zero seconds and constitution procs. Then you take a burst of dmg over the next 3.5 seconds. Then you take no dmg for 2.5 seconds. That's a very believable and frequent occurrence wouldn't you say? In that situation your 185 stam/mag regen from black rose dips to 120.
If you run heavy, ANY heavy armor, for dps.....nm for now.
Ooook. 1800÷4= 450 not 650.
Stam poison breaks any Heavy armor build unless dot heavy or Heavy attack is spammed. Heavy attack takes 3 seconds to charge and can be dodged easy.
Medium armor cost reduction almost negates stam poison.
Black Rose is fine. Your complaint is with heavy armor in general it sounds like. If anything heavy armor should have reduced movement speed.
Can keep going but think This is enough. Dont be mad your NB doesnt have a spammable regen source. Siphon is awesome.
You do realize regen tics every 2 seconds right?
Stam poison breaks heavy armor? So now we're bringing in mechanics that arent related to armor now? K
The lengths people will go to defend things that are obviously too strong.
"We need magicka versions" smfh, thats not why magicka is crap. That's a whole separate discussion.
Wasnt mathing right, my bad. Still doesnt change the fact your beef is with heavy armor, not black rose
Seems like most people that are disagreeing with me aren't mathing right, or taking into consideration how actual combat in cyrodiil plays out. Kinda funny how that happens.
All I'm asking for is a rebalancing. If people truly are using it as a sustain set, then lets leave the sustain aspects of it alone. Get rid of the wd and spell damage, and since everyone is always complaining about how magicka gets no love. Make it a universal set by making one of the stam buffs a mag buff.
Or we can just leave it as is and watch the 5 black rose, 5 dreugh (max stam set), 2 monster helm stam builds dominate cyrodiil next patch.
Funny because you didn't math right either just to push your agenda.
At this point anyone denying the complete overpowerness of Black Rose on it's current state is either completly delusional or wants to keep abusing the most broken set of the game, by far - Here is why.
Black Rose has not only the strongest combination of tankiness, damge and sustain but also, and most importanly provides an obscene amount of utility in the form of magicka regen, allowing sorcs streaking way more than they should, nightblades cloaking when they shouldn't be able and, the worse offenders, templars purging everything time and time again. I've fought templars who purged my curses, and I'm not kidding here, four or five times consecutivly with no apparent strain on theirs magicka pool when they haven't invested anything on magicka sustain besides maybe tri-food.
I believe this set is one, if not the main reason of the current stamina dominance, at the point that anyone trying to competitivly play a stam char for small scale not using this set is heavily hindering himeslf.
Zenimax for the love of a healthier balance please, nerf this set to the godamn ground already. Thank you
Tldr - Black Rose is the hands down the strongest combination of tankyness, sustain and damage while also providing almost unlimited utilty to purge, cloak or streak with no trade off whatsoever.
If you run heavy, ANY heavy armor, for dps.....nm for now.
Ooook. 1800÷4= 450 not 650.
Stam poison breaks any Heavy armor build unless dot heavy or Heavy attack is spammed. Heavy attack takes 3 seconds to charge and can be dodged easy.
Medium armor cost reduction almost negates stam poison.
Black Rose is fine. Your complaint is with heavy armor in general it sounds like. If anything heavy armor should have reduced movement speed.
Can keep going but think This is enough. Dont be mad your NB doesnt have a spammable regen source. Siphon is awesome.
You do realize regen tics every 2 seconds right?
Stam poison breaks heavy armor? So now we're bringing in mechanics that arent related to armor now? K
The lengths people will go to defend things that are obviously too strong.
"We need magicka versions" smfh, thats not why magicka is crap. That's a whole separate discussion.
Wasnt mathing right, my bad. Still doesnt change the fact your beef is with heavy armor, not black rose
Seems like most people that are disagreeing with me aren't mathing right, or taking into consideration how actual combat in cyrodiil plays out. Kinda funny how that happens.
All I'm asking for is a rebalancing. If people truly are using it as a sustain set, then lets leave the sustain aspects of it alone. Get rid of the wd and spell damage, and since everyone is always complaining about how magicka gets no love. Make it a universal set by making one of the stam buffs a mag buff.
Or we can just leave it as is and watch the 5 black rose, 5 dreugh (max stam set), 2 monster helm stam builds dominate cyrodiil next patch.
Funny because you didn't math right either just to push your agenda.
Which math was I not doing right exactly?
At this point anyone denying the complete overpowerness of Black Rose on it's current state is either completly delusional or wants to keep abusing the most broken set of the game, by far - Here is why.
Black Rose has not only the strongest combination of tankiness, damge and sustain but also, and most importanly provides an obscene amount of utility in the form of magicka regen, allowing sorcs streaking way more than they should, nightblades cloaking when they shouldn't be able and, the worse offenders, templars purging everything time and time again. I've fought templars who purged my curses, and I'm not kidding here, four or five times consecutivly with no apparent strain on theirs magicka pool when they haven't invested anything on magicka sustain besides maybe tri-food.
I believe this set is one, if not the main reason of the current stamina dominance, at the point that anyone trying to competitivly play a stam char for small scale not using this set is heavily hindering himeslf.
Zenimax for the love of a healthier balance please, nerf this set to the godamn ground already. Thank you
Tldr - Black Rose is the hands down the strongest combination of tankyness, sustain and damage while also providing almost unlimited utilty to purge, cloak or streak with no trade off whatsoever.
At this point anyone denying the complete overpowerness of Black Rose on it's current state is either completly delusional or wants to keep abusing the most broken set of the game, by far - Here is why.
Black Rose has not only the strongest combination of tankiness, damge and sustain but also, and most importanly provides an obscene amount of utility in the form of magicka regen, allowing sorcs streaking way more than they should, nightblades cloaking when they shouldn't be able and, the worse offenders, templars purging everything time and time again. I've fought templars who purged my curses, and I'm not kidding here, four or five times consecutivly with no apparent strain on theirs magicka pool when they haven't invested anything on magicka sustain besides maybe tri-food.
I believe this set is one, if not the main reason of the current stamina dominance, at the point that anyone trying to competitivly play a stam char for small scale not using this set is heavily hindering himeslf.
Zenimax for the love of a healthier balance please, nerf this set to the godamn ground already. Thank you
Tldr - Black Rose is the hands down the strongest combination of tankyness, sustain and damage while also providing almost unlimited utilty to purge, cloak or streak with no trade off whatsoever.
No tradeoff. Like dodge roll. Or reduced cost skills. Or moving faster.
You do realize that ALL heavy armor gives magika regen too, right?
Like i tried telling other nerf advocate, your beef is with heavy armor in general, not black rose. Which, if you really think about it, is a serious l2p issue.
Amberplasm is 1k magicka, 600 spell crit, 130 spell damage and 300 magicka and 300 stamina regen. Pretty damn close when you consider that 185 stam/mag you're giving black rose is conditional on being hit every 4 seconds and exactly at every 4 seconds. Say you're hit at the zero seconds and constitution procs. Then you take a burst of dmg over the next 3.5 seconds. Then you take no dmg for 2.5 seconds. That's a very believable and frequent occurrence wouldn't you say? In that situation your 185 stam/mag regen from black rose dips to 120.
At this point anyone denying the complete overpowerness of Black Rose on it's current state is either completly delusional or wants to keep abusing the most broken set of the game, by far - Here is why.
Black Rose has not only the strongest combination of tankiness, damge and sustain but also, and most importanly provides an obscene amount of utility in the form of magicka regen, allowing sorcs streaking way more than they should, nightblades cloaking when they shouldn't be able and, the worse offenders, templars purging everything time and time again. I've fought templars who purged my curses, and I'm not kidding here, four or five times consecutivly with no apparent strain on theirs magicka pool when they haven't invested anything on magicka sustain besides maybe tri-food.
I believe this set is one, if not the main reason of the current stamina dominance, at the point that anyone trying to competitivly play a stam char for small scale not using this set is heavily hindering himeslf.
Zenimax for the love of a healthier balance please, nerf this set to the godamn ground already. Thank you
Tldr - Black Rose is the hands down the strongest combination of tankyness, sustain and damage while also providing almost unlimited utilty to purge, cloak or streak with no trade off whatsoever.
No tradeoff. Like dodge roll. Or reduced cost skills. Or moving faster.
You do realize that ALL heavy armor gives magika regen too, right?
Like i tried telling other nerf advocate, your beef is with heavy armor in general, not black rose. Which, if you really think about it, is a serious l2p issue.
If it's a l2p issue, explain to my why almost every small scale / dueler is running with black rose. Even taking away the utility it provides with magicka regen, wich is the strongest part, there isn't any other set that provides anywhere close as this much of tankyness, sustain and dmge.
Heavy armor is probably overperforming, black rose just make it so obvious.
At this point anyone denying the complete overpowerness of Black Rose on it's current state is either completly delusional or wants to keep abusing the most broken set of the game, by far - Here is why.
Black Rose has not only the strongest combination of tankiness, damge and sustain but also, and most importanly provides an obscene amount of utility in the form of magicka regen, allowing sorcs streaking way more than they should, nightblades cloaking when they shouldn't be able and, the worse offenders, templars purging everything time and time again. I've fought templars who purged my curses, and I'm not kidding here, four or five times consecutivly with no apparent strain on theirs magicka pool when they haven't invested anything on magicka sustain besides maybe tri-food.
I believe this set is one, if not the main reason of the current stamina dominance, at the point that anyone trying to competitivly play a stam char for small scale not using this set is heavily hindering himeslf.
Zenimax for the love of a healthier balance please, nerf this set to the godamn ground already. Thank you
Tldr - Black Rose is the hands down the strongest combination of tankyness, sustain and damage while also providing almost unlimited utilty to purge, cloak or streak with no trade off whatsoever.
No tradeoff. Like dodge roll. Or reduced cost skills. Or moving faster.
You do realize that ALL heavy armor gives magika regen too, right?
Like i tried telling other nerf advocate, your beef is with heavy armor in general, not black rose. Which, if you really think about it, is a serious l2p issue.
If it's a l2p issue, explain to my why almost every small scale / dueler is running with black rose. Even taking away the utility it provides with magicka regen, wich is the strongest part, there isn't any other set that provides anywhere close as this much of tankyness, sustain and dmge.
Heavy armor is probably overperforming, black rose just make it so obvious.
So 90% of the fotm build stam classes where running Hundings before Heavy was adjusted, does that make hundings OP?
The "tankyness" your talking about comes from having more HPs, not the extra 3k armor, right?
At this point anyone denying the complete overpowerness of Black Rose on it's current state is either completly delusional or wants to keep abusing the most broken set of the game, by far - Here is why.
Black Rose has not only the strongest combination of tankiness, damge and sustain but also, and most importanly provides an obscene amount of utility in the form of magicka regen, allowing sorcs streaking way more than they should, nightblades cloaking when they shouldn't be able and, the worse offenders, templars purging everything time and time again. I've fought templars who purged my curses, and I'm not kidding here, four or five times consecutivly with no apparent strain on theirs magicka pool when they haven't invested anything on magicka sustain besides maybe tri-food.
I believe this set is one, if not the main reason of the current stamina dominance, at the point that anyone trying to competitivly play a stam char for small scale not using this set is heavily hindering himeslf.
Zenimax for the love of a healthier balance please, nerf this set to the godamn ground already. Thank you
Tldr - Black Rose is the hands down the strongest combination of tankyness, sustain and damage while also providing almost unlimited utilty to purge, cloak or streak with no trade off whatsoever.
No tradeoff. Like dodge roll. Or reduced cost skills. Or moving faster.
You do realize that ALL heavy armor gives magika regen too, right?
Like i tried telling other nerf advocate, your beef is with heavy armor in general, not black rose. Which, if you really think about it, is a serious l2p issue.
If it's a l2p issue, explain to my why almost every small scale / dueler is running with black rose. Even taking away the utility it provides with magicka regen, wich is the strongest part, there isn't any other set that provides anywhere close as this much of tankyness, sustain and dmge.
Heavy armor is probably overperforming, black rose just make it so obvious.
So 90% of the fotm build stam classes where running Hundings before Heavy was adjusted, does that make hundings OP?
The "tankyness" your talking about comes from having more HPs, not the extra 3k armor, right?
Amberplasm is 1k magicka, 600 spell crit, 130 spell damage and 300 magicka and 300 stamina regen. Pretty damn close when you consider that 185 stam/mag you're giving black rose is conditional on being hit every 4 seconds and exactly at every 4 seconds. Say you're hit at the zero seconds and constitution procs. Then you take a burst of dmg over the next 3.5 seconds. Then you take no dmg for 2.5 seconds. That's a very believable and frequent occurrence wouldn't you say? In that situation your 185 stam/mag regen from black rose dips to 120.
Amberplasm is light armor. And light armor is trash comparing to heavy or medium in PvP. But ok lets compare it. It gives only more regens , spell crit which is not so usefull in PvP less wep/spell dmg and much less resources.
Amberplasm is 1k magicka, 600 spell crit, 130 spell damage and 300 magicka and 300 stamina regen. Pretty damn close when you consider that 185 stam/mag you're giving black rose is conditional on being hit every 4 seconds and exactly at every 4 seconds. Say you're hit at the zero seconds and constitution procs. Then you take a burst of dmg over the next 3.5 seconds. Then you take no dmg for 2.5 seconds. That's a very believable and frequent occurrence wouldn't you say? In that situation your 185 stam/mag regen from black rose dips to 120.
Amberplasm is light armor. And light armor is trash comparing to heavy or medium in PvP. But ok lets compare it. It gives only more regens , spell crit which is not so usefull in PvP less wep/spell dmg and much less resources.
Light armor could use some love, but it isn't crap in pvp. I actually find it preferable to heavy armor, even Black Rose. But don't forget that Amberplasm comes in jewelry, too.
leepalmer95 wrote: »
Amberplasm is 1k magicka, 600 spell crit, 130 spell damage and 300 magicka and 300 stamina regen. Pretty damn close when you consider that 185 stam/mag you're giving black rose is conditional on being hit every 4 seconds and exactly at every 4 seconds. Say you're hit at the zero seconds and constitution procs. Then you take a burst of dmg over the next 3.5 seconds. Then you take no dmg for 2.5 seconds. That's a very believable and frequent occurrence wouldn't you say? In that situation your 185 stam/mag regen from black rose dips to 120.
Amberplasm is light armor. And light armor is trash comparing to heavy or medium in PvP. But ok lets compare it. It gives only more regens , spell crit which is not so usefull in PvP less wep/spell dmg and much less resources.
Light armor could use some love, but it isn't crap in pvp. I actually find it preferable to heavy armor, even Black Rose. But don't forget that Amberplasm comes in jewelry, too.
Doesn't come in impen though
I do not use or even own BR at time of this writing. I get killed by all the one v xers that wear BR all the time when I run solo. Kodi, Jules, Sypher, etc... It does not bother me in the slightest even if they go back to morukulin or shield breaker or hunding rage they will still kill me. They will also still kill you. BR nor any armor set is going to make a bad player a good player. Conversely, it is not the BR armor that made them good. I also kill tons of Kodi and Jules and Sypher wanna bees who run their builds but do not have any of their skill.
I am glad BR is available to everyone and anyone in the game. I think most people are using it as an excuse why you cant burst people down in 2 seconds (too tanky) or why you get killed by BR users all the time (too much damage). The truth is even if they change back to medium armor because lets face it their are no heavy armor alternatives and even if there was forum warriors would complain about that too. The ONLY concerns I have about BR is their is no magic equivalent of BR which there should be and most importantly. Why is there only one good HA set for stamina users? As usual magic users get jack nola.
People that run solo and in small groups need and deserve some armor that gives them mitigation. Getting zerged down by 15 players is no bueno and the only chance they have is in heavy armor... good heavy armor not the rest of the in game crap. On my DK I wear and use elf bane when I kill someone i get accused of wearing BR quite a bit. Even if i tell them I don't run BR they don't believe me so I now tell them to dust off their tin foil hats. Those are the people that want BR nerfed.
If I wanted to compete with them and other elite players. I would play more, gold out my gear, run malestrorm, run VDSA, heck even level my alchemy on all my toons. In summary I would get good. But for the vast majority of people I just don't need to do that. I would play on all stam toons (even though I have waaaayyy more fun on my magic toons). But those people who don't want to change their builds or play style or adapt will always call for nerfs of others to suit their own play style.
If you want to use BR use it... it will not make you any better. It may take a player at my level nine seconds to kill you instead of three seconds I for one am totally ok with that. I am not going to run out and buy it with my 130k tel var stones. At this point I just don't need it but I do like to know I can get it if I ever want to get it. I say more pew pew and less qq will make this game a lot better. Remember AOE caps were put in this game to give a nerf. Has this made the game better? Dynamic ult gen was removed as part of a nerf. Has this made the game better? Nerfs are not the answer they are the problem.
I do not use or even own BR at time of this writing. I get killed by all the one v xers that wear BR all the time when I run solo. Kodi, Jules, Sypher, etc... It does not bother me in the slightest even if they go back to morukulin or shield breaker or hunding rage they will still kill me. They will also still kill you. BR nor any armor set is going to make a bad player a good player. Conversely, it is not the BR armor that made them good. I also kill tons of Kodi and Jules and Sypher wanna bees who run their builds but do not have any of their skill.
I am glad BR is available to everyone and anyone in the game. I think most people are using it as an excuse why you cant burst people down in 2 seconds (too tanky) or why you get killed by BR users all the time (too much damage). The truth is even if they change back to medium armor because lets face it their are no heavy armor alternatives and even if there was forum warriors would complain about that too. The ONLY concerns I have about BR is their is no magic equivalent of BR which there should be and most importantly. Why is there only one good HA set for stamina users? As usual magic users get jack nola.
People that run solo and in small groups need and deserve some armor that gives them mitigation. Getting zerged down by 15 players is no bueno and the only chance they have is in heavy armor... good heavy armor not the rest of the in game crap. On my DK I wear and use elf bane when I kill someone i get accused of wearing BR quite a bit. Even if i tell them I don't run BR they don't believe me so I now tell them to dust off their tin foil hats. Those are the people that want BR nerfed.
If I wanted to compete with them and other elite players. I would play more, gold out my gear, run malestrorm, run VDSA, heck even level my alchemy on all my toons. In summary I would get good. But for the vast majority of people I just don't need to do that. I would play on all stam toons (even though I have waaaayyy more fun on my magic toons). But those people who don't want to change their builds or play style or adapt will always call for nerfs of others to suit their own play style.
If you want to use BR use it... it will not make you any better. It may take a player at my level nine seconds to kill you instead of three seconds I for one am totally ok with that. I am not going to run out and buy it with my 130k tel var stones. At this point I just don't need it but I do like to know I can get it if I ever want to get it. I say more pew pew and less qq will make this game a lot better. Remember AOE caps were put in this game to give a nerf. Has this made the game better? Dynamic ult gen was removed as part of a nerf. Has this made the game better? Nerfs are not the answer they are the problem.
Every single one of those great players you mentioned agree with the fact that Blackrose is overperforming. Yet its cool, we can just enjoy this meta because people are okay with some levels of inbalance.
Btw the balancing I'm talking about would actually make it a universal set. Able to run it on magicka or stamina, because at the very minimum there needs to be a change to one of the max stam buffs. People are still getting bursted with, or without blackrose. Next patch that remains the same. Just hop in any of those top players streams and ask them what they think will be the best setup next patch. Black rose is in 90% of the builds. Yet its cool, we can stick with this meta and kill build diversity because people think that my proposal has anything to do with the fact that I play a nb. Even though I have a max dk, sorc, and templar on the way.
I really do need to get to fixing my signature block.
Blackrose is overperforming for stamina based builds. Lets deal with this issue, and discuss magicka on another post.
Hiero_Glyph wrote: »I do not use or even own BR at time of this writing. I get killed by all the one v xers that wear BR all the time when I run solo. Kodi, Jules, Sypher, etc... It does not bother me in the slightest even if they go back to morukulin or shield breaker or hunding rage they will still kill me. They will also still kill you. BR nor any armor set is going to make a bad player a good player. Conversely, it is not the BR armor that made them good. I also kill tons of Kodi and Jules and Sypher wanna bees who run their builds but do not have any of their skill.
I am glad BR is available to everyone and anyone in the game. I think most people are using it as an excuse why you cant burst people down in 2 seconds (too tanky) or why you get killed by BR users all the time (too much damage). The truth is even if they change back to medium armor because lets face it their are no heavy armor alternatives and even if there was forum warriors would complain about that too. The ONLY concerns I have about BR is their is no magic equivalent of BR which there should be and most importantly. Why is there only one good HA set for stamina users? As usual magic users get jack nola.
People that run solo and in small groups need and deserve some armor that gives them mitigation. Getting zerged down by 15 players is no bueno and the only chance they have is in heavy armor... good heavy armor not the rest of the in game crap. On my DK I wear and use elf bane when I kill someone i get accused of wearing BR quite a bit. Even if i tell them I don't run BR they don't believe me so I now tell them to dust off their tin foil hats. Those are the people that want BR nerfed.
If I wanted to compete with them and other elite players. I would play more, gold out my gear, run malestrorm, run VDSA, heck even level my alchemy on all my toons. In summary I would get good. But for the vast majority of people I just don't need to do that. I would play on all stam toons (even though I have waaaayyy more fun on my magic toons). But those people who don't want to change their builds or play style or adapt will always call for nerfs of others to suit their own play style.
If you want to use BR use it... it will not make you any better. It may take a player at my level nine seconds to kill you instead of three seconds I for one am totally ok with that. I am not going to run out and buy it with my 130k tel var stones. At this point I just don't need it but I do like to know I can get it if I ever want to get it. I say more pew pew and less qq will make this game a lot better. Remember AOE caps were put in this game to give a nerf. Has this made the game better? Dynamic ult gen was removed as part of a nerf. Has this made the game better? Nerfs are not the answer they are the problem.
Every single one of those great players you mentioned agree with the fact that Blackrose is overperforming. Yet its cool, we can just enjoy this meta because people are okay with some levels of inbalance.
Btw the balancing I'm talking about would actually make it a universal set. Able to run it on magicka or stamina, because at the very minimum there needs to be a change to one of the max stam buffs. People are still getting bursted with, or without blackrose. Next patch that remains the same. Just hop in any of those top players streams and ask them what they think will be the best setup next patch. Black rose is in 90% of the builds. Yet its cool, we can stick with this meta and kill build diversity because people think that my proposal has anything to do with the fact that I play a nb. Even though I have a max dk, sorc, and templar on the way.
I really do need to get to fixing my signature block.
Blackrose is overperforming for stamina based builds. Lets deal with this issue, and discuss magicka on another post.
Except the answer to fixing Black Rose is to make it like Twice-Born Star and change one of the max stamina bonuses to max magicka. BR already has a +wep/spell dmg bonus, so why doesn't it have a +max magicka bonus? Let's be honest, having 2x max stam bonuses would be like Clever Alchemist having 1x health and 1x magicka. Why favor one resource when the set is obviously intended to be neutral? Other than that, dropping the wep/spell dmg bonus to a typical value would probably help.
Black Rose has not only the strongest combination of tankiness, damge and sustain but also, and most importanly provides an obscene amount of utility in the form of magicka regen, allowing sorcs streaking way more than they should, nightblades cloaking when they shouldn't be able and, the worse offenders, templars purging everything time and time again. I've fought templars who purged my curses, and I'm not kidding here, four or five times consecutivly with no apparent strain on theirs magicka pool when they haven't invested anything on magicka sustain besides maybe tri-food.
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For future reference; Blackrose isn't overpowered because you die to another player in PvP
You died because you lost to the better player
Learn from your mistakes and move on.
Hiero_Glyph wrote: »I do not use or even own BR at time of this writing. I get killed by all the one v xers that wear BR all the time when I run solo. Kodi, Jules, Sypher, etc... It does not bother me in the slightest even if they go back to morukulin or shield breaker or hunding rage they will still kill me. They will also still kill you. BR nor any armor set is going to make a bad player a good player. Conversely, it is not the BR armor that made them good. I also kill tons of Kodi and Jules and Sypher wanna bees who run their builds but do not have any of their skill.
I am glad BR is available to everyone and anyone in the game. I think most people are using it as an excuse why you cant burst people down in 2 seconds (too tanky) or why you get killed by BR users all the time (too much damage). The truth is even if they change back to medium armor because lets face it their are no heavy armor alternatives and even if there was forum warriors would complain about that too. The ONLY concerns I have about BR is their is no magic equivalent of BR which there should be and most importantly. Why is there only one good HA set for stamina users? As usual magic users get jack nola.
People that run solo and in small groups need and deserve some armor that gives them mitigation. Getting zerged down by 15 players is no bueno and the only chance they have is in heavy armor... good heavy armor not the rest of the in game crap. On my DK I wear and use elf bane when I kill someone i get accused of wearing BR quite a bit. Even if i tell them I don't run BR they don't believe me so I now tell them to dust off their tin foil hats. Those are the people that want BR nerfed.
If I wanted to compete with them and other elite players. I would play more, gold out my gear, run malestrorm, run VDSA, heck even level my alchemy on all my toons. In summary I would get good. But for the vast majority of people I just don't need to do that. I would play on all stam toons (even though I have waaaayyy more fun on my magic toons). But those people who don't want to change their builds or play style or adapt will always call for nerfs of others to suit their own play style.
If you want to use BR use it... it will not make you any better. It may take a player at my level nine seconds to kill you instead of three seconds I for one am totally ok with that. I am not going to run out and buy it with my 130k tel var stones. At this point I just don't need it but I do like to know I can get it if I ever want to get it. I say more pew pew and less qq will make this game a lot better. Remember AOE caps were put in this game to give a nerf. Has this made the game better? Dynamic ult gen was removed as part of a nerf. Has this made the game better? Nerfs are not the answer they are the problem.
Every single one of those great players you mentioned agree with the fact that Blackrose is overperforming. Yet its cool, we can just enjoy this meta because people are okay with some levels of inbalance.
Btw the balancing I'm talking about would actually make it a universal set. Able to run it on magicka or stamina, because at the very minimum there needs to be a change to one of the max stam buffs. People are still getting bursted with, or without blackrose. Next patch that remains the same. Just hop in any of those top players streams and ask them what they think will be the best setup next patch. Black rose is in 90% of the builds. Yet its cool, we can stick with this meta and kill build diversity because people think that my proposal has anything to do with the fact that I play a nb. Even though I have a max dk, sorc, and templar on the way.
I really do need to get to fixing my signature block.
Blackrose is overperforming for stamina based builds. Lets deal with this issue, and discuss magicka on another post.
Except the answer to fixing Black Rose is to make it like Twice-Born Star and change one of the max stamina bonuses to max magicka. BR already has a +wep/spell dmg bonus, so why doesn't it have a +max magicka bonus? Let's be honest, having 2x max stam bonuses would be like Clever Alchemist having 1x health and 1x magicka. Why favor one resource when the set is obviously intended to be neutral? Other than that, dropping the wep/spell dmg bonus to a typical value would probably help.
I've literally said that multiple times....... Is anyone reading my original post, or do they just see "AD NB" and think "Oh, heres another whiner with no concept of what this game is"
Change one of the max stam buffs to max magicka, and remove the weapon and spell damage. That's my proposal.
No matter what you think of black rose, nerfing it a month before thirty plus new sets are released is dumb. Who knows, maybe no one will be using it in a month.