Pelenial's is a very nice set that has some unique strengths.

The hardest part of perennials is to get a good result requires a lot of different things spell crit and weapon crit. CP distribution amongst different champion trees to get spell crit and weapon crit bonuses and we are still in era of stacking just one thing.

I think change is coming with the next update, I read somewhere they (the developers) ar looking at ways to make players put attribute points into things besides all magic or all stamina.

I wouldn't say soft caps are coming back.

But Pelenial's paired with toothrow or the magic version is very interesting concept.

It is a great tanking set and is actually a really nice medium set for a stamina DK pre vigor build to get some decent self heals.

A tank with ability to DPS dungeons.

There are a bunch of interesting things you can do its this set.

So it seems the set has two major factors working against it; the division of champion points, and the division of resource pool size. I think if it only provided matched crit values along with its matched weapon/spell damage, it would be enough to compensate for a divided investment in resources.

@Vaoh Nice writeup, and a heck of a tooltip =P It's interesting and perhaps more reasonable to have the matching champion point crit value modifiers you suggest, rather than across-the-board crit value matching, as this might make for some very strong set combinations.

With a little bit of love, this set could allow players to actually use all of their abilities effectively, instead of just half. That said, it seems safe to say that even while incorporating some form of matched crit values, it still wouldn't reach near the damage numbers of pure min/max or proc builds, given the smaller resource pools and first 3 set bonuses.

And without any love? There is very little to suggest this set is justifiably worth 9 traits. I'd go a step further to say it's probably frustrating players by luring them in with the hope of being able to use all of their abilities competently, only to find they put big investment towards a set that performs below average on all fronts. And with other options enabling maximum performance in any one area, its simply going to be left behind regardless of cost.

My advocacy for reducing trait cost alone is simply to minimize overall disappointment, but ideally I'd love for Pelinal's to become a viable endgame set, allowing for balance, legitimate hybrids, and moderate performance with any combination of all our awesome skills.

I agree, the set sucks nuts, plain and simple. Another half-baked band-aid to alleviate the strain of poor overall development decisions on game systems.

What we need is more intelligent character stats/progression along with a streamlining of the CP system such that all characters are essentially magicka/stamina hybrids and can choose the skills to match their preferred flavor and playstyle rather than be pidgeon-holed at every turn. Unfortunately the changes needed are too numerous to list here and Wrobel doesn't care what anyone else thinks anyway so all this will probably fall on deaf ears.

Pelinal's needs to equalize stamina/magicka as well as weapon/spell power, and it would be a pretty interesting set choice then. As it is, the set is okay with certain builds/configurations, but it's really hard to make it much more than just "okay".