What's best in slot for a redguard stam sorc? Has it changed with one tamriel?

Here- I'll go ahead and fill in all the PVE tank BiS gear for NBs, Sorcs, Templars, and DKs:

Tava, Ebon/Alkosh, Bloodspawn

Yay! Diversity!!!!

IzakiBrotheSs wrote: »

jaburns wrote: »

Here- I'll go ahead and fill in all the PVE tank BiS gear for NBs, Sorcs, Templars, and DKs:

Tava, Ebon/Alkosh, Bloodspawn

Yay! Diversity!!!!

Tava's hasn't been BiS for a while now.... Its all about Ebon, Alkosh and Bloodspawn

You don't need 2x eben in your raid. You can also run tava/ebon for offtank and tava/alkosh for maintank in some raids. There are also some more worthwhile sets, but tava is still a good option.

IzakiBrotheSs wrote: »

Destruent wrote: »

IzakiBrotheSs wrote: »

jaburns wrote: »

Here- I'll go ahead and fill in all the PVE tank BiS gear for NBs, Sorcs, Templars, and DKs:

Tava, Ebon/Alkosh, Bloodspawn

Yay! Diversity!!!!

Tava's hasn't been BiS for a while now.... Its all about Ebon, Alkosh and Bloodspawn

You don't need 2x eben in your raid. You can also run tava/ebon for offtank and tava/alkosh for maintank in some raids. There are also some more worthwhile sets, but tava is still a good option.

Off-tank shouldn't be running Tava's or Ebon. He should be running Powerful Assault and Alkosh. You need at least 2 people running Alkosh in a trials group. The off-tank isn't taking enough damage to make decent use of Tava's. Powerful Assault and Sentinel of Rkugamz on the other hand are amazing support sets that both have much more benefit on an off tank than Tava's.

Tava's is still a good cheap option, but its nowhere near being BiS.

Both of you missed my point. It seems like no matter what race or class a tank is- they're still running a select three set pieces. There's no diversity in tanking. When it comes to DDs, however, your gear is wildly different from a stamina or magicka based character. You gear also varies on what class you choose and race is also a factor. You ask what's BiS for DDs and people will ask "What's your class? What's your race? What's your attributes?" No one asks that about tanks. They just spout out "Ebon, Alkosh, Bloodspawn"

The problem with setups that are all-dropped gear is that you rely on pure luck. For weapons the chance of actually getting one with the right trait and type is about 1/600 since the probability is shared with shields and jewelry. So as DD this is pretty bad.

For thank the weapon type doesn't actually matter, but the trait does. Even if you want any 1h defending or infused weapon the chance is still pretty small, around 1/80. The chance of getting a shield, in any trait is about the same. You'll need a huge number of farming sessions in the specific dungeon or trial - in case of overland content trading is also an option, but BiS pieces cost a lot if you can find them.

By the time you eventually get your hands on that supposedly BiS gear piece - you may actually never get it - the meta would have actually changed, because the skill calculation was changed, there is a new BiS set, or even new content that can be tackled best using totally different gear. And the time spent farming would be actually wasted for nothing.

So I've decided to always use a 5 piece crafted sets in all my builds by default, and only use dropped gear exclusively if I already have it in storage, without trying to farm it obsessively. Running the same content over and over again in a short period, always hoping to get the specific item really ruins my pleasure to play.

I've recently started doing vet trials on my main Nord stamina DK as tank.

The trait combo that I've found works best for me is infused on big pieces, divines on small ones, and tri-glyphs on everything, defending on weapon, crusher enchantment, block cost reduction jewelry enchants, with atronach mundus. Because I want to be able to use ingenous shield to give me and those around me more resistance and recoup a bit of stamina in a pinch without dropping block to do a heavy attack.

The gear I've been running has proven pretty good in 4 man content, but only passable in veteran trials, since Ebon is not part of it. As long as the off tank was running that, I stayed with my usual setup, but running as single tank implies that I must run Ebon. I've farmed most armor pieces with the required trait and only need either an infused chest or divines feet to start crafting around it.

Currently I'm running 2 x Bloodspawn (heavy, infused head, divines shoulders, tri-glyphs) + 3 x Endurance jewelry (robust, block cost reduction) + 2 x Alessia's Bulwark (defending swords, crusher enchantments, infused shields tri-glyphs) + 5 x Willow's Path (heavy infused chest & legs, divines feet, medium hands and light waist). This setup gives me around 26.6K health, 32.5K stamina and 13.6K magicka, with 1.2K magicka/stamina regeneration. Resistance is 31K both for physical and magic.

As single tank I will always run 5 x Ebon Armory (jewelry, infused legs and either infused chest or divines feet). I have 2 options for crafted sets and another 2 for monster sets.

One crafted set would be Hist Bark - that will keep my physical resistance where it is now, but my regeneration would be far lower. It would save some stamina from the missed hits, but lower the proc on Bloodspawn somewhat.

Another crafted set would be Tava's Blessing - I will lose around 1.9K physical resistance and around 150 regeneration from the final Willow's Bonus, and I will also need to run shuffle to proc it. Missed shots also lower the proc on Bloodspawn but probably the procs from the 5th piece bonus would actually lead to a net ultimate gain.

In both cases the stamina pool will be about 2.5K lower from the Ebon jewely being healthy, and not robust, like my Endurance. I don't think this is such a big deal. My health will be around 33K, which seems right.

The two monster sets I want to use are Bloodspawn - which I'm currently using - and Lord Warden, which I already have but never used until now. There is also the possibility of using mismatched parts from Chockethorn and Shadowrend for ~260 magicka regeneration but I don't find this particularly attractive because it lacks group utility.

So what should I craft first? In which fights will those sets be put to better use?

Later edit: My old Willow's Path set is not going away. I will still use it for tanking dungeons on my DK and also my sorcerer, where works really nice in combination with 5 x Amber Plasm and 2 x Infernal Guardian for perma-shielding and constant flame bombs, but that's another discussion.

So I always went with Overload build for my magsorc. Now I'm gonna go BSP and Moondancer. I just need 1 moondancer or 1 BSW staff...but as it seems is gonna be almost imposible to get due to the fantastic RNG, should I lose ilambris set and go 1 kena and 1 torug + 2 destro torugs and lose Ilambris?

stam sorc pvp dps build link is to a dk build.

I use 5 spriggan, 3 vo, 2 veli and 2 TBS lol

Best in Slot

@davidcombs7 The standard best in slot armor set for all magicka classes is now Burning Spell Weave due to the loss of crit on monster and 5 piece set bonuses, and changes to crit damage multipliers making crit based builds less powerful. Sorcerers and Nightblades can make good use of Necropotence as well.

@davidcombs7
One thing you could do would be to go onto the UESP Build Editor and put your build on there, then see how your Effective Spell Damage (ESD) changes when you switch out your sets. Make sure to divide the number you get from BSW to better reflect your normal uptime. So if you have really good uptime (66%) then you'd add the ESP with BSW proced onto itself along with the ESD when it's not proced and divide by 3 to get your average ESD.