ShackleBreaker - good for magicka Sorcerer? (PVP)

PlautisCarvain · July 2017

Is the new set shacklebreaker would be good for à magicka sorcerer pvp, with a larger stamina poll, would be nice?

Wrecking_Blow_Spam · July 2017

Yes

Biro123 · July 2017

yes. Mix with the max health/mag and mag recov drink and a damage set and you have a solid base for your build

Chakei · July 2017

I love Shacklebreaker on my magsorc. 5 Shacklebreaker/3 Willpower jewelry/2 Slimecraw has been a very nice set up for me. The extra bit of stamina makes a huge difference.

Emma_Overload · July 2017

I use Shacklebreaker with Wizard's Riposte, and I'm pretty happy.

Vapirko · July 2017

Shacklebreaker is good for everyone. It's a wonderful crafted set and an awesome base for almost any class stam or mag. It's one of those sets like hundings that will always be a solid option if not absolute BiS for a specific purpose.

Waffennacht · July 2017

If you go with light armor, shackle breaker + necro + witch mother your stats are lower than amberplasm + necro + tri stat food

Shackle breaker is BiS for max mag on a heavy armor build

If you choose not to go with necro the out come may be different

I wanna see how breaker + Amberplasm + tri stat + domihaus looks, (+1 kena if DW)

Biro123 · July 2017

Waffennacht wrote: »

If you go with light armor, shackle breaker + necro + witch mother your stats are lower than amberplasm + necro + tri stat food

Shackle breaker is BiS for max mag on a heavy armor build

If you choose not to go with necro the out come may be different

I wanna see how breaker + Amberplasm + tri stat + domihaus looks, (+1 kena if DW)

Amberplasm + tri food may give more stats overall, but I think shackle and witchmothers can give more of the stats you want. Ie. Mag regen and max mag will be higher with shackle/witchmothers but Stan recov and Max Stam will be lower (but enough IMHO).

I also suspect amberplasm may catch the nerf-bat at some point, too.

And ofc, the mundus changes will shake things up a bit too.

Flaminir · July 2017

As a sorc, Shacklebreaker, willpower, VMA staff, Infernal Guardian & witch mother's brew.

Feels generally nicely balanced.

ParaNostram · July 2017

It is a pretty solid set truthfully. I personally use it for my hybrid builds.

runagate · July 2017

Interesting, I was just reading this: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/349689/ive-yet-to-see-a-build-in-which-shacklebreaker-is-mathematically-the-best-set/p1

I was always curious as to whether anyone ever made a stam-stacking build for bone shield + other shield stacking. It's not my sort of game-play but I'm surprised I'd never heard anyone mention it, with all the necropotence pet goobers out there.

Waffennacht · July 2017

@runagate bone shield scales with max health. A Stam build gets very little out of it. 17% of max health in PvP

runagate · July 2017

Waffennacht wrote: »

@runagate bone shield scales with max health. A Stam build gets very little out of it. 17% of max health in PvP

I knew the first part but hadn't considered the second. I just meant to spam shields, not make them larger.

As to health builds I've tried a Health Warden (on PTS) with Thews of the Harbinger and the usual health-stacking sets you'd normally see on a Blazeplar with the melee-damage-reflecting morph of Bone Shield (Spiked Bone Shield I believe) and the Health-scaled ice AoE Wardens have and it was fairly sustainable with sword and board on one hand and ice staff on the other, but certainly wasn't going to hurt anyone.