kragh if u dont hit pen cap, velidreth if you do, not a fan of selenes, but up to you

OK, so still have to farm for those three....
T.T
thx

In my experience, Swarm Mother is good IF you like heavy attacking (any heavy attack, bow, dw, etc.). Seems to reliably proc on heavy attacks, slows the enemy or mob, does DoT, etc. Use it. If you don't like it, get something else when able to try something else.

Selenes. I personally do not like this set as it can actually MISS hitting the target too often. Only good against slow or stationary enemies, or maybe snared enemies if it'll proc on them.

Velidreth. I like this set. Each spore ball can do it's own damage. If enemy moves left/right or backwards, as long as you are facing them, it'll most likely hit it. Against mobs in a cluster, facing them almost guarantees some/all will contact one.

Krag'h. They removed a bunch of penetration for some arbitrarily stupid reason. It does minimal damage, and requires a persistent routine to keep it procing. i.e. Flurry attack, light, flurry, etc. This was a good set when procs could crit. Now it stinks like every other bad nerf.


NONE OF THESE SETS DO THEIR TOOL TIP LISTED DAMAGE unless you are able to actually get through their defense. IGNORE DPS meters. Those are timed and average your damage against a timer by dividing values. Stop briefly in a fight and meter value plummets. Pay more attention to the total damage done, OR pay more attention to actual damage numbers. i.e. doing 10k damage or 30k crit damage, etc. on a hit or 2 is more realistic.

Brrrofski wrote: »

WaltherCarraway wrote: »

SoLooney wrote: »

kragh if u dont hit pen cap, velidreth if you do, not a fan of selenes, but up to you

There's no pen cap.

CP160 mob have 16.1k~18.2k resistances. (yes, both spell/physical resistance are the same.)

EDIT: to answer OP's question: roll velidreth, then selene, then kra'gh.

So 18.2k is the cap...

Veli or kragh. Selenes is better in PvP, wouldn't bother in Pve. You lay down too many dots that won't proc it.

Mephala is more for Stam DK who can benefit from heavy attacking.

So i guess ESO is all about PvE then?

Personally I like Slimecraw, especially if you aren't good with rotation, since they changed the first bonus to 833 spell and weapon crit and a 8% weapon damage bonus at all times it seems like a great set, at least for a noob like me :P

BTW, after horn of reach update
can i now discard sharpen trait and look for precise?
or should i stay with sharpen?

and for Khajiit stamblade, should change mundus stone to warriors or ???

WaltherCarraway wrote: »

SoLooney wrote: »

kragh if u dont hit pen cap, velidreth if you do, not a fan of selenes, but up to you

There's no pen cap.

CP160 mob have 16.1k~18.2k resistances. (yes, both spell/physical resistance are the same.)

EDIT: to answer OP's question: roll velidreth, then selene, then kra'gh.

There is a pen cap, you listed them, anything over 18.2k resistance is a waste, ipso facto a cap. Most overland mobs have under, a few dungeon bosses have 18.2 as do the Trial enemies.

AdicusDio wrote: »

In my experience, Swarm Mother is good IF you like heavy attacking (any heavy attack, bow, dw, etc.). Seems to reliably proc on heavy attacks, slows the enemy or mob, does DoT, etc. Use it. If you don't like it, get something else when able to try something else.

Selenes. I personally do not like this set as it can actually MISS hitting the target too often. Only good against slow or stationary enemies, or maybe snared enemies if it'll proc on them.

Velidreth. I like this set. Each spore ball can do it's own damage. If enemy moves left/right or backwards, as long as you are facing them, it'll most likely hit it. Against mobs in a cluster, facing them almost guarantees some/all will contact one.

Krag'h. They removed a bunch of penetration for some arbitrarily stupid reason. It does minimal damage, and requires a persistent routine to keep it procing. i.e. Flurry attack, light, flurry, etc. This was a good set when procs could crit. Now it stinks like every other bad nerf.


NONE OF THESE SETS DO THEIR TOOL TIP LISTED DAMAGE unless you are able to actually get through their defense. IGNORE DPS meters. Those are timed and average your damage against a timer by dividing values. Stop briefly in a fight and meter value plummets. Pay more attention to the total damage done, OR pay more attention to actual damage numbers. i.e. doing 10k damage or 30k crit damage, etc. on a hit or 2 is more realistic.

mmm... Swarm Mother???? you might want to rethink your whole idea of what damage is and how a set procs...unless this was just a mistake and you meant a completely different set