Syiccal wrote: »

is solo pvp viable in light armour or am I just signing my own death warrant. Heavy is still the meta by a long way for magplar with everyone I speak to using it.
Any body have success SOLO with light?
yes it hits harder but that won't matter if I'm dead or constantly healing

LA gives you more crit chance, mag regen, cost reduction and penetration. It lets your slot dmg enchants and pick apprentice mundas for more dmg while letting you slot 2 defensive/utility sets which arguably gives more mitigation than heavy armor currently does.

But neither wont solve magplar's lack of mobility and tendency to be stuck on the defensive (vital for solo in open world).

Play BGs with magplar, the mobilty is less of an issue, and you can find yourself in better situations dealing with 2-3 good players while your team focuses on the other team/objective. Plus no lag!

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I'm not the best player, but most magplars running light found that you have to pair it with 2 defensive sets. I don't run vampire, but most do. Here's a vid of a BG I was in where I was tanky just enough to offset being stuck casting BoL all the time (though I oddly was casting it anyway to heal the Chaos Ball handler.) I am using Pirate Skele for my main defense, and backbar frost staff for "just in case" moments.
https://youtu.be/H8PM-hgV5Tw

I haven't tested myself, but I've heard of people running light armor with Wizard Reposte AND Transmutation. Not sure where the damage would come from though.

Try wearing 5pc Fortified Brass in light or Wizard's Riposte. I'm running Fortified Brass with Blood Spawn and it's surprisingly tanky, no damage shield required. Pair those with an offensive set and you can be pretty viable solo.

I run my Magplar with

5 Mechanical Acuity - Light
5 Spinners (Dual Wield)
2 Skoria

The damage output is crazy, you can melt a player during the Acuity proc. I find using Dampen Magicka is more than enough defense. Especially paired with BOL and the healing from jabs.

TheDoomsdayMonster wrote: »

Syiccal wrote: »

is solo pvp viable in light armour or am I just signing my own death warrant. Heavy is still the meta by a long way for magplar with everyone I speak to using it.
Any body have success SOLO with light?
yes it hits harder but that won't matter if I'm dead or constantly healing

Heavy is the Meta for a Magplar?

No...Light gives you ALOT of bang for your buck opposed to 5 Heavy; the Cost Reduction and Magicka Regen in particular are golden.


I am a Magplar, btw, that wears 5 Light and you can absolutely have success in Light Armor solo in PvP...

Now there are some limitations to this...

You cant rush headstrong into all situations like John Rambo; you gotta be a bit more selective with the battles you pick (Vampirism and its Dark Stalker passive combined with Elusive Mist as a must for a solo Magplar IMHO); playing like a hybrid Nightblade is very strong for my character in this regard...

And as @Minno correctly points out, 1 DPS set combined with 2 Defensive/Utility sets seems the best route to go if you want to wear 5 Light...


Now there is a bit of a learning curve involved with wearing 5 Light and you are going to take a few beating figuring out your limitations, but once you figure it out and master it, you'll see that 5 Light has a higher performance ceiling for a Magplar than 5 Heavy does...

Good luck!

I do completely agree light is better for magplar. But when I threw on my new heavy setup I noticed my capability to 1vx was more possible or less nerve wracking to finish players without catching a large amount of burst. I love my light Templar builds but truly feel heavy is still a better choice if you're gonna be beat on by alot of players. I could be really biased because I play my magplar like I used to play mag dk but it's just my insight. But while in light if you can get a nice meteor off while jabbing that time to kill will be really short, but dawnbreak of smiting in heavy with the lover mundus is pretty nice too. It's all preference I guess.

akray21 wrote: »

I haven't tested myself, but I've heard of people running light armor with Wizard Reposte AND Transmutation. Not sure where the damage would come from though.

The damage would come from the light armor + 3 regen stats you get from those two sets. meaning you could prob get away with 2 or 3 spell damage glpyhs and a damage mundus, and then theres still your monster set too.

I run a fort brass+wizards light armor build on my templar sometimes and still have pretty high damage, it really depends on how you do it.


You don't need to have multiple dps sets in order to have dps.

Can someone explain me Mechanical Acuity usefulness over Julianos? With little investments in crit you easily get 50% crit chance with Julianos constantly while having 300 more spell damage. Do I miss something?

Ashamray wrote: »

Can someone explain me Mechanical Acuity usefulness over Julianos? With little investments in crit you easily get 50% crit chance with Julianos constantly while having 300 more spell damage. Do I miss something?

Julianos is great for sustained damage. But Mechanical Acuity provides a guaranteed 5 seconds of crit when it procs. And the 15% chance while using the DOTs and channeled abilities of a magplar gives a very high uptime of the set off cooldown. You can hold your burst for the proc and hit someone for 5 straight seconds of guaranteed crit damage. I like to load up DOTs on a target and then when Acuity procs I hit them with a stun and then an ultimate or Jabs. There is something extremely satisfying about watching a soul assault hit for its full duration while critting (effectively more than doubling its tooltip damage (you can hit PVE creatures for 135K+ soul assaults everytime). Or hitting someone with 100% critting jabs and then following it up with a nearly fully critting Radiant Opression. I like to run this build with the Shadow mundus and stack CP into elfborn to get even more crit damage. You can also make a bomber using this set with the destro ult. Pop destro and gap close into the group and when this procs (it will very quickly) every tic of your destro ult for 5 seconds of its duration will hit every enemy for crit damage.


For me at least, in Cyrodil, the max stam/mag 4 piece is extremely useful as well.

So yeah, Julianos provides the potential of a 50% crit change over the entire course of a fight. But Acuity provides insane windows of burst.

Datthaw wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Syiccal wrote: »

is solo pvp viable in light armour or am I just signing my own death warrant. Heavy is still the meta by a long way for magplar with everyone I speak to using it.
Any body have success SOLO with light?
yes it hits harder but that won't matter if I'm dead or constantly healing

LA gives you more crit chance, mag regen, cost reduction and penetration. It lets your slot dmg enchants and pick apprentice mundas for more dmg while letting you slot 2 defensive/utility sets which arguably gives more mitigation than heavy armor currently does.

But neither wont solve magplar's lack of mobility and tendency to be stuck on the defensive (vital for solo in open world).

Play BGs with magplar, the mobilty is less of an issue, and you can find yourself in better situations dealing with 2-3 good players while your team focuses on the other team/objective. Plus no lag!

edit:
I'm not the best player, but most magplars running light found that you have to pair it with 2 defensive sets. I don't run vampire, but most do. Here's a vid of a BG I was in where I was tanky just enough to offset being stuck casting BoL all the time (though I oddly was casting it anyway to heal the Chaos Ball handler.) I am using Pirate Skele for my main defense, and backbar frost staff for "just in case" moments.
https://youtu.be/H8PM-hgV5Tw

How in the world do you play in that 1/2 zoomed camera? Would drive me crazy

It drives me nuts when I have it zoomed out and trees/objects block my view in the middle of a fight.