Seraphayel wrote: »

Who knows if ZOS isn't nerfing sets because of that. I would rate it as quite likely though.

I would be devastated, I was like planning to look some more world bosses in the eye and solo them with two 5 piece bonus at same time.

I think jewelry crafting will just allow for more flexibility while farming what you really want to use. I have three characters above 50 and only one uses any crafted gear. I had to use my gold Hunding's somewhere and my main is now a tank.

This will allow for easier equipping while leveling because you won't have to hunt for jewelry which will be different levels by the time you get five pieces of whatever set you are after.

Has the real issue already been mentioned here? If you can’t use the station, you can’t research traits and thus can’t transmute jewelry. If all the old jewelry drops with the new traits then that doesn’t matter, but I don’t know if robust and the new stuff will be on seventh legion and those kinds of sets.

None of these combinations sound overpowered at all. Maybe PVP hybrids get a small buff out of this, since there are so many crafted hybrid sets and few looted ones.

NMG + Hundings could be ok for someone starting out in end game PVE on a stamina DPS, but it is weaker than the already common Sunder + Hundings.

Tavas + Hist could be fun for casual content, but it means no Ebon, Alkosh or Torugs so most likely detrimental to group performance.

Every other combination I've seen mentioned is inferior to options already available in game. Hopefully we can come up with some better ones, or this system will be pretty disappointing.

The people saying its useless are the people who run Nothing but meta builds lmao. Nevermind running your own unique builds and letting your skill carry you rather than your sets.

Very much looking forward to trying out Axiom - shacklebreaker - 2pc monster set.

TBS + MA is the only combo with BiS potential for magicka DPS IMO. Shadow Mundus + MA proc could hit hard. Or it could just be something that looks better on paper than it actually is in practice.

I think crafted jewelry is pretty useless for magicka dps with the current craftable sets. Stam dps can run Hundings and NMG which comes close to current dropped gear.

srfrogg23 wrote: »

I was thinking of going with julianos and mechanical acuity for dps, but there’s so many possibilities, lol. I really need ideas, too.

Ideally you dont want to mix spell crit and Acuity because its useless over the duration of the proc.

Shezzarrine wrote: »

Please stop using the word overpowered like this, I would rather ZOS not nerf all of the good crafted sets into uselessness.

So much this. Hundings rage and shackle for example won’t be OP merely solid. Most classes will lack some sustain with it, it will have good weapon damage all the time but still not reach the damage potential of Alchemist. I’m unlikely to run shackle and hundings over my current alchemist and bone pirates on my Stam Sorc 2H build for example.

I wish there would be a feature in gamingforums where everyone who posts a thread or post with the words "overpowered" and "nerf" in it would automatically get an electric shock in their nutsack.

josiahva wrote: »

GoodFella146 wrote: »

Tava's and Hist Bark. Permablock is back!!!
(even though it STILL EXISTS TODAY and has not been nerfed enough in PvP after three straight tries in the last three patches so great job dev team!!!)

You see...from a PvE perspective, certain fights permablocking is pretty much required(The Warrior in vHRC, or the earthgore amalgamation in vBF(though I get away without permablocking that fight until the 3rd one spawns...where one mis-timed block is instadeath). That being said...permablocking in PvP is not a huge issue...if you are permablocking, you arent doing damage(or not much) so who cares? If you want to break the permablock, fear them or stun them...then they melt pretty quickly. You want to waste you time running around a tree blocking and jumping? What does it matter? In battlegrounds it might be something else...but I have yet to even try battlegrounds, but permablockers in Cyrodiil tend to be worthless and not a threat 95% of the time...although they do make people waste a lot of time trying to kill them.

Here's the problem:

If you dodge, you're not blocking the hit, therefore you're not spending stamina, and you're generating ulti on top of that.

Which means bats, block, dodge, bats, block, dodge, t-bag the poor fools that tried to kill you.

If you stun a turtle build you don't have time to burst, unless you have a couple friends.

Also, if you're going for body + jewelry, that's 10 pieces, which means you are free to go for MA s&b for extra resources on top of heroism for even more ulti, or bloodspawn for more ulti and resistances.

Permablockers in Cyro are useless, because they have to wait for their ulti to line up the burst. Add ulti gen to the mix on top of passive dodge... eh, not so much.

So, it's a mixed bag.

As for Tava + Hist in PvE, that's a whole different bag of cats. Ulti gen tanks are fun to use, but you're kinda limited to NBs, which are sub-par tanks in trials. Remove that limitation, it could be a thing. If it's possible to keep a decent alkosh uptime with just the off-tank, it might be interesting to mess with, I certainly will.

Qbiken wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

Destruent wrote: »

MLGProPlayer wrote: »

TBS + MA is the only combo with BiS potential for magicka DPS IMO. Shadow Mundus + MA proc could hit hard. Or it could just be something that looks better on paper than it actually is in practice.

But TBS is worse than other magicka-DPS-sets, why should it get better with jewelry? Average crit with MA on magicka is like 65%, isn't it? IF shadow was strong with that crit rating, stamina would run it....but they don't.

TBS is the only way you can get Shadow mundus. Shadow mundus increases the damage of your hits when MA procs. MA is currently the BiS set for magicka. TBS has the potential to make it even stronger.

Will it be better than combining MA with stuff like MD, Willpower, or monster gear? We'll know once we can test it, or when someone like Asayre calculates the DPS.

Warrior and Apprentice mundus gives more damage to your critical strikes than shadow at the moment

That's the whole point... TBS let's you use 2 mundus stones, so you would combine Apprentice + Shadow.