
XGCAlbatr0ss wrote: »Night Mother’s Gaze & Sunderflame now grant Major Breach/Fracture as their 5 Sets - and no longer stack with the same buff.
This basically turns both of these sets into solo sets, and takes them out of the PvE Trials rotation. On paper, this felt like it’d be a massive nerf to Stamina users in Trial groups, but based on parse data from our initial testing, it may not necessarily be as bad as we first thought. We still suggested to Eric that he adjusts one of these sets (or possibly redesign Hircine’s Veneer) to still offer at least one stacking penetration buff/debuff set of some sort - so we’ll wait and see what happens.
Deadly Cloak has had its damage reduced by 40%.
This is a noticeable nerf, but it’s hard to say whether it will really ruin the skill. Stamina builds are still pulling insane damage in parses with it slotted and used, and this skill was more useful for the mitigation than its damage anyway. More testing needed.
RIP Stam
Terrible idea. 2h doesn't need this, it needs other buffs. Won't help 2h compete with DW at all. It's also irrelevant for bow, because vMA bow and if you go bow/bow then you're using master's + vMA.
It's obviously a buff for staff users.
BrockofPercival wrote: »This is something that should have been the case from day 1 of sets. It simply makes sense and then you don't get tons of 'fair' 'not fair' arguments.
starkerealm wrote: »XGCAlbatr0ss wrote: »Night Mother’s Gaze & Sunderflame now grant Major Breach/Fracture as their 5 Sets - and no longer stack with the same buff.
This basically turns both of these sets into solo sets, and takes them out of the PvE Trials rotation. On paper, this felt like it’d be a massive nerf to Stamina users in Trial groups, but based on parse data from our initial testing, it may not necessarily be as bad as we first thought. We still suggested to Eric that he adjusts one of these sets (or possibly redesign Hircine’s Veneer) to still offer at least one stacking penetration buff/debuff set of some sort - so we’ll wait and see what happens.
Deadly Cloak has had its damage reduced by 40%.
This is a noticeable nerf, but it’s hard to say whether it will really ruin the skill. Stamina builds are still pulling insane damage in parses with it slotted and used, and this skill was more useful for the mitigation than its damage anyway. More testing needed.
RIP Stam
Stam is pulling even more insane parses now, Gil, @alcast, and (I think) Ryan were all over 70k by the end of the weekend.
A bit melodramatic, don't you think?XGCAlbatr0ss wrote: »RIP Stam
Terrible idea. 2h doesn't need this, it needs other buffs. Won't help 2h compete with DW at all. It's also irrelevant for bow, because vMA bow and if you go bow/bow then you're using master's + vMA.
It's obviously a buff for staff users.