You still haven't mentioned whether this is for PvE or PvP.

For PvP you should be looking at sets like Shacklebreaker, Amber Plasm, Wizard's Riposte, and War Maiden.

I am no expert on PvE, but for a high-end DPS build, I believe something like Julianos or Acuity is optimal, combined with something like 4x Moondancer. In the absense of the latter, 3x Willpower will do, and any gold weapons.

Gilliam the Rogue does not rate War Maiden highly for PvE, nor the slew of other sets that only buff one particular damage type. He backs his opinion up with target skeleton parses where 5x War Maiden fares worse than, for example, 5x Julianos. This is because you inevitably use skills (Elemental Blockade, Meteor), damage enchants, and synergies, that are not buffed by War Maiden. It's really more of a PvP set.

Since you mention self-healing and solo play, what does that mean? Overland content, delves and public dungeons? In that case I would not worry too much about sets. It comes down more to having a decent build - with, say, Harness Magicka, Healing Ward and Strife - and a bit of experience.

World bosses vary. For soloing the hardest ones you need high defenses, which may mean heavy armor or sets like Fortified Brass / Armor Master.

Veteran Maelstrom Arena is a topic onto itself and probably best done with a specially tuned build (needs high sustain, high damage, not too low health, and just enough healing / defense).

You might also mention your character level and CP. If you are still below 160 CP, don't worry about equipment. Just make sure to use some defense and/or healing skills, such as Harness Magicka, Healing Ward, Mutagen, Refreshing Path, Resto Ult, Soul Tether, and so on. Quest or grind till CP 160, then you can worry about sets.

In general, if you are not using food or drink, you need to use that. Custom glyphs on armor and jewelry are par for the course, and I highly recommend you learn potion crafting and make sure to get the Medicinal Use passive. The other passive every end-game character needs in the long run is Undaunted Mettle.

Tapio75 wrote: »

@fred4

It is for generalopen world PVE, whether it is questing or doing delves or attempting to solo dungeon or world boss which is pretty tough for me compared to what i could do with sorc which i played a lot earlier.

I have found out, that for general gameplay, the 4 seducer and 4 magnus is most helpful as it allows good resources for many spells and heals.. This time im just trying to do more damage to get things down a bit faster as i dont like those enemies hitting my pretty face

When i played Sorc, i had great tools to keep enemies at bay, im yet to master this with this nightblade but i guess its more about kiting on NB than being a stationary turret mage traditionalist

The problem with the 4/4 setup is that you miss a 5 piece bonus which is typically about twice as strong as the others. Much better going 5/3 than 4/4 most of the time.

Do you have monster sets and/or VMA weapons? If the answer to both is no, I would go something like 5 Julianos, 3 Willpower, 3 Magnus. If you have a passible monster set (Skoria, Nerienth, Zaan, Grothdar), Ditch the magnus and use random staffs.

This will all be out the window in summerset, so I honestly wouldnt make anything gold until them save maybe a front bar weapon if you can spare the Rosin.