Made jewelery With protective trait on my medium armour stam sorc. Have a little less stamina but im more tanky, not as tanky as Heavy armour but it helps. Biggest difference is that now i can have 2 full sets of crafted armour + monster set.

Thank you for the replies, Angry and Vapriko. Much appreciated. I was a little hesitant to go back in thinking, "Oh man, this may be like going back to CP160". lol

Not really, it's fairly balanced, unlike some of the new sets.

Working on shifting my healthy traits to stamina. And going to look at light armor sets to shift to robust soon (for lulz).

There are players using Swift, Harmony, and Infused traits to great effect in varying circumstances in PvP. I assume there are some Bloodthirsty users out there racking up monster executes, too, but I haven't spoken to anyone doing this yet. Triune will also see some use, but it's not like you'll notice that, really.

There haven't exactly been a lot of people swapping to 2x crafted 5 piece sets plus a monster set yet, just because the mats are so pricey. Has anyone even upgraded a ring or neck to gold yet? I'm sure someone has, but I'm weeks away from being able to craft a purple jewelry set, let alone gold.

Qbiken wrote: »

Not yet, however I think it will have quite the impact once more people start finishing the skilline....

I mean, to research all traits will take quite a while, and most meaningful craftable sets requires 6 traits or more. Another reason we haven´t seen the full impact of jewelry crafting yet is because the materials are not very convenient to acquire, especially not the tempers required to upgrade them.

The grind is real, that's no joke. I had no idea they would make jewelry with certain traits mainly available through a very narrow window of daily quests and crafting writ stuff.

Wycks wrote: »

Not really, it's fairly balanced, unlike some of the new sets.

Duroks isnt new

LinearParadox wrote: »

I haven't seen or heard of any big differences in PvP.
Then again, I haven't even touched jewlery crafting myself, and have no intentions to.
I was SUPER excited for it, but once I saw what an utterly absurd slog of a grind it would be to get into, I was just completely disenchanted and turned off to the whole thing.
Then again, I shouldn't be surprised since Zo$ has a history of this when finally adding highly anticipated content, just like the total letdown of the Justice System, or housing that released with no storage.
Can't wait to see what they do to Spellcrafting, if they ever even actually do release it, or even any gutted shadow of what it was supposed to be -.-

Anyway, it'll be several months at least before anyone is cappable of doing anything meaningful with it, like running 2 5pc crafted sets at once.
We'll see if anyone theorycrafting these hybrid builds of Pelenils/Shackle/TBS combos can actually make anything competitive from them.
My money is on no, but we'll see.

I've started it on my crafter, but have really lost serious interest in it once I began asking my mates just where you go about finding the other traits, such as Infused, etc. When they told me, "Trials and crafting" it almost lost me. I do those sometimes, but I work late and finding trial teams late night is very tough. Anything, basically, that ZoS turns into a literal part time job to get completed loses my interest.

Well:
Obvious Impact you can now get Jewelry in the trait you want from sets like: Ravager, Fury Seventh legion, Duroks Bane, Prisoner's

As for the traits:
Arcane, Robust, Healthy nothing new here.
Triune: Prismatic Glyphs are already in the game so nothing overwhelming new here.
Swift: more Movement speed definitely interesting. already seen a few builds that performend very well.
Harmony. only interesting if you want to max the damage of something like gravity crush (hits really hard) for every other situation basically useless.
Protective: there are more efficient sources of resistance so don't use it.
Bloodthirsty: worse stats for more execute damage not really good as i don't consider the health values below 25% the greater problem

The Part where it is really getting interesting:
Infused:
with a weapon damage glyph it is marginally better than robust, (however it allows more hybridization of builds since magickaa and stamina are less impactful compared to weapon damage).
But there are other glyphs the two really interesting glyphs are the cost reduction glyphs (skill cost + blockcost) and the cooldown reduction glyphs. You can use those for either really good resource management (Argonian ftw) or for high uptimes on buffs like major vitality or stacking layers of lingering health.

LinearParadox wrote: »

Siliziumdioxid wrote: »

... or stacking layers of lingering health.

Whaaaaaat? Are you serious? That actually stacks? Have you tested it? I'd thought it would merely refresh like other buffs. Thats.... interesting if it actually stacks.

In the patch notes they specifically said they stopped the stacking. But if it actually took I dunno