Playing on console means I haven't had the Murkemire DLC and all its 'fixes' yet. In the interim, I've been trying to preemptively re-spec and make adaptations to my build. I've actively un-slotted any shield from my barred skills, but kept my damage dealing abilities. I've kept my armor set up, 5 light, 1 heavy, 1 med, but now with health enchants on chest and legs, stamina on head, the rest magicka, rings are one arcane, one spell cost reduction, necklace is bloodthirsty. (I don't do, have never done, pets). My general tactic has always been surviveability through mobility, so my goal is to increase and leverage mobility for both survival and damage.

Now playing solely PVE, I use no castable shield at all (compensating by investing in psjic skill line for the block shield)-- do I die more, no, but I also don't die any less (a good sign, I think) -- am I a better player for it, no (or not yet anyway); but I am having to play somewhat more strategically. The result is a decrease in overall damage due to an increase in required mobility (not that I ever stood persistently in red, but I would delay moving to mete out a few good hits, cast a shield, roll away and cast dark conversion before re-stancing for my rotation); I am rolling around a lot more and when low on stam, literally leaping to safety(!), and generally being further back from the melee area as before* -- this isn't always the safest scenario as it means being further away from HoTs (usually focused on close combat dps and Tanks, which I have to roll/jump into for group healing when necessary). Seeing as my rotation spammable is Elemental Weapon > Light Attack (4x initiated with Power Surge before bar swap to DoTs on back bar), to counter the decrease in damage, I've started looking at changing my mundus to one which will increase my critical chance and critical damage output with either or both weapon and spell (I'm thinking maybe Thief?), or maybe Lover for greater penetration. I've already set my main set to Mechanical Acuity to buff crits, have BSW jewellery, monster set is usually Ilambris, but I have been toying with Zaan and Skoria. Casting Channelled Acceleration between trash mobs and before bosses has also been a good help so far (can't keep 100% up time due to cast duration). So far I've lost ~2k on 3mil dummy with this new gear set up.

What I'd like is some feedback from anyone on PC who's played Murkmire, on whether this looks to be heading in the right direction, or some advice on further tweaks if my ideas are off tangent with the changes made in the patch.

Thanks in advance.

*for context, my play-style on mobs is usually more aggressive, throwing LL, close in for WoE, plant HC on the biggest bad, roll away and destructive reach projectile whatever's still standing. Same but rinse-repeat against Boss (replacing Destructive Reach with EW sequence)