It's tooltip is so damn bugged. They never increased the Damage on the tooltip when they did in game. And its tooltip still says 6 seconds when its 8 lmao. It lines up perfectly with purifying light in my rotation. Extremely underrated skill. When you have Crescent sweep up, you become an absolute AoE beast and you autoproc valkyn skoria on this bar set up.

Shackle breaker is only good when you have Constitution from Heavy Armor. Amber plasm's 2-4pc is entirely superior and shackle's 5 piece is good, but it doesn't offer enough sustain without constitution and often forces the user into using clockwork citrus fillet which is subpar to tri-stat food prior to the near-useless health recovery bonus.

The 2k max stam is useless if you already have a 15k+ Stamina pool. The issue is sustaining that stamina pool, which amber plasm is entirely superior at doing so. The max stam is useless unless using a regen food or drink because it has no scaling abilities and is unable to be sustained as easily. It's only benefit is that it grants you a higher ceiling in which you can make mistakes by blocking too long and Roll Dodging too much after a CC break. You will still have to regain your stamina back through heavy attacks and potions whereas Amber's 5pc gets ramped heavily by potions and is used to to passively restore stamina. The crit bonus on Amber also takes us to 43% crit chance which extremely useful for our heals and damage due to our 10% increased critical strike damage passive and CP.

TL;DR
The max stamina on Shackle is useless with 15k+ Max Stamina and proper stamina sustain.

Thanks bro, agree that it's strong on an argonian! Mobb Deep ftw.

Thanks @Mrsinister2 ! Feel free to use the Bloodthorn Touch set until you can finish grinding Amber Plasm. Bloodthorn is a similar set that my friend has been using in place of Amber Plasm on my build, and he's been absolutely tearing it up with it.

Yep! The first hit of any of our abilities will proc bloodthorn's return, as will our light attacks and bashes (the latter may be useful when forced to turtle into block casting Honor the Dead).

Any time!