Heavy Armor for sure, and you don't really need Bone Pirate since Artaeum Takeaway Broth is a much, much better choice than Dubious. Especially this patch because of the increased incoming damage. You should be safe with something like Bloodspawn + Shacklebreaker + Hunding's Rage (or Warrior's Fury). Fiddle around with your mundus and jewelry traits until you get a good balance between damage and sustain.

For me the selling point of Artaeum is the extra Health Recovery, which is very nice to have as an indirect counter to DoTs -- when using Dubious on my builds I have about 600 Health Recovery, but with Artaeum it becomes 1.2k at base. In other words, it's a survivability boost.

Even if you won't be using Artaeum, you should have more than enough sustain with the sets I suggested (upwards of 2k stamina recovery), mainly because you're a Wood Elf.

I have always been an advocate of medium, I liked the faster more agile game play in 3 man groups or 1vX. I’m not about to run curse eater for some mag recovery or change to spam blue Betty for 1 dot purge when there are like 8 more on you usually, it’s not for me, if it works for people out there great.

Sadly we are in a strong dot meta and even if you put more CP to decrease dot dmg(when you try CP pvp), you still have 2 or 3 people just chasing tossing up strong dots. Since some dots aren’t dodgable and are meant to counter roll dodge play, I recommend heavy for the extra healing atm and makes it more bearable to 1vX or small resource farming.

Remember 1vX is still possible, play around with sets might mean no more Balrogh and go back to BloodSpawn but it’s doable and more and more people are posting up 1vX clips again in dot land.

I agree with people above, health recovery is something to consider now when you have more dots on you.

Imo Warden still easiest AP farm to push for EMP I feel, dat burst tho.

Happy Hunting.

@lukoi It becomes more like 500 at the end. The Constitution passive increases it by 20% and Major Fortitude from potions increase it by another 20%. If you're a DK or StamSorc, you can get even more % increase.

Vermethys wrote: »

For me the selling point of Artaeum is the extra Health Recovery, which is very nice to have as an indirect counter to DoTs -- when using Dubious on my builds I have about 600 Health Recovery, but with Artaeum it becomes 1.2k at base. In other words, it's a survivability boost.

Even if you won't be using Artaeum, you should have more than enough sustain with the sets I suggested (upwards of 2k stamina recovery), mainly because you're a Wood Elf.

Ok so what mundus stone do you recommend? ive heard people use steed for heavy armor but theres also warrior too and for 2h/s&b setup should i use a greatsword or battleaxe?

Vermethys wrote: »

I've been enjoying the Steed this patch because of the improved speed and survivability, but the Warrior would take you above 3.5k WD (3.7k if you use 2 Infused WD jewelry and 1 Robust with cost reduction). It's up to you.

Regarding the type of 2h weapon, I'd use Battleaxe for any sort of build except Dizzying Swing builds. If you use Dizzying Swing, it might be better to use a Maul.

I plan on using dizzying but i can still do fine with battleaxe right? Also btw any tips against NBs?

It's a matter of preference. I played in heavy for a couple of months but I felt that Medium was more for my playstyle. However, I felt I was too squishy so I went from Bone Pirate + Spriggans to Med Fortified Brass + Spriggans.

Medium, heavy passives pale on comparison.

Best way to think of it is heavy armour’s passives are equivalent to an entire defensive set and medium’s equivalent to an entire offensive set.

Look at the passives of the armour. If you can do better defensively with a set then run medium with one defensive set. If you like the heavy then run all offensive sets with 5 heavy. If you want to be really tanky run heavy with a defensive.... etc.... you get the point.

Most people who see it as black and white haven’t tried a lot of sets.

Thanks for the replies guys. So the other day I've been doing decent with heavy armor Hundings and Spriggans with bloodspawn and I did try to use fortified brass med in the past and while its ok which do y'all think would be better to use in BGs or cp Cyro?

Both seem pretty decent though I haven't tried the med set as much as I have heavy

PS Should I keep using dawnbreaker or swap to berserker strike and which morph? Cause I feel like dawnbreaker doesn't hit half the time but would like to know