Off the top of my head:

Mage's Guild skill Balance (morph of Equilibrium): Barter with Oblivion to trade vitality for power, sacrificing 6000 Health in exchange for 3000 Magicka. After the exchange is complete, you gain Major Resolve for 25 seconds, increasing your Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance by 5280. The exchange reduces your Healing Done and damage shield strength by 50% for 4 seconds.

And there are a few set bonuses that trigger at low health, such as:

Immortal Warrior
(2 items) Adds 4% Healing Taken
(3 items) Adds 1206 Max Health
(4 items) Adds 4% Healing Taken
(5 items) While your health is below 35%, gain Major Protection for 10s, reducing the damage you take by 30%. This effect can occur once every 35s.

Phoenix (less useful for stamina builds though, which Titanborn Strength certainly is):
(2 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka
(3 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery
(4 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
(5 items) When you drop below 25% Health, gain a damage shield that absorbs 25000 damage for 6 seconds and deals 8240 Flame Damage to nearby enemies. This effect can occur once every 1 minute.

You asked for ways to support the game's first bloodied set. There aren't any other perma bonuses for being low on health, except for the crafted set Ancient Dragonguard, but that's a defensive bonus and removes some DPS if you drop that low too.

(2 items) 1206 Max Health
(3 items) 129 Weapon and Spell Damage
(4 items) 833 Weapon and Spell Critical
(5 items) Gain 300 Weapon and Spell Damage while health is over 50%. Gain 3460 bonus Physical and Spell Resistance while health is 50% or less.

So in terms of supporting a build that needs to remain low on health, the Mage's Guild skill Balance is a spammable to keep you at the health level you need (potions are not spammable) while also restoring resources, and the two armour sets I suggested will proc if your health starts falling too low and becomes a hazard. There are other sets that proc at low health, but they also heal you, which is something you'd want to avoid. So this playstyle would involve using the Mage's Guild skill to keep your health below 50%, and when a low health set procs you have a huge defence boost to allow your health to regen back to a 40%+ bracket.

Worth noting the Ancient Dragonguard Set could still be utilized as a safer version of this play style when paired with Titanborn, since your highest DPS health bracket would be between 50-75% health. Dropping below 50% swaps out the DPS boost from Dragonguard for a defence boost, but triggers the biggest Titanborn boost. It's probably a small net loss in DPS when you drop below 50% health (got to factor in the penetration boost from Titanborn too, so the DPS loss won't be so bad), but at that point you can safely pop a small heal to get back to 50%+.

EDIT: I honestly think health regen would be something you want quite a bit of with this playstyle. You're in charge of your health level through the Mage's Guild skill. If your health starts to get too low, you stop casting it and let your health regen back up towards your ideal level. Cast damage shields to prevent further health loss at that point.

bmnoble wrote: »

Env_t wrote: »

@Darkstorne yeah i know about this TRIGGER sets

its still out of bloodied philosophy builds, where you receiving bonuses for being low hp ALL the time


and still you need to find a way to stop regeneration
i know about ravage health potions and such, you will regenerate anyway very soon, or some random player will heal you
or group member in dungeon

so HP reservation system/feature will be nice addition to this set

Would not be much use in group content, especially if for example my tank is running a combination of Battalion defender and Earthgore, I would not even have to pay attention to your health bar/you at all to get you back up to full health.

Not to mention me using Cauterize, Orbs, Blood altar and mutagen on the back bar with a resto staff.

Short of soloing hard content, spamming one of the balance or blood altar morphs, your not going to be able to prevent other players topping off your health.

If I see someone in group content whose health has dropped below 50%, I will generally go out of my way to heal them, if the healer has not done so already.


Only way I see them getting around that is by having a skill you can slot that fixes your health at a specific % of your health with two morphs each at a different value. Or prevents you from getting healed by others/maybe a negative value for healing received.

Don't know if there is much demand for something like that, have seen plenty of players that struggle with full health.

You would probably have to run with friends if you were using such a set up, a lot of people in PUG groups won't take the chance on a player without them using food let alone having only 50% of their health, if you can't stay alive you will find yourself kicked by a lot of groups quite quickly.

Oh yeah, of course, it's a terrible idea for group content The game just doesn't support that playstyle. I main a healer myself so I know if anyone drops below 50% health the healer in the group will be hitting their panic heal button And no tank would ever need to utilize a low-health DPS set. But for solo content and questing, it seems like it could be a really fun set

Royaji wrote: »

One of the balancing factors of this set is that you can't consciously maintain 100% uptime.

Vampire can minimise your health recovery and you can use Balance to proc this set on demand. But a "switch" to set a maximum threshold for your health at 49% shouldn't be a thing.

Mist form ppl... mist form... Bloodied Vamps are coming!!!