There's no incentive to farm veteran maelstrom arena for the perfected inferno staff since the bonus of spell penetration is useless on the backbar for magicka characters.

Ring of the Wild Hunt (Ring) (Requires Murkmire) - 1 – Increases your movement speed by 15% while in combat. Increases your movement speed by 45% while out of combat.

According to the lore, Wild hunts are a bosmer thing, what is a bosmer relic doing in Murkmire? If you plan to lock an artifact behind Murkmire, make it argonian themed and not bosmer themed.

Edit: Patch notes didn't specify why it required Murkmire, but to clarify, I checked in-game and the ring is split into 5 pieces and one of them requires Murkmire to obtain. The part that requires a serpent piece so that's not bad.

nCats wrote: »

"Would you qualify any sets from this patch as "game breaking"? If so, why?"

Stuhn’s Favor. It adds more than 15k pen when proc'd. This is over 20% of more damage, and we are talking burst damage. This set has to be toned down significantly or removed completely.

Roll dodge, burst, roll dodge, burst. Gonna be some crazy fast, crazy damage stamina builds this patch.

nCats wrote: »

"Would you qualify any sets from this patch as "game breaking"? If so, why?"

Stuhn’s Favor. It adds more than 15k pen when proc'd. This is over 20% of more damage, and we are talking burst damage. This set has to be toned down significantly or removed completely.

Combine with Malacath's Band of Brutality (mythic set) for maximum lolz.

Love the mythic items. Great touch! I agree with every post above me.

810+ mag DD main. I mostly enjoy difficult PvE content, solo or with friends.

I have been working hard to get a perfected asylum inferno for a few months now (no luck, largely due to most groups falling apart due to server performance, and because RNG only likes to give me lightnings when I do get a drop there!). Difficulties and even performance aside, it was nice to still have an item to push myself toward achieving, and I knew it would feel great when my work finally paid off. Now it seems unlikely to be worth the effort of trying for it anymore, and this is thoroughly demotivating. It's good to have unique and difficult to earn items that are actually worth putting in the time to get. Please don't take this away.

For ability altering weapons, it really feels better when the focus is on the ability being changed. This is especially true for weapons that often get back-barred like vMA staves/bows. For example, the penetration bonus on perfect Crushing Wall won't be active much of the time and this is seriously underwhelming for an item that I'd need to re-run very old content an unknown number of times to get (due to the terrible RNG). If the extra perfected bonus would also apply to enemies in the AoE, it would be a whole different matter and suddenly this would be a lot more interesting. (But would do nothing to remove the bitterness about existing weapons not getting upgraded... That's a separate issue though.) As it is, the extra bonus on perfected weapons that get back barred feels like wasted potential.

What roles do I normally play and levels? --

I am maxed out and have 18 characters, 6 tanks, 6 magdps and 6 stamdps all one of each class. In end game content I've run all of my tanks, but in order of most used: DK, Warden, Necro, Templar, Sorc, NB. In most end game HM content for DPS I've used my magDK, magplar, stamplar and stamsorc (with some use of stamcro and stamdk). The other dps I've used more randomly the last couple years in stuff like dungeons more than trials and my magicka warden I've used more for healing lately than DPS. (I also pvp with all 18 in various playstyles suited to their builds, though much less pvp than I used to years ago.)

What do I like to do:

Trials, Dungeons and content mostly, housing, some trading, PvP more cyrodiil than BGs, but both have been lackluster for the last year+ so that's waned a bit.

Feedback so far:

This set-
Roaring Opportunist – Magicka DPS

2 – Adds 1487 Spell Penetration
3 – Gain Minor Slayer at all times, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 5%.
4 – Adds 129 Spell Damage
5 (Perfected) – Adds 1096 Max Magicka
5 – Dealing damage with a Fully-Charged Heavy Attack to an enemy that’s been set Off-Balance grants you and up to 11 group members Major Slayer, increasing your damage done to Dungeon, Trial, and Arena Monsters by 15% for 10 seconds. Roaring Opportunist can only affect a target every 22 seconds

I have to say is just not a good "Magicka DPS" set. Or I guess I can say it's as good a magicka DPS set as Alkosh is a good stamina DPS set. Meaing that this is is another DPS set that will be pushed onto support to run to buff the group. This will raise power creep even more as it frees up DPS to use another set to buff them, possibly dropping Lokke depending on how well they work the cool down and of course would mean a magicka would not run it.

Honestly, I think the set should just personally buff the magicka wearing it when they heavy attack and the proc should not be based on off-balance. Heavy attacking already slows down a rotation enough and will actually cost them more time than a stam with Lokke hitting a synergy. Just let the set give the person wearing it a personal Major Slayer buff when they heavy attack every XX seconds and be done with it.

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And this set-
Tremorscale:

Increased the damage of this set to 6000, up from 5850.
Increased the cooldown to 8 seconds, up from 4 seconds.
Enemies hit by the damage now have their Physical Resistance reduced by 2395 for 8 seconds, rather than being snared by 70% for 3 seconds.
Removed the proc chance from this set.

As a tank, I have to admit that although the opportunity to run a set that can provide buffs for the group is good to have being that's a key part of the job, having a set that's the only choice often becomes the problem IMO. The one joy I had in 'gearing up' my tank was the very minor decision of what monster set to run b/c the Ebon/Alkosh, Yoln/Alkosh choice is already decided for us by the DPS and gear balance. Having that small choice taken away is a bit depressing in a role that has already felt lackluster in the last couple years. And even though it's only physical pen, it will fall into the role of have to run almost all the time (especially if you want us playing in groups that don't restrict players from bringing certain builds).

Honestly, I think Alkosh should be a personal debuff and not a group debuff or only physical the way Tremorscale is. But this isn't about Alkosh, so onto Tremorscale: Perhaps seeing the pen it creates as a unique buff shared with Alkosh to offer the option of one or the other, or to give it Minor Fracture and Breach for use when you don't have a power of light caster in the group. I think it would be great to have more choices on gear, not less and when a set provides such a strong option for a group like Tremorscale or Roaring Opportunist it eliminates any competition. I realize this will happen with gear to some extent no matter what, there will never be the option to literally choose between all available sets in the game, but even if we can open up the choices to 2 or 3 options instead of just 1 it's a plus IMO.

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Another monster set:
Bloodspawn:

Reduced the armor granted from this set to 3300, down from 6450.
Reduced the Ultimate on proc to 8, down from 14.
Reduced the duration and cooldown to 5 seconds, down from 6 seconds.

This seems over nerfed when attacking both the Ultimate number and the armor amount. I'm not sure if there is like a behind the scenes number reason for some of the adjustments always looking like they are half or double instead of smaller adjustments, but maybe either in the middle of both of those stats: like 4200 armor and 10 ulti. or just nerfing one of the two values.

It's worth noting when balancing sets that just like when you see a large number of players in a variety of builds using one specific set it's possibly too strong, the same applies. If you adjust something and no one wants to use it anymore, then it may have been over-adjusted. There are a few sets, even a couple I didn't name here, that I can see falling into that category.

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Another set:
Nerien'eth:

Increased the damage of this set to 9393, up from 8890.
Increased the proc chance to 15%, up from 10%.
The 1 piece bonus now grants 129 Spell Damage, rather than Max Health.

I assume the 1-piece changes on various sets are attacking the tank meta so the changes to health bonuses on various sets and cutting the armor bonuses is part of that plan, so to skip past that-- the biggest drawback of this set being useful is that almost everything moves out of it before it explodes except maybe stationary tanked boss fights. Perhaps adding a small snare that is only active while the circle grows would make it more useful, then in PvP one dodge roll would easily get out of it, it would have no change to boss fights, but to use everywhere else in the game fighting mobs it would prove useful. But it's not a big deal as is, just wanted to throw out an idea based on the biggest reason the set isn't great to use.

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The Asylum Destro Staff:
Concentrated Force:

The perfected version of this set no longer has a unique value, and instead grants up to 103 Spell Damage.

This change does not make the non-perfected version any more useful, it will just make the perfected version just as unused. Not sure what the best solution is if the every other cast is too strong. Perhaps making it work just like the psijic elemental weapon where every cast provides at least one effect that's not already applied would be a middle ground between every 2 and every 3 the two staves have on live. As it is now, I don't see either version being great to use unless the 1 pc spell damage was buffed a bit.

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And last gear comment:

The existing Arena weapon drops from veteran Maelstrom and veteran Dragonstar should be converted into the same item that will drop in those two arenas on veteran after the patch. I think it is disrespectful to take what those players earned and tell them they have to farm the same runs again for that same "level" of weapon (i.e. the BiS option for that build).

I do think it's great to see non-perfect drops added to normal runs of those arenas for players that can't or don't want to run the vet versions. I just don't think players that have completed the veteran version of those runs should have their weapons remain in that version of that tier if the drop is being lowered to normal versions of the content.

Perfected concentrated force is extremely underwhelming. The 3 cast proc condition is not made up for by the 103 spell damage. The set is considerably weaker than live and needs to be reworked.

Hanokihs wrote: »

nCats wrote: »

"Would you qualify any sets from this patch as "game breaking"? If so, why?"

Stuhn’s Favor. It adds more than 15k pen when proc'd. This is over 20% of more damage, and we are talking burst damage. This set has to be toned down significantly or removed completely.

Combine with Malacath's Band of Brutality (mythic set) for maximum lolz.

Stuhns adds a lot of pen, and will prob get toned down, but with healing getting a sizeable cut, giving up a big chunk of wpd for penetration, is going to make it risky to run this set.
That being said, if it stays, ill defo regear my stamblade for a "dizzy ganker" XD. Let the hilarity ensue :P

Universe wrote: »

Would you qualify any sets from this patch as "game breaking"? If so, why?
Zaan(yes I know it's not Greymoor set):
I posted many times that this set is OP, especially in PVP(also in PVE, but I didn't hear that bosses complain...).
This set will still be extremely powerful, even more than in live.
In spite of countless warnings, you buffed its uptime and increased the beam scaling bonus per each second & proc chance.
This is wrong.
You changed it but it's not a nerf. It's a buff.

This set should be as following:
Zaan:
(1 items) Adds 833 Spell Critical
(2 items) When you damage a nearby enemy with a Light or Heavy Attack, you have a 10% chance to create a beam of fire that will connect you to your enemy. The beam deals 3096 Flame Damage every 1 second to your enemy for 4 seconds. Every second, this damage increases by 30%. The beam is broken if the enemy moves 8 meters away from you. This effect can occur every 23 seconds.

*Or nerf it as you see fit, this is can't go on. It is getting ridiculous...Zaan Zaan Zaan all around LOL.

Elf Bane: This set no longer works with channeled effects or beams.

Zaan was buffed because it can no longer interact with Elf Bane, which is a huge nerf. I guess the "scaling caps after x ticks" previous nerf didn't work so it's just gone entirely now.


I don't really understand why Zaan interaction is gone while Grothdarr remains though, just seems like everyone using Zaan will swap to that instead and we'll have a similar problem. Except Grothdarr's Elf Bane duration = cooldown so it can be up almost forever in theory.

Elf Bane
2 items) Adds 1096 Maximum Magicka
(3 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
(5 items) Increases the duration of your Flame Damage over Time abilities by 5 seconds.

Grothdarr
(2 items) When you deal damage, you have a 10% chance to create lava pools that swirl around you, dealing 1800 Flame Damage to all enemies within 8 meters of you every 1 second for 5 seconds. This effect can occur once every 10 seconds.

I guess it's a PvP thing, I almost never PvP so I don't see people getting Zaan melted.



As far as new Sets go I found Mythic sets to be really unique, interesting additions but there's far too few of them... while on the flipside I found the new Trial/Zone sets to be really boring and generic. As a Magicka DPS Sorceror so many Light sets being for healers kills me inside every update.

I'm still hurting we still have no Magicka-equivalent 5peice to match Morkuldin 4-5 years later, since they're all 2pc Monster Sets instead. Yet you keep giving Stamina more of them, even if they're bad like Defiler.

Throw us conjurers a persistent-summon bone please!

Malacaths Band of Brutality has an interesting interaction with sorcerer healing.

It means you can no longer heal with critical surge at all.

It doesn´t have this implication on any other classes selfhealing (making it flatout not work) so i hope this is unintended and was simply overlooked?
Couldn´t you consider making it set your critical dmg value 0 instead of disabling all crits to not make it outright break an ability?
Or would you consider finally untying surge from crit (which would also be hugely beneficial for noCP) and give it sth like have a 45% chance when dealing dmg to heal for x amount.

Zaan It seems to have an exponential damage growth
1s 2000
2s 4000
3s 8000
4s 16000
5s 32000
6s 64000
It seems to much than before around 18000
What do you think about?
What if critical damage 😱

Ruder wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

Malacaths Band of Brutality has an interesting interaction with sorcerer healing.

It means you can no longer heal with critical surge at all.

It doesn´t have this implication on any other classes selfhealing (making it flatout not work) so i hope this is unintended and was simply overlooked?
Couldn´t you consider making it set your critical dmg value 0 instead of disabling all crits to not make it outright break an ability?
Or would you consider finally untying surge from crit (which would also be hugely beneficial for noCP) and give it sth like have a 45% chance when dealing dmg to heal for x amount.

It is pretty much how it should work, if you wanna pew pew for big damage, you need to slot dedicated healing skill or use the other morph of crit surge

That´s the thing.
Surge IS a dedicated healing ability.
It has no such implication on any other classes healing aswell.

Thus is makes no sense.

Overall, the changes are well balanced. The tormentor set could use further tweaking imho:

Tormentor set is gonna work with many things, mainly chains and that's great. However, it doesn't work with brutal pounce while it works with explosive charge. This could be fixed. Also, Shield Charge and Stampede could use an aoe impact to function the same way so that players are given multiple ways to use this niche set, getting access to a form of aoe taunt. This would make tanking fast paced and engaging (it already very busy but it's always nice to have other ways to do tanking, and charging into a trash pack, taunting them all and wacking them in the face with brawler is a great experience).