MickeyBN wrote: »

Looking at the natch potes for Greymoor is obvious that ZOS wants to completely gut tanks, from halving armor values on sets to adding a metric fudge ton of penetration on so many things *cough* Stuhns Favor *cough*.

Prior to reading the notes I was working on putting together a fairly tanky Magplar build using 2pc Chudan and Pariah, but now I’m wondering if there’s going to be any point, same goes for going full Impen like we have in the past.

So what kind of builds are people starting to theorycraft for Greymoor, is it too early?

Another thing I was wondering, would it be worthwhile ditching our armor buffs and using Dampen magic instead? Crafty Alfiq with Bright Throat to boost Magicka, therefore boosting Dampen was something I was toying with in my head.

Need ideas, I’m scared to gold anything at this point until Greymoor comes out.

Yep don't go armor next patch just use mitigation. Swift, potentates, and probably something to help sastain like bright throast

I’m going to try amber (or shackle) + stuhn w/BRP DW back bar in 5L-1M-1H with lightning or 2H w/DW. The last bit I’m not sure about, either 2 piece potatoes or mythic + 1 piece monster stat stick. I’m leaning towards 2H nirn and the jewellery piece that gives speed.

I also want to try a stage 4 vamp setup but haven’t figured it out.

I used to like Buffer of the Swift, but those armour lines look so crappy.

Chudan on magplar is a bad idea, since rune focus is so good.
Using damlen magic is also a bad idea, since shields are pretty bad atm and you wont get any decent shieldsize anyway. Just stick to honor the dead.

For sets you surely can use things like buffer of the swift and other percentage mitigation sets. I doubt anything comes close to pariah defense wise as long as you dont get hit by onslaught, since pariah is up to 14k resistances, which is like 20% mitigation, which at leasts is additive and nit multiplicative with you other resistance. The more mitigation sources you stack, the less they are worth. Meaning that potentates is quite a bit less than 5% for example.
Sadly the most success i recently had in magplar was either running two aoe damage proc sets in heavy or pretty much max damage light armor setup with 2 pieces of resistance monstersets.

If greymoor goes live as the pts now, i think it wont change too much other than people having insane damage for the offbalance duration. High pen was already present with onslaught before, now it is just more universally used. It will mostly be a thing to adjust your playstyle to the offbalance debuff. Learning when to stay on defense and when you can go offensively again.

I tried everything on my magplar, and against scare nothing works! Any idea?

Face to sorcercerers, templars are becaming weaker and weaker....

MickeyBN wrote: »

Alright new question.

Been a debate for a while on what is best for our backbar, resto or S&B. S&B seems like an obvious choice for me being able to block heal but I’m wondering if having extra heals from resto will trump the extra defense from S&B come Greymoor, considering how much Pen players will have access to.

You're not going to out heal a burst combo from stuhns/nma with anything the resto offers. You will be able to outplay an opponent ewith God blocks and rolls.

Going to go with Stuhns Favor and NMA, probably switch to a Nord or Altmer and go full glass canon for BG's on a magplar. Not decided on monster set yet maybe slimecraw. Looking at the same for a stamplar except nord or Orc for the race.


On a side note nice to see some great crafting sets being added.