Idea for a Mag Warden setup - Medusa + FG + Concentrated Force?

Arjuna1696 · July 2020

So I'm liking the change to the Medusa set as it stands on the pts - lots of spell crit and minor force. It'd be nice to take channeled acceleration off my bar, and I hate using trap. Thinking of running Medusa & FG (or Siroria depending on content) on body + jewelry pieces so that the 5pc bonuses of both sets are active all the time, and I'm wondering if concentrated force would be good to front bar. Being able to proc chilled frequently would allow me to benefit more from the glacial presence passive that gives wardens 10% crit damage against chilled foes. Thoughts?

ESO_Nightingale · July 2020

Arjuna1696 wrote: »

So I'm liking the change to the Medusa set as it stands on the pts - lots of spell crit and minor force. It'd be nice to take channeled acceleration off my bar, and I hate using trap. Thinking of running Medusa & FG (or Siroria depending on content) on body + jewelry pieces so that the 5pc bonuses of both sets are active all the time, and I'm wondering if concentrated force would be good to front bar. Being able to proc chilled frequently would allow me to benefit more from the glacial presence passive that gives wardens 10% crit damage against chilled foes. Thoughts?

Now that asylum is now supposedly super powered, I'd love to know more how it performs. It'll do wonders on magdk and magden. But is it worth running as a BIS set? I'm frankly not sure.

WrathOfInnos · July 2020

FGD is looking pretty weak now, probably only useful for things like vMA. I like the idea of the new Medusa since I also don’t like using Accel or Trap, TBD if it ends up being competitive, it will depend on what skill you place in that open bar slot.

Asylum Staff isn’t what it used to be, but if you have to provide all your own chilled uptime it may be worth it on Warden. You have to do the 2 force pulse casts in a row with the shorter cooldown to get the status effects, but that should fit nicely between Deep Fissure casts on Magden. Maybe a rotation like:

Fissure > Winter > Orb
Fissure > Pulse > Pulse
Fissure > Wall > Fetcher
Fissure > Pulse > Pulse
Repeat

zvavi · July 2020

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

I like the idea of the new Medusa

Tbh compared to ms it will be trading 1k max mag and less than 1% of spell crit for minor force (skill slot of 10% crit dmg). I wouldn't say it is bad.

Arjuna1696 · July 2020

So I guess the main thing to test is if high chill uptime and lots of burning procs are comparable to the damage output of Zaan / Skoria.

Runefang · July 2020

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

FGD is looking pretty weak now, probably only useful for things like vMA. I like the idea of the new Medusa since I also don’t like using Accel or Trap, TBD if it ends up being competitive, it will depend on what skill you place in that open bar slot.

Asylum Staff isn’t what it used to be, but if you have to provide all your own chilled uptime it may be worth it on Warden. You have to do the 2 force pulse casts in a row with the shorter cooldown to get the status effects, but that should fit nicely between Deep Fissure casts on Magden. Maybe a rotation like:

Fissure > Winter > Orb
Fissure > Pulse > Pulse
Fissure > Wall > Fetcher
Fissure > Pulse > Pulse
Repeat

DoT rotations are pretty strong on Magden's too, dropping the minor force skill to allow for an extra DoT each 1-2 rotation I think will increase DPS.

ESO_Nightingale · July 2020

Arjuna1696 wrote: »

So I guess the main thing to test is if high chill uptime and lots of burning procs are comparable to the damage output of Zaan / Skoria.

Well. Bonus crit damage might do that.

ESO_Nightingale · July 2020

Runefang wrote: »

WrathOfInnos wrote: »

FGD is looking pretty weak now, probably only useful for things like vMA. I like the idea of the new Medusa since I also don’t like using Accel or Trap, TBD if it ends up being competitive, it will depend on what skill you place in that open bar slot.

Asylum Staff isn’t what it used to be, but if you have to provide all your own chilled uptime it may be worth it on Warden. You have to do the 2 force pulse casts in a row with the shorter cooldown to get the status effects, but that should fit nicely between Deep Fissure casts on Magden. Maybe a rotation like:

Fissure > Winter > Orb
Fissure > Pulse > Pulse
Fissure > Wall > Fetcher
Fissure > Pulse > Pulse
Repeat

DoT rotations are pretty strong on Magden's too, dropping the minor force skill to allow for an extra DoT each 1-2 rotation I think will increase DPS.

Yeah I'd be excited to see.