The restriction feels far too restrictive for the opportunity cost of giving up that slot. I would love to know what sort of builds the devs were thinking of when both designing, then balancing this while internally testing. I'm not sure the community has found any of them yet.

If the answer is, none, then why bother creating it? How do you balance something you don't have a use for? Actually this might explain quite a few things.

Being able to use two Mythics would definitely make for a better system, especially as more Mythic items become available and in more armor slots. Of course, that would definitely require some power budget adjustments to certain existing Mythics (*cough* Malacath *cough).

But 5 ultimate/second IS very strong if you can get it to proc reliably. I actually know of a means of doing that but I am forever scared to share it out of fear that it will get immediately nerfed.

It's literally not worth bothering with at all in its current state. With a few niche exceptions, the main aspects of it really don't mesh.

Uh oh, I'm low on mag. Better pop a heal.

(receives 5 ulti)

Great...I guess. I'm still low on mag though and I still don't have an ulti...

The pearls should do the following:

• When you cast a healing ability, You gain 1 additional ultimate for every 10% of your dominant resource missing, up to a maximum of 5 ultimate while your dominant resource is at 50% or below. Healing an ally grants them 1 ultimate for every 10% of their dominant resource missing, up to a max of 5. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds.

The caster can consistently gain 5 ultimate if their dominant resource is low but when healing allies, it only occurs once every 5 seconds for them.

This mythic feels like it was made for a Dragonknight healer to be honest. They'd get the most out of the low resource heal casting thing since it'd expedite their ability to cast an ultimate and proc Battle Roar.

TheDarkRuler wrote: »

and the Ice Boots dont serve any purpose (at least for me).

Those boots are great in PVP when you don't wanna use an immobilization or snare purge ability. Helps stop yourself from getting bogged down in stupid during ball group fights as well.

Skullstachio wrote: »

The pearls should do the following:

• When you cast a healing ability, You gain 1 additional ultimate for every 10% of your dominant resource missing, up to a maximum of 5 ultimate while your dominant resource is at 50% or below. Healing an ally grants them 1 ultimate for every 10% of their dominant resource missing, up to a max of 5. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds.

The caster can consistently gain 5 ultimate if their dominant resource is low but when healing allies, it only occurs once every 5 seconds for them.

This sounds pretty nice but i think 5 second cooldown is too high. You always need to consider "What (5) set bonus am i giving up to use this mythic?".

It’s perfectly balanced as it is, it sees use in sweatier trial groups. Only one healer has to run Symphony so dropping the other monster set like Sentinel or Bogdan for it is totally worth it for the insane ultigen you can get off it.

If it gets any easier to use you’d see even DPS use it like magblades who can proc it using swallow soul and bow proc that both counts as heals for insane incap uptimes.

This mythic is easily one of the worst I think It could be good if they just made it proc off any heal bringing you above 30% not just a heal cast

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

I would like it to work when your resource is <50%. 30% is too low but 66% is probably a little bit too high.

I would raise it higher to something like 66%. As a healer main, I'm just rarely below 50% magika, so Pearls would be pretty useless. It seems the idea of the mythic is to allow the healer to generate tons of ultimate (presumably for more group support ultimate usage). Extra ultimate triggering at only under 30% resources, it is basically a wasted slot and definitely not worth giving up something like Earthgore or Symphony of Blades.

Remember that in organized groups, many healers are using Roaring Opportunist, which requires a heavy attack rotation, meaning the Healer is likely to have a lot of resources. Even if they're not using Roaring Opportunist, a healer maximizes the efficiency of their heal spells by mixing in heavy attacks to proc major mending. As a side effect, unless the healer is simply bad at resource management, your really not below 50% magika for any extended period of time. As such, unless this set kicks in sooner than 50% resource pool, its benefits are really going to be marginal IMO.