No!

Let Procsets fall under Battle spirit, and reduce procsets damage and heal to 1k as maximum to limit the sets being used as substitute for actual Class skills. Also reduce any buffs to 1-5% effectiveness overall, the percentage currently from procsets for free damage, heals or other buff have reached a level that makes the players rely solely on that and not their own performance.

Allow proc sets to crit, but cut their base damage in half.

I get your frustration with proc sets in PVP, as it allows for tanky builds that can self-sustain AND do damage, so there is basically no downside to the tanky builds, but I think some of that is going to change with the new champion point system and the rework of the armor systems. Lets give that a chance before doing anything drastic.

In the meantime, I'm generally not for nerfing proc sets because they really don't see any use outside of PVP. Raw stat sets are much better for higher overall DPS than proc sets in the PVE arena because proc sets only give you a linear increase in DPS that you can calculate based on how much damage the proc set states it does per second (or calculating the dps gain by dividing damage by duration). Whereas raw stats sets boost damage for everything, so you have higher overall DPS. So unless proc sets are buffed in PVE to scale based on player's spell/weapon damage, the only arena you will see regular use of proc sets is PVP, so nerfing them into oblivion in PVP means that these sets will never see any use at all.

Imo this is not something that can be fixed by simply nerfing proc sets or proc set effectiveness, but rather, they need to take a look at the functionality of heavy armor so that it comes with real penalties in your ability to self-sustain and do damage. I.e., wearing heavy armor should require more stamina for you to do basically anything (including stamina-based heals) except for blocking. And if you wear heavy armor as a mag user, all your magika damage abilities should suffer a damage penalty based on the number of heavy armor pieces you are wearing. The other ES games penalize you in this fashion, so its a lore-friendly way to try to balance things out IMO.

Id love for a nerf to proccs, they suck the fun out of the game imo. (pvp)

Just make some of the skills work against proc sets - eg the nullification ones. Mr amazing proc set dude will then just get nullified in pvp and had better be able to play 8)

Have had a lot of fun in Cyrodil the last weeks, however its obviously an test.
Now an problem with many proc sets is that its free damage, while this is nice it become an problem in that you can make very hard to kill tanks who still does damage.
Having proc damage and healing bases on your stats could solve lots of this, yes you could still be very tanky but your damage would be much lower.

I think an easier solution would be to only allow you to wear 1 proc set at any time.

Perhaps ZOS could make it so monster helmets are the only proc sets in the game. Monster helmets often have very obvious and distinguishable effects, so that can help when trying to react accordingly.

CSose wrote: »

They should just take proc sets out of the game entirely now. What is good for PvP is good for PvE. Just think of the reduction in server load!

They already said that disabling proc sets in PvP didn’t improve performance at all, which is unfortunate.