If I understand this correctly.

The best sets of Mag and Stam... will still be the best sets, except where their purpose overlaps and we have to choose the stronger of them. So alot of us run Medusa for reasons. If MD set bonuses now apply for Stam then it would make sense for Medusa to actually replace certain Stam sets which were a work around for same bonuses (not quite the same).

This easily makes Medusa now one of the best sets in the game overall. And the proof of this is it was one of the absolute best sets to run for Magicka players, now that will transfer over to Stam players.

Which is going to be interesting because many players did that run just for the staves so now they'll have do it again for bows and daggers and such. An interesting side effect. This is also will kill variety, I should say the *existing* variety between sets because whichever set is stronger or perceived to be better will always win. So I figure this update you're looking at, of the sets used, at least half of them will become obsolete. It makes sense because a Stam person will go with Stam variety, mag does the same depending on similar purpose but now this reduces two separate choices made for their own reason, yet for same purpose, now down to one choice.

However I hope this doesn't go too far and fully bring down the lines between Mag and Stam. They are different in nature and are not intended to 'support' the same things. This would be very immersion breaking and players would no longer pay attention to differences between them. Just like how overland zone mobs/encounters have little immersion and virtually no progressive difficulty relative to the player makes them boring, forgettable and pointless to the actual story.

Yeah, Medusa is just one example but at some point next week I'll try to jump on PTS and see what they've done now lol

One of the selling points for Medusa has always been the 100% uptime for Minor Force. Although, I guess if you bar swap it doesn't stay active but I normally use a MD Destro Staff or Resto Staff if I use the set at all.

Then again for a Stam person they will probably want an arena weapon back bar'd, yet I normally do this for only PvP and 5/5/2 PvE.

Bahsei, Tzogvin's, Kinra's, Relequen, Medusa. Depending on your class there are some edge cases like Deadly Strike or War Maiden's on Templar, or the possible Frostbite on Warden. There's really not much diversity here, the changes mainly just phased out a couple sets for the better version from stam or mag for both. Monster helm sets are arguably in though, rather than doing 2 pieces of crit rate. Now that sets can crit again, some of them are worth running, not sure which ones though.