So many sets....

Ummm that's a no from me.

nb_rich wrote: »

Has this happened yet ? How far has everyone gotten so far ? And if your someone trying to collect everything like me what strategy you using to complete everything as fast as possible ?

Standing at 6.7K items and counting. I'm a buildcrafter who saved PvP geodes since before ZOS invented the stickerbook. My goal is everything but perfected trial sets and perfected BRP weapons. I can't be bothered with vet DLC trials. In the case of vBRP the problem is finding a group.

My main strategy is to play a tank / carry build, e.g. queue solo as a tank for normal dungeons, and vet when the former gets too boring. What do I mean by "tank / carry"? It's a stamsorc that can switch between a Brawler / Tormentor solo build (that taunts everything) and a proper 1H+S / Yolnakhriin tank build, via gear change. 38K health, resistance cap, but also 42% crit and 4.8K weapon damage, healing from Crit Surge and health recovery, and using a Master's 2H weapon to solo dungeons in it's Brawler guise. Doesn't matter what kind of a PUG you get. The build will carry the group up to vet non-DLC hard mode level. For harder vet content I switch to the 1H+S gear, although the Brawler variant is even capable of soloing some vet DLC fights that particularly suit it, such as the last boss in vCauldron.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=421256
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Special:EsoBuildData?id=433679

In normal DLC and Craglorn normal / vet trials I play a magplar DD or a tank, whatever is needed. I was hesitant to form trial PUGs myself at first, but most of the time it works out fine for normal trials. The latest one, DSR, is actually quite easy. Some others, such as nCR+2/+3 (to get the jewelry) actually push the typical Craglorn trial PUG harder.

The BindAll addon automatically binds uncollected items when they drop, so you don't get duplicates. I also use LootLog and list my already collected items for others to take at the end of a trial or dungeon. Relatively few people do that in PUGs, which I find frustrating. I've gotten a good few items by asking for stuff others didn't advertise. However that is perhaps easier to do in 4-man PUGs, with whom you establish a slightly closer connection than with a trial group. Some players really hate being asked for stuff they didn't advertise, even though I only query for lootbox items that they have quite possibly already collected, not the final boss weapons. I stopped asking for unadvertised stuff after getting some grief in a trial recently.

The double drops for HOF, CR and AS back in January were a very productive time. I got those completed then.

The Awesome Guild Store addon helps find everything uncollected you can buy in guild stores. When you're starting out, set a price limit and just use that addon. Later on, to find that last remaining pieces, I used TTC of course. I ended up bookmarking some TTC searches in my browser for really rare items. The hardest and most expensive to complete were the weapons from the Imperial City sets. I paid up to 500K for the last remaining ones. Also a good way of turning Tel Var into gold, though. The blue lootboxes from the Hakeijo vendor are best in the early stages of IC collection.

Vateshran was easy to complete. Set weapons drop from some of the intermediate bosses. nBRP is also done.

vDSA is done. You can carry groups with a Brawler tank here too. It only gets tricky doing the last boss with a low DPS group. My very last run took 5 hours, but we solved the problems. The CP250 stamblade switched to a tanky Brawler build on my recommendation and another player bought and switched to Hexos Ward. Using the Barrier ultimate instead of a damage ultimate at 50% and 25% can also help. In terms of time: Not a good recommendation to go with a marginal group, because the last boss will crucify you even when you can carry the group up to that point.

Funnily enough, even though I don't find Maelstrom hard anymore (not even on vet), I am not a fast Maelstrom player. You only get a single set weapon at the end. I'm talking about the many regular sets, not the Maelstrom weapons. I am hoping for Wrothgar double drops some day.

How do we figure out what percentage of the sets we've collected? I know I'm nowhere near 100%, but curious now. I only farm sets I want to wear, and I hate grinding, so I'll never get them all for sure. But I'm still curious what percentage I've gotten so far.