Week 1 (ENDED): VOTE for the WORST 5th piece bonus on an item set! Winner gets 250k! (PC/NA)

Arbit · September 2022

Eyes of Mara for sure. 15% reduction of resto abilities... the reduction isnt much, and even with that, does a healer really need a reduction in healing abilities considering the amount they normally invest in regen? I can't even picture a niche build that could find this necessary. Healers have a multitude of sets they require for buffing or healing group, but a small 15% reduction in maybe 3-4 spells when they could go for a 33% decrease with seducer in all magicka spells, just doesn't make sense. It's outclassed by almost every other set in the game for healers. This set definitely got my vote.

Androrix · September 2022

Vastarie's Tutelage

I really, really, really don't understand some of the options. I mean, toothrow is great. It should be in a vote for best! I think Beekeeper is pretty solid too.

Still, this did remind me how much garbage is out there. Vestarie's is worst for me. I always wondered who would actually use that.

katanagirl1 · September 2022

Jman100582 wrote: »

Sad that nobody mentioned nights silence

That set is highly useful in very specialized tasks...

Dr_Con · September 2022

Congrats @RebornV3x for your choice, please let me know which @ account on PC/NA you wish for me to send the 250k gold to!

RebornV3x · September 2022

@Dr_Con I don't want the gold just give it to second place i don't really play the game very much

Saucy_Jack · September 2022

All sets that do not give pie-related buffs are equally useless.

- Pie King

WiseSky · September 2022

Vastarie's Tutelage

Tevalaur wrote: »

WiseSky wrote: »

I don't know what any of the sets do.

So I Went with the lamest Name

If you couldn't be bothered to look through the screenshots atop the poll then I hardly think your vote should actually count... Literacy is in a sad state these days...

The reason I don't read the Sets, is I have not found them in the game yet.

Since reading the set would be a spoiler

DrNukenstein · September 2022

Vampire Lord

Vampire lord is a set that can only be used for trolling in pvp with mist form, and there are so many better ways to troll. And when you pick this set, you commit to trolling with mist form. It's not like any other vamp skills are better than alternatives in other skill lines, using it to support frenzy is a huge net damage loss over just picking a different 5 piece, and it actively makes you worse at non vamp skills. 110%, for the birds

at least toothrow gives about half a 5piece of WD/SD on top of the very common perma buff.

My honorable mention is Archer's Mind. It sounds so cool on ganker, but it is booty terrible for the following reasons.

-You already do 225% crit on a crouch attack/skill out of combat
-If you're doing it right, you're weaving that first skill with a heavy, and that heavy will eat the stealth bonus
-max stam line instead of WD/SD for the only tool tip stat?
-2 lines of crit chance for a set that's supposed to pimp that guaranteed crit.

There are objectively worse sets, but I don't think any set is more disappointing in it's application than Archer's Mind.

Kaelthorn_Nightbloom · September 2022

Vastarie's Tutelage

Assassin's Guile should not be in this poll. It's one of the strongest niche PvP sets in the game. It gives you 8.4 seconds of Unstoppable on a 1.6 second cooldown. It gives you Unstoppable+Immobilization, Movespeed+Snare, Sustain+Drain on 66% uptime. Extremely stat dense. Assassin's Guile + Snowtreaders and you basically have permanent immunity to all crowd control. Great for ball groups and stamina players with high pressure single target damage.

Kaelthorn_Nightbloom · September 2022

Vastarie's Tutelage

Finedaible wrote: »

My honorable mention would be Armor of the Veiled Heritance: "When you interrupt an enemy, you gain 516 Weapon and Spell Damage for 15 seconds. Your Bash attacks deal 516 more damage." For one, it is a heavy armor set, AND two it has an incredibly niche proc condition with such a short buff duration that most users will never get any use out of it at all.

Veiled Heritence is a meta set for bash builds. Not only does it increase bash damage by 516 + (1487*2*0.03) = 605 but also increases the damage of your Power Slam by an additional 516 + 128 = 644. That's a total of 1249 extra damage for your Power Slam. The only other set in the game that gives that much damage is Kvatch Gladiator.