This set was aimed at offering a form of damage reduction that operates like Block, so we’ve reigned in the effectiveness and behavior to more closely mirror it, rather than allowing it apply to things outside of expectations and experiences the game already accounts for. This should make the set much easier to engage with and simpler to understand, while also ensuring it cannot allow wearers to become nearly as god-like as they could before. This should also make the set better against singular or low hit count attackers, but weaker against multiple or high hit count attackers, by draining Stamina less on impact but with the ability to drain much faster.

After getting more numbers and feedback on this set, we’ve noticed that a lot of the power this set was enabling was outside of its intended power, where we wanted to ensure players gained a solid amount of damage to mitigate the losses of not perfectly weaving while not overtaking those types of builds. From what we’ve seen, this set was doing that and will continue to do so after the changes, while reigning in a lot of the power and potential to use the set as an easy win for Area of Effect encounters where Light Attacks and non-Lightning Staff Heavy Attacks already see a falloff in damage production. This keeps the set meaningful to use for its targeted goals, without making it the best option for many situations it wasn’t designed around.

These changes were made to help make the set more readily available and reliable.