Shattered Paths Signet - a wonderful new mythic, it's been really fun to theorycraft and test with. Seems like it has a nice little niche that it can fill and create a new creative space for damage dealers in PvE without adversely affecting PvP balance or being too powerful to affect PvE balance.

Thousand Eyes - I believe this is meant to be a "1vX" monster set. It's an interesting concept, but I'm not up to date enough in PvP to definitively state whether it is a good addition.

Glittering Goad - I think this monster set is trying to do too much at once. I feel like it would be great to juice up the damage portion and AOE minor brittle, then removing the restorative energy part. This would allow it to exist as a potentially good frost damage option with a nice AOE debuff.

The Ruckus - This definitely strikes me as a PvP monster set, I don't really have any valuable feedback to provide here.

Gorethief - Similar to The Ruckus, I don't believe I have any valuable feedback to provide here.

Gorethief, the healing number is a tad low, atleast on pts, I healed 3k, but in cyrodiil that will be halfed wich is a fairly weak heal imo.

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I see a lot of PvE talk related to this mythic, and I am excited to mess with it in the infinite archive, just like a lot of folks. Its an interesting Idea for a mythic and its fun. However For the Balance of PvP, I am worried. I know the Damage potential is cut in half for PvP, But that does not stop it from being one of, if not the most oppressive mythic item for status effect burst combos. In particular, and specifically, force pulse gankers. Recently in BGs and Cyrodill, force pulse ganking has become very popular since the combo is very easy to do and also has the safety of range. Its also very dysnc heavy, being that force pulse is a ranged skill with no travel time, so the damage from it is done instantly. This means most of the time you are getting hit by the combo,(about 7 out of 10 times) the damage does not actually register for you until the second force pulse is cast, meaning you are getting hit by 2 separate force pulse casts at the same time. This is on top of the opening of the combo with crystal weapon, recuperative treatise into either a Bow heavy attack or Snipe cast, bar swapping and then light attacking before force pulsing, spams many small instances of damage in a small amount of time. This is then further modified by prioritizing status effect procs for each tic of damage and then adding that to draugrkin, making for really silly burst. By itself, this build is not an too big of an issue to deal with, as the players that use it tend to be quite squishy and many of them are quite clumsy in how they pull off the combo. It normally takes a minimum of 2 back to back force pulses to put down a player with 30k hp, if most items in the combo crit, and they get a successful desync off on you. A seasoned player can easily counter the damage and retaliate if it is just a single force pulse ganker. This leads people to sit on keep walls, or sit behind a zerg and just poke people to death with lethal damage, all while being just out of range. A more popular option recently as well for cyrodill is running in groups of 3 to 8, all using the same force pulse build on a single person, making the damage near in-escapable.
I had some hope with the DK changes that the wings would counter alot of the damage from this combo, but come to find out, It almost does nothing since most of the damage is status effect related. This on top of now adding molten weapons into the combo, with the new dragonknight changes plus Shattered paths signet, the new mythic item, Supercharges the combo, making it Lethal within the first force pulse. Testing it on the pts, It deals Melee ganker levels of damage from a safe distance, and the combo does not even need to crit anymore to be lethal. As fun as it would be to run around with this build on the live server, The popularity of this build and how it is used, plus how easy the combo is to do makes this build Something to be considered when looking at the balance of this mythic item.
Suggestions -
-I would suggest either Adding a travel time to Force pulse, for more counter play (remove desync)

-Further reducing the damage of the Shattered Paths signet when in pvp,( I did like my elemental susceptibility build, so hopefully not this change)

If any, make this change
-Make shattered Paths Signet also prevent you from going into stealth while equipped (preferred)

-Limiting crystal weapon and molten weapon procs in the same global light attack (limits creativity)

Glittering Goad: I think that this is meant to be a PvE tank set. But it feels as though it is #DoinTooMuch with the various disconnected effects. There are also plenty of PvE tank monster sets but literally zero Frost Damage monster sets worth using as a DPS. As such, I would join with the above comment and call to streamline this set into a Frost Damage DPS set.

At the very least, the resource-return can be safely jettisoned to increase the power of the damage.

Hey @ZOS_Kevin is it possible if we could have some confirmation as to if (specifically) the itemisation team responsible for item sets looks at the forums?

I ask because It just feels hopeless when asking for new item sets to be created for specific niches.

The last time i remember an item set being created in this way was 5 years ago in 2021 and it was for frostbite when we were protesting the insane amount of flame damage sets.

Why cant we do things like item set design competitions to get fan made item sets added to the game?

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Really love this mythic, I hope to see more DPS mythics like it in the future. That said, I do feel you may come to the conclusion that the 170% bonus is too strong, and smack it with a nerf hammer. While I agree to some extent, I'd hope you use a chisel here, while attacking some of the root cause of its performance, in addition to making it even more fun to engage with.

The intent of the mythic seems to try and reward elemental based high cost ultimates like Shifting Banner (225 ult), Northern Storm (200 ult), Storm Atro (200 ult), and Elemental Rage (250 ult). However, the best use case right now is for users to sit on ultimate indefinitely because:

1. The 170% bonus is very strong and is completely removed upon spending ultimate.
2. You only get the random status effects at cap.
3. Enables a problematic scenario where 1/21 class ultimates actually deals passive damage without casting; Animal Companion's Bear. In addition, it has increased Hemorhaging chance, it's dispraportionally stronger with that ultimate than anything else available.

This can't be the intent of the design right? These are some changes I'd like to see that I think would make it a bit more balanced and fun to interact with:

• At minimum, wearing the ring now gives 2 bonuses regardless of ultimate:
  • Light/Heavy attacks apply a random status effect, 4s cooldown.
  • +20% status effect damage.
• Continues to give +1% status effect damage per ultimate and Minor Timity.
• Cap reduced from +170% to +120%. (Total = 140% with initial bonus).
• No longer affected by battlespirit.

The required ultimate lowers from 170 to 120, in addition to always getting a +20% bonus and random status effects, the coolest part imo. This should make using your ultimate optional instead of not optimal, providing endless options instead of the current one with bear. High cost ultimates will still perform a bit better because they remain at full bonus for longer, but all builds now get a bonus at minimum to make it less punishing to engage with.

The general idea is the important part here, the numbers can be tinkered. Maybe the cap goes lower, maybe the initial bonus goes higher, I can't pretend to know what a safe spot is, but I felt 140% with all the buffs I added for the initial part was a safe place. It also lowers how strong it can be for PVP, so I feel like the Battlespirt nerf isn't entirely necessary, especially since a PVP build is giving up a defensive mythic like Mono to use this; opportunity cost.

All the Other Sets

Bad. They're all bad. Take them back to the drawing board.

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This Mystic is strong ONLY with both Winter's Enbrace (for chilled buff) AND Animal Companion (for bear) lines.
And yet, it's not that strong. (180k PVE parse is that we have before arc banner nerf). With all other skill lines combination it's not as strong as you don't use ultimate, specially in Pvp where you need lines for sustain and tanking and needing ultimate for Burst/Exec.
And in PVE, as it was said before, this mystic don't give you great AOE damage (like Fatecarver or new Engulfing dragonfire) or Burst Damage, as it's commonly requiered on most of trials.

My opinion : Don't nerf it. Don't up It.

Shattered Paths Signet paired with Spattering Disjunction is very powerful. Although ultimate abilities cannot be used, both area-of-effect and single-target damage are increased by combining the two.

I agree that Shattered Paths Signet doesn't need to be changed for now; we can observe its performance. It definitely doesn't need a buff at this stage.

Hey ZOS,
Shattered Paths signet still doesn't have any flavour text like all the other mythics do. I hope this can be adjusted before live. It'd be a shame for it to be an outlier (especially with how fun the antiquity entries for it are !)