D0ntevenL1ft wrote: »

leepalmer95 wrote: »

D0ntevenL1ft wrote: »

Pepper8Jack wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

I am incredibly excited for this set. A lot of the PVP'ers may be whining about the set; calling it a "zerg buster" and this and that. But for a PVE'er like myself, this set is going to work wonders. I've been looking for a solid set to use on my Magicka Dragonknight, and this I feel is what I've been waiting for.

Does this set work in PvE? I know the 5pc tooltip specifies that the proc is when you kill a "player", but I haven't seen anything about it working in PvE

I have a strong feeling that this set cannot be used in PVE. People would clear adds in dungeons in seconds if so.

It's not like people don't clear adds in seconds anyway.

Hello worlds most negative poster.

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

I am incredibly excited for this set. A lot of the PVP'ers may be whining about the set; calling it a "zerg buster" and this and that. But for a PVE'er like myself, this set is going to work wonders. I've been looking for a solid set to use on my Magicka Dragonknight, and this I feel is what I've been waiting for.

The explosion only works if you kill players it will not work for PVE.

Elhanan wrote: »

Recremen wrote: »

It's like they looked at 1vXers, realized they couldn't wipe groups that know what they are doing, and decided to give them something that would make it possible. I'm all for 1vXing, it's really cool, but this is like, the raid wiper set. That's crap.

Depends on the AoE radius, but agree with @Makkir that this is a zerg buster. Smart raids will have to spread out a bit to avoid this. No clump and dumps.

AOE radius is roughly 5 mtr.

Damn, 5m is very, very small, i can see the set being useful but considering it's only useful when you actually kill someone in pvp, so it's useless most of the time and even when it does proc hoping someone is 5m in range... hmm]

They radius needs doubling.

Needs doubling in order to take out those pesky adds

You know you need to kill a 'player' right?

leepalmer95 wrote: »

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

Ch4mpTW wrote: »

I am incredibly excited for this set. A lot of the PVP'ers may be whining about the set; calling it a "zerg buster" and this and that. But for a PVE'er like myself, this set is going to work wonders. I've been looking for a solid set to use on my Magicka Dragonknight, and this I feel is what I've been waiting for.

The explosion only works if you kill players it will not work for PVE.

Elhanan wrote: »

Recremen wrote: »

It's like they looked at 1vXers, realized they couldn't wipe groups that know what they are doing, and decided to give them something that would make it possible. I'm all for 1vXing, it's really cool, but this is like, the raid wiper set. That's crap.

Depends on the AoE radius, but agree with @Makkir that this is a zerg buster. Smart raids will have to spread out a bit to avoid this. No clump and dumps.

AOE radius is roughly 5 mtr.

Damn, 5m is very, very small, i can see the set being useful but considering it's only useful when you actually kill someone in pvp, so it's useless most of the time and even when it does proc hoping someone is 5m in range... hmm]

They radius needs doubling.

Nerienths crystal radius is 3 meters and Pulsar radius is 6 meters so I dont think its that small tbh.

You dont want to get killed by unskilled players exploding 10 meters away.
At least the 5 meters is possible to avoid.

Can you imagine what an Emperor is capable of doing with this set? lol

Only thing I like is this set promotes a good reason not to bunch up in a zerg. Smart players will have no problem knowing where to be in the fight but mindless zergs will cry nerf

Kalebron wrote: »

I was thinking about 5 pieces of Julianos, and 4 pieces of Vicious Death. Now if this actually works on NPC and monsters, then I would definitely go 5 piece Vicious Death and 4 piece Julianos. I love my spell crit on my MNB.

I'm sure 5 jul/4 Vd will be very strong for pve either way, it's pure dmg.

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

I can already tell there is bound to be at least 1 player that will use this set to wipe out an entire zerg simply by combining it with magicka detonation and steel tornado and another random AOE class ability.

You mean like soul tether siphon and det? Lol

With so many sets getting nerfed with subclassing, I don't know how this one got overlooked and overlooked for so long. ESPECIALLY when they put in place Battle Spirit and upped the difficulty in how support can heal. This set, now used by sorcs to effectively take out 6 + players in a go, is used in a pull/charm/negate/colossus combo that kills everyone in less than a blink with healers (with or without negate in that combo) trying everything they can to heal their teammates through it. It CANNOT be done. I've been pulled into these so many times and am often targeted because I heal (I get that part), so the fact I can't do anything about or even TRY to do anything about it IS the problem.

This set is no longer balanced; it needs to be remedied. After the initial explosion, no one else should be exploding and certainly not for nearly 8K of damage a piece. Nothing like seeing "Vicious Death: 34,453+," in your kill feed on top of the 6K+ X3 whaps of a colossus. The inability to heal effectively (negate coupled with battle spirit restrictions that were FURTHER ADDED TO RECENTLY ) AND the inability to break free (pull/charm) mean I'm standing there impotent to help my team, nor can they help themselves.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm impressed with the ingenuity of the players to come up with and then time the negate+colossus+pull/charm combo... well done. But this set makes things unplayable. Made sense when being able to trigger it on a large scale was rare, not so much anymore when people are rolling crypt cannon and dropping this combo 3-4 times in a row.

Some good points are being made now in this year of 2026. This set does need another look at for performance.