It's been broken ever since Deadlands DLC released and it has been a broken set bonus in the past, so how are they not able to fix it this time when it's just something they need to revisit and refix again?
Easy solution. Don't gold out super broken sets that ZOS takes way too long to fix. If anything be mad that they dont hotfix broken sets quicker but don't come to the forums to cry that you lost out on golding your sets when its obvious you were abusing a broken set. Sloady.
Fixing something that is broken by braking something else that was perfectly fine does not fix the initial broken thing. All you left with are two useless broken things. Remove the new abysmal damage monster set completely from the game, and revert the changes to the Iceheart set. Iceheart has a lot of in game flavor and…
I agree that in current iteration the set is weak for pve, but for pvp it looks solid, about as good as old caluurion. Probably they account for this limitation to make it viable in both but not completely broken.