You can't balance a game by saying this is broken so we should keep this broken ability to deal with this broken mess.If we do that nothing will every be fixed.Look at page 2-3 of here and you would see countless threads about proc sets.
Maybe people like the set because of the 100% status effect chance every 8 seconds, instead of the 20%, 10% 5%, 3%, 1% or whatever chances from other sources. Or maybe it was popular for a while because it was broken. "Fixed an issue where this set had unintended effects combined with Magicka Detonation and its morphs."
On paper this looks completely broken. So i was curious if anybody here tested it and see how it actually performs in the game? This set just concerns me is all.