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alkemist80
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I finally dropped my black ice bracers yesterday and the idea of creating a set flirted across my mind. I'm not exactly thrilled with having to feed an endless hungry monster but figured I wanted to give it a try anyways.
I play a strictly PvE combat HR and I am not sure which set to go with. I like the offensiveness of the corrupted set but that means shedding quite a bit of my defenses/deflection.
The purified set gives me defenses however it's extremely defensive. In PvE, the lifesteal I have now along with my feats is more than enough to keep me alive.
What would be the recommended set?
I currently wear a full Royal Guard. The set bonus still might be too good to give up though.
I play a strictly PvE combat HR and I am not sure which set to go with. I like the offensiveness of the corrupted set but that means shedding quite a bit of my defenses/deflection.
The purified set gives me defenses however it's extremely defensive. In PvE, the lifesteal I have now along with my feats is more than enough to keep me alive.
What would be the recommended set?
I currently wear a full Royal Guard. The set bonus still might be too good to give up though.
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Since I wanted a primarily offensive build it actually works out well. My main issues with it are the crazy aggro it seems to generate, and dealing with the big spike damage.
I'm getting all tied up in my issues here, though. What kind of build are you using?
Thanks, I'll take a look at it.
I run a pure combat spec, everything filled out besides T1 serpent weave and T2 warden's courage. I used to build more towards survivability since mod 4-5 has hard hitting mobs. I'm starting to tone back a little now and go more offensive since I have the full lathander's set and the OH which provides more deflection.
At a quick glance, if I took off all my royal guard, it brings me from 40% deflection down to 35%, not the end of the world since I always use lone wolf, but I don't like it either. Armor pen may become an issue though, so this would involve reworking quite a bit of stats.
I use normal PF for weapon enchant.
Now if you're thinking of doing some pvp on the side I would reccomend 2 purified and 2 corrupted.
I've heard this a lot lately, and I honestly disagree. One of the main advantages of going Trapper is you can pretty drop Royal Guard in favour of a more offensively statted set (Corrupted, Draconic Templar maybe) and, with enough recovery, still cycle your encounters back to back. Royal Guard becomes - as much as it pains me, I honestly love that set - superfluous. I still use it as a PF trapper right now, because of my lack of something better (Still working on my Corrupted and Templar sets) but intend to get out of it as soon as possible to drop some ArP and gain some power and crit.
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However, OP, if you're a Stormwarden combat, I'd stick with Royal Guard. Flurry, Clear the Ground, Blade Storm, etc. will proc it like crazy. Purified will provide a nice defensive and survivability boost, but a Combat HR shouldn't really need it. Just ride the lifesteal train.
After I get the set together, might give it a whirl or two.
Overload slots + stat increase + corrupted 4 pc bonus will yield you more dps than the RG set. That was the result for me anyway.
All of this assumes you will keep the BI set at T3.
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Apparently forever. I was able to craft 2 pieces until I ran out of refined black ice. Without an extra gauntlet, it's taking so long just to refine the ice. I don't see myself using this set for another week at least. Still have to buy and craft the armor and boots. sigh.
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I just started to use the Templar set on my trapper and love it. Royal Guard is still a good choice in fights with large static targets where you make sure that Rain is constantly hitting, but Templar is close, tough you need to be more precise in your rotations. Everywhere else Templar is better: the extra tankiness is great for a Trapper as it helps you to stay in the middle of the fight, giving combat advantage to the other players and reducing damage to everybody, by the way the high recovery helps in the clerics phase at Tiamat where triggering the Guard bonus is more difficult with scattered enemies.
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I was playing with DT on preview last night to crunch some numbers and I was severely lacking ArP as well. I had to give up about 700 power just to make it up. To me that wasn't viable tradeoff.
Tried straight up draconic.. had about 200 less power since I had to make up ArP, then I wondered, this isn't netting me much more of anything I wanted to give up my RG set bonus.
So now I'm back to corrupted BI. Making my armor piece.. just need to refine more ice for the boots.
Really want to try to move forward in the game but so far, I'm still seeing myself stuck with RG. Without any CD reduction feats as combat, I feel highly dependent on it.
Yeah I'm not so sure CBI is the way to if you are Combat. The set has zero Deflect so you will have to make up loads across your accessories. I got the Purified set on my Combat HR without really doing any number crunching and that set has no crit or ArP and only a sprinkling of power. Still running with RG as Combat myself.
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It is definitely tankier than Royal Guard or BI Corrupted. As a Trapper I love it because I can stand more damage while using Hindering Strike to root enemies and the high recovery helps me in getting a seamless encounter rotation I need to root down as much stuff as I can.
In SoT or ELol you can open with Constrictive to root some mobs, charge in, get surrounded by the rest, root it with Hindering Strike, dodge out of the nice tight pack of mobs you rooted, use Rain of Swords to put a bleed on them, Steel Breeze to regains stamina, Rain of Arrows on the pack to deal more damage, and restart your rooting rotation before anything can move. You can do that with Royal (if your bonus triggers and it usually does, but not always), but when you navigate through the pack of mobs to root them with Hindering you risk your life much more than with the Templar set.
And while you do this all your AoE teammates will love you because they thay can hit everything with AoEs as monsters are tightly packed and rooted so they don´t run away (and Tyrannical Threat Fury SWs will literally melt everything if you pack it properly) .
Staying closer to the action enables you to use Aspect of the Pack more effectively for you and your teammates and give them the extra damage reduction of the Templar set.
The only issue I see at the moment is that Arpen and Power are lower than with my Royal, but as you get a ton of Crit you can just switch enchantments and rebalance the whole stuff. I haven´t done that yet as I´ll wait for my Jewellery profession to get to level 20 before balancing everything out but I´m pretty sure I won´t go back.
If you focus on DPS only maybe Royal is still the way to go, but I think that Trapper offers also a good path to party support in terms of control, buff and defense that it is more suited to the Templar set.
Last time I run SoT the comment of an SW and an Archer HR in the party was that I controlled dangerous mobs better than a wizard (Constrictive, Hindering Shot, Hindering Strike and Disruptive Shot let you do a fairly good amount of control/interrupt even on scattered mobs which is something that is more difficult for a wizard) and with the Templar set you can focus more on battlefield control as you spend less time dodging and are not dependant upon a random Royal Guard proc that may not come when you need it.
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Sounds like it's working great for your build. I'm not quite ready to give trapper a try. Though it sounds like good fun as well.
Did ACT testing on a single target dummy and a run through the Thayan lair in WoD.
In every test RG pulled ahead, and substantially on a single target, perfect world environment, aka test dummy. This was up against a full T3 empowered BI set with greater corrupt and greater lethal overload enchants.
In a live world test run (Thayan shelter lair), the BI set was a little behind RG but enough. Also considering the fact that BI needs to be fed so often and overload enchants replaced.
I am completely boggled and highly disappointed. The cool down reduction from RG for combat is just too good. I am not sure if I want to pull the trigger and use BI for real on live server. That would mean I need to dump AD to swap some boons.
You have to try red dragon glyphs in your overload slots. I don't know the rest of your gear, but for me the CBI with red glyphs was a nice damage boost over RG as SW combat using plague fire. You've taken it this far why not go all the way on test shard.
I will give it a test though. Do you normally run with 2 of them?
I always run with 2. With 2 equipped you will have the buff almost 100% of the time in combat. I admit the 2 hour time limit is a downer, but I normally swap my gear for dailies.
Combat spec gets more out of the red glyphs than any other spec.
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overloads shine with reds, they are the main reason i choose overload sets. As an archer they sum up to 8-10% of my dps it would probably be more as combat coz it attacks faster.
Prob is they have gotten more expensive now with less people running elol, so they are getting quite more (x3) expensive than they used too, to have them always on. So another option over lethals would be blacks which will give u the same crit but add another 2-3% dps from the dot and are not so expensive.
Had to get used to not having my encounters constantly up but I've learned to play it slightly differently. I also adjusted my boons and a feat to make up for ArP, deflection and lifesteal. For a min/max player, the CBI vs RG can be iffy if you rather use encounters > overload enchants (for combat spec).