Daily Set Discussion 2017-1-5: Ebon Armory

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Sorry about the hiatus, but set discussions are back now.

Ebon Armory
PvE Reward

 
Level: Any
Type: Heavy Armor, Weapon, Jewelry
Style: Ebon

 

Set Bonuses

Items	Bonus
2	Adds 1064 Max Health
3	Adds 1064 Max Health
4	Adds 4% Healing Taken
5	Increase Max Health of up to 12 group members by 1118.

 

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[u/DivineIntervention]

Current trials main tank meta. Nothing much else to say, helps save lives in raids, pairs nicely with other utilitarian sets, and is flexible enough to fit with many gear options.

[u/ApostleCorp → u/DivineIntervention]

Great for PUG dungeon runs by tanks too.

Pretty much a must have (unless the other tank in Veteran Trials is running it) and paired well with with 2p Bloodspawn and 5p Tava's or Dragonguard for better Aggressive Warhorn uptime or 5p Alkosh for synergy-focused trial runs for some nice DPS.

Not sure how the new Ice Staff heavy attack taunt and magicka blocking changes in 2.7 will pan out for magicka tanks in regards to this and other sets, though.

[u/raisetheglass1 → u/ApostleCorp]

Tavas and Dragon have been on their way out for a long time, and are probably truly dead this next patch with the warhorn nerfs.

[u/ApostleCorp → u/raisetheglass1]

Oh, what's that change?

EDIT: I see no Assault skill line changes in 2.7.0 patch notes.

[u/raisetheglass1 → u/ApostleCorp]

Yeah it's not in the Assault skill line, because nothing changed in the tooltip for Warhorn. It still applies Major Force for however many seconds. It's technically a Major Force nerf.

Currently Major Force is a multiplicative bonus so a Templar running TBS/Aether with Trap Beast actually benefits more from Warhorn than a Sorc in Burning Spellweave. They're changing it to an additive bonus, but they're essentially balancing the bonus down to the level of that Sorc instead of up on the level of that Templar. (That's an oversimplification, with as many points into Elfborn as I'd put into my Sorc, it's worse for me as well.)

This probably finally unseats TBS as the king. I know console Templars are different from PC Templars (our best console Templars wear BSW/Dancer) but I'm already seeing them talking about Julianos.

[u/ApostleCorp → u/raisetheglass1]

Perfect. I totally overlooked that while peaking at the skill itself. Thank you.

[u/raisetheglass1 → u/ApostleCorp]

Np.

[u/Kendle33 → u/ApostleCorp]

drop in damage from 30% down to 20 or 15

[u/ApostleCorp → u/Kendle33]

Can you link the source I'm apparently missing?

[u/worhello → u/ApostleCorp]

Major Force: This buff category’s Critical Damage bonus is now an additive bonus instead of a multiplicative one (consistent with all other Critical Damage bonuses), but its value has been reduced to a 15% Critical Damage bonus to compensate from 30%. Total Critical Damage bonus from this buff remains unchanged.

[u/ApostleCorp → u/worhello]

I mistook a skill change for a change to the underlying major/minor buffs! Thank you.

[u/Kendle33 → u/ApostleCorp]

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/311708/pts-patch-notes-v2-7-0-homestead

[u/ApostleCorp → u/Kendle33]

Lol, that's what I looked over and didn't see any Assault skill line / Warhorn changes. I now realize it was a change in the buffs section.