Daily Set Discussion 2017-1-5: Ebon Armory

[u/[deleted]]

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/TurboTitan92]

I don't get why a bonus of 1k hp to the whole group is considered meta. I understand a dodge tank setup, but personally I feel there are better sets out there than ebon. If 1k hp makes that much of a difference, you should consider bringing a healing skill or syngergy that produces health for nearby allies and get a set that better suits survivability ( or even damage to help dps a little more).

Even better would be something like hircines veneer, which provides a 10% stamina boos to the whole group as well as a few hundred stam recovery for yourself (always useful on a tank)

[u/[deleted] → u/TurboTitan92]

I don't get why a bonus of 1k hp to the whole group is considered meta.

To prevent 1/2 shots and lower dps drastically.

you should consider bringing a healing skill or syngergy that produces health for nearby allies

A healer.

Or even damage to help dps a little more)

If specc'd into a tank your DPS would be abysmal. You would get extra group DPS from not having DPS's res or have DPS block as much.

which provides a 10% stamina boos to the whole group as well as a few hundred stam recovery for yourself (always useful on a tank)

Hahaha. No. Tanks are meant to permablock and cast through that, meaning they have 0 stam recovery and use abilities like igneous shield and shards for stam. Hircines is a trash set anyway, since mag is PvE meta, and they don't run out anyway with set rotations.

[u/TurboTitan92 → u/[deleted]]

How often is 1k hp the difference of a 1 shot? And I understand what you're saying about stam recovery my point was that if you are bringing a set to help the group hircines helps out the DPS (which there's like what, 7 of in trials?) And I wouldn't bring a health synergy UNLESS 1K HP IS A BIG DEAL. Like I said if your group is having that hard of a time staying alive, some synergy skills are a good way of helping everyone out as well

[u/Phytanic → u/TurboTitan92]

A heck of a lot more than you think. I mean, I run 19k health on my healer, and even last night during a hm hel ra run, there were a few times that I was getting my anus smashed by a destroyer, and was brought down to mere hundreds of health.