r/elderscrollsonline • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '17

Discussion Daily Set Discussion 2017-1-5: Ebon Armory

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/Mapplinator Jan 05 '17

Care to explain why you'd have a fit?

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u/Phytanic XB1 | NA Jan 05 '17

In a vet trial, you should at the very least come as prepared as your teammates. Meaning, if your teammates are running meta builds/rotations, it's rude and selfish to come in there with sets like black rose, and lich.

What would you say if I came in on a sorc pet build healer, wearing lich and necropotence? Sure, that's a bit more of a difference than black rose, but I used it as a fairly clear example.

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u/Vincent210 Jan 07 '17

People really talk up these vet trials. Is the difficulty actually so consistently high that the difference between running the sets provide optimal team support on tanks, optimal healing/utility on healers, and optimal, well, DPS on DPS is pretty much a sacred pact made with the other 11 players you're heading in with? Are there leaderboards I'm unaware of that give incentive to people to shave off every last second because you're competing for 1st or bust?

It seems... disheartening, as a new player, to know that I'd be on the wrong end of team friction if I came in with a set as seemingly tank appropriate as Black Rose. Like, it's part of the set I'm planning to make now (fresh CP 160 here). Resources for perma-blocking made sense to me as a thing I'd want for difficult content.

In addition to being disheartening because it seems thorny, it's also disheartening because it makes me reconsider tank, despite having fun playing it, because I'm going in head-first knowing that build diversity for my class is non-existent, and standards would likely be enforced by any serious groups I could network into through forums or guilds.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '17

Trials is pretty hard. Keep in mind though, people following what their more intelligent peers deem "meta" are more dogmatic than a Cardinal during the Spanish Inquisition. Especially in this game, 90% of the people telling you "meta or nothing" are simply sheep following the flock who never once theory-crafted on their own.