Elemental Catalyst: The new must-have support set

Описание: In this video, we're taking a look at the new light armor set from the Stone Garden dungeon: Elemental Catalyst. Below are the set bonuses as of 6.1.0.

2 pieces: Max Magicka
3 pieces: Spell Crit
4 pieces: Max Magicka
5 pieces: Whenever you deal Flame, Shock, or Frost Damage, you apply a stack of Flame, Shock, or Frost Weakness to the enemy for 5 seconds. Each stack of an Elemental Weakness increases their Critical Damage taken by 6%. An enemy can only have one stack of each Elemental Weakness at a time.

When you have all 3 Elemental Weaknesses active, the enemy takes an additional 18 percent Critical Damage. This is a huge amount of damage, roughly an 8 percent increase in damage taken at a bare minimum.

There are two places where this set could be used. First is on a magicka necromancer, as they have sources of all three elemental damage types. The second would be on a healer running Force Pulse/Crushing Shock. Force Pulse/Crushing Shock also deals all three elemental damage types, and a healer would need to cast this every 5 seconds to maintain full uptime on it.

I highly anticipate ZOS will nerf this set down. I included two suggestions in the video, but will put them here as well. First is to decrease the amount of Critical Damage taken per Weakness. If we cut it down to 3 or 4 percent, this makes the damage increase to around a 4 to 5 percent boost to DPS at a bare minimum. The second would be to introduce a cooldown for each Weakness. If we have an 8 second cooldown, then not only does this help with management, but also reduces the overall effectiveness of the debuff on average. You'll still have bursts of high damage when it is up, but taken over the course of the fight, you'd end up with a smaller boost to damage, about a 5 percent minimum boost if they implement an 8 second cooldown.

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