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Sapphire -> RE: =AQ= Frostval Gift Delivery Finale Guardian Gifts Are Opening Soon! (1/10/2024 14:14:11)
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Alright, overall the items and sets are both good, and disappointing. Catering to builds for these sets IMO isn't a good idea, especially if you can't ensure over time (like years) we get equal footing . Considering this is the third year in a row the frostval set was catered to non Mages, IMO that's a huge problem. Leaving out players who prefer certain builds isn't certainly a feels good.
The Trickster set has magic and melee weapons but the thing is ranged locked. I guess bones were thrown so warriors and mages can use those weapons with other things, but when you think about the fact there is a FSB when holding the melee and magic weapons it's a bit comical.
Now, the items individually are very, very good. I am using the armor with CHA weapons and so I can find some usage, at least if/when (hopefully not) kills the CHA override. So I can use the armor as a beastmage, just not the set. The shield is fantastic, the misc is good, and the weapons are good .
For the gixtboxes, these are "gifts" in a sense and this is even more of a feels bad when catered. But this isn't entirely as catered thank goodness, as the inflictions are based on weapon held instead of locked to a type. At least that part is fine.
The "bug fixes" for the armor are massive, massive, MASSIVE nerfs. The shield elevuln was fire, ice when the armor's was ice, fire so they were inflicting seperate lines, and thus, become a pure stack. The result was massive elevulns in reality, so this fix making them absorb into one another greatly reduces fire/ice damage. And people have mentioned the choke being halved. So the initial "omg this set is sick" has lost much of it's luster. I would say dont even use the elevuln skill, just use the shields.
The shield, though, is by FAR the best item out of everything, including the frostval stuff. The gameplay options with other things is quite great...literally I see no reason to store this shield. It's S+++++ tier by a mile.
I would also say since we're dealing with elevulns and FD lean, the set/armor is perfect for beastmasters. I think it rivals Sol Neko and Frigid Bard of WAr for ice BM armor. So ultimately I am happy with the set...although the misc isnt better than Optico so I wont be using it, but FD non BM's may find some use out of it.
The spell needs to be given a token 0 damage hit so that the magic weapons effect works with the spell. All in all, again, really like the items individually even though the sets are catered. (not a good idea IMO for frostval/giftbox sets) but at the end of the day, I can't really complain too much. Very good items.
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