Sets got some love with last patch but it still wasn’t enough to make it into hardly anyone’s BIS for any slots and this ring doesn’t do enough still.
Most of the new set ring’s power comes from completing a set - ok cool but you’ll have to complete at least 2 sets to make the ring worth equipping. So I need at least 3 other slots (maybe a 2 set and a 3 set) taken up that I can’t have a unique in, not to mention good luck finding 2 separate sets that are actually useful to your build
Most set bonuses have very specific bonuses to just 1 class. There’s what maybe 3 generic sets in total, none of which are very strong, the only real strong ones are the ones specific to a class.
Time will tell after launch and I could very well be wrong but I predict that ring is used in 1 MAYBE 2 niche builds after launch across all classes and sets will stay for the most part abandoned
Not really. If you have a set that would be nice for your build and you’re not using a defining ring with it, it can free up a slot (for example, your weapon slot) and it will give you +1 skills on top of it, as well as +5% resists and 8% cast/attack speed (maybe more? We don’t know the roll ranges). That’s not nothing, especially the +1 skills, which no other ring has.
But, most especially, it’s the part of freeing up a slot. Many sets you wouldn’t be using because it forces you to waste a slot with a weaker item where a legendary would be much better. This is mostly the case for the weapon slot. The ring frees that up so you can now use that set, while giving some nice stats on top of it.
This ring will already spawn quite a few absurd builds.
While not all sets are super crazy right now, some are already pretty good.
And this ring enables new combinations of Uniques with certain sets that were impossible before, which will spawn some crazy results on its own already.
For me, I’m going to try a shattered lance build that is no longer tied to using a 1 handed sword.
Upheaval gets cold conversion and 90% cold pen when using a staff. Will most likely just use an exalted staff with t7 flat cold and scale damage with health regen from the set bonus.
I will probably see about fitting in the last bear set too. Hopefully it works.
We only know the ones that were leaked so far. I don’t think we have a full list of new uniques, which is odd, since they usually release them before the season start.
I guess we’ll have to wait for someone to datamine the game and figure them out.
We know the roll ranges, the uniques have been revealed already.
Legends entwined has:
Implicits:
6-10% Cooldown recovery speed
1-2 all attributes
Explicits:
Counts as a part of every equipped item set.
2-5 all attribute per complete set
0,02-0,05 to all resistances per complete set (wtf are those numbers? I think something went awry there)
+1 all skills per complete set
5-12% attack and cast speed.
It’s a primordial unique as well, so it takes up that slot. The alternatives for it are ridiculously strong though, using that is fairly nonsensical because of that hence.
For example the weapon specific primordials give up to +4, which is a lot better. The one usage commonly seen for a mandatory set item (besides simply an affix which does help a bit along) is meteor when using it with lightning damage. This potentially opens up the helmet slot, but that’s kinda ‘it’ for the majority of usage.
Especially since anothe primordial unique is ‘Permanence of Primal Knowledge’ which provides 50% level Affix increases., mana, mana regen, AoE and attack/cast speed. Which is clearly a lot stronger for many many builds, especially meteorite which it would be used as a prime example for.
‘Reliquiary Nest’ with 40-60% non-unique idol effect is also a lot better definitely, especially since it has endurance threshold, health, all res and the absolutely useless stun avoidance on it. Implicit is nice though with all attributes and endurance.
If you wanna know the list of all new uniques here’s a guy which provides a overview, just pause the video and click through it:
You wouldn’t ‘waste the primordial slot’ to not ‘waste a slot’ that’s not making the cut under normal circumstances
That’s the only saving grace for it actually.
It might - and the might is a big one here - provide a few new interesting builds. The type of item we need a lot more, absolutely. But also in itself really not that strong as many make it out to be.
Corsair Set, Shattered Lance, and Gaspar’s all became much more accessible with this ring. Like you said, we have a lot of maybe in the mix, but it does look like an interesting addition to play with.
I really hope at least 1-2 options will be viable to use, given the very very limiting position it’s released in. As a normal Unique it would’ve likely been better rather then a Primordial one, since it competes directly with every single other one for usage hence.
If EHG actually puts more variety of sets into the game in the future it can become something good, it has steady potential which only grows over time. I just don’t think much of that potential is fulfilled yet though.
