Set bonuses. old 4 piece with new 2 piece better than new 6 piece?

[Keypek]

Just curious if anyone has actually tested or theory crafted this yet. This would be more prevalent in tactics than plasmatech since it's the HiB spam spec now. But just curious if you'd get more dps using 8% more damage to HiB plus the 2% more damage to everything. Obviously the key would be if you'd lose more dps from lost main stat and other factors from using 4 old armorings. Because the actual 4 and 6 piece set bonuses in the new armor are kinda junk overall. The 6 piece especially, I'm not a big fan of the auto crit procs. Especially for cell burst since most fights you start with battle focus anyway so you're already more likely to crit to start anyway. Not a guarantee but still more likely then not probably. Not to mention it's a set bonus piece that wouldn't be useful a third of the time with regular crit rating anyway. And with battle focus up every 2 minutes normally or minute and 45 seconds with old 2 piece makes it even more trivial.

 

Seems like when comparing 6 piece against the lengthy lockout, battle focus, normal lockouts, and 8% more damage to HiB I'm curious how, if any, much difference there is in dps potential between using the 2/4/6 or just the 2/4/2.

 

*edited for mistype

Edited December 18, 2014 by Keypek

[TACeMossie]

Just curious if anyone has actually tested or theory crafted this yet. This would be more prevalent in tactics than plasmatech since it's the HiB spam spec now. But just curious if you'd get more dps using 8% more damage to HiB plus the 2% more damage to everything. Obviously the key would be if you'd lose more dps from lost main stat and other factors from using 4 old armorings. Because the actual 4 and 6 piece set bonuses in the new armor are kinda junk overall. The 6 piece especially, I'm not a big fan of the auto crit procs. Especially for cell burst since most fights you start with battle focus anyway so you're already more likely to crit to start anyway. Not a guarantee but still more likely then not probably. Not to mention it's a set bonus piece that wouldn't be useful a third of the time with regular crit rating anyway. And with battle focus up every 2 minutes normally or minute and 45 seconds with old 2 piece makes it even more trivial.

 

Seems like when comparing 6 piece against the lengthy lockout, battle focus, normal lockouts, and 8% more damage to HiB I'm curious how, if any, much difference there is in dps potential between using the 2/4/6 or just the 2/4/2.

 

*edited for mistype

 

In tactics, the new set bonus is comparable with the old one. However, the new set bonus is more reliable at increasing Damage output, and puts less strain on resource management, and combined with the higher aim contribution its definately better.

To put it more simply, just pretend the new set bonus is +40% Energy Burst crit rate. Cause thats basically what it is.

That is insane

 

And for plasmatech... well, +0.8% damage vs a guaranteed crit fire pulse every minute? Go with the new one.