Previously, I wrote about my gearing progress in 3.0. Here are some updates and new information about the Stalker set bonuses for PvE.
I’m very thankful to have people in the SWTOR community test and parse gear modifications for the Sith Assassin, since I don’t have enough time or gear to try out different optimal combinations. Tenebras of the Death and Taxes guild, who also mainly plays the Sith Assassin, tweeted to me some of his Assassin/Shadow parsing discoveries: “4-piece old set > 198 set. Deception within ~5% of Hatred if you track surging procs.”
Here are links to his parses that he has shared with me. This is something that he has tried multiple times already:
His stats using Deception discipline
This means I need to play around with my gear a bit more! If you read my previous post about my 3.0 gearing progress, I was planning on keeping the old 2-piece set bonus with the new 4-piece bonus. Instead it looks like I will have to try to obtain 186-rating set pieces from Nightmare Dread Fortress and Dread Palace (I currently only have 180 set pieces and one 186, I think) and combine them with the belt and bracer 198-rating set pieces.
This ends up looking like this:
186-rating 4-piece set bonus
(2) Saber Strike hits restore 1 Force.
(4) Increases the critical chance of Thrash/Voltaic Slash or Double Strike and Clairvoyant Strike by 15%.
198-rating 2-piece set bonus
(2) Ball Lightning and Leeching Strike or Psychokinetic Blast and Serenity Strike increase damage by 2% for 15 seconds.
Of course, I have not tried this myself, but I trust someone that does far more progression raiding than me. I already do very well in gameplay, but any bit of increase in my DPS will help as my ops team progresses into more difficult content.
I don’t need guaranteed crit once every minute when I already crit on my abilities multiple times within a minute.
The only thing I’m concerned about for me personally is the gap in stats between using 180/186 (94/114 Willpower x 4) armorings and 198-rating armorings (134 Willpower each would be a difference of 80-160 Willpower lost at current gear levels) and the gear-level upgrade for upcoming Nightmare operations. I’m not sure if I would be able to get all of those 186 set pieces, since I haven’t cleared the Dread operations in Nightmare mode, and I’m not sure my team will go back for me. Additionally, I will be a bit squishier using lower rating armorings. Eventually the old armorings may become too underpowered to make up for the set bonus, so I will have to wait and see how my DPS measures in the future!
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