Revised bonuses on all high level Epic item sets, 91 items in all. These items should now be more versatile for endgame purposes.
Just curious, any of the sets worth wearing over assorted purples for their respective intended build concepts?
I imagine that the purple sets are still king, though.
empowered essence of beronath got buffed, and the elemental balance rings got changed\buffed(?), thats all i saw from my builds.
Elemental Balance rings are now hilariously awesome if you have decent cold/fire damage and the energy regen to sustain it.
Panetti’s set got a rather interesting change sets. It already works well with Invoker, but now the set grants a grand total of +6 Panetti, +2 Supercharged/Distortion, +1 Arcanist, for a 2 piece set. So use these pieces, pop an invoker set, and grab Warpfire. Just insane how many ranks you are getting to PRM, like +13 before you even check your belt for another +1 potentially.
empowered essence of beronath got buffed, and the elemental balance rings got changed\buffed(?), thats all i saw from my builds.
Eh? I don’t think it was. Still has the same stats as pre-patch.
Panetti’s set got a rather interesting change sets. It already works well with Invoker, but now the set grants a grand total of +6 Panetti, +2 Supercharged/Distortion, +1 Arcanist, for a 2 piece set. So use these pieces, pop an invoker set, and grab Warpfire. Just insane how many ranks you are getting to PRM, like +13 before you even check your belt for another +1 potentially.
Is that the Paragon headpiece/shoulderguard? Hm, given that there aren’t any real special shoulders, might beat out the Outcast hat.
Say, does anyone have the blue rifle sets completed? I was looking over, and I realized there are 3 of 'em, but I don’t have any one of those filled out. I wonder if Hellborne rifle will have actual competition for 2H Pyromancer builds.
Elemental Balance rings are now hilariously awesome if you have decent cold/fire damage and the energy regen to sustain it.
That would actually fit right in with the Marauder’s set (Sorcerer skill bonuses, belt/gloves/2pistols). Gonna try that I think since I actually have that one.
My dual wield pyro actually used those rings before the change because the flat damage buff was awesome even with no cold damage boosts, but I am afraid I can’t sustain the mana drain of using the rings anymore, and it’s not really a tanky build to make use of the close range of those procs.
Just so you’re aware, the elemental balance set skill is supposed to have a cooldown and will be fixed in a future update.
EEoB got pretty much all its stats increased, and the rings now have %ele res and a new proc among some other stats i dont remember now. so no, not the same as prepathc.
Aside from the elemental balance set which has been mentioned, the Alkamos’ ring set got a major buff. It has tons of OA now and a cold based proc skill. I’m using them to replace the judicator rings on my pierce/cold Blademaster.
Just so you’re aware, the elemental balance set skill is supposed to have a cooldown and will be fixed in a future update.
That would solve the mana problem, but it would be an effective nerf from the previous patch nevertheless. My dual wield pyromancer lost like ~10k-15k DPS 
I actually tried letting the proc hit some enemies, wasn’t too impressed by the damage.
EEoB got pretty much all its stats increased, and the rings now have %ele res and a new proc among some other stats i dont remember now. so no, not the same as prepathc.
You sure? By how much? These here are the pre-patch stats and my Beronath amulets match them almost exactly.
https://gracefuldusk.appspot.com/items/7761-Empowered-Essence-of-Beronath
Keeper of The Flame got immensely better mainly due to rifle now having +1 demo skills (and the ias in mine is 45%!!). My commando can farm everyone except mad queen (still working on this) without any gear change. It certainly can compete with hellborne + shadowflame mantle
Sharpshooter Set seems to be much better, but still leveling a pyromancer to test, will also test empowered marauder set. But it looks much better as well
Myrmidon set is strong enough to complete Ultimate for tank characters who are still working on finishing Markovian or Warborn.
Completing Ultimate a low bar, how does it fair against say Moose or Fabius?
Is this info official?
If it is from “Nine”, it is %99 official=)
The Arcane Storm set looks really awesome now! Finally Chain Lightning. I’m gonna level an Aether Lightning Druid to try it out.
Unless Zantai is lying to me, yes.
Like it was mentioned in a post above, the Wrath of the Alkamos ring set is now really good. High OA, flat and multiplicative cold damage, elemental and vitality resist and total speed. It’s a pretty awesome choice for DW Blademasters and Spellbreakers.
Most of the empowered epic sets now actually give resists and the ones who did now give even more now. Dawnguard actually now gives bonus points to Soldier and Shaman skills.
Empowered Oath Breaker shield is pretty good now, 17% physical resist and 11% block chance.
Do the Alkamos rings only drop off of him?
I think the one got DID, so…
As far as i know it only drops from him. And the buff was deserved. The set was pretty mediocre before the update and to make matters worse, it only drops from the final boss of a rouge dungeon that requires a skeleton key.