New Mage Night Fae Legendary in Patch 9.1 PTR - Mage Guide Writers Review Effects

PTR Pubblicato 23/05/2021 alle 04:16 da Jaydaa

The new Night Fae Legendary9.1 PTR build 38709

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Night Fae Mage Legendary in Patch 9.1

NEW (Night Fae) Potere Mutevole can be channeled while moving. Each enemy hit by Potere Mutevole grants you 1% Critical Strike and Haste, up to 10% for 10 sec.
Inventory Type: Chest, Hands

Arcane Mage Opinion & FeedbackThe new Night Fae legendary, Cuore dei Silfi like the other new covenant items, seems unlikely to replace any of our current best-in-slot pieces. The ability to channel Potere Mutevole while moving is great (but really should have been baseline), but the small haste/crit buff is generally not going to be worthwhile due to the fact that we use Potere Mutevole at the end of our cooldowns. At best, I can see this legendary having a very niche use for a super-mobile AoE fight, but Arcane already handles that situation well - and you'd be a fool to skip Bombardamento Arcano.

This shouldn't really be a surprise: the Covenant legendaries overall seem designed to be worse than existing BiS pieces, perhaps to avoid forcing people to choose a specific Covenant - although then, why bother adding them in the first place?
Fire Mage Opinion & FeedbackIn patch 9.1 many new covenant-specific legendary items are being added to the game. The idea of tying covenant to legendaries isn’t something I’m particularly a fan of, but today we are going to go over scenarios where having one of the new legendaries would be valuable while comparing them against existing legendaries. Previously, we discussed Kyrian, Necrolord, and Venthyr covenant-specific legendaries. Now we will be discussing the newest addition, Cuore dei Silfi.

The issue with adding new legendary items will always be that if they don't beat out the existing best legendary for the specialization in some use-case, then they aren't worth even worrying about. For Fire, this legendary needs to square up against Comando Disciplinare, which provides more than a 10% damage increase, regardless of AoE or Single Target.

As a damage legendary Cuore dei Silfi falls short in a big way and really only serves as a way to add cast-while-moving to Potere Mutevole. One thing to note is that the buff provided is granted per target hit, per pulse. Duration is also extended per stack, even at 10 stacks. This means that at a minimum, it will grant 4% critical strike and 4% haste (assuming you are in range for all 4 ticks). Another interesting thing to note is that Potere Mutevole scales with haste by having its duration reduced, but will not update dynamically once it is cast. This means the haste buff granted by this legendary will not affect Potere Mutevole, the spell which it intends to empower.

In conclusion, this seems like a very poorly thought-out legendary that doesn't have any real use-case aside from assuring us that a cast-while-moving Potere Mutevole will likely never become baseline. The only real upside to this legendary is that it is one less legendary to feel the need to craft.

Frost Mage Opinion & FeedbackSimilar to Fire, this legendary needs to square up against Ghiaccio Scivoloso for single target, Venti Gelidi in cleave, or Frammenti Glaciali in AoE. Of the three, the only chance it has is beating out Ghiaccio Scivoloso in single target.

I went over all of this in the write-up for Fire, but it is the same with Frost: As a damage legendary Cuore dei Silfi falls short in a big way in single target and isn't even in the same universe as its competitors in AoE. It really only serves as a way to add cast-while-moving to Potere Mutevole. One thing to note is that the buff provided is granted per target hit, per pulse. Duration is also extended per stack, even at 10 stacks. This means that at a minimum, it will grant 4% critical strike and 4% haste (assuming you are in range for all 4 ticks). Another interesting thing to note is that Potere Mutevole scales with haste by having its duration reduced, but will not update dynamically once it is cast. This means the haste buff granted by this legendary will not affect Potere Mutevole, the spell which it intends to empower.

In conclusion, this seems like a very poorly thought-out legendary that doesn't have any real use-case aside from assuring us that a cast-while-moving Potere Mutevole will likely never become baseline. Save your soul ash.

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