... like increasing the chance of inflicting status when using these weapons :
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Furious_Fork
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Fearless_Rigadoon
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Furious_Flamberge
Since few people care about the miracle set due to being lack of dmg bonus, ctr or asi, and since all the weapon above seems so weak compare to their pure dmg relatives. does it sound good ?
The magic set has 3 5-star variants: Chaos set, Grey Owlite set, and the Divine set. Both sets are usually dropped in favor of chaos.
Now I'm just a weird one, but I've dropped chaos in favor of these sets. Divine set already plays a nice counter to Valkyrie while maintaining the fiend bonus (if you replace the valkyrie helmet with the divine hood), and also is one of the best sets for using for ghosts in the machine.
Grey Owlite shines the best in the red roarmulus twins shadow lair, and the regular boss level too.
Honestly, players have and will continue to favor damage boosting gear over defensive gear until defensive gear as a whole gets a buff. You won't see many people wearing any of the main-line defensive sets (grey owlite/dread skelly/royal jelly) because they discovered wolver/gunslinger/bomber gear or chaos at some point.
The bottom-line issue here isn't the magic line, it's the fact that offensive and defensive armors have such a minimal difference in raw defense values that being hit by the same thing in different armor will only save you a few extra pips of health at most.
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I'm all for this sort of buff being made a stat. In fact, I think that we really do need a (few) stat re-balance patch(s) for armors in general, much more than new guns, promotions, or even new levels.
@Fangel
But did you know? That The Perfect Mask of Seerus is better defensively than grey feather cowl, sans poison/freeze levels?
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Perfect_Mask_of_Seerus
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Grey_Feather_Cowl
And that against all non-shock themed levels, Arcane Salamander Set provides the same amount of elemental and normal defense as The Perfect Mask of Seerus, while Vog and Volcanic demo provide the same net defense, albeit slightly more normal-centric?
That The Perfect Mask of Seerus is better defensively than grey feather cowl, sans poison/freeze levels?
Technically speaking, the Grey Owlite set has more elemental defense than any Seerus mask. It just has less normal defense too.
If you're going up against gun puppy bullets, grey owlite will net better results than arcane salamander - however when a thwacker gets involved, salamander will trump the bullets.
So in short, yes, I did know. :P
Miracle set is 4*. If you mean the entire magic line (sans chaos), great. If you mean only the 4*, then that's why people don't use it - 5* is inherently better.