Stormcaller Regalia and Apprentice Sets

[AxtarOne]

I am trying to figure out what to do with all of the Stormcaller Regalia and Apprentice pieces I find in the trial levels, and also to decide whether to purchase the Stormcaller recipes by spending glory points.

Has anyone had success with either one of these sets? I see a few mage builds in the 150+ levels with full 6-piece Stormcaller sets, but I am hesitant to spend the glory points to buy them.

I have all the recipes for the Apprentice set, but every time I try using a full 6-piece set, my mage keeps dying in the trials.

I have no complaints or issues with the Elemental Regalia or Arcanist sets.

One thing I am considering trying is to use 4 Stormcalller + 2 Apprentice pieces (for the +840 Critical Rating). This would allow me to swap out Singularity for a different ability (Blink is the first idea that comes to mind, combined with the Illusionist Sash).

Any ideas are appreciated.

[CarnivorousDeathParrot.2]

The thing is that the Singularity effect of the full Stormcaller set is what beats those high trial levels. The larger the mob group, the greater the damage all take; it operates on a completely different level than a critical rating bonus.

Apprentice doesn't really work. I can use it to beat TLs 120-125 but that's about it.

[AxtarOne]

I find it interesting that the Warrior and Bounty Hunter are able to use combination sets like the 4 Warlord/2 Fury and 4 Havoc/2 Demolitionist that become adopted as the most widely used sets.

Maybe the Mage sets were designed differently so that the 6th set piece was intended to provide a greater bonus than the 2nd set piece from another set, except that this didn't quite come to fruition for the Apprentice set.

I have most of the recipes unlocked, including most of the trinkets, the Mage bracers, all Fury pieces, 3 Demolitionist pieces, a few belts for each class, and most of the recipes that can be bought with gold. I am missing 3 Demolitionist recipes, all 6 Stormcaller recipes, and the Warrior and Bounty Hunter bracers.

I guess I will just focus on using just the Elemental Regalia and Arcanist sets for the Mage for the time being, until I earn enough glory points to buy all the recipes.

[Wulfric]

Bounty hunter meta used to be a pure stalker build but the devs did a lot of tweaking last autumn to make other sets more competitive.

6 Fury and 6 Defender builds for warriors also got buffed but the meta 4W2F combo still rules (for now)

[AxtarOne]

Now I feel a little better that I spent the glory points to buy all 6 Fury recipes.

[taivna]

How to farm glory points?, I got some while leveling up but don't have enough to unlock some recipes.

[WarriorSeven]

You can't farm Glory. They are earned awards only during ANB, Season, and War Supplies events.

[Bali_Lenni]

....and PvP Arena [have to be pretty lucky though or play every possible ticket for a few........weeks/months ?]

[Wulfric]

Or buy the ANB booster packs which include glory. Expensive though and requires parting with real money.