How much unbuffed armor do you have in Cyrodiil?

Kutsuu

Please reply and let us know what class/type you play (ex. Stamina DK) and whether you have a source of Major Ward that you normally cast which would increase the unbuffed armor you answered for the poll.

Yes, I am using the results in order to kill you more efficiently.

raasdal

20001 or more

7 Heavy StamSorc. Add Minor and Major Ward to that and it is about 26-27k on offensive and 29-30k on defensive (SB)

Akinos

18000-20000

5 heavy 2 light dual wield magicka templar. With a shield its around 22.5k with major ward. I know it's important to have a good amount of both health and defense, but at this point in the game with the meta the way it is, I feel like having more health helps alot more.

Derra

11000 or less

Lightarmor. Why am i doing this...

DannyLV702

I evenly play a full light armor sorc, a full medium stamblade and a full heavy armor stamDK so idk what to tell you

Kutsuu

15001-18000

DannyLV702 wrote: »

I evenly play a full light armor sorc, a full medium stamblade and a full heavy armor stamDK so idk what to tell you

Sounds like you go the whole spectrum! I'm just interested to know what kind of defenses people are using. Maces may not be as "bad" as people make them out to be, especially for opener damage since you rarely apply fracture before a sneak attack.

Ketarmish

20001 or more

20k on both, physical and spell resistance, Im a Templar Dark elf. 5 Light 1 Medium 1 Heavy, spent some points in Light armour focus on the Lady CP constellation.

NBrookus

20001 or more

Heavy armor mDK and also aim for 100% Volatile Armor uptime which puts me at spell resist cap and near phys resist cap.

GreenSoup2HoT

13001-15000

13000, thats what 7 medium and no s+b gives you.

Takes-No-Prisoner

13001-15000

13K club represent

Valykc

11000 or less

0

Run naked, let the power of you mighty *** do the fighting!

Waffennacht

Staff bar, approx 17k (going off memory) SnB bar, 22k I think.

I do not run Boundless (or any other buff like that)

Im always surprised it's not higher when wearing heavy armor.

If I ran boundless it's around 22-27k

I think the penetration from a mace would be the same as sharpened against my toon. Using both would certainly drop it down to 7k (lowest possible) - to 12k I think.

Kutsuu

15001-18000

Waffennacht wrote: »

Staff bar, approx 17k (going off memory) SnB bar, 22k I think.

I do not run Boundless (or any other buff like that)

Im always surprised it's not higher when wearing heavy armor.

If I ran boundless it's around 22-27k

I think the penetration from a mace would be the same as sharpened against my toon. Using both would certainly drop it down to 7k (lowest possible) - to 12k I think.

My setup with Spriggan, Kra'gh, and a sharpened mace will get your 22k down to about 6400 before champion point penetration is applied - that's without major fracture.

WhiteMage

11000 or less

As a light armor magplar, this (9.9k) is my phys resist when I'm trying to kill you. On the opposite end, I have 28k spell resist when I'm trying to not die.

The difference is from sharpened to defending with major resistances.

Minno

20001 or more

5 heavy, 1L,1M = physical 21k unbuffed (15% dmg mitigation after sharpened/mace). Physical 26k buffed (23% mitigation after sharpened/mace.)

The added stats help tremendously:
-16% reduction in both hardy/elemental defender (I think I have 5 or 8% mitigation with thick skin)
- 2k crit resistance, transmutation proc puts me above 3k. Ritual of retribution ensures its procing on me and allies.
- vampire undead passives add more mitigation to help pull me out of execute range.
- Mist form gives me a Magicka mitigation that rivals S+b block. Best Magicka mitigation hands down.
- Unchained passive unlocked helps offset low stam
- Constitution passive helps add Magicka+ stam recovery.
- Aedric spear passive still let's me block 65% melee dmg for "just in case" moments.
-i have flex slot for harness Magicka/ward ally if I want more defense in solo encounters. 6k shield easy or 15k shield if I use ward ally as an "execute style saving throw"

All together, it's sweet chin music.

Soris

15001-18000

Around 16k with 5 heavy 2 light. Am i doing it wrong? You guys wear reinforced stuff and defensive weapon?

Minno

20001 or more

Soris wrote: »

Around 16k with 5 heavy 2 light. Am i doing it wrong? You guys wear reinforced stuff and defensive weapon?

Purple Chest reinforced = 3000 armor roughly
Purple Legs, boots, helm, and shoulder reinforced= 2600 armor roughly.

Defending staff gold = roughly 5000 armor.

Together that accounts for roughly 18k armor. You get more armor for each heavy armor slotted if you have the passive (with 5 I think you get around 2600? I forget the exact number).

Off top of my head, Lady tree I think gives you 1200 without divines.
And you can enchant around 800 armor to your rings. And the remaining amount is under the warrior tree in the champion point system.

arkansas_ESO

11000 or less

Derra wrote: »

Lightarmor. Why am i doing this...

Same. Might as well be naked with how little armor I have.

DeanTheCat

11001-13000

Full medium armour here, so my resistances are sitting round 11k unbuffed.

... Then again, I have a defending resto-sword as my backbar, so my resists will vary depending if I'm on the offensive or defensive.

Not much inpen on my armour either, so Radiant Magelight is a must

Lava_Croft

20001 or more

Derra wrote: »

Lightarmor. Why am i doing this...

You have reliable, be it somewhat short lived shields! Better than dodge rolling, they say!

mrowmrif2

Suspicious of the topic purpose... to gauge how much penetration you need for a new build? :P

Kutsuu

15001-18000

mrowmrif2 wrote: »

Suspicious of the topic purpose... to gauge how much penetration you need for a new build? :P

Yeah the build I ganked you with when we were testing things

DeHei

11001-13000

With 5 parts light armor, Froststaff and sharpened trait.
To compensate this little armor, i use defend trait with my healing vMSA staff. With that i stay with 16k armor unbuffed. I needed a lot of practise to learn when i should switch to healing staff and to froststaff again, but it works.
The Templar is atm the worst duell class in my opinion, thats another problem...

26k armor with my full heavy armor DK

Kutsuu

15001-18000

DeHei wrote: »

With 5 parts light armor, Froststaff and sharpened trait.
To compensate this little armor, i use defend trait with my healing vMSA staff. With that i stay with 16k armor unbuffed. I needed a lot of practise to learn when i should switch to healing staff and to froststaff again, but it works.
The Templar is atm the worst duell class in my opinion, thats another problem...

26k armor with my full heavy armor DK

If you're a Magicka templar, you'll find dueling better with DW+1hs or DW+dstaff, with 5 piece heavy (soulshine is very popular) 2 piece light.