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Why do gankers use heavy armor?

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..when they can have medium, which clearly does a lot more damage?
  • Francescolg
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    because they don't want to be ganked when ganking
  • Animal_Mother
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    Maybe they are wearing one of the heavy armor costumes?
  • Wreuntzylla
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    NBs get 1 sec of additional resists for each piece of heavy armor, so many run 2 pieces, like Dreugh King to get two weapon damage bonuses. Lose a little bit of crit. You still get the weapon power from medium. Full suit in the passive still meant 5 last time I tested it.

  • noobfury
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    Considering all of the thousands of times I've been ganked I would deem this post as being incorrect. I see very few players with HA in pvp compared to medium.
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  • xxslam48xxb14_ESO
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    Ive seen one using a sword n board on top of that. His damage was extreme too, idk why people like this need to gank to get kills when they can clearly hold their own in a real fight. Lack of confidence im guessing.
    I wrote a poem that I titled, "The ganker's delight."

    As you lay upon the ground, cry not little pawn.
    The pain will pass as quickly as my blade did take you,
    but my delight will last and you will respawn.
    My heart simply cannot contain my joy, when I ply my trade.

    The fault lies with you, your skill was lacking.
    Now your salt is mine forever, can't you hear the laughing?
    Once you were so proud and now you are reduced to this.
    A miserable, loud deuced fool.

    With every tear you drip, with every excuse you let slip.
    All of your insecurities and worries bring a smile to my lip.
    From your despair I have ripped endless glories,
    but our affair is over now. Be afraid for I will return for more.

    I have received many titles, to my allies I am The sniper Emperor and Grand champion hero of the Pact. However these titles mean little to me, it is the ones given to me by my victims that I prefer. To them I am "Xv1er", "trash", "no balls", "zerger", "noob", "cringe", "no skill", "camper", "100% new", "the reason this game is dying", "pathetic", "a sack of piece of [snip]", "mediocre", "absolute inbred", "beyond a virgin", "ganky dork", "fat smelly 40yr old virgin", "little girl", "daddy", "exploiting loser", and every [snipped] word known to man.
  • driosketch
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    Are you sure you are seeing gankers in heavy armor and not heavy armor players who are ganking?
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  • thelordoffelines
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    Ravager + dreugh king slayer is the highest weapon damage you can get and those are both heavy.
  • CPT_CAPSLOCK
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    Just cause u die in <2secs doesnt mean ur opponent has to be a ganker
  • Kas
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    probably because they're not playing as "gankers" but if they're solo waiting for 1vX's it still makes sense to be 1) sneaking and 2) use out-of-sneak damage when a single enemy occurs.

    Same applies if they're hanging out near your zerg. They want to take on a few enemies at once, but as long as that's not possible, they're fine with hit-and-run on single targets hoping to pull 2-5 players off the zerg that chase them afterwards
    Edited by Kas on 18 May 2015 14:50
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