Is it worth going for mixed gear type? Meds, light and heavy just for passives?

Rinmaethodain · June 2015

Hello,

Im a pure health tank,high elf. I wear full set of heavy armor and 1h+shield. Have all passives from Heavy armor that give me some perks for one or more heavy armors equpped and one of them works when 5 pieces or more equipped.

Now i wonder if its worth instead of wearing 7 pieces of heavy armor only 5 pieces of heavy armor and add to that 1 medium and 1 light for passives.

With 1 medium armor i would gain some crit rate, stamina recovery and reduce cost of stamina abilities, cheaper sneaking and smaller detection area, and faster movement and less cost for roll

With 1 light armor i would get reduced spell cost, mana regen, spell resist.

I have enough skill points to max out all light and med passives

Also would gain 3% bonus for undaunted mettle

RoyJade · June 2015

Almost all the tank use 5 heavy, one medium and one light just for that. +4% stats for undauted passives (for wearing medium and light) is very good, and the regen bonus and diminishing cost are both very useful.

Cuyler · June 2015

The additional passives from the skill trees are not that important. What IS important is the 4% inc to all primary stats from undaunted mettle, plus the regen there is nice too. That's a 4% increase to whatever your max is at that time, not the base....so you end up with like 1k more max for whatever your main resource is.

Dagoth_Rac · June 2015

Make sure your 1 light piece is the waist. That is the smallest armor piece with the least armor/resist diff between light and heavy. I think hands are next smallest, so make that your 1 medium piece. That will allow you to sacrifice the minimum amount of basic armor/resist while still getting that +6% Undaunted Mettle bonus to your attributes.