Heavy armor and the worse update in ESO to date: updated.

ThePaleItalian · August 2016

I hope this rant come across like a rant

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This is my opinion on the matter. Note I am a tank.

Heavy Armor - Tank, front line in your face melee fighter

Medium - Dodge tank, range dps, sneaky stealthy dps

Light - Healer, cloth wearing ranged glass cannon dps.

That is how it should be. We are talking a fantasy game. I get in Skyrim you could have the potential to be anything because there was no lvl cap plus it was a single player experience, so wear the heaviest armor and dual wield spells to your hearts content. But its not going to work in ESO. Maybe "not work" but better set ups than others.

I love what they have in heavy armor, it should give the most resistance, and the new armor passive allows dual wield and 2-handers to become even stronger the more they are beat on.

Medium should be dodging and sneaking and critical powerhouse. A nice middle of the road with stamina regen. Why? because you should be dodge rolling and being stealthy

Light should have massive magika regen, able to put out tons of damage, but squishy. Why? Because you are pretty much wearing paper and a massive 2 handed mace or hammer should be able to squash you.

Every class can tank, but some should be able to do it better than others. A staff wielding sorc should not have the ability to tank better than a heavy armor wearing, sword and shield using DK.

Its like rock paper scissors. Unlike most MMO's. There are no cookie cutter classes, which I love. Always new builds and ways classes can do difference things. But every time I see posts like this, it triggers me. Stop complaining because you cant kill a class with your set up, or you don't wanna change your game play and you get your face stomped none stop.

Nerf this cause I cant kill them with a build I used since day 1 and I refuse to change and adapt. QQ... Please stop.

Ender1310 · August 2016

I agree with all said. Good point with the defiles. Let's be clear. Heavy needs to bring something to the table besides tankiness or else why wear it? Maybe inherent cc maybe some type of inherent protection like a damage sponge something that is needed and felt during a battle. Right now Zos has given them a fair amount of damage and tankiness you can't ignore them. If you want a nerf here you will have to come up with something else. Something else to replace the damage.

Ghost-Shot · August 2016

Soft caps, no cp, game is fun again.

sneakymitchell · August 2016

Just add more damage to wrath. Like 20 weapon and spell damage but it can now stack to 20 times. Getting to 10 is just too simple. If you want wrath to be a hard hitting dps for heavy armor do that. It balance out so that way people who just glass cannon people can have the chance to maybe oneshot the heavy armor builds.

Joy_Division · August 2016

It's not the heavy armor I have an issue with.

It's easily accessible vigor, scaling off high weapon damage, throw in some Rally HoTs for good measure, and perma-shuffle that makes high DPS "glass cannon" builds laugh at the damage thrown at them because they simply heal through or avoid it.

I'd trade the annoyance of heavy armor buffs is a second to get rid of the ridiculous heal/DPP/sustain.damage builds out there in cyrodiil.