Game isn't balanced around the passives not being maxed out, and going with an endgame armor setup without maxing out the passives as you level up isn't doing much for you anyways. Not like you have the Undaunted passive.

Simple, in an ever growing and annoyingly unnecessary effort to avoid fractions to improve game performance, they chose a requirement of 2 pieces of armor for 1% instead of 0.5% per 1 piece since the final passive is equal to 1%.

This is an example of them choosing spreadsheets and formula's over logic and fun factor.

It's the same reason most dots tick every 2 seconds now despite 100s of sets with proc chances in the 5-15% range relying on higher tick frequencies of the past when we were able to deal damage every 1s to even every 0.5s. All these sets have become even more obsolete then they already were in the name of "performance".

It's tirseome. It's un-fun. It's illogical. It's bad game design. Some creative liberities should be taken when we're talking about what we come here for ultimately which is a video game.

This elusive performance issue they seem to constantly base decisions off of has left classes, skills and sets feeling underwhelming. It's gotten to a point where white knights excuse ZOS's lack of combat related game mechanics being added to the game for the past 3 chapters as something we just need to live with, "it's not possible to get new classes, guilds, weapons or spell crafting because of performance!"

Yeah right.