Comments would be appreciated. Thanks.

In what context? Each bests the other 2 given the right circumstances. I think light is an overall better choice though and best set combination belongs to heavy.

depends on your class and build, im leveling them all up and leaving room to adapt to future challenges. but seeing as how im a templar tanky healer, light and heavy are my favs.

This poll really needs to be done different. It Should have certain Build that it is asking what armor type is best for.

There are many factors where the different armors are better for the different play styles. No one armor type is best at everything. For example if you are a sneak attack build you will want mostly medium armor. If you want to be the DPS mage you will want mostly light armor. if you want physical protection and the best blocking you will want heavy armor.

But just flat out asking which armor is better for everyone is like asking what is the best vehicle to own....... depends do want a fast one, want to pull a trailer, want to go offorad, want to carry a familiy of 8? It depends on what is purpose is.

Light. Due to pretty much all powers being magic based. Armour mitigation on full heavy is not that great the only significant use of HA is the 5 part shield passive. Medium has a niche for dodge/long term sneaking, but stam overall being poorer for dps than magic it is very narrow in utility. (v7 templar heavy turned to light user)

Anyone care to defend heavy?

I think this poll shows a major flaw in the game's design that should probably be addressed. Too many skills are magic based, and that combined with the fact that trying to base your character on stamina forces you to use the same resource pool for both offense and defense (via sprinting, dodging, blocking, interrupting, bashing, and stealthing) is a huge issue.

Because stamina is automatically used for so many things that magicka isnt, it's unwise to rely on stamina as a fuel for damage output. Perhaps the devs should improve the scaling between stamina and melee abilities? Or just the cost of stamina abilities in general?



My character currently has an even split between points invested in stamina and points invested in magicka (like 13/8/13 at the moment, or somewhere around there). With that split, I've got even baselines for both resource pools (magicka ends up being slightly higher due to rings that boost magicka).

When I look at my hotbar, though, I'm seeing my class abilities costing 100-150 magicka and dealing 250~ points of damage, while my weapon abilities are costing 200-300 stamina and are dealing damage between 90-150. When I'm forced to use stamina both for those abilities as well as all of my defense (dodging, blocking, stealth, sprinting, interrupting, etc.) my stamina bar drops like a brick.

I can cast Impale a dozen times in a row, but I can only cast whirlwind or reverse slash 3-4 times before blowing through my stamina reserves, and that's after having the reduced feat cost passives.



I really think that the stamina cost of all stamina abilities in the game needs to be dropped by at least 25% (probably more) to account for the double-use of stamina as a defensive resource compared to magicka. I also think the damage on all weapon-based abilities needs to be boosted to be equivalent to similar magicka-based abilities.

Uh... not sure how your reply relates to my post you quoted, I wear medium armor. My complaint is that stamina is not well balanced vs magicka in this game.

Medium armour for the sneak and stamina regen, also the extra weapon criticals with bows and daggers is nice as well.

Heavy Armor allows a Higher Armor class and as for spell resistance that's easy to increase as well. Heavy Armor allows you to receive increased healing. Since Armor is easy to soft cap in all Heavy Armor you can choose a trait for the armor that better suits you.

Light.

Light ofc. Because everything bsides terribad weapon skill lines is magica-based and you can hit softacps on resists and armor with selfbuffs.