PvE heavy armor DPS Magicka Nightblade?

NoFlash

Has anyone ever tried this? I normally pvp and I know that heavy armor can be decent. I understand that the light armor passives are too strong to give up especially in pve, but in heavy armor maybe you can pull some nice DPS and derp around a bit?

I'm just curious if anyone has tried it. Cheers!

code65536

Your best tools for survival in PvE for "derping around" are your shields and self-heals. Both of which will take a hit if you use heavy armor. Heavy armor is just not worth it in PvE if you're not a tank.

Bladerunner1

I tried out Pariah's on my magblade last weekend when running through Vet maelsrom. It seemed much more forgiving and went pretty smoothly compared to all-out DPS gear, and that's mostly just my lack of skill since I've only played magblade in a dozen dungeons over a couple months. Equip arcane pariah jewelry and two heavy pieces of armor. I added some CPs to light armor focus and play a Breton with a bunch of spell resistance, it was just enough to come close to completely maxing out all resistances when I reached 1/2 health without giving up light armor passives.

xiZeroPointix

You will survive, but heavy armor lacks weapon damage modifiers, crit damage modifiers, and spell/ weapon penetration. It works well on players with 20-30k health, but when u get into dungeons were mobs have 150k to 2.5m health things will be slow. Real slow....

Nephimana

Heavy armor comes at the cost of a lot of sustain, a lot of damage and most of the time you don't die because of too much damage, you die because you run out of resources. If you're using abilities like refreshing path and sap essence/funnel health with siphoning strikes always up, you'll be able to sustain and heal yourself through anything even without a healer, then you have your shields.
I played heavy a long time ago, tried light and never went back. What you gain far outweighs what you give up.
Heavy armor is forgiving, if you don't know what you're doing and going to make a lot of mistakes like stated above for maelstrom arena. But as you get better, get familiar with mechanics, a lot of things can be avoided by simply getting out the way, blocking/dodging or 1 shield.
It's up to you.