Medium armor needs adjustment this PTS cycle - A few suggestions

Gallagher563

Chilly-McFreeze wrote: »

We shouldn't forget that there are no CP evnironments as well, where you can't fill your gaps with ideal CP allocations.

The solution is more mobility in medium and shuffle should grant more snare immunity maybe 2 seconds per medium piece. The cost needs to be brought down to say 2.7k.

Ocelot9x

@NobleX35
But why should i get a defensive medium if i can get more dmg and same (if not more) tankyness with a heavy dmg set?
Lets see the numbers

Truth+bone pirate
24596 health
1021 mag
41026 stam
1700 stam recovery
3905 wd (major+minor brutality only)
27.2 weap crit
23496 (35%) spell res
19833 (30%) physical res
2818 (43%) crit res
Effective weapon power 8419
Healing total 61%

Vs

Impreg+bone pirate
23911 health (600 less even if impreg has 1k more health)
11251 mag (1kish more)
41103 stam (80ish more)
1946 stam recovery (246 more)
3515 wd (390 less)
31 crit (3.8 more)
19279 spell res (6% less)
15616 phys res (6% less)
3701 crit res (13% more)
Effective weapon power 8173 (246 less)
Healing total 60.5%

considering constitution
considering regen blocked while sprinting and blocking (making heavy even more appealing)
considering more heavy attack return
i dont see how a medium defensive set is more appealing than a heavy dmg set

NobleX35

Ocelot9x wrote: »

@NobleX35
But why should i get a defensive medium if i can get more dmg and same (if not more) tankyness with a heavy dmg set?
Lets see the numbers

Truth+bone pirate
24596 health
1021 mag
41026 stam
1700 stam recovery
3905 wd (major+minor brutality only)
27.2 weap crit
23496 (35%) spell res
19833 (30%) physical res
2818 (43%) crit res
Effective weapon power 8419
Healing total 61%

Vs

Impreg+bone pirate
23911 health (600 less even if impreg has 1k more health)
11251 mag (1kish more)
41103 stam (80ish more)
1946 stam recovery (246 more)
3515 wd (390 less)
31 crit (3.8 more)
19279 spell res (6% less)
15616 phys res (6% less)
3701 crit res (13% more)
Effective weapon power 8173 (246 less)
Healing total 60.5%

considering constitution
considering regen blocked while sprinting and blocking (making heavy even more appealing)
considering more heavy attack return
i dont see how a medium defensive set is more appealing than a heavy dmg set

You dont need to run bone pirate if you’re in medium. Thats more of a sustain set than a damage set, and it has no weapon damage lines so you’re not even benefiting from the 12% weapon damage passive. Try running something like ravager, hundings, or automaton. Youre effective weapon power will be higher.

My builds in medium usually average around 9.5-10k effective weapon power, 5k wd, 5k crit resistance, 30-35k stamina, 24-27k health, 45-50% crit, 2k stam regen, 60-65% healing total.

Amdar_Godkiller

Medium armor just needs some kind of viable purge mechanism and some degree of passive crit resistance so that investment in sturdy or well-fitted instead of impen is practical, I think.

Also there aren't enough good medium armor sustain sets. Medium armor sustain comes from cost reduction not stam recovery, because movement and speed are key to the medium armor playstyle and nearly everything that requires stamina to use, kills your stamina recover for 2 seconds.