5 piece armor passives need to be changed

Wing

it really limits armor choice to some form of at least 5 pieces of any given weight of armor,

-full 7
-5, 2
-5, 1, 1

and that's it.

if 5 piece bonuses went away and were replaced by more scaling passives like the rest of the armor passives then we may see more interesting build design or specific armor make ups, any combination would be just as viable is another (though not necessarily optimal) but it would be fun to see from both a casual perspective (wearing whatever you want and not missing out on something) and a min max perspective (debating the benefits of 4, 3 vs 3, 3, 1 etc.)

Doctordarkspawn

We would see less options not more.

MaleAmazon

You also have the CP passive that works on 5+ pieces. In principle I agree with more choice, however atm you go light armor on a stam char just for the undaunted passive anyway. Personally I prefer 5+2 with 2 heavy and try to make the chest piece one of the heavy ones.

They could make the system more diverse, just saying it would take a bigger rework than changing the 5p to a scaling one. It's ok the way it is imo.

Silver_Strider

Unless you use purely crafted gear, this really wouldn't do anything for the game.
Most Stamina sets are medium, Magic sets are Light and Tank sets are heavy and while some sets do have crossover in this department (Stygian is Medium Armor but has mostly Magic perks, Undaunted Unweaver is Light but gives mostly Stamina benefits, etc) they are few in number. Magic/Stamina specs will still use 5 pc of their respective armor type, merely because that's what most set pieces that you'd realistically use come in.

The only people that would benefit from this change would be Tanks so that they could get more stats for using something like 3 HA, 2 MA, 2 LA for some slight sustain buffs from those armor lines but there's already enough issues with underutilized Tank gear as it is that making them even more useless seems like a step backwards instead of forward for opening up more set options, especially since you're already hard pressed enough to use things like Ebon and Alkosh on Tanks as is.

BigBragg

So you think that armor only boosting various stats would be more interesting than having unique set abilities and perks?

Hmm.

Taleof2Cities

When you consider the sets themselves, which there are now over 300 named sets in the game, I think there is plenty of diversity when combined with the armor weight.

Big picture, @Wing ...

Skinzz

Fine the way it is tbh