Armor @50; invest in others?

psychounz

Hey all!

So, last night I noticed that my Khajiit NB (yay!) finally hit 50 in medium armor (doubleyay!) Since Khajiit have bonuses to medium armor and I've put skill points in medium armor passives, wearing medium armor is super beneficial to me.

My question is, is it worth starting to put XP into heavy and light (say, wearing one piece of each while keeping most of my medium benefits)? I feel like my %bonuses for wearing a full set of medium armor will not be as good if I'm wearing one piece of heavy and light each. I also know that only wearing one piece of that kind of armor will slow the progression of XP in the skill whereas if I wore a full set it would increase faster.

So, is it worth it, just for giggles or might there be a legitimate reason to gain XP in the other armors, or is it a complete waste of time based on my medium armor build?

Thanks so much!

Nasuradin_ESO

Nobody has answered yet, so I guess I can make a few general remarks. Perhaps someone can come in with actual values with pros and cons of these things for number crunching. Or you could just try to find the right balance for yourself, it certainly wouldn't hurt, you can always go back to full medium if you like the full set bonuses for that better.

Do you ever plan on using the other armors? Mix-matching can be beneficial, but sure your medium armor bonus %s will lower. However you will gain a little bit of the bonuses for other armors.

If you feel too squishy, you can throw in some plate, more magicka or reduction of magicka cost is always useful, since all class skills are magicka base therefor subject to damage scaling with max magicka and spell crit.

Plate armor offers:
active power that makes you immune to crowd control powers
more damage mitigation
increased health regen
increased melee damage
decreased block cost (for wearing 5 or more)
increased heal received

Light armor offers:
active power shield that absorbs damage and can absorb magicka from spells fired at you (with morph)
reduce magicka cost of all powers
increase magicak regen
give a lot of spell resist
increase spell crit (for wearing 5 or more)
spell resist penetration

You also will have a lot of armor pieces to mix-match to look fashionable with! Got to look your best as you are killing things.

psychounz

Thanks @Nasuradin_ESO‌ I appreciate the feedback; I'm surprised no one else had anything to say!

But, to answer your questions, I hadn't planned on using other armors but the completionist in my wouldn't mind having them all maxed out in the event that I want to. I have been squishy in the past though my current build I'm a little less squishtacular than before.

My current armor is a medium hodgepodge but I do have a LOT of mackica reduction cost which helps my invis, crit, invis, crit combo nicely. I just wasn't sure if light would increase that (with the increased magicka) or if the heavy would just make me less squishable

Ohioastro

It gives you more flexibility - for example, to add in some health regeneration or magic regeneration - if you're able to use all 3. It also lets you get some extra benefit from a particularly nice item that you find. In your case, a couple of key pieces (legs / chest / helm) with heavy armor can really boost your durability without a lot of loss from the medium armor passives.

Klimarov

i guess for raids or future play diversity it would be good to level. some times you'll need to assume caster role, some time physical dps. generally for pvp you might want to switch roles from tankish heavy armor spec to a physical assassin in medium.

psychounz

Thanks guy! Hope I haven't inadvertently deconstructed any of those key pieces