Medium Armor - Agility Passive... WHY!?

Duukar · September 2014

The flavour added from the agility passive adding 10% weapon attack speed was really delightful. It added a real and noticeable difference to medium armor. When I switched from my light to my medium I KNEW that I would be doing more damage in melee. I would be a virtual whirlwind of steel.

More damage? My weapon damage is already over capped with one epic and one legendary weapon.. What is the point? take such a neat flavorful passive and butcher it for NOTHING. There is literally no point to this.

@ZOS - Please undo this change. It basically equates to a DW and medium armor NERF.... Sigh..

ThatHappyCat · September 2014

The point is animation cancelling makes attack speed bonuses irrelevant. Rather than fixing animation cancelling ZOS decided to work around it.

aco5712 · September 2014

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The 10% was useless and many (like myself) didnt bother to waste 2 skill points in it. Now its actually a worthwhile 5 piece bonus.

Khivas_Carrick · September 2014

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I dropped all my weapon damage set pieces and I'm still higher than what I was before. My regen for stam, magicka, and crit is way higher now.

Duukar · September 2014

Well I did notice a difference from light armor to medium armor. A BIG difference. I'm baffled that you didn't. Makes me wonder if you were weaving your abilities properly.

Im still patching. How much is the new bonus and does it land in diminishing FREAKING RETURNS since my weapon damage is ALREADY OVER CAPPED...

Man I really wannna Concealed Blade some sense into you people.

JHawkk · September 2014

I believe that to all be a personal opinion. I LOVE the new change. If you want faster attack speed try focus attacks in the assassin skill line. The new change opens more doors to stam builds I think. You no longer need to waste a jewelry spot with a weapon damage glyph anymore. This allows for different combinations with your glyphs. To tell the truth I never saw any difference with or without that 10% attack speed. So I enjoy the new change and will go as far as saying that it is one more step forward to help bring stam builds up to par the magic

Khivas_Carrick · September 2014

With the only increase to my weapon damage being from the warrior stone, I went from 186 to 201 for my base weapon damage with 5pc medium armor. 15% crit, and I still have 2 pieces of light armor left, using Martial Knowledge for those. The rest of my armor is a mix of Torug's Pact (3) and The Air (3).

aco5712 · September 2014

With animation cancelling, attack speed means nothing. even using haste i dont see any difference when i weave. Yes it applies to overcap, and its 6 /12%

I55UE5 · September 2014

Nerf to DW? You do realize DW was the least affected weapon set by attack speed buffs, as it already has the fastest attack speed?

I for one am really happy with the change, even if I only gained 12 weapon power from it. Attack speed is completely irrelevant.

zbtiqua · September 2014

Any time that you use more than one basic attack in a row, you have made a mistake. For that reason, attack speed is worthless. Sorry

Faulgor · September 2014

The first rank adds +6% weapon damage, so although I didn't test it yet, I assume the second rank adds +12%. To be equivalent to Hunding's Rage set, you'd need 200 base weapon damage. But 198 is already the soft cap, so, there. I don't think this new bonus will replace a lot of common gear to boost weapon damage. I'd rather have seen a bonus that can't be substituted with gear - either make attackspeed useful instead of removing it, or add a dodge chance like Evade for the 5 piece bonus, which would have at least make sense as an "Agility" bonus.

CapuchinSeven · September 2014

To add to what everyone else has said, if you think that passive was useful, you're really doing as well as you think you are.

When I wear full 7 medium, I still didn't bother putting points in, it might actually be worth it now.