Indeed, it is just a dream.

Armour types and their purpose and functionality in ESO are the most screwed up I have seen in any game, ever, be it single player, MMO, text only, PC one, console one, 1980 one or 2014 one.

It is like they actually tried hard to create an epic mess. And now, with a little bit here and another little bit there, they are trying to keep the ship afloat, while the ship is already at the bottom of the ocean.

I have a wild idea too. If they are so incompetent at actually making armour types work, at least with some logic, it would just be better to scrap the whole thing entirely. And keep it pretty basic, like it used to be. E.g., the heavier it is, the more basic protection (armour class / defense) it provides, and the more it encumbers you in the process of moving, casting, fighting and any other action, and also limits your carrying capacity.

A ton of problems solved.

Eh, not much for the slowing down thing (armor really didn't hamper wearers as much as people think), but it definitely needs work. I just watched our light armor wearing DK tank crypt for us while doing dps nearly as good as the other dps'ers. Being the tank I felt pretty useless after that. Glad that cotton protects him as much as all the steel i have on me.

they predicted it in the trailers as weak as it is...

Change is coming, they said recently that light armor wearers will be more squishy. I think it was linked to the champ system.

Actually, Heavy Armour, has always been associated with being more "beneficial", at least in terms of "raw values". It makes sense, it always did.

Of course there are disadvantages in using Heavy Armour. First of all, the character would need to be stronger. Almost always the weight of the armour would affect mobility or the ability to perform certain actions.

Again, it would make sense. A rogue could in theory choose to use a heavy suit of plate. Now, shouldn't the ability of said rogue to sneak around and be "shadowy" suffer from that choice? Obviously. Said rogue would gain extra protection but hinder the ability to perform class / role skills / functions.

The same story can be told about "mages". And no, the whole thing is NOT against the Elder Scrolls background. The freedom to mix and match and perform many different tasks and roles would always be there.

Of course you could have "mages" and casters in general, in heavier armour. It would not necessarily mean they would not be good or they would even be "gimped".

The thing is, to apply benefits and penalties in a structured system that makes sense. Where personal choice is always possible, but, one could never have ALL the benefits from EVERY source, while completely eliminating ALL penalties. This is "fail" and this is exactly what is happening in ESO.

I would not mind if a "mage" fancies to be in full plate, good stuff. Some skills and synergies though, should either not be possible, or suffer some penalty, when doing so. Or even, perhaps different skills / abilities / combinations would become available. But surely, not what we got now.

What our dear devs are doing now is like a vicious circle. Cut a little here, add a bit there. Reduce a little bit magicka boni here, add some better returns for stamina there, do a "chop" for Light Armour, add some "beef" to Medium or Heavy, and it goes on and on and on. And it is never enough or good enough. Because the whole system is flawed from the beginning.

One simply wonders... for decades, many games and designers managed to get things working (not perfect, but surely better than what we have in ESO right now), by adopting "recipes" that made sense and were based on fairly simple, yet solid and logical, facts.

I could write down a huge list, but there is no point. In short, if I had a "magic wand" I would just scrap the current system with armours in ESO. Of course, there would be an absolutely HUGE uproar by all those who are very content using the few "uber" combinations that do work and are much better that many others. But the way it goes here, forget all about "balance", it won't happen any time soon, simply because the foundations are too weak to build upon.

In the case of ESO, a "shock therapy" is what it requires, and not tiny doses of painkillers.

KenjiJU wrote: »

The new stamina/magicka return also gives higher values to the ranged users, and less to melee. Go figure. Not ranting in any particular direction here, it just came out.

Yeah, that one was so ridiculous I really just can't comprehend it. They know ranged is better than melee, yet when they try to fix heavy armor they give MORE resource return to ranged than to melee-- like, a LOT more.

That was just mind-boggling. Do they even play?

Yep it`s like they really have no clue wtf they are doing when it comes to their game .

I'm pretty sure charging a one-handed axe swing doesn't take twice the time it takes to charge a destroy staff attack... but correct me if I am wrong!

I'd be ok with my HA set if the constitution passive would trigger despite having a damage shield up. The tooltip does indeed say "Hit" and not "Damaged".