Personally, I think light armor still gives as much if not more survivability than heavy. While light has less mitigation, it allows for more defensive spells, which in the end often means you still take less damage in light. I would like heavy either to give more mitigation or to be a middle ground between light and medium in terms of the amount of resources it gives back/rebates it gives on resources.

The problem with light is just that its numbers are too high in terms of the resources it saves. Heavy just can't compete. (Just my personal opinion, of course).

Currently no, it still is far behind, Again currently.

ZoS is completely changing armor (not exactly) in the Champion system. I would say more but I don't remember it all exactly and don't want to mess it up. All I know is there will be a lot more people running around with heavy armor.

david.haypreub18_ESO wrote: »

Personally, I think light armor still gives as much if not more survivability than heavy. While light has less mitigation, it allows for more defensive spells, which in the end often means you still take less damage in light. I would like heavy either to give more mitigation or to be a middle ground between light and medium in terms of the amount of resources it gives back/rebates it gives on resources.

The problem with light is just that its numbers are too high in terms of the resources it saves. Heavy just can't compete. (Just my personal opinion, of course).

I agree. With light armor you can just hold down block and you still get the full benefit of your spell damage. The only way that heavy armor is ever going to compete as a viable option is to take away block casting.

I can hear the outrage already, and I block cast with my nightblade all the time, allowing my wonderful stamina regen from Focused Attacks to keep my stamina up while I destroy my enemies with Sap Essence. There isn't any logical reason anybody should be allowed to do that. The reason we do though is because you'd have to be an idiot or simply really enjoy the challenge of doing it any other way.

I'm mostly talking PvE here, but I tried to use a build that was stamina based, with a bow and DW. It was tough. Really tough. I got my A$$ handed to me in Craglorn no matter how many different combinations of weapon abilities I put on my bars. Then I just gave in. I made a seducer set of light armor grabbed a resto staff and started owning in Craglorn. Not only is it so much easier to literally spam one button, but all I have to do is stand there and cast it while holding block.

The point is that heavy armor is unnecessary for solo PvE and PvP as long as you can block while casting and just use your stamina resource for that. So unless you're tanking you really are at a disadvantage using heavy armor over light.