Regarding your comment on heavy armor. I've been running with a heavy armor build on my DK since mid-December and the increased durability is noticeable in a 1v1 situation. However, the damage output is just not there and many of these turned into stalemates where neither person could burst down the other (unless 1 person made a mistake).

Also, in any kind of zerg fight, heavy armor made little to no difference in my survivability.

Good video & commentary tho.

JackDaniell wrote: »

Poxheart wrote: »

Regarding your comment on heavy armor. I've been running with a heavy armor build on my DK since mid-December and the increased durability is noticeable in a 1v1 situation. However, the damage output is just not there and many of these turned into stalemates where neither person could burst down the other (unless 1 person made a mistake).

Also, in any kind of zerg fight, heavy armor made little to no difference in my survivability.

Good video & commentary tho.

Great to hear from a heavy user! I do hope that 1.6 makes heavy as durable as it is supposed to be.

haven't watched the video yet (at work) , so I don't know if you mention this yourself, already:

I think as-is blazing shield is just incredibly good (even more so for HP stacking templars, but also for your build because of how good this magicka spell is without stacked magicka+spelldamage). However when using it a lot, damage shield mechanics make a) mitigation significantly less relevant and b) immovable far superior to perma-blocking - which means additionaly armor and less benefit from heavy armor passives.

I wonder what 1.6 will change, but somehow, I think tempalrs specifically, will still rarely run heavy armor except when main-tanking PvE trials