Scotia wrote: »

none, go reinforced, you reduce damage on crits, not the chance.

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According to this test http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/1562095#Comment_1561600 reinforced is the way to go for pvp.

I disagree that Reinforced is the way to go for all. It will depend on type of gear and even on the slot.

With VR 14 Legendary Armor without other passives or armor sources: (rough rounding)
Light Armor: 3674 Armor/Spell Resist without 7/7 reinforced and 4262 with 7/7 reinforced
Medium Armor: 10811 Armor/Spell Resist without 7/7 reinforced and 12541 with 7/7 reinforced
Heavy Armor: 14380 Armor/Spell Resist without 7/7 reinforced and 16680 with 7/7 reinforced


This means if taking 32,500 Armor to equal 50% damage mitigation (using an average for simpler math) then with 7/7 Reinforced:
Light Armor: ~0.90 damage mitigation gain.
Medium Armor: ~2.66 damage mitigation gain.
Heavy Armor: ~3.54 damage mitigation gain.

As the above shows using reinforced for light armor is much less useful then it is for medium and heavy armor. Each armor piece itself also has different values.

Chest comes with the most armor.
Head, Shoulders, Legs and Feet come with the second most armor.
Hands and Waist come with the least armor.

Have not done further testing on traits yet (will tomorrow after patch) but will likely pick something other then reinforced for my Light Armor sets.

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Impenetrable value has also been doubled. IE: legendary gear with impenetrable is 200.

The amount of Critical Resistance required to completely eliminate the unmodified bonus damage from a Critical hit is 50 * (your Character Level + your Veteran Rank number).

7 legendary pieces with impenetrable will equal 7(200) = 1400 Critical Resistance.
3200 Critical Resistance negates the unmodified critical bonus which is 50%.
This means having 7/7 Legendary pieces will reduce critical damage by ~21.875%.
So a critical attack will now deal ~128.125% of normal damage.

This looks better then reinforced IMO since most PvP players will have 40%+ critical hits.


Please note the above is supposed to be the way it works. It could/may be bugged.

The biggest thing with crit was the chance of it not occurring now it does, in the overall sense I would not take Impen to reduce one thing when reinforced can also help against normal attack, you have to consider that.

As for the armor, LA is nerfed to oblivion right now, just have to wait and see. I would reccomend not making any legendary sets until you are sure of what the changes and game play will be like a few weeks after 1.6

You want to max Well Fitted because you know 1.6 won't fix the stuck in combat bug...

Crit chance is crazy:
10% Base:
12% Champion Passive:
10% Major Prophecy:
3% Minor Prophecy:
3% Per Set Bonus:

IMO the average PvP player will have at least 35% critical chance without even trying. Many will have 50%+ critical chance.

If Critical Resistance is bugged then its a bad choice. If/when its fixed and give the correct values it is still a very viable choice mostly for light armor or damage shield players.