Good idea for tank to have Reinforced trait in all 8 heavy armor pieces?

Sadishist · August 2015

Good idea for a tank to have Reinforced trait in all pieces of heavy armor & shield (shield, head, chest, shoulders, waist, hands, legs, and feet), or would it get hit by the armor cap?

Brrrofski · August 2015

I usually run three reinforced, I get two divines (spell resistance mundus, the lover I think), two infused (magic enchantments on those bits) and impenetrable on my shield.

As soon as my two nirhoned bits have finished researching I'll be changing it up though

Nestor · August 2015

What ever works for your playstyle is what you need to run.

mklundub17_ESO · August 2015

PVE:
Reinforced on your large pieces (head, chest, greaves) and shield to maximize the armor bonus you get for the trait.
Reinforced or Divines on smaller pieces.
OR Nirnhoned on any you can get.
Impenetrable is useless for PVE.

PVP:
Impenetrable and Reinforced.
Nirnhoned for any pieces you have, even full Nirnhoned if you can.

Kupoking · August 2015

Shoulder and boots have the same armor value as helmet. Therefore they could use reinforced too.

SLy_Kyti · August 2015

mklundub17_ESO wrote: »

PVE:
Reinforced on your large pieces (head, chest, greaves) and shield to maximize the armor bonus you get for the trait.
Reinforced or Divines on smaller pieces.
OR Nirnhoned on any you can get.
Impenetrable is useless for PVE.

PVP:
Impenetrable and Reinforced.
Nirnhoned for any pieces you have, even full Nirnhoned if you can.

This above is good advice ^^
Just FYI in next patch Impenetrable is going to be buffed and will again be more usable.

Quote here>>

Increased the amount of Critical Resistance provided by the Impenetrable armor trait by 10 per item quality rank.

read here>> forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2157532#Comment_2157532

paulsimonps · August 2015

I'm gonna run Infused on all my pieces as tank and try and get 8 prismatic tri glyphs. Need that Max stam as a DK tank now.

Brrrofski · August 2015

Infused on 2 big pieces, reinforced on last big piece and 2 small Piece, divines on 2 pieces, infused on shield.

That's what I run.

Next time I make armor I should have at least 1 nirhoned (maybe two if I take longer to level than my research takes) to throw onto the mix

xoduspaladin · February 2016

Sorry for digging this back up, but I wanted to know is it is still Valid to pick Nirnhorned over reinforced if given the chance?

Phranq · February 2016

It really depends on your class. . For a DK you don't really need reinforced because your armor buff should put you near cap.. I personally have been using infused on chest and pants and maybe shield, and divines on everything else

xoduspaladin · February 2016

I'm pretty much a healing Templar, putting two heavy on and the rest light armor. I figured that I should put the Nirnhorned trait on the two heavies at least for some survivability, but not sure if this is the best way to go about it.

paulsimonps · February 2016

For PvE healers or DPS shouldn't have to worry about resistances at all. And for tanks. Unless you want to get to hardcap, which in my opinion is only necessary for a very few select build models, you shouldn't need to to use those either, better to use set bonuses and skills. Its really easy to get to hardcap, even without reinforced or nirnhoned. And that goes for all classes.