Breton dragonknight, light or heavy armor?

azura_star · May 2016

I'm making my first dragonknight and I've decided to go for a magicka build, so I went for a Breton. But now I cannot figure out if I should use mostly light or heavy armor? Light because of the passives that come with being a Breton, or heavy because as a dragonknight I was planning on using sword&board for at least one of my weapon slots until level 15 and I thought heavy armor might be more appropriate for that?

Any advice would be welcome.

lassitershawn · May 2016

For PvE, if you are going to use a sword and board you are going to be a tank, as it is not viable for a DPS role. For a pure tank role in PvP you will probably want either 7 heavy, or 5 heavy 1 medium 1 light (with your smaller pieces of armor being the medium and light). DK magicka tanks are probably the most powerful pure tank spec ingame atm, and if you choose to be one it is a great choice

That said, for leveling I would go with 5 light, 1 medium, and 1 heavy.

azura_star · May 2016

Thank you so much! That's great advice

lassitershawn · May 2016

Happy to help

Hope you have fun playing the build!