jbjondeaueb17_ESO wrote: »

For PvE, LIght is not so good, 2 passives to give you the same benefit as 1 passive on Medium (Cost Reduction and Regeneration), Crit is a fixed value for 5 pieces or more (no improvement for 6 or 7 pieces), no Spell Damage but Spell Penetration (also a fixed value for 5 pieces or more) who doesn't help me at all as healer.

For PvP which shield ? Most of the shields are based on Max Magicka which is not increased by Light Armor apart from one Morph of the Light Armor Skill.

Sneak passive wants to have word with you
But agree, while the penetration is better than agility boost, for heal it does not do anything

All armour in game is situational.

I have a Khajiit stamblade, very high crit, that wears 5 pieces of Hundings rage Medium, and 4 Nightmothers gaze, 1 piece light, 1 piece heavy.(also 3 agility jewellery, but thats beside the point)

And yes, thats a pure crafted build. Its pretty squishy, but can deal out a LOT of damage. She will hit overland mobs from sneak for 40K+.

Medium is great for sneaky play, and is probably best suited to stam blades and stam DK's.

Say medium armor is bad again when I two-shot you with my gankblade coming out of stealth.

Putting heavy or light on a stam-based build will leave you with inferior damage and poor sustain, but hey, at least you can take 10 more seconds to die. Yay? I see close-ranged stam-classes as kind of a leeroy jenkins type anyway, taking as many down before you die or flee. Hit and run is the name of the game. And the defensibility of medium armor doesn't terribly matter on bow builds anyway.

Now if you wanna be a melee class but not be squishy? Then yeah, you go for heavy armor but there's a trade-off involved. You're not gonna be as tanky as an actual tank and you're not going to do as much burst damage as a pure DD build. Kind of a jack-of-all-trades situation. Sure, it's going to improve your survivability if that is terribly important to you as a stam class. Which in my personal opinion it shouldn't be in general. You're going to die in PvP. Sacrificing DPS for more resistance just isn't worth it imo.

Every specc has their role and you can combine whatever you want. Each Armor provides different bonuses, so it's you own decision which you like most.

So I don't think that one Armor is worse than another, it depends on the Player and other Skills.