7th is getting nerfed into uselessness. This makes tank and spank setups much more resource intensive since they’re losing tons of healing.
Medium just needs more appealing set choices imo
7th is getting nerfed into uselessness. This makes tank and spank setups much more resource intensive since they’re losing tons of healing.
Medium just needs more appealing set choices imo
Its basicly this. Medium vs Heavy armor..the passives arent terribly bad balanced, its all the sets thats available to heavy vs medium. Most of the medium sets are pretty lackluster and many of the heavy sets are quite op.
7th procs for 5 seconds, cooldown is 2. Therefore the proc will outlast the cooldown no? The only that takes a hit is the heal.
As for heavy I think you don’t realize how many stamina builds are actually playing medium right now. On my stam sorc I can get the same resists as heavy armor with more wpn damage, more mobility, more regen, more stamina, higher crit and access to shuffle. There’s almost no reason to play heavy.
id like to see that build. i doubt you can get 5k weapon dmg while also maintaining 21k resists (26k with snb) in medium. also id pick forward momentum and increased healing and max hp/regen from heavy and the 25% more stam regen on heavy attacks + constitution over shuffle and like what? 5% more crit? any day of the week. dont get me wrong, im not saying medium is completely bad but better than heavy? nope, not even close.
Brutusmax1mus wrote: »7th procs for 5 seconds, cooldown is 2. Therefore the proc will outlast the cooldown no? The only that takes a hit is the heal.
As for heavy I think you don’t realize how many stamina builds are actually playing medium right now. On my stam sorc I can get the same resists as heavy armor with more wpn damage, more mobility, more regen, more stamina, higher crit and access to shuffle. There’s almost no reason to play heavy.
id like to see that build. i doubt you can get 5k weapon dmg while also maintaining 21k resists (26k with snb) in medium. also id pick forward momentum and increased healing and max hp/regen from heavy and the 25% more stam regen on heavy attacks + constitution over shuffle and like what? 5% more crit? any day of the week. dont get me wrong, im not saying medium is completely bad but better than heavy? nope, not even close.
Those are very realistic stats for a good medium build. I've got pics self buffed outside of cyro exceeding them with 1900 recovery. I love medium armor. Almost all my stam builds are in medium except my khajiit night blade bc they have class dodge and health recovery which pumps my trollking over 3.3k in heavy.
Heavy armor meta? Are we even playing the same game?
Heavy armor died with wrath passive and sustain changes. I can push max resistances in medium no issue and still get all of those juicy passives AND shuffle. I dont know anyone running heavy anymore outside of 7th or truth. The number of viable heavy armor sets is shrinking with every patch.
Heavy armor meta? Are we even playing the same game?
Heavy armor died with wrath passive and sustain changes. I can push max resistances in medium no issue and still get all of those juicy passives AND shuffle. I dont know anyone running heavy anymore outside of 7th or truth. The number of viable heavy armor sets is shrinking with every patch.
Its not died. Less damage, but more both resourses. Heavy atacking in heavy is very simple.
Also some heavy sets like Truth or Seventh Legion, which compensate less damage from heavy.
I feel heavy still stronger than medium. At stamwarden extremly stronger. At stamplar and stamsopc simply stronger. And at stamdk ~ same crap as medium. Because of snare or burst heal dilemma.
Heavy armor meta? Are we even playing the same game?
Heavy armor died with wrath passive and sustain changes. I can push max resistances in medium no issue and still get all of those juicy passives AND shuffle. I dont know anyone running heavy anymore outside of 7th or truth. The number of viable heavy armor sets is shrinking with every patch.
Its not died. Less damage, but more both resourses. Heavy atacking in heavy is very simple.
Also some heavy sets like Truth or Seventh Legion, which compensate less damage from heavy.
I feel heavy still stronger than medium. At stamwarden extremly stronger. At stamplar and stamsopc simply stronger. And at stamdk ~ same crap as medium. Because of snare or burst heal dilemma.
Heavy armor is not "dead" and it shoudn't be dead.
Heavy armor is better ressource management for block build because consitution and ressource buff on heavies. For dk example can run medium because their ressource managment allow them to block sustain without medium. A stam sorc can go medium too if he choose a more kiting gameplay with streak + Dark deal.
Heavy armor meta? Are we even playing the same game?
Heavy armor died with wrath passive and sustain changes. I can push max resistances in medium no issue and still get all of those juicy passives AND shuffle. I dont know anyone running heavy anymore outside of 7th or truth. The number of viable heavy armor sets is shrinking with every patch.
Its not died. Less damage, but more both resourses. Heavy atacking in heavy is very simple.
Also some heavy sets like Truth or Seventh Legion, which compensate less damage from heavy.
I feel heavy still stronger than medium. At stamwarden extremly stronger. At stamplar and stamsopc simply stronger. And at stamdk ~ same crap as medium. Because of snare or burst heal dilemma.
Heavy armor is not "dead" and it shoudn't be dead.
Heavy armor is better ressource management for block build because consitution and ressource buff on heavies. For dk example can run medium because their ressource managment allow them to block sustain without medium. A stam sorc can go medium too if he choose a more kiting gameplay with streak + Dark deal.
Reply this to Dreth. I said ~ the same.
I tired that wasn't a fan and the best damage sets are heavy which kinda defeats the purpose it might work with truth but there to many undodgeable abilities for that setup to be effective you just take to much damage that you can't do a thing about in medium.1stly) we're not in a "heavy armor meta", we're in a "tank & dmg mitigation meta"
Blocking reduces more damage than anything else in game & blocking is being altered next patch.
2ndly) medium armor has "potentially" the BEST defensive option, it's called EVASION, meaning they don't take a % of the damage done to them, they take absolutely 0
Idk why there aren't tons of people running impreg jewelry & some well fitted 5 piece damage set stacking cp into dodge roll???
Ragnarock41 wrote: »
Guess what? armor of the truth also has the weapon damage and it lasts 2x longer with almost permanent uptime, as long as you dodge something, it procs.Ragnarock41 wrote: »
Guess what? armor of the truth also has the weapon damage and it lasts 2x longer with almost permanent uptime, as long as you dodge something, it procs.
Guess what? Off balance has a 20 sec cooldown in the next patch.
Ragnarock41 wrote: »
Guess what? armor of the truth also has the weapon damage and it lasts 2x longer with almost permanent uptime, as long as you dodge something, it procs.Ragnarock41 wrote: »
Guess what? armor of the truth also has the weapon damage and it lasts 2x longer with almost permanent uptime, as long as you dodge something, it procs.
Guess what? Off balance has a 20 sec cooldown in the next patch.
7th procs for 5 seconds, cooldown is 2. Therefore the proc will outlast the cooldown no? The only that takes a hit is the heal.
As for heavy I think you don’t realize how many stamina builds are actually playing medium right now. On my stam sorc I can get the same resists as heavy armor with more wpn damage, more mobility, more regen, more stamina, higher crit and access to shuffle. There’s almost no reason to play heavy.
id like to see that build. i doubt you can get 5k weapon dmg while also maintaining 21k resists (26k with snb) in medium. also id pick forward momentum and increased healing and max hp/regen from heavy and the 25% more stam regen on heavy attacks + constitution over shuffle and like what? 5% more crit? any day of the week. dont get me wrong, im not saying medium is completely bad but better than heavy? nope, not even close.
7th procs for 5 seconds, cooldown is 2. Therefore the proc will outlast the cooldown no? The only that takes a hit is the heal.
As for heavy I think you don’t realize how many stamina builds are actually playing medium right now. On my stam sorc I can get the same resists as heavy armor with more wpn damage, more mobility, more regen, more stamina, higher crit and access to shuffle. There’s almost no reason to play heavy.
id like to see that build. i doubt you can get 5k weapon dmg while also maintaining 21k resists (26k with snb) in medium. also id pick forward momentum and increased healing and max hp/regen from heavy and the 25% more stam regen on heavy attacks + constitution over shuffle and like what? 5% more crit? any day of the week. dont get me wrong, im not saying medium is completely bad but better than heavy? nope, not even close.
In fact I can get pretty damn close on top of 2k stam regen about 37k stam, 27k health and 13k mag. And imo the ability to use shuffle is far more useful in mitigating damage than a bit more resist, and the cost reduction from medium is much nicer. I’ve always hated heavy armor.
Emmagoldman wrote: »Just curious, why is 7th legion's nerf seen as destroying the set. It will have a 2 sec nerf, is that 2 sec worth throwing into the trash?
Emmagoldman wrote: »Just curious, why is 7th legion's nerf seen as destroying the set. It will have a 2 sec nerf, is that 2 sec worth throwing into the trash?
Ragnarock41 wrote: »Emmagoldman wrote: »Just curious, why is 7th legion's nerf seen as destroying the set. It will have a 2 sec nerf, is that 2 sec worth throwing into the trash?
no longer heal spam. and without the heal there are better sets that work more reliably, seventh was used for its heal.
I feel like medium armor is more than useless right now
Medium armour was just like all stamina abilities and classes nerfed below level. ZOS hates Stamina, stamina builds, abilities, skills and ofc also all their armour.
So it gor nerfed, nerfed, nerfed and, oh, did I mentioned nerfed!?
Go anywhere in the game, you see 90% staves running around, 8 % 2-handed-users in heavy and less then 2% bow, DW in medium sneaking through the backallies of this game.
Prices for Rubedo-leather at any store, just do not talk about it, nobody needs it...............
and so all ppl went heavy in PvP, thinking and hoping they would be unkillable now,
and thereafter they start a new tread here about "this killed me, so it got to be nerfed, cauze I am such an awesome player, it is impossible that I died that way"
short report about the game in current status ^^
Ragnarock41 wrote: »Ragnaroek93 wrote: »Ragnarock41 wrote: »Mojomonkeyman wrote: »Ragnarock41 wrote: »Kinda ironic.
Medium armor is for stam users, but if bows (especially from stealth and taking advantage of how multiple hits can land at once) and 2H didn't hit so hard ppl wouldn't flock to heavy.
Or do I have it wrong?
quite the opposite, you are terribly wrong.
Bows hit hard, yes. But bow skills are dodgeable, and some of the strongest ones are reflectable. same with 2h skills. All 2h skills are dodgeable as far as I know, even brawler.
And dodging is the power of medium armor. a good stamblade will almost NEVER get hit by a dizzying swing.
(dodge roll into suprise attack weave, then cloak to confuse the hell out of the dizzy swing user, almost always works.)
there is a very good reason why stamsorcs are weak right now. both bow and 2h has reliability issues.
Then why nobody uses medium, if its so darn effective?
Because its not that effective against everything.
Because all magicka tons have undodgable burst tools.
And in some cases there is no way of stopping incoming burst from a magicka toon.
magden with bird spam+insane burst with their shalks combo.
magDk with their literally unstoppable petrify into power lash combo.
magsorcs with their undodgeable,unblockable burst and they do have a 28 meter undodgeable CC , which they combine with meteor.
magplars with their undodgeable jabs and beams...
you see, medium unpopularity has NOTHING to do with heavy armor being ''strong'' and everything to do with how magicka abilities work against it.
So as a result heavy armor is popular on stamina toons. Especially for solo players.
IF you nerf heavy armor, you're not doing medium any favors, you're just destroying stamina in PvP.
I agree with most of this. I think you missed one important aspect : The main reason I run heavy on my stamsorc is not magicka, I build to survive medium armor nightblades burst after fear in outnumbered situations. This has always been the benchmark for my stamina builds (whether they are able to survive an unblocked NB assault) and this is true for most of the stamina players I know.
stamblade is the exception to my list of reasons why medium armor is weak.
I just forgot to mention it.
Stamblade is a thing that uses medium armor to one or two shot other medium armor builds.
I'm getting so much hate for saying this, but medium armor will stay as a nightblade exclusive as long as they synergize so good with it.
Remember when heavy armor had block cost reduction? Only made sense to use it on a Dk back then.
Same thing with medium and stamblades. I mean, why play a medium armor anything when you can be a stamblade and have cloak, have assassin's whatever that procs for 10k damage, have fear, have amazing sustain,have a fast spammable you can weave with, best single target ult in the game, have literally anything you need to be a medium armor build?
I think every stam Nb will agree that Cloak needs a nerf if medium armor gets buffed.
Cloak is a problem because of nb tears in the first place.
ZOS couldn't fix it , so instead of fixing it they made it a god mode + invisibility button.
Its not just dizzying swing, they are also TOTALLY IMMUNE to dot builds.
Which would be totally fine , if there was a limit or downside to the cloak spam.
In my opinion its abusing cheesy mechanics and shouldn't be a thing,
A stamblade using cloak to gain an unfair advantage is fine, but Dk blockcasting is considered broken.
love this community man.
Ragnarock41 wrote: »Kinda ironic.
Medium armor is for stam users, but if bows (especially from stealth and taking advantage of how multiple hits can land at once) and 2H didn't hit so hard ppl wouldn't flock to heavy.
Or do I have it wrong?
quite the opposite, you are terribly wrong.
Bows hit hard, yes. But bow skills are dodgeable, and some of the strongest ones are reflectable. same with 2h skills. All 2h skills are dodgeable as far as I know, even brawler.
And dodging is the power of medium armor. a good stamblade will almost NEVER get hit by a dizzying swing.
(dodge roll into suprise attack weave, then cloak to confuse the hell out of the dizzy swing user, almost always works.)
there is a very good reason why stamsorcs are weak right now. both bow and 2h has reliability issues.
Then why nobody uses medium, if its so darn effective?
Because its not that effective against everything.
Because all magicka tons have undodgable burst tools.
And in some cases there is no way of stopping incoming burst from a magicka toon.
magden with bird spam+insane burst with their shalks combo.
magDk with their literally unstoppable petrify into power lash combo.
magsorcs with their undodgeable,unblockable burst and they do have a 28 meter undodgeable CC , which they combine with meteor.
magplars with their undodgeable jabs and beams...
you see, medium unpopularity has NOTHING to do with heavy armor being ''strong'' and everything to do with how magicka abilities work against it.
So as a result heavy armor is popular on stamina toons. Especially for solo players.
IF you nerf heavy armor, you're not doing medium any favors, you're just destroying stamina in PvP.
Ragnarock41 wrote: »Kinda ironic.
Medium armor is for stam users, but if bows (especially from stealth and taking advantage of how multiple hits can land at once) and 2H didn't hit so hard ppl wouldn't flock to heavy.
Or do I have it wrong?
quite the opposite, you are terribly wrong.
Bows hit hard, yes. But bow skills are dodgeable, and some of the strongest ones are reflectable. same with 2h skills. All 2h skills are dodgeable as far as I know, even brawler.
And dodging is the power of medium armor. a good stamblade will almost NEVER get hit by a dizzying swing.
(dodge roll into suprise attack weave, then cloak to confuse the hell out of the dizzy swing user, almost always works.)
there is a very good reason why stamsorcs are weak right now. both bow and 2h has reliability issues.
Then why nobody uses medium, if its so darn effective?
Because its not that effective against everything.
Because all magicka tons have undodgable burst tools.
And in some cases there is no way of stopping incoming burst from a magicka toon.
magden with bird spam+insane burst with their shalks combo.
magDk with their literally unstoppable petrify into power lash combo.
magsorcs with their undodgeable,unblockable burst and they do have a 28 meter undodgeable CC , which they combine with meteor.
magplars with their undodgeable jabs and beams...
you see, medium unpopularity has NOTHING to do with heavy armor being ''strong'' and everything to do with how magicka abilities work against it.
So as a result heavy armor is popular on stamina toons. Especially for solo players.
IF you nerf heavy armor, you're not doing medium any favors, you're just destroying stamina in PvP.
So what can be done?
Itemization is one of the big issues here. Take some of the high damage 5 pieces away from heavy and either give them to medium, or make more 5 piece medium sets more desirable. Possibly give medium a specific type of damage resistance (not tons but something noticeable).
How can. I save my wood elf sorc?