Stamina players: medium or heavy armour?

Rhaegar75 · October 2019

Hey guys, I’m interested in your views on what armour you use in pvp.
With my mag chars I went from heavy to light and literally saw the light: the perks of light are major to me.

With regards to the medium/heavy conundrum I’m still very undecided but I seem to lean more towards a heavy set up cause of the extra damage.

What are you guys using and why?

Kadoin · October 2019

Medium

I never use heavy on mag or stam unless building a tank, and these days even that is pushing me towards medium or light armor.

starlizard70ub17_ESO · October 2019

It changes depending on the situation

Medium for most PvE, except tanking of course. Heavy for PvP.

Luckylancer · October 2019

Heavy

Medium feels too squishy.

Luede · October 2019

It changes depending on the situation

depends with the class u play. NB works fine with medium armor.

lukoi · October 2019

Medium

I used both on my first two NBs and just found that I prefer the sustainability and mobility of medium over the resists inherent to heavy, in PvP specifically.

Currently all of my stam pvp chars use med. I can definitely see how heavy can be made to work, but so far it isnt for me.

Im leveling a magplar and soon a magsorc (purely thru BGs incidentally), and expect they will be going Light with potentially two heavy pieces mixed in.

darkblue5 · October 2019

Heavy

I use both but fundamentally the kiting medium armor plan has been in rough shape for years. You need really good server performance and you don't get that rewarded even when it does work.

Most stamina is using a heavy style build plan regardless of the specific armor type used.

Fur_like_snow · October 2019

Medium

My playstyle is centered around hit and run so medium is the obvious choice.

BaiterOfZergs · October 2019

Depends on the class; stamplar medium, stam sorc both but preferably medium, Stam dk heavy and stam warden both.

ketsparrowhawk · October 2019

Medium

Heavy always feels cumbersome, sustain sucks, and the only way to get good damage is to wear a handful of specific sets. Yeah I can take more hits.. but most of the time it seems like just delaying the inevitable.

I'd rather have fast movement speed, better sustain, and more damage. Especially if you're playing with CP, it's quite easy to have plenty of mitigation regardless of the armor type.

Davadin · October 2019

Heavy

as a DK playing in CP PvP Dragonhold, it's HEAVY all the way. I'm using Molten Arms anyway so i get damage boost, and with new Acolyte sets, it's big damage when combined with another set. I'm matching it with Spriggan and completely take off (the nerfed) Onslaught.

chrightt · October 2019

Medium

Medium armor sucks they said, heavy armor is OP they said.

People keep calling for medium armor buffs and still run medium armor a ton. How surprised I am at the poll results. How surprised.

scubasteve28 · October 2019

Medium

I run medium on every Stam class. Even Stam dk I run a bursty build with fury and spriggans. Heavy would be better for group play probably but I only solo/ duel.

Davadin · October 2019

Heavy

chrightt wrote: »

Medium armor sucks they said, heavy armor is OP they said.

People keep calling for medium armor buffs and still run medium armor a ton. How surprised I am at the poll results. How surprised.

as weird as it is, i'm mostly medium up until Dragonhold. But now I can have 7k wep damage on medium burst when everything proc, and i'm killing people just as effective when i'm on 6k wep damage with a LOT more survavibility.

Millz · October 2019

Medium

Medium passives outweigh heavy. Heavy use to be very viable as good dmg setup in pvp but not as much anymore imo. Also shuffles mitigation is actually really nice as it effects templar puncturing strikes and all other aoes. It comes down to personally preference honestly though. I like hitting hard and running around rocks

but seriously heavy isnt terrible I just don't see it as useful anymore. I use to main heavy armor back when it was *broken* when you could use shuffle with it so maybe im biased I switched to medium about halfway through the morrowind update

Millz · October 2019

Medium

Medium skill ceiling is higher than of heavy too

MajBludd · November 2019

Medium

I can get the same resists on med as heavy and have more mobility, more damage, and more regen.
I play a stamDk for clarity

Ragnarock41 · November 2019

chrightt wrote: »

Medium armor sucks they said, heavy armor is OP they said.

People keep calling for medium armor buffs and still run medium armor a ton. How surprised I am at the poll results. How surprised.

Its almost like the game is changing every patch or something.

What a concept to wrap your head around, I know right...

Davadin · November 2019

Heavy

my thread with some numbers.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/500706/medium-vs-heavy-stamina-build#latest

technohic · November 2019

It changes depending on the situation

I run nord and usually a little defensive set so medium seems fine. If I run heavy, probably run more offensive. Theres more than 1 way to skin a cat.

Also depends on the current meta though. A lot of players are turtled up and dont hit so hard and every little bit of damage helps. Lag though; can make you regret not being able to actively defend yourself

ChefZero · November 2019

It changes depending on the situation

I don't want to offend anyone but lol... so many guys have no clue.

It isn't just about comparison about resistance. HA is important for stacking health/-reg and off-regen for builds with high block uptime. MA for stamreg, crit and dodge cost reduction. HA = stay in fight, MA = hit&run.

StaticWave · November 2019

Medium

Wear a defensive set in medium, or go nord and you can achieve the same resistance in heavy while also having more damage.

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