There's literally no reason to run invigorating, ever.

Also Well-Fitted

Toss up between nirn and invigorating.

I'd say I'd love to see nirn buffed, but there are already tons of ways to get armor/resistance.

Blocking is for chumps

It provides 11 Magicka, Stamina and Health Recovery (on golen gear). Maximum you can get is 88 (7 pcs armour + 1 shield). It is imho pathetically low.
Even if it would be incresed to 129 or 169 when maxed - it would still be imho too low to consider, but maybe some niche hybrid builds would use it.

Like everyone else I was stuck between Nirn and Invigorating..
I picked Nirn though, because I am more likely to use Overland/Dungeon Set Pieces with that Trait until I can transmute it or get the right one!😆😂

(I personally never really used Well-Fitted, Reinforced[...] neither. Only Infused, Divines, Training and Impen.)

Reinforced, nirnhoned, invigorating - all are really bad armor traits, in my opinion.
Bring back old Prosperous, or make a new armor set (Mystic gear piece?) which has interesting bonus "Increase gold from mobs by 100%" :'(

why does this trash exist

The only ones I use are divines,impen,well fitted, infused, and occasionally nirnhoned/sharpened on weapons only.

The rest are a complete waste to me.

Enabling armors to hold two enchantments instead of one with a fraction of the effect of a glyph, thus being able to vary the resource pool for making a more variable hybrid build.

I don’t use most of them, but invigorating stands out in its uselessness.

Vietfox wrote: »

Devs should take a look at this poll xD

What do you think they'll see? I think they'll see that most forum-goers are incapable of simple math.

There was already an initial outcry over the Invigorating trait when that trait was first introduced in 2017 (replacing the truly useless Prosperous).

This is what I wrote back then.

code65536 wrote: »

Atronach or Serpent Mundus: +238 Mag or Stam regen

With gold Divines, that's +7.5%, or +18 Mag or Stam regen

With gold Invigorating, that's +11 Mag, Stam, and Health regen

So if want single-resource regen, Divines if you are using a regen Mundus is best. Invigorating returns less than Divines, but covers all three pools.

I think the numbers for Invigorating are fair. You may think +11 regen is insignificant, but it's in line with what other traits do--armor traits in general have always been pretty insignificant in comparison to the much more important weapon traits.

PS: Also keep in mind that the +11 regen is unbuffed. In practice, it'll be quite a bit more due to CP, passives from class/race/etc., potions, and other sources of buffs to regen.

Let's say, for example, I'm a DD doing PvE content. I want all-Divines. I have a 5pc armor set where none of the traits are ideal: Reinforced, Invigorating, Training, Sturdy, and Impenetrable. But I only have a limited number of crystals. How should I prioritize my retraiting. Which trait should I change first and which one should I change last? For PvE DPS, I'd probably retrait them in the order of Training, Impen, Sturdy, Reinforced, Invigorating.

Let's say, for another example, you're doing PvP. You want all-Impen. Your current gear is Reinforced, Invigorating, Divines, Training, and Sturdy. Same deal: How do you prioritize it? I don't know about you, but I'd actually get rid of my Divines before my Invigorating.

There are very few situations where Invigorating is a BiS trait, and you'll eventually convert it to something that better fits the content you're doing. But it's not a bad trait--it's a good all-rounded trait. It's not ideal for anything, but it's useful in wide variety of scenarios and is one of the last traits that I'd retrait from as a result.