cal50 wrote: »

Oh I see now but for example light armor bonuses not seem very precious. Should I change my heavy-medium pieces to light?

It depends on what you seek.

• Blocking reduction, Health/Armor bonus, at the cost of reduced sustain (unless you're getting damaged)? Heavy.
• Roll dodge, stamina regen, weapon damage/critical, and sneak important to you? Medium.
• Full on Magicka character still with little threat of actually taking damage? Light.

The best part about patches this year, is that each piece of each armor type gives you bonuses, and the minimum number of pieces is now 2, instead of 5, for bonuses!

2 Heavy, 5 light.
5 Heavy, 2 Medium. Etc.

In past, we often went 5/1/1 for armor due to both undaunted passives that gave extra stats and the need to wear 5 of one armor type for specific armor passives. That changed a few patches back when they begin overhauling armor passives. It got even wonkier recently when they starting combining stats, like weapon damage is now weapon and spell damage or spell crit is now just crit.

For straight damage, there is almost no reason to wear any heavy armor at this point. In fact, a lot of magic classes are now wearing several pieces of medium armor. Assuming you dont need the sustain and spell pen, medium is actually more raw damage. For example, in VHOF when doing a fight like the spider boss (basically a 10 second burst), you have mag DPS in upwards of 5 medium.

You are certainly safe in 5/1/1, but you are probably better off in 5/2 or 6/1 (light/medium) as a mag DPS. As a mag DPS, my go to has become 5 light, 2 medium for most trial fights. A little unclear how this will all shake out with the new crit caps introduced on Mondays patch.

In PVP, its a little different. I still think 5/1/1 is very strong if wearing light armor for the raw stats, but that is mostly mag sorcs these days.