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And in the meantime, Medium Armor, the perennial Mary Sue of the armor types, not only fails to receive penalties to anything but also gains a bonus to Block Cost that it does not even need.

Those classes not only fail to receive any form of bonus toward Blocking but are even actively penalized in their Block Cost for choosing to wear Light Armor. magSorc, magDen) but other classes do not incentivize Magicka-stacking and can get more utility out of stacking Spell Damage and using an actual sword and shield - or Ice Staff - instead (e.g. That certainly is true for some classes (e.g. Specifically, the bit about Magicka classes universally using damage shields as their primary means of mitigation. I'm not sure that I agree with everything that you write. They just need to remove the damage taken bonus/penality because the weight of the armor already decides that factor. I think people over analyze these passives a bit, they're so minor it really doesn't matter that much and you can frankly use any armor you want right now in situations where it might matter (pvp). The few times you block is just to avoid a CC like Dark Convergence or Leap. It's not meant for you to build a Medium Armor build that constantly blocks, as thats not what a Medium Armor player would do anyway, they're suppose to evade and frankly 3% per piece isn't going to help much. The same could be said about Medium, they use their Stamina pool for damage abilities and dodging, reducing block cost just helps them manage that pool better. Everything on Light Armor makes managing your lower stamina pool easier, which is half the reason you die anyway, by being unable to break free. It also happens to include a reduction to Roll Dodge costs at 3% instead of Mediums 4% and a reduction to Sprinting.

TRULY LIGHT ELVEN ARMOR FREE

For light armor, reducing break free cost alone is amazing as that costs 5400 stamina at base, with 5 light thats a 25% reduction for -1350 stamina. I quite like the rest of the passives.Д®g. While I agree the armor weights don't need the 1% martial/magical damage taken seeing as the weight of the armor already decides how much armor they give per piece. So you get a scenario where Magicka has more quantity of heals like DK's Whip/Claw or Templar's Sweeps/Living Dark and shields they can stack while Stamina has less, self targetted stronger heals like Rally/Vigor. Medium Technically has more Weapon/Spell Damage so they should in theory have stronger heals, but all classes were designed with Magicka heals embeeded into regular skills that Stamina doesn't typically have access to. At least, thats clearly their design intent here.

That really ought to go to Light Armor (assuming that the Physical Damage penalty is not removed) or else to Heavy Armor.ДЄssuming Light Armor is primarly for magicka builds, they would be using shields and shields don't get their damage taken reduced by holding block. And while we're at it can we also do away with the nonsensical Medium Armor buff to Block Cost.

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