Somehow I’m still not really looking through the armor and maybe someone can help me here. I am currently in the process of leveling all weapons to level 20 and have a total of three builds that I want to work with.
(Main) Dex → Medium Armor
Mage / Int Firestaff / Ice → Had thought of Light
Strength → Heavy Armor
Does it work so far or would you take something else? Can someone help me and explain a little or advise me on something? ^^
all the armors are good and serve their purpose very well!! this is one thing i love about new world. it depends on what style you want. if you are running a strength id suggest medium or heavy, any ranged build id run medium or light but i prefer light for my range build. ( Musket/Spear)
However if you are going to be melee and in the front line of 50v50 pvp wars I highly suggest heavy for that situtaion.
Try them all out and see what suits you best.
So I kept hearing that heavy armors damage reduction was so op that wearing anything else, even for INT builds, was dumb…I spent days farming faction tokens to get a full heavy set and tokens to make them int/con like my light armor…and I was dealing 300-400 less damage, but I was also taking maybe 1/3 to 1/2 the damage…that being said, I can’t avoid a hit to save my life. I may be taking less damage, but I’m being hit so much more, and enemies are taking 2-3 hits more to kill that I strongly feel light armor was more beneficial to my play style.
damn!!! that sucks man what lvl set did you farm??
I dont listen to the meta bullcrap, people been telling me musket sucks from the start until they get popped in the face a few times and are either already downed or running
level 53.
yikes man, maybe youll find some use for it 
lol, just salvage parts
Medium and Heavy armor still have invincibility frames (iframes) on their dodges, just less. If you’re taking excessive damage then you’re probably miss-timing dodges.
That being said, play what works for you!
The iframes across all 3 dodges are the same, only thing that changes is distance traveled
It’s not the frames, they are just slower side steps and don’t go very far compared to the roll. It’s easier for me to play in a style where I roll around like a howler monkey while ice bolting faces.
You know what, I think I recall reading that change somewhere.
They’ve got a really sloppy way of posting patch details (sometimes on main site, sometimes in the forums) so I’m having trouble recalling which patch, but I think you’re right.
In my experience light armor is quite useful for small scale pvp and solo pve (which is almost non existant at 60 anyway). Wars and outpost rush go heavy. First its laggy as sh**, so dodging reliably is impossible, second there is always a healer around so taking some hits isnt that punishing. Third stacking bodies on the control points is really important. if 20 ppl say na’ah im a light user i wont stand in the circle! you’ll have problems winning wars.
I mainly play PvE with a few wars, if I have been chosen ^^ So that would be my problem. If I’d play mainly PvP, no doubt heavy. But for PvE it might seem a bit trickier. And after reading @Kyosji I think I will try Light Armour. If that’s bad, I have to switch to Heavy.
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