Plate armor like hurricane plate, or night terror plate needs to be improved or it may as well be removed. It is a useless (relatively) recipe.
This issue has really been bothering me. The game balance is just not fair. The legendary Plate armor that can be created from PoP components is total crap compared to the Chain.
Using cultural armor as a base line, I will use one example, Barbarian cultural armor, and compare it to Hurricane armor. You can compare any other and see that the same issue is across the board. Yes, I know that 4th tier is better, but at that level even that armor is crap, though that is not the issue I am addressing in this post.
Hurricane Chain > Barbarian Chain
Chain bracer AC 17 > AC 12
Chain leggings AC 27 > AC 22
Chain tunic AC 41 > AC 30
But with plate…..
Hurricane Plate < Barbarian Plate
Plate bracer AC 21 < AC 25
Plate leggings AC 34 < AC 40
Plate breastplate AC 51 = AC 51
Before I get too flamed; I have heard a lot of justifying it--Agnostic and stat quibbles mostly. Fact it, the PoP plate is crap, and does not sell well, why waste components on it when chain is what sells? I have a 250 Ogre blacksmith, and a 250 Dwarf blacksmith (as well as 175 human, high elf and dark elf blacksmiths I am working at now). I know blacksmithing and I know what sells.
Compared to cultural plate, the PoP plate is much harder to make and get components for, yet it is total crap. They need to fix this balance issue.
Mark
This issue has really been bothering me. The game balance is just not fair. The legendary Plate armor that can be created from PoP components is total crap compared to the Chain.
Using cultural armor as a base line, I will use one example, Barbarian cultural armor, and compare it to Hurricane armor. You can compare any other and see that the same issue is across the board. Yes, I know that 4th tier is better, but at that level even that armor is crap, though that is not the issue I am addressing in this post.
Hurricane Chain > Barbarian Chain
Chain bracer AC 17 > AC 12
Chain leggings AC 27 > AC 22
Chain tunic AC 41 > AC 30
But with plate…..
Hurricane Plate < Barbarian Plate
Plate bracer AC 21 < AC 25
Plate leggings AC 34 < AC 40
Plate breastplate AC 51 = AC 51
Before I get too flamed; I have heard a lot of justifying it--Agnostic and stat quibbles mostly. Fact it, the PoP plate is crap, and does not sell well, why waste components on it when chain is what sells? I have a 250 Ogre blacksmith, and a 250 Dwarf blacksmith (as well as 175 human, high elf and dark elf blacksmiths I am working at now). I know blacksmithing and I know what sells.
Compared to cultural plate, the PoP plate is much harder to make and get components for, yet it is total crap. They need to fix this balance issue.
Mark
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