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I've asked around the discord and found that most people think heavy armor is obsolete and that it's best to go all stats towards dmg. I think armor mastery would help make heavy armor less obsolete.

If heavy armor mastery did the same thing as on live it would just become the new cloth armor and would totally eclipse everything else. Leather armor is actually in an good spot. Unfortunately heavy armor is a bit difficult to balance.

Even if everyone agreed, it is unfortunately very difficult to add any skills to the game if they were not originally present in g13. It's a limitation that occurs because a lot of this server's base code is compiled, having been a test server. Therefore making any changes to compiled code like the code that handles skills is a big challenge.

Instead of adding an armor mastery skill, providing a flat buff across the board to def / prot of heavy and light armors might work to increase their competitiveness against clothes. As to how much of a buff, someone would need to do the math to see what would make each set competitive with each other.

Either that, or adding in some new custom-made enchants for armors could work too.

You would think that armour would have more defense than just... 4 or 8 or whatever

I would agree with Blighty, Heavy armor should get buffs to armor and protection, just not as much as it was added on live.

We can't have mastery skills because we can't add skills, but also another problem is all current gear modified would not have retroactive changes. Maybe more end game content could be implemented to give some heavy armors a little love.