you will have just as much killing power except every attack on you does almost no damage whatsoever or glances, while being immune to most ranged. Its a massive advantage to survivability and a trade off in mobility.
I have lordly gothic palte with bevor, lordly sallet with coif, and lordly heavy gauntlets. The heaviest gear behind milanese. I went for bevor for head armor (which means absolutely nothing now, something what I can eventually live with). The protective results are sad.
If you've read any of the thread you would see the people's experiances were quite different, and I HAVE decent agility in my plate (18/21). Glancing? Doesnt really happen unless an archer tries to melee me with his petite axe or hammer (which still sometimes knocksdown). It used to glance more often with the old armor values, now even when I hug the enemy on his starting swing side, basicly on his flank, he still hits me and stuns me and more often then not does full damage. Hybrids do a lot of damage with swords too.
And immunity to ranged? That, sir is the biggest lie told so far. Longbow - 2 hits. Arbalest - 2 hits. Warbow - 3 hits. High power draw tartar - 4,5. Headshots are all 1 except for warbow rarely and tartar mostly. Killing power? I get damage reduction which isnt really that big of a deal, but the speed reduction sure as hell is. I know how to block.
Any decent player does. That's why its still a friggin hard ass job to land a hit with so much speed reduction. It is very much notable I can slash my way through peasants, sure. Peasant archers won't hurt me, just as they wont hurt anyone. They will glance on me, sure. But they pose no threat to
anyone. Every real archer uses bodkin arrow, and it goes through plate like paper, just like everyone else. I'm not whining about ranged. I'm implying that it's no different.
Also, I'm not talking about armor str crutching nabs who take 20 hits. They are absolutely useless. If you read this thread at all, you would see I already pointed that out. On competitive scale? Plate is utterly nerfed. And all those would-be "hardcore" players know it. Again, I am not asking for some impossible buff. I just want to make it useful, because it feels like such a waste even just having it out there for nothing but show.
Show me a good plate user who DOESN'T use a maul. Now show me a good player who DOESN'T use medium armor. There's a reason for that. Doesn't matter much to me though anymore as it's obvious to me by now that using plate is simply very foolish and very limited use (it's good if you use a maul with it).
You are just helping my logic, sir. Those ARE the problems. Nobody in their right mind would use plate cause it is useless in a higher skill level player base. Also a side note, I don't know wher you play, but most GOOD maulers (there are a LOT of bad maulers, more than good ones) don't go higher then heraldic transitional, which is not an armor I am concerned about and consider plate. Read thread.
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