I fully disagree. Armor does not have enough disadvantages. Everytime I switch to heavier armor, my performance increases. I see no reason at all to wear light armor, thinking about going heavier than my current brigandine, cause there is barely a reason not to.
I will also be agreeing with this. Heavy armor makes you take that many more hits and the myth that it makes you slower only barely applies.
The WPF reduction doesn't matter outside of being a ranged, for weapon speed, it's so god damned minimal, the difference between 0 and 200 wpf is only like a few milliseconds so it's not that ~60 wpf lost from heavy armor that will make you lose swing speed which is consequently also why outside of being a hybrid or ranged, WM is pointless to level up to maximum.
Armor if anything in this game doesn't slow you enough, second, strenght reduces the weight penalty on speed, making strenght builds actually faster than agility builds unless said agility builds only wear very light to light armor (Anything under mail really.), I'd be happy with a huge armor weight increase across the board to actually reflect that armor is heavy, even if this game leads us to believe that it's not.
Now now, I know what some people here will think, they'll probably come to me with HURR DURR BUT PLATED GUYS CAN DO CARTWHEELS.
Stop. Fucking. Kidding. Yourself. I know that most of you guys might not quite be in the physical shape to do that kind of shit because you're too busy wasting away at video games but Cart Wheels are the easiest shit, I remember the very first time I did a cart wheel, I was 15 in PE class, was weighting 265 pounds at that point, was a big fat slob of shit that could barely run and I still pulled off a perfect cartwheel on my very first time.
I would be impressed if people wearing full plate could start fuckin' jamming and breakdancing to some medieval hip hop but that's not the case.
Not because you can do a cartwheel that you can run faster, how agile you are has absolutely nothing to do with running speed, I don't care how much training a god damned special force guy in the army that regularly run around with 80 pound of equipment has received, I'll still outrun his shit with only regular cardio training and football drills.