I love it how people claim that agiwhoring and plate is bad and no one uses it, yet they defend it with such a passion
That is exactly why we defend it, we wouldnt if it was so that it actually needed a nerf.
of course it will, it will force people to distribute atribute points according to what they want to be.
Slow and tanky with a heavy armour
Fast and maneuverable with a low tier armour.
The only moronic thing is that agi based builds can be tanky with almost no penalties while on the other hand, STR builds can be tanky, but suffer tons of penalties.
For the sake of arguement, I`m gonna run a new poll, with the same question.
Just because you say theres no penalties using plate with agi build, doesnt make it so. In THEORY it sounds like it would be really good, right, you only lose a bit of your movement speed that you have so plenty of as agiwhore, and you gain some tankyness. Barely any penalties! No. Losing that mobility puts you in the same movementspeed bracket as a balance build, with no health to support the armour you get almost no more tankyness from the armour, and as agiwhore you have no damage without speed bonus and that is exactly whats being lowered in exchange for taking maybe 1 more hit before you die. That loss of movementspeed is enough to stop you from dodging swings with superior athletics, so in reality you kinda lost out on survivability (depending on playstyle ofcourse).
Compare this to a balance build getting plate, they also lose a bit of mobility, not too bad, still very manageable. They have pretty decent amounts of health, even more so if they have skilled IF they can become real brutes. Damage? They never relied on movement for that, they have good amounts of PS to support their damage, so no loss there. Sounds pretty good to me i think i'd go for balance or str based if i wanted plate. WPF has no effect on either side..