armor breaking in 2 hits

[Spinning Toilet]

my light armor breaks in 2-3 hits with 40 light armor skill is this normal or a bug

[Seferoth]

Depends of what armor you wear. Fun and Leather cant take more than a few hits, chainmail can handle few more, Mithril can take quite a bit of beating and Glass can endure even more, and Amber needs only rarely to be repaired.

[Gyrgenssen]

Could it be that you are using replica armor?

[Spinning Toilet]

Originally posted by Gyrgenssen:

Could it be that you are using replica armor?

im using the kvatch cuirass u get from doing the kvatch quests and its still breaking in a few hits

[Seferoth]

Originally posted by Oats Lore:

Originally posted by Gyrgenssen:

Could it be that you are using replica armor?

im using the kvatch cuirass u get from doing the kvatch quests and its still breaking in a few hits

Kvatch cuirass has the same stats as chainmail cuirass, it does not last long. Also, if you wear light armor you should play using stealth or archery, heavy armor is for melee characters.

[Spinning Toilet]

Originally posted by Seferoth:

Originally posted by Oats Lore:

im using the kvatch cuirass u get from doing the kvatch quests and its still breaking in a few hits

Kvatch cuirass has the same stats as chainmail cuirass, it does not last long. Also, if you wear light armor you should play using stealth or archery, heavy armor is for melee characters.

oh im using mostly magic but also a sword i thought that heavy armor wasnt worth the hit on my spell effectiveness but i might just use heavy anyway

[Han #Yolo]

Originally posted by Seferoth:

Originally posted by Oats Lore:

im using the kvatch cuirass u get from doing the kvatch quests and its still breaking in a few hits

Kvatch cuirass has the same stats as chainmail cuirass, it does not last long. Also, if you wear light armor you should play using stealth or archery, heavy armor is for melee characters.

even heavy armor gets destroyed after a few fights. I literally have armorer maxed out by level 18.

[PhamTrinli]

The armor durability system is confusing and opaque because they use percentage to represent an armor's durability state rather than a hit point display (in user presentation layer). So every armor reads x/100 instead of x/y where y is the actual amount of hit points each different type of armor has.

They should change this because it would factor into which type of armor users choose to wear if they knew.

[wirednight]

Originally posted by Oats Lore:

Originally posted by Seferoth:

Kvatch cuirass has the same stats as chainmail cuirass, it does not last long. Also, if you wear light armor you should play using stealth or archery, heavy armor is for melee characters.

oh im using mostly magic but also a sword i thought that heavy armor wasnt worth the hit on my spell effectiveness but i might just use heavy anyway

It's not. Using alteration spells like Shield is the better way to go, especially once it's been spell crafted. Doesn't effect your spell casting, can be just as strong as good armor, doesn't effect your weight so you don't need strength, and can be spell crafted with other spells to be OP.

Edit: If you're using mostly magic, don't forget conjuration. Conjure yourself up a pet, and let them get wacked on while you destruct them down. Next battle, rinse and repeat.

[Cassian]

This ♥♥♥♥ is ridiculous. I'm wearing Ebony with 75 in heavy armor, and it's breaking in 2-3 hits. I repaired the entire set to 100%, went into an oblivion gate, 3 mobs at the entrance. 3 pieces broke.

[tomahawk338]

This has to be a bug. You can hot key repair hammers so you can jump right into the UI for repairing. I think that's the best we can do until this gets patched...

[Forest®]

Someone on reddit said it is some kind of bug with the 'shield' effect, so when you have shield on your armor is taking 100% extra damage to it per % of shield you have.

That makes sense because I have 50 in light armor, shrouded armor, I have outrider shield that gives 8% shield, Base ring of Aegis that gives 12% shield, and defend (spell) that gives 15% shield.

Fought a skeleton called Dark Guardian, blocked most of the attacks, got hit without blocking maybe 4-5 times. FIght ended, hood almost destroyed, chest at 0, shield at 28.

[Pyro3000]

40 light armor is a pretty low armor level if you're using it as your primary armor. It's also not meant for taking hits constantly, it's meant for hits you couldn't avoid by sneaking or using a bow. I see you're using Kvatch Cuirass. It has 7.5 defense and 240 health. It's a step below Chainmail. It's just got nice enchants and gold value that scale with your level. Some people swear by it, but I'm not a fan.

If you have the deluxe edition, you can get multiple sets of free armor that scales with you. I'm hearing the demon set can be re-obtained mid dungeon. Might save you from needing to repair all the time if you're struggling and have Deluxe. If not, have fun with those hammers. You want to repair after every fight. Get Armorer to 100 as soon as you can.

[ThotsBContagious]

Originally posted by Cassian:

This ♥♥♥♥ is ridiculous. I'm wearing Ebony with 75 in heavy armor, and it's breaking in 2-3 hits. I repaired the entire set to 100%, went into an oblivion gate, 3 mobs at the entrance. 3 pieces broke.

That has to be a bug on your end because my own ebony doesn't break in 2-3 hits

[Gacchers]

same problem 78 heavy armor level 23 armor breaks after every fight basically probably putting the game down till they fix it

[Tommy Wiseau]

Literally all the armor in this game breaks stupid fast, its like everything is made out of clay. Really annoying im even 100 armorer, now and i hotkeyed the repair hammers because i just have to fix it so damn often.