Best Armor For Nimble Tanks Post Nerf?

[Phil85]

I have several level 11 nimble tanks from before the nimble nerf. I have been using the nasal helm and 12 fatigue maill, which gives them a total of 17 total fatigue used. Is there a better combo of armor with nimble tanks now?

[Admiral Obvious]

Nudity, a dagger, and high HP.

[Lampros]

Best build for Nimble: Delete character.

[UnluckyNoob]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Best build for Nimble: Delete character.

Really nimble is still absurdly strong early game. At level 7 (which is around day 30) instead of common 140/115/80 brother you may have 105/95/250 monster which is immune to xBows. I don't say it's OP and shold be nerfed, but it is very bad designed and should be reworked somehow.

On topic I think barbute helmet with some very light armor should be the best until you get low fatigue famed gear.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by UnluckyNoob:

Originally posted by Lampros:

Best build for Nimble: Delete character.

Really nimble is still absurdly strong early game. At level 7 (which is around day 30) instead of common 140/115/80 brother you may have 105/95/250 monster which is immune to xBows. I don't say it's OP and shold be nerfed, but it is very bad designed and should be reworked somehow.

And crap in late-game for the most part.

[UnluckyNoob]

Exactly. Its mainly disposable bros/archers skill. But it is also mandatory for fencer, so I'll try it later with good famed armor.

[Tephros83]

Originally posted by Phil85:

I have several level 11 nimble tanks from before the nimble nerf. I have been using the nasal helm and 12 fatigue maill, which gives them a total of 17 total fatigue used. Is there a better combo of armor with nimble tanks now?

I use nimble on backliners and archers, not tanks. They're not disposable and their survivability has been fine. A tank I'm not sure. But if they die at least they won't take expensive armor with them.

The sallet is the best nonunique helm. 120 armor, -5 fatigue.

I have used mostly basic mail with direwolf attachment due to using bones for my heavy guys, but take a penalty to nimble

Leather lamellar with bone attach is probably better, due to max nimble and most hits take more than the armor difference anyway. The reservation I have about the lamellar one is that after the free hit 95 armor might not endure a 2nd hit. And it needs to in order to minimize hp loss.

80 armor, -8 fatigue with lindwurm attachment is also better yielding 120, -10. Would be 120/120 armor with max nimble... but I use lindwurm for shields.

The 130 mail with light padding may also be decent, but I think it would be 130, -11, not max nimble but 1 fatigue better than basic with direwolf. But light padding gets used on heavy armor for me.

Interesting thing about nimble now is that cleaver masters are a unique threat due to bleed bypassing the hp mitigation, but if your armor survives a hit bleed may not be applied.

[Phil85]

Thanks for the input. I'm going to try to use these 3 nimble tanks as long as possible. They all have high melee defense, which has kept them alive so far. I have not had the orc crisis yet, so that may change things.

[Scathe]

sallet helmet and noble mail with light padding is probably best, noble mail with light padding is 160armor, -12fatigue. that is what I'm using on my two nimble tanks. admittedly heavy armor gets more out of light padding than light armor though. but I've been able to fight more schrats and webknects for light paddings than I've been able to afford coat of scales and coat of plates so far. also, scale armor with +40dur, -4fatigue comes out to 280 -32, cheaper than coat of scales and not a terrible alternative.

[Tephros83]

Originally posted by Scathe:

sallet helmet and noble mail with light padding is probably best, noble mail with light padding is 160armor, -12fatigue. that is what I'm using on my two nimble tanks. admittedly heavy armor gets more out of light padding than light armor though. but I've been able to fight more schrats and webknects for light paddings than I've been able to afford coat of scales and coat of plates so far. also, scale armor with +40dur, -4fatigue comes out to 280 -32, cheaper than coat of scales and not a terrible alternative.

That's probably better yeah, hadn't considered it since I use all my light paddings on the 320 armors. Not enough big game contracts.

[zAcEz]

Padded Leather with lindwurm scale cloak & sallet helm is a good combo for 120/120
Or Leather Lamellar with Bone Scale & Sallet Helm

basically I roll with 7/8 or 5/10 Fat penalty for the max x2.5 effective HP

[Scathe]

now that I've reccomended noble mail though, I will also say it is pretty rare, like the sallet it can only be bought in armorers, but in the time I've bought 7 sallets I've only seen two noble mail for sale (did buy them both) then again that is just my 1 game, small sample size. I think the time I've spent searching and able to buy these has been about 40 game days.

[Malarky Enthusiast]

I dont know about you lads, but getting unique superheavy armor is athe roullete that keeps me playing, it would be kinda joyless just running around in the nude even if its a strong and cheap build.

[Armin]

Originally posted by Giveth Me Thou Alms:

I dont know about you lads, but getting unique superheavy armor is athe roullete that keeps me playing, it would be kinda joyless just running around in the nude even if its a strong and cheap build.

just yes. hunting for uniques is just fun :) more on topic. if you can find uniques with -15 Fatigue that should be the Best. My Duellant nearly never has his armor even broken... think its ... 160/180 Armor Maybe you can find even better uniques^^

[turtle225]

Originally posted by Lampros:

And crap in late-game for the most part.

I brought two Nimble frontliners to the Goblin City and they both survived. Lost 1 Nimble archer but that was it. I know Goblin City isn't a big test to frontline and one anecdote doesn't discredit your point but I'm trying to say that it isn't unplayable. They aren't dying in Sea of Tents either.

We'll see who makes it through the Monolith because I'm too lazy to build up more Forge bros.

In general, a Forge bro will outlast a Nimble bro but I believe that should be the case. As it is right now Nimble is fantastic on backrow characters or semi-viable on frontliners. Colossus is 1.25x hp, and Nimble is a conditional 2.5x hp. Nimble's effect is still incredibly strong.

[Primitive Dog Owner]

Question for everyone.

Are you guys running dodge on your nimble frontliners?

Originally posted by turtle225:

I brought two Nimble frontliners to the Goblin City and they both survived. Lost 1 Nimble archer but that was it. I know Goblin City isn't a big test to frontline and one anecdote doesn't discredit your point but I'm trying to say that it isn't unplayable. They aren't dying in Sea of Tents either.

We'll see who makes it through the Monolith because I'm too lazy to build up more Forge bros.

Keep us updated on how your nimble melee bros survive in the late game, I'm genuinely interested