Hardened steel armor. Is it a joke ?

[Eriksen]

I am currently lvl 57. I have 25 in encumbrance and i have these items in my inventory
Waterskin
24 dry fish
Hardened steel pick¨
Hardened steel axe
Glacier crack (ymir axe )
Ancient bow
100 ice shard arrows
Hoar frost hatchet¨
Trunchoen¨
Fiber Bindings

I am at 90%¨

Hardened steel armor
helmet: 37.8 weight
Pauldron 66.15 weight
Gauntlets 18.50 weight
Tasset 47.25 weight
Boots 18.90 weight

188.60 in armor alone.

So you can only have this armor in your inventory or on your body if you are going to combat. You cant carry anything else then armor,arrows food. And if you want bombs or other items you probably need to have even more encumbrance.. Is it supposed to be this heavy ? i understand that steel is heavy. But damn, this is really heavy :P¨

And if you noticed, This armor is not a Full plate armor like the Jousting knights used.

25 encumbrance, 77% weight is taken if you carry nothing but this armor

[Bucket]

I believe it's intentional. They've said the point was to make you choose the armour for the situation, rather than just equip the strongest one and never change it again. Temperature is a factor and weight is a factor. Wear that armour if you're raiding a dungeon and only need to lug back a few cool things. Don't wear it to farm a ton of rocks :P

[Mauler ~TGD~]

its friggin ridiculous that the armor is so heavy, i focused on strength, agility, accuracy and vitality to be a fighter and now i cant wear the armor that i busted my ass to make. im praying star metal is lighter. if not.. gonna have to walk away from the game and hope updates change this problem.

[Deathszechuan]

Honestly, there has to be a benefit to lighter armor.
It allows for build diversity. Like if you want to be a quicker, roguelike character. Only get some endurance, equip light armor. then put all ur points into acc grit str vit.
If you wanna be tankier, do endurance vit str. Use heavy armor.

[Bob Salot]

Good luck if you think you would ever be running or sprinting in heavy plate armour anyways. However, those weights do seem a bit much considering your encumbrance stat.

[Stone Spear]

Originally posted by Deathszechuan:

Honestly, there has to be a benefit to lighter armor.
It allows for build diversity. Like if you want to be a quicker, roguelike character. Only get some endurance, equip light armor. then put all ur points into acc grit str vit.
If you wanna be tankier, do endurance vit str. Use heavy armor.

This game is not designed well enough or thought through enough to create a tank class. - tanking is a joke in Conan

Tanking in Conan LMAO.

[Solomon Hawk]

Anybody check the actual weight of real plate armor lately?
If not,
how about posting the specs right here.

[Ava]

A study that put armor-wearing volunteers on treadmills finds that wearing a full suit of armor (which might weigh up to 110 pounds, or 50 kilograms), takes more than twice the energy of walking around unencumbered.

Specialised jousting armour produced in the late 15th to 16th century was heavier, as it was not intended for free combat, it did not need to permit free movement, the only limiting factor being the maximum weight that could be carried by a warhorse of the period.

[Xevyr]

Real plate armor I think used to weigh somewhere around 50-80 kilos (depending on the thickness).. Not a historian but I remember being told about it in an armory museum waaaaaay back when I was a kid :))

BUT.. with that being said real people don't carry half a mountain in their bags... or an entire building broken up into elements like walls and foundations... and definitely do not fight spiders as huge as cows... in fact they can even swat the bigger ones with a proper newspaper (though those get nasty)...

So let's not try to follow real life... people play games to get away from just that! :P

All in all this decision is stupid they jumped from regular heavy armor to hardened steel and multiplied the weight by 10 :)) (star metal weighs about half as much as hardened steel which is still way too much imo.. and silent legion weighs even slightly more than hardened steel)

Given that armor seems to be pretty useless in the game currently... the extra 50-ish armor points you get from wearing star metal over the improved fur armor does little to nothing in reducing damage, while the encumbrance hit is just outright silly... so I pretty much stashed mine in a box awaiting further patches.. :P

If that is indeed their plan - and I'm afraid it is, judging by the silent legion armor description ingame.. (it pretty much hints that you're supposed to be moving like the boss who wears it in the black keep.. over encumbered at the speed of a crawl... ) - they really need to rethink is.. since I'd rather go naked than haul that thing around regardless of the situation.. Not to mention that you're supposed to be exploring and never preparing for a single fight... (that's too pvp oriented again...) and the weather system makes it so that you now have to have way more types of armor in your inventory than before.. to switch once you start getting that heatstroke...

So no.. we don't want armor that weighs a ton.. got them all... stashed them all away... wearing the reindeer stuff till they change it... and by 'change it' I don't mean reduce it to half or something... I mean abandon the silly idea all-together and give it a normal weight like heavy armor currently has... nobody wants this seeing as it's pretty hard to manage your inventory even without these...

[DankHillCometh]

Originally posted by Stone Spear:

Originally posted by Deathszechuan:

Honestly, there has to be a benefit to lighter armor.
It allows for build diversity. Like if you want to be a quicker, roguelike character. Only get some endurance, equip light armor. then put all ur points into acc grit str vit.
If you wanna be tankier, do endurance vit str. Use heavy armor.

This game is not designed well enough or thought through enough to create a tank class. - tanking is a joke in Conan

Tanking in Conan LMAO.

There is no suck thing as a human tank in the real world and this is not a game where that standard MMORPG tank is required.

[Foamslinger]

The weight makes sense to me. Its the heaviest armor, in every way.

I put it on when I'm killing, I take it off when I'm chopping.

[Erathanos]

Originally posted by Mauler ~TGD~:

its friggin ridiculous that the armor is so heavy, i focused on strength, agility, accuracy and vitality to be a fighter and now i cant wear the armor that i busted my ass to make. im praying star metal is lighter. if not.. gonna have to walk away from the game and hope updates change this problem.

Or.. respec your character... since you never apparently focused on "leg day" i.e. can't carry anything.

[Stone Spear]

Originally posted by Dank Hill:

Originally posted by Stone Spear:

This game is not designed well enough or thought through enough to create a tank class. - tanking is a joke in Conan

Tanking in Conan LMAO.

There is no suck thing as a human tank in the real world and this is not a game where that standard MMORPG tank is required.

Actually a tank would useful to a party of people in this game and would work well- problem is the game is not thought out enough to incorporate a tank or any form of party dynamics properly.

Which is a pity since they seem to want to jam people together to play in so many ways. Yet have not in the last 8 momths come up with a functional way to have people party up.


Waste of good game play that is due to a lack of a grouping feature.- short sighted development. You get clans but can't group with yu clan members to share exp.


Never dis a tank I say.

[Erathanos]

One thing about weight/encumberance it isn't always about the actual weight... ( that 20 pound bolling ball vs that 20 pound desk.. one is alot easier to carry, esspecially in a bag ) Armor was "designed" to be carried on the loadbearing parts of the body.. this makes it easier to wear.. take all the armor off and pack all the parts inside the breastplate and back.. and its like a large metal pillow.. and alot more annoying to carry....

The "tough" heavy metal armor.. doesnt protect you from the cold, isnt light weight to carry or wear.. it does its job.. its tough..

Side note.. in real life.. you dont "click and drag" and poof its on... heavy armor is a pain to get into, and in most cases, takes a 2nd person to help strap you into it..

[Caffuccino]

You are right, plate armor should be REALLY HEAVY. But problem is extra armor points don't justify its weight, especially when you consider that a lot of weapons deal armor penetration.


So hardened steel armor should get a dramatic increase in armor points or grant a player second layer of HP which will be connected to armor's durability.

[Xevyr]

Originally posted by ProphetCRO:

You are right, plate armor should be REALLY HEAVY. But problem is extra armor points don't justify its weight, especially when you consider that a lot of weapons deal armor penetration.


So hardened steel armor should get a dramatic increase in armor points or grant a player second layer of HP which will be connected to armor's durability.

My point exactly when I said that those extra ~50 armor points - especially the way armor currently works (or doesn't... ) - don't justify the weight.. It's almost as cumbersome to carry around as the fallout 4 power armors that are more like vehicles - least they could do is offer some protection like those do.. :))))

Like I'd expect to be able to run (or slowly crawl) into the New Asgarth city and yell at them 'Bring it'... with those weight requirements :D
Instead you get what?... maybe if you're lucky you take 1-2 extra hits before dying compared to being full on naked :))))