Temperature skills are useless

[DragonKing]

I have tried everything, i have 30 natural fortitude, i am wearing fur armor, i have the armory temperature skill at max, i have the water temperature skill at max, but i am still freezing?!?

On top of this, the wetness mechanic is broken as hell. You pop out your door to see if is still raining and BOOM 100 wetness. Then it takes forever to become dry, and you cannot even see from inside whether it is raining or not as it wont render rain unless you are actually outside.

For context, i do live in a cold region bordering up to a temperate one, but it is severely limitting the fun when you have to wait for several minutes inside just to be able to play the game. And this is without even talking about the rampant amount of wolves and wolf/horse alphas that kill you in 2 hits even with full plate/fur.

Iv'e spent so many of my skill points into seemingly useless skills that just allows you to die slightly slower, whats the point?

Oh, and one more thing, I can sometimes during the day be in the water while it only says that i am cold, but for some reason i still take damage? This needs urgent fixing as a lot of players have been forced to settle in the cold zones because you designed too much emptyness into the Atlas map.

[Caldrin]

Need to get your foritude above 60 if you are living on one of the ice islands.. Also remember the vit boot you get when they are in balance also gives you 30 extra fortitude..

I currently live in a zone that goes below -15 quite a bit and have 80 fortitude.. I only need one or two bits of fur the rest can be plate..

[DragonKing]

The vitamin buff is great and all, but you just loose it all the time because even a lvl 1 wolf can kill you in 10 hits, and they attack so fast that before you even draw your weapon, you are at half health!

So if you are using a bow, even with the 30% damage bonus, you are near death by just taking out a single enemy. If there is more than one? you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥, if its an alpha? you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Heck, if you startle a horse, there is a good chance that an alpha horse will be nearby to come and 2-shot you.

I guess part of the problem is that "being cold" has a very narrow window, which is not too bad of a status effect since you wont take damage unless you are freezing. But most of the time it seems like you are either fine, or freezing to death because of how much the temperatures vary.

But as people in our group have also said: "I should not be freezing when I am standing right next to a fireplace indoors"

I mean, I have heard several people saying they need multiple fires early game just to stay alive at night. To me, that just sounds like bad game design and not fun, which is what any game should strive to be.