Will there every be HEAVY armor

[Scrambled onions]

I know vikings are supposed to be small and fast but I just wanna be a living wall. I don't even care If I'm only slightly faster than walking speed

[Thornwood]

The metal armor sets (bronze, iron etc) are your heavy armor sets.

The non-metal armor sets are you light armor.

[mister_Haladriel]

Yeah, this guys are small and fast X)
Just love how media massacred norse material culture

https://workingtheflame.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/viking-battle.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/3f/e0/9e3fe055e2227980f328ad14b8b1c8f5.jpg

[mister_Haladriel]

As for heavy armour in game - as many said, metal armours at your disposal with tower shields and 2HP + 1Stam foods (because 3HP food will leave too little stamina for tower shield block+hits).
As a weapon axe or sword. Throwing spears as opening is nice... If you ready to craft more spears or look for them wherever you throw them (especially in mountains, swamp or mistland).
And for Forsaken Power choose Bonemass. All of heavy armour, tower shield and HP foods stacked with activated bonemass will make you almost unkillable
Tank build is pretty cool in this game, played as it alot

[falkon311]

Escrito originalmente por Exodite-Dragon:

Spend some additional time training up your block skill to help reduce stamina costs from blocks, since you won't be benefiting from parry/stagger combos.

If you block at the right time you absolutely parry/stagger- or am I missing something?

[avatar.zero]

Escrito originalmente por falkon311:

Escrito originalmente por Exodite-Dragon:

Spend some additional time training up your block skill to help reduce stamina costs from blocks, since you won't be benefiting from parry/stagger combos.

If you block at the right time you absolutely parry/stagger- or am I missing something?

You can't parry with tower shields, only round shields and bucklers. It's an actual game mechanic and why tower shields have higher block ratings at equal tech level.