Light armor choices. -spoilers-

[Night_Demon]

I just gotta say I love this game. Everything so far has been amazing. I just can't get over the lack of light armor in the game. After the mountain biome you get nothing. Like why no padded leather armor using linen or something? Even the Mistlands doesn't really have light armor. It has mage robes that still reduce your movement speed. I feel this game needs more armor choices for those that like to zoom around and run fast. As it is mountain biome is the last place you get armor that's like this and it just feels so sad having to use the Padded heavy armor just to get through the plains and mistlands.

[FissionChips]

Yip. I don't even bother switching to fenris armour for lesser biomes anymore because it's a chore to swap out clothes, well that and base building means I could get raided. I wish we could keep going with the speed armour, even if it's a new plains/mistlands set.

[Nascarman]

Originally posted by Night_Demon:

I just gotta say I love this game. Everything so far has been amazing. I just can't get over the lack of light armor in the game. After the mountain biome you get nothing. Like why no padded leather armor using linen or something? Even the Mistlands doesn't really have light armor. It has mage robes that still reduce your movement speed. I feel this game needs more armor choices for those that like to zoom around and run fast. As it is mountain biome is the last place you get armor that's like this and it just feels so sad having to use the Padded heavy armor just to get through the plains and mistlands.

There’s only one armor set in the entire game that doesn’t slow you down, and that’s the fenris armor. The eitr set has the exact same slowdown as the troll and root set, so I’m a bit confused why you’re considering those 2 sets as light armor, but not the eitr set.

[FissionChips]

Troll has no movement penalty. Fenris has movement speed increase.

[Nascarman]

Originally posted by FissionChips:

Troll has no movement penalty. Fenris has movement speed increase.

Ik fenris increases movement speed. I could have sworn troll had a slight penalty, but I looked and it doesn’t. Maybe it changed from when the game first came out? Root definitely does though so it shouldn’t be clumped in with the others in this case.

[FissionChips]

AFAIK troll never had movement penalty. Root is non-metallic, with movement penalty of -4%, vs -10% for metal armour - hence it is also light armour. It might feel like it isn't, between the swamp being a slog and fenris having a +9% movement buff. Of course, you can mix pieces if you don't really need the set bonus - fenris hood gives +3% movement on it's own, more than negating root set chest piece -2% with pierce resistance. Or better yet metal helm (no penalty, high armour) root chest (-2%) fenris legs (+3%) for a total mix of +1% movement, pierce resistance, and and a damage soaking piece.

But generally I either want a full set of damage soaking armour, or the +9% fenris speed advantage for grindy chores. Oh, also fenris armour helps with moving overly heavy carts, it can make the difference between making it up a slight incline vs not.