Armor Mastery

[Elkan]

Given that we now have a decent selection of talents for armour using classes the armour masteries are very hard to justify more than a single point spend, as the extra armour is of very little use compared to a talent point spent almost anywhere else.

it might be worthwhile to either make the additional armour scale, for example massive armor mastery could grant +1/2/3/4/5 armour and +5%/10%/15%/20%/25% contribution from massive armour items.

Alternativly. points in the skill could offer a reduction in the fatigue penalties associated with heavy armour classes. representing the warrior who never removes his armour becomming completely used to its weight and finding himself unimpeded by it.

[edge2054]

Yeah, I've never spent more then one point in these talents.

[madmonk]

Yeah, I've never spent more then one point in these talents.

Me too! I quite like the idea of Elkan's stamina reduction (as well as increased defence)!

[Zonk]

I agree with the OP - I actually remember starting to code an alternate version of the talent that would work like that(though I stopped eventually).

I think if we do it this way - providing % bonuses to protection and reductions to fatigue, and keep in mind that the damage/life system CAN handle fractional numbers - we might not even need to have 2 separate 'light' and 'heavy'armour talents, since light armour would already benefit less from relative modifiers.