LIGHT ARMOUR OR HEAVEY ARMOUR? for warrior/cleric?

[vengeanze]

i have heavy armour all he time i was wondering if i would do better with light since the cleric buffs?

[Puma60]

LA 1 - 79, Robe 80 - 90

[raphaell666]

Light armor all the way. Reason:
When you switch to cleric rod, while wearing light armor, you get these from the light armor cleric passive...

• Magical defence power 212 Increase;
• Physical defence power 117 Increase;

And, when you use Body Deity and Soul Deity on yourself, you get an extra...

• Physical defence power 176 Increase;
• Magical defence power 318 Increase. (these last only while using cleric rod, and you can use these 2 buffs don't matter what your armor is)

If you are using light armor + cleric rod and are buffed, you get an extra 530 mag def and 293 phy def, not forgetting you can wear a shield (lets use a lvl 85+5 shield with nothing else added: 153.4 phy def and 245.9 mag def ) achieving then a total of 775.9 extra mag def and 446.4 extra phy def. While using light armor + cleric rod you can easily tank, heal yourself and do anything else you might need from cleric.

[MysticRose]

1 vote for robe at high level.

It's true that LA let you tank like crazy when in cleric mode, but after all, you need to switch to warrior sooner or later. LA will not help much then.

With robe, you have -20% mana consumption, and that's a lot to a warrior when he has to cast healing cycle constantly. Those things drains lots of mana, assuming that you dont use vigor. Also, the thing that hit you for crazy damage is always int builds.

It's a matter of what your opponent is, really. In my case of warrior/cleric, i find most trouble with S/S china, so i wear robe. But if you want to have an upper hand with blade/glaive/rogue then LA is the choice.

LA is normally cheaper than robe as well ( subject to server ) . Consider that another advantage of LA.