Horse armor is lack luster.

[Tzone]

Henrik in the past has said that horse armor would cost 3 times as much as player armor. But horse armor is only 2/3 the cost of player armor and does not protect that much.

They really need to increase the cost of the horse armor and then at least buff the piercing defense of it.
Your horse takes a lot of damage from arrows which are not effected as much by horse armor as they are by player damage.

But also armor weight affects horses speed more for other horse then it does deserts. A naked steppe horse is still worse then a molarium armored desert. With the up coming normalization of stats between horse breed to make the differences between horse smaller its something SV should look at. A desert horse should be penalized more then a steppe horse for wearing heavy armor to the point a naked desert is faster then a molarium heavy armored horse.

Slowing down the horses a bit for wearing armor along with making horse armor not lack luster would be nice.

 

[Deleted member 44]

I agree. I do not like how much damage the horse takes with steel or better armor for the cost required.

 

[Tashka]

I'm not sure if buffing wheelchairs is what this game needs right now.

 

[Deleted member 44]

I'm not sure if buffing wheelchairs is what this game needs right now.

Nothing in this post talks about wheel chairs. Heavy horse armor has a lower defense multiplier than any plate armor in the game. This is a problem and it needs to be addressed. Just wait for the tears when double armor is out of the game and I'm melting horses in 15 seconds.

 

[Tashka]

Nothing in this post talks about wheel chairs. Heavy horse armor has a lower defense multiplier than any plate armor in the game. This is a problem and it needs to be addressed. Just wait for the tears when double armor is out of the game and I'm melting horses in 15 seconds.

Being a footfigher i don't care at all. Wearing plate armor requires you to invest skill and stat points, and it's only fair that you get a lot of defense in return. I don't see why any lvl 37 horse you just found two minutes ago should have even comparable level of defense simply because you invested 50 points in taming.

 

[Moored]

I say keep horses easy to kill lest we have Mounted Online II

 

[Nefnate]

Henrik in the past has said that horse armor would cost 3 times as much as player armor. But horse armor is only 2/3 the cost of player armor and does not protect that much.

They really need to increase the cost of the horse armor and then at least buff the piercing defense of it.
Your horse takes a lot of damage from arrows which are not effected as much by horse armor as they are by player damage.

But also armor weight affects horses speed more for other horse then it does deserts. A naked steppe horse is still worse then a molarium armored desert. With the up coming normalization of stats between horse breed to make the differences between horse smaller its something SV should look at. A desert horse should be penalized more then a steppe horse for wearing heavy armor to the point a naked desert is faster then a molarium heavy armored horse.

Slowing down the horses a bit for wearing armor along with making horse armor not lack luster would be nice.

I feel like weight and material amount consumed are linked, or at least, should be. In that case, if you increase the material cost (and defense) of the heavy horse armor, do you feel comfortable with an appropriate weight increase? (If it isn't already heavier than the material cost, anyway. I don't know any of the stats.)

If you are asking material cost to go from a value equal to about 0.66 (2/3) to 3.0 (3), should the weight increase that much too? Roughly x2.44?

 

[Tzone]

I say keep horses easy to kill lest we have Mounted Online II

Its already mounted online, But armor isnt the issue its that there are no actual counters ingame. We only have blunt damage "dismount" and it not a real dismount as you can just get right back on. The lack luster armor is prob because they arent going to get to actual mounted balance for a long time.