[Poruku]

I do think heavy armors are really good. The drawback is obvious though: battle weight. It means you need to be a strength character to effectively use them. Still, it means any strength-based character can utilize heavy armors and be very tanky as a result. It's a fairly low investment in the end, compared to an evasion setup. Then you have light armor/unarmored users that aren't strength based but don't use evasion either, which can be decent, but their tankiness is always gonna pale in comparison to heavy armor. Armor value is really valuable, and heavy armor makes it easy to get. It's especially strong when combined with damage resistance.

But honestly I don't think heavy armors as a whole are a huge balance issue, I just think evade suffers. And bodyguard itself is the actual problem here. If bodyguard wasn't so egregious, I wouldn't have an issue with tanks. Though maybe buffing unarmored and light torsos would be nice. A lot of it is simply the fact that you get that +9 armor upgrade at the blacksmith btw, versus 3 and 5 for unarmored and light. If it was 7 it would be more balanced imo.