Heavy Armor

Skilltree: Armor
Description:

The Heavy Armor skill-line is part of the "Armor" category in the Elder Scrolls Online. The Heavy Armor skill-line has one active skill that you can activate during combat, with the requirement that you have at least 5 Heavy Armor pieces equipped. The Heavy Armor skill-line also has passives, some require you to wear several Heavy Armor pieces, some already give you benefits from only wearing one Heavy Armor piece.

How do you unlock the Heavy Armor skill-line?

The Heavy Armor skill-line is granted to you after equipping at least 3 Heavy Armor pieces that you can either buy or loot from dead monsters. When you only equip one Heavy Armor piece, the skill line won't show up yet but you already gain experience towards the Heavy Armor skill-line.

How do you level up the Heavy Armor skill-line?

To level up the Heavy Armor skill-line in the Elder Scrolls Online you have to at least equip one Heavy Armor piece on your character. The Heavy Armor skill-line will level up faster if you wear more Heavy Armor pieces. Reading books from bookshelves in the Elder Scrolls Online can also sometimes increase your level in the Heavy Armor skill-line.

The numbers of the skill that you see below are used for comparison. The numbers are based on a naked level 50 character without any skills, passives, attributes and champion points allocated. Your damage numbers will change depending on what gear, skills, attributes, champion points, enchantments or buffs your character has.

Name	Effect
Active Skills
Unstoppable	Intensify your physical presence to gain Major Resolve, increasing your Physical and Spell Resistance by 5948 for 20 seconds. Also grants you immunity to knockback and disabling effects for 6 seconds, but reduces your Movement Speed by 65% for the duration.
Immovable	Intensify your physical presence to gain Major Resolve, increasing your Physical and Spell Resistance by 5948 for 23 seconds. Also grants you immunity to knockback and disabling effects for 6 seconds, but reduces your Movement Speed by 65% for the duration. Each piece of Heavy Armor worn increases the amount of damage you block and the potency of the snare by 5%.
Unstoppable Brute	Intensify your physical presence to gain Major Resolve, increasing your Physical and Spell Resistance by 5948 for 20 seconds. While this effect persists, each piece of Heavy Armor worn decreases the cost of Break Free by 5%. Also grants you immunity to knockback and disabling effects for 6 seconds, but reduces your Movement Speed by 65% for the duration.
Passive Skills
Heavy Armor Bonuses	Each piece of Heavy Armor does the following: Reduces damage taken from Martial attacks by 1% Increases the amount of damage blocked by 1% Increases damage done with Bash by 30 Reduces your damage taken while immune to crowd control by 1%
Heavy Armor Penalties	Each piece of Heavy Armor does the following: Increases damage taken from Magical attacks by 1% Reduces the Movement Speed bonus of Sprint by 1% Increases the cost of Roll Dodge by 3% Increases the size of your detection area while Sneaking by 10%
Resolve	Increases your Physical and Spell Resistance by 343 for each piece of Heavy Armor equipped.
Constitution	Increases your Health Recovery by 4% for each piece of Heavy Armor equipped. You restore 108 Magicka and Stamina when you take damage for each piece of Heavy Armor equipped. This effect can occur once every 4 seconds.
Juggernaut	Increases your Max Health by 2% for each piece of Heavy Armor equipped.
Revitalize	Increases the Magicka or Stamina your Heavy Attacks restore by 4% for each piece of Heavy Armor worn.
Rapid Mending	Increases your healing received by 1% for each piece of Heavy Armor worn.

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