
I feel that armor is a bit underpowered and it feels as if you cannot go without it in the later tiers. Enter Chainmail and the armor rebalance.
Per tier you can craft better chainmail to passively increase your character’s HP.
(T1 150 HP, T2 200 HP, T3 300 HP)
These are lost on death and wear down over time.
Armors make you feel much more powerful over the COGs,
What if the armors could have subclasses: Light, Medium and Heavy.
These armors will change movement speed and cost varying amounts.
All armors will decrease your speed, but it will decrease more and more the heavier you are.
Light armor will only have a -5% movement speed malus.
Medium armor will have a -15% movement speed reduction
Heavy armor gives you a -25% speed reduction, as well as a decreased stamina regen speed.
All armors can only stack twice and take longer to wear the heavier they are.

light has no speed reduction