Regarding the statement of Igniz and Vometia... the problem is with that mindset you do exactly yourself what you blame others for: forcing your opinion on others.
Also I have yet to see a single post of one of the "new system is perfect" crowd to substantively disprove at least a part of the problems the people, that think the new system is subpar, brought up so far.
especially:
- armor affects damage and status-effects COMBINED and by that reduce the interaction of both significantly
(little example: "flay skin", If you chewed through up to almost 30k magic armor to apply an effect that affects the last... 5-10k health... it can't affect the 30k MA... but affecting "hitpoints" is basically the effects job)
- reduced importance of health as shield down means game over already by perma CC (unless one has imunities, but these are a lot rarer now, and would deprive it of it's prime function)
- the coercion of perma CC at all...
- the reduced versatility of characters and groups as nuking down 2 pools of shield is always less effective than nuking just 1 of them.
this is because this debate is ultimately circular, with different people who value different things about the game telling each other that their perspectives support bad game mechanics. what would constitute an argument that would reasonably disprove everyone's problems with the armor system? such a thing doesn't and can't exist because too many people have too many idiosyncratic problems with it and if the devs went with one person's solution they'd inevitably end up pissing off many other people, likely far more than they'd satisfy
nobody's forcing anyone's opinion on anyone, but the people who take the devs not acting on their specific complaints as "the devs aren't actually reading anything and don't care about player opinion" behaviour are putting too much stock into their own ideas of what constitutes good game mechanics, and assuming some kind of wide-reaching consensus built upon confirmation bias. if you truly believe that something about the game is bad and it's something that can be altered via mods, then my best recommendation would be to either look for a satisfactory mod or mod it yourself. larian's time right now is likely split between fixing bugs (of which there are many) and addressing other potentially gamebreaking gameplay issues. the game's been out for less than a month, overhauling the entire armor system is probably not on their schedule right now
personally i agree with a number of the problems people have with the system and would love to see it tweaked, but i could make 20 threads on here and see nothing done about it in the coming weeks (or months even) and not be surprised at all. and that's not a knock on larian, it's how any studio would deal with a game upon release
edit: don't interpret this post as fatalistic and saying that posting what you consider to be balance problems is bad; in fact, i encourage you to continue to let larian know what you think the game's weakest points are. that's the whole idea of criticism. the problem only arises when a lack of prompt action is interpreted as the devs purposefully ignoring you
