I am not entirely in disagreement with you. But overall I think that the armour system isn't working quite like the developers intended it to. The game definitely needs some balance tweaks; I wouldn't mind that the armour system gets more robust and the CCs more powerful to compensate. But, hey, patches are coming.

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