It's an issue I pretty much raised from the beginning of EA. The armor system makes enviromental effects hardly a bother. As long as you have enough armor, you don't care at all if there is fire or electrified blood. In the first, there was always a chance to be effected, but now there isn't. That is also the main reason why water/air are much weaker now.
The only good about surface is now oil because it penetrates and blowing stuff up with fire & earth.
