Heavy vs Light Armor and Shields wierdness

Burnerbro

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Looking at all of the available early and mid-game armor and shields, I'm curious to know the devs' reasoning for why on top of the Armor and Physical Resistance of Heavy equipment being generally balanced out with Evasion of Light alternatives, the latter also provide bonuses to magic defense stats, like Ward and Magic Resistance? In both cases we are talking about equipment that is mundane and not enchanted, and Evasion is already a form of mitigation that double dips to help against certain spells.
 
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Savin

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Because the way all of those stats work changed at some point and equipment stats were just hastily eyeballed into "that looks fine" condition pending an actual serious revamp of powers and itemization we plan on doing next year.