Medium Armor is a skill in Elder Scrolls Online. It consists largely of leather, hide, and other low-weight armors. As with the other armor skills, there are only passive skills and a single active ability. These skills generally aid stealth-based characters.
Skill Perks
Medium Armor has an associated skill line that is revealed through wearing, and taking damage in, one or more piece(s) of Medium Armor. Known abilities are listed below.
- Notes
- The numbers displayed here are the base values for the skills. Magicka/Stamina Cost is based on a character of Level 4, wherein each additional level increases the Magicka/Stamina Cost by 10% of this value. Damage values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 1000, and Weapon/Spell Damage 0. The actual numbers you see in the game may depend on a variety of factors, including skill line rank, your equipped weapons and armor, other skills, enchantments, etc. As such, they should only be used as a comparative reference.
Active Abilities
These abilities must be activated manually, whilst wearing at least one piece of Medium Armor, for a cost.
| Name | Line Rank | Cast Time | Target | Range | Radius | Duration | Cost | ||
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Evasion | 22 | Instant | Self | - | - | 0 seconds | 600 Stamina | |
| Shroud yourself in mist to gain Major Evasion, which increases your dodge chance by 20% for [17 / 18 / 19 / 20] seconds. | |||||||||
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Shuffle | Removes snares. Shroud yourself in mist to gain Major Evasion, which increases your dodge chance by 20% for [20 / 21 / 22 / 23] seconds. While wearing Medium Armor, removes and grants immunity to snaring effects. Increases snare immunity duration by .5 seconds for each piece of Medium Armor equipped up to 33.5 seconds. |
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Elude | Gain additional duration for each piece of Medium Armor equipped. Shroud yourself in mist to gain Major Evasion, which increases your dodge chance by 20% for [20 / 21 / 22 / 23] seconds. Duration is increased 5% for each piece of Medium Armor equipped. |
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Passive Abilities
Passive abilities are active all the time, so long as one or more piece(s) of Medium Armor are equipped.
| Name | Line Rank | Skill Rank | Description | |
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Dexterity | 2 |
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Increases your Critical Strike rating with physical attacks for each piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 1 |
| 10 |
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Increases your Critical Strike rating with physical attacks for each piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 2 | ||
| 30 |
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Increases your Critical Strike rating with physical attacks for each piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 3 | ||
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Wind Walker | 6 |
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Increases Stamina Recovery by 2% per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 2%. Also reduces the Stamina cost of abilities by per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 2%. |
| 18 |
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Increases Stamina Recovery by 4% per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 4%. Also reduces the Stamina cost of abilities by per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 3%. | ||
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Improved Sneak | 14 |
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Reduces the cost of sneaking by 4% per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 4%. Also reduces the size of your detection area by 3% per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 3% |
| 34 |
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Reduces the cost of sneaking by 7% per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 7%. Also reduces the size of your detection area by 5% per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current bonus: 5% | ||
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Agility | 38 |
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Increases your Weapon Damage by 6%. |
| 46 |
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Increases your Weapon Damage by 12%. | ||
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Athletics | 42 |
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Increases your Movement Speed while sprinting by 2% and reduces the Stamina cost of dodge rolling by 2% per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current dodge roll bonus: 2%. |
| 50 |
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Increases your Movement Speed while sprinting by 3% and reduces the Stamina cost of dodge rolling by 4% per piece of Medium Armor equipped. Current dodge roll bonus: 4%. | ||