Encumberance

[Adoede]

Encumbrance has many effects on your glad's fighting ability. And at least to my experience, the percentage does seem to matter...though some disagree about this. But I feel that glads at 26% encumbrance seem to have minimal effects from encumbrance, but at 33% or so it is a lot more noticeable...even though both are in the yellow zone.

Encumbrance plays a role in:
How fast you use endurance
Your glads initiative and how many attacks they get a round
Your glads speed to the first strike
How much endurance each attack attempt uses up
Seems to effect how effective you are in your attacks too
Seems to effect defensive effectiveness too
Ability to get up if knocked down

So in my experience, minimizing encumbrance vastly improves a glads fighting effectiveness.

That said, if you are building a Tanking War...don't worry about encumbrance. But every other build...it may be the difference between a tough, gritty glad and a punching bag.