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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3080127" data-attributes="member: 29014">Actually, if anything, I'd say removing that note would weaken the feat for Mithral Chain Shirt--it would make the significantly-more-expensive Mithral Breastplate the strongest choice.As for Mithral Chain Shirt--it and Mithral Fullplate are the most popular armour types, each for its own category of categories.  Mithral Breastplate is close behind.  I have empirical evidence from my own games, the games of everyone I have ever talked to in real life, and also from what I've seen on the rules forum.  I'm actually curious--explain to me why anyone who cares about their AC enough to buy mithral would wear anything besides one of those three?  Mithral Chain Shirt is dirt cheap (by mid level standards anyway) and has no drawbacks for anyone except arcane casters, even nonproficients like Psions.  Mithral Breastplate is more than twice the price, and it gives +1 AC for -1 Max Dex and 1 more ACP.  Still a decent buy for certain character that have lower than 22 Dex and need AC for any price other than slow movement.  And for AC at any price, we have mithral full plate, tons of money, it has a not-too-awful ACP (though much worse than the other two) and gives 1 more AC when capped out than any of the others and is easier to cap out the Dex.  However, you can only move 20 feet in it.</blockquote>