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Medium Armor: Why?
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<blockquote data-quote="anest1s" data-source="post: 5602097" data-attributes="member: 94230"><p>I feel that there is something ''wrong''...some classes, like rogues have abilities, like evasion that work only in light armor. At the same time, most rogues will have a +4 DEX most of the time. This means that they are ''punished'' by this change, since there is no +4 +4 light armor here...</p><p></p><p>Also, someone has the option between +6 +7 pr +8 max dexterity...but I feel that when he will have a +6 dex he will already have a good magical armor, and he won't change it 3 times to benefit from +7 and +8 when his dex will go up too. So I really think I wouldn't like light armor as a rogue <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm :-S" data-shortname=":-S" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here Mail is the best, like breastplate was in the original system, only with +1 armor and with 10lb more. So yeah, medium armor is better than the original...but that just means that you now absolutely need a Mithral Mail, while before you could survive without one.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Brigandine>>Splint for just 30sp...</p><p>Brigandine>>Banded for just -50sp</p><p></p><p>Then Plate and Full plate are even better, but it feels like they have a huge max dex..because it makes it even more unfair for classes that can't wear heavy armor (a rogue with +4 dex having a Mithral Mail, will have a total of +9 AC while someone with +0-2 dex can have a Full plate, and waste that 4000gp for some other defensive item.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>I would propose an alternative, but for a slacker like me that would be overkill. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></p><p></p><p>edit: I wanted to say though, that I like that there aren't 4 kinds of armor for every type, since heavier armor is harder to get there should be more options. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, if most ppl in the world use light armor, it would make sense they would have created more light armor types... so I don't know <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue :P" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="anest1s, post: 5602097, member: 94230"] I feel that there is something ''wrong''...some classes, like rogues have abilities, like evasion that work only in light armor. At the same time, most rogues will have a +4 DEX most of the time. This means that they are ''punished'' by this change, since there is no +4 +4 light armor here... Also, someone has the option between +6 +7 pr +8 max dexterity...but I feel that when he will have a +6 dex he will already have a good magical armor, and he won't change it 3 times to benefit from +7 and +8 when his dex will go up too. So I really think I wouldn't like light armor as a rogue :-S Here Mail is the best, like breastplate was in the original system, only with +1 armor and with 10lb more. So yeah, medium armor is better than the original...but that just means that you now absolutely need a Mithral Mail, while before you could survive without one. Brigandine>>Splint for just 30sp... Brigandine>>Banded for just -50sp Then Plate and Full plate are even better, but it feels like they have a huge max dex..because it makes it even more unfair for classes that can't wear heavy armor (a rogue with +4 dex having a Mithral Mail, will have a total of +9 AC while someone with +0-2 dex can have a Full plate, and waste that 4000gp for some other defensive item.) I would propose an alternative, but for a slacker like me that would be overkill. :hmm: edit: I wanted to say though, that I like that there aren't 4 kinds of armor for every type, since heavier armor is harder to get there should be more options. On the other hand, if most ppl in the world use light armor, it would make sense they would have created more light armor types... so I don't know :P [/QUOTE]
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