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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7160857" data-attributes="member: 12731">Agreed. Instead of mucking with medium armor (potentially destroying an off-kilter build or making an corner-case build too strong) nerf light armor one step (without actually changing the armors themselves). Remember: You're not nerfing light armor, you're nerfing maxxed-out light armor. This pretty much guarantees you're not wrecking any weak builds that really need every point of AC they can get.Very interesting proposal. In other words, these three act as gateway armors, getting a justification for their existance by being halfway between two tiers of armor. Of course, padded is mostly interesting to &quot;clothies&quot; without easy access to mage armor, since I assume it will still only operate when the wearer is wearing no armor? Or do you mean for padded to count as &quot;no armor&quot;, effectively giving wizards (but not drac sorqs) an AC bump?Hide will probably remain as the armor you use when you have no options (because you're a primitive or broke NPC rather than a wealthy PC), and that's okay. Ring is probably going to be used by cheapskate warlords for their armies just as you say. In other words, hide and ring will probably still not feature in any actual PC builds, but that's okay. The &quot;upgrade&quot; will still make it easier to explain why anybody bothers to make' em. Thanks for the suggestion!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7160857, member: 12731"] Agreed. Instead of mucking with medium armor (potentially destroying an off-kilter build or making an corner-case build too strong) nerf light armor one step (without actually changing the armors themselves). [SIZE=1]Remember: You're not nerfing light armor, you're nerfing maxxed-out light armor. This pretty much guarantees you're not wrecking any weak builds that really need every point of AC they can get.[/SIZE] Very interesting proposal. In other words, these three act as gateway armors, getting a justification for their existance by being halfway between two tiers of armor. Of course, padded is mostly interesting to "clothies" without easy access to mage armor, since I assume it will still only operate when the wearer is wearing no armor? Or do you mean for padded to count as "no armor", effectively giving wizards (but not drac sorqs) an AC bump? Hide will probably remain as the armor you use when you have no options (because you're a primitive or broke NPC rather than a wealthy PC), and that's okay. Ring is probably going to be used by cheapskate warlords for their armies just as you say. In other words, hide and ring will probably still not feature in any actual PC builds, but that's okay. The "upgrade" will still make it easier to explain why anybody bothers to make' em. Thanks for the suggestion! [/QUOTE]

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