chaostrom wrote
That'd be cool too. Point is, right now plate mail is next to worthless and that needs to change.
Plate armour made from copper-path materials is next to worthless, but any bonuses to that would carry over to cloth-path materials, arcanite-path materials, and valpurium plate, which are really good options at various stages of the game.
Some weapons have (IIRC) a FormFactor atttibute, which scales their damage with their weight or flexibility. This makes GEF halberds and diamond whips do less damage. Perhaps something like that could be done to separate soft and hard armours - plate armours would get a bonus to AV from on weight, and maybe a penalty from flexibility. Soft armours would have opposite factors, and would probably be balanced to have lower AV even at endgame levels.