Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20151212141734/@comment-26172435-20161005085137


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I've been pondering on the 'mithril would become way too OP' issue that frustrates any further thinking at the end of the mod team regarding this highly valued and desirable armour weight feature, and this is what I saw in that flashing lightbulb:

Why would we actually assume mithril armour crafting by Third Age smiths, including the players, would lead to a product that has all the characteristics of the mithril armour made in ages past?

We may as well assume Third Age smiths were only able to craft mithril clad armour, on an iron armour basis. This would result in 'mithril' armour with the durability and protective values as coded in the mod, but with a higher weight than that of iron armour.

And assuming the relatively high availability of Mithril is a remaining feature ... I propose to assume the Third Age mithril armour as crafted in the mod exists of an iron chain mail base armour cladded with mithril segments. This results in a mithril armour weight in between that of chain mail and full plate iron armour. No need to change the recipe for mithril armour.

I added this under the header Third Age Mithril Armour in the first post and adjusted the proposed weight of mithril armour accordingly.

I also adjusted the proposed weights of elven steel and galvorn armour a bit.