Talk:Mithril Armour/@comment-84.15.180.138-20140911084600/@comment-27723099-20141025011251

No, both armors have the same damage reduction of 80%. Mithril armor is only more durable, as you said.

The (vanilla) maxium for armor points an armor can give, is 20 (=10 armor symbols). Every armor point gives 4% of damage reduction.

Another aspect is the enchantability. Mithril might have a better enchantability than diamond meaning that it can get good enchantements with a higher chance.