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Full plate light armor?

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#1
daedhaed
Oct 01, 2013 9:16:10
Looking for a way to make Full Plate into light armor. Any advice here? Unless there is even better armor out there.

#2
Maat_Mons
Oct 01, 2013 12:14:17
The halfweight armor ability (Underdark, p70) makes any armor light at the cost of a +3 bonus. Thaalud stone armor (Anauroch: The Empire of Shade, p108) is the heaviest base armor at +12. The runner up is Mechanus gear (Planar Handbook, p69) at +10. I'll give a dishonorable mention to mountain plate (Races of Stone, p158) for providing the same bonus as Mechanus gear, but requiring a feat to use.

#3
Tempest_Stormwind
Oct 01, 2013 13:26:24
That said, +3 is ridiculously overcosted for this. Full plate only gives +3 AC over what a mundane mithral breastplate (light armor) provides, and that difference is miniscule at the levels where +4 armor is commonplace (especially since none of the improvements from the heavier armor will apply against touch attacks, like the ray spells that could actually kill you at this point). Furthermore, halfweight does NOT change the armor's speed limitation, so even halfweight mechanus gear still has a top speed of 15 feet.

Basically, if you've got something to do that you can only do in light armor, the heaviest you should consider is a mithral breastplate.

What are you trying to do? Please tell us the whole story.

#4
Slagger_the_Chuul
Oct 01, 2013 19:01:04
And this doesn't sound as if it's something like the Deflective Armour feat, or certain prestige abilities, where you actually want to use heavy armour.

#5
daedhaed
Oct 02, 2013 8:27:20
No. It's really just a Cloistered Cleric using the War Domain for Greatsword proficiency and Focus. He eventually plans to dip a level in Prestige Paladin so he will gain access to Heavy Armor but I guess in the meantime Psychoactive Skin of Ectoplasmic Armor is the way to go? Looking to go CoDzilla with DMM Persist. Probably should have gone with Archivist so I'd have more access to the spells I really want but oh well.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 daedhaed Oct 01, 2013 9:16:10	Looking for a way to make Full Plate into light armor. Any advice here? Unless there is even better armor out there.
#2 Maat_Mons Oct 01, 2013 12:14:17	The halfweight armor ability (Underdark, p70) makes any armor light at the cost of a +3 bonus. Thaalud stone armor (Anauroch: The Empire of Shade, p108) is the heaviest base armor at +12. The runner up is Mechanus gear (Planar Handbook, p69) at +10. I'll give a dishonorable mention to mountain plate (Races of Stone, p158) for providing the same bonus as Mechanus gear, but requiring a feat to use.
#3 Tempest_Stormwind Oct 01, 2013 13:26:24	That said, +3 is ridiculously overcosted for this. Full plate only gives +3 AC over what a mundane mithral breastplate (light armor) provides, and that difference is miniscule at the levels where +4 armor is commonplace (especially since none of the improvements from the heavier armor will apply against touch attacks, like the ray spells that could actually kill you at this point). Furthermore, halfweight does NOT change the armor's speed limitation, so even halfweight mechanus gear still has a top speed of 15 feet. Basically, if you've got something to do that you can only do in light armor, the heaviest you should consider is a mithral breastplate. What are you trying to do? Please tell us the whole story.
#4 Slagger_the_Chuul Oct 01, 2013 19:01:04	And this doesn't sound as if it's something like the Deflective Armour feat, or certain prestige abilities, where you actually want to use heavy armour.
#5 daedhaed Oct 02, 2013 8:27:20	No. It's really just a Cloistered Cleric using the War Domain for Greatsword proficiency and Focus. He eventually plans to dip a level in Prestige Paladin so he will gain access to Heavy Armor but I guess in the meantime Psychoactive Skin of Ectoplasmic Armor is the way to go? Looking to go CoDzilla with DMM Persist. Probably should have gone with Archivist so I'd have more access to the spells I really want but oh well.