User talk:Red Wolf Warrior/Gothic Plate (3.5e Equipment)

Ratings
== Hmmm, AC 15... and Max Dex 4? Really? ==

Interesting, but I question its balance. While AC boosting items are slightly underpowdered, this seems to overcompensate. I will compare this to full plate, AC 8, Max Dex 1, and 1500g to this at AC 15 (!), Max Dex 4 (!!), and 6000g. That's an increase of +7 AC for a mere 4500g, chump change. More, actually, since someone with good Dex (18) can take advantage of it to its maximum. And that's before adding mithril.

At 6000g, I don't see this flying. Case in point the most AC from armor from Wizards is +12 from an obscure book, Tyran Stone Plate or something. It's comparable to the Hydraulic Plate article I wrote (inferior actually since you need a feat to use Stone Plate). In both cases we have Max Dex 0, and a more severe speed penalty. It IS cheaper, but doesn't make for good rogue armor, which is just silly looking. Why would dwarves make armor for high dex anyway? I know they can get an 18 in it, but dwarves are not usually renowned for their... nimbleness.

Reconsider either the stats or the price. -- Eiji-kun (talk) 04:05, 3 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Crunching the numbers for standard armors is pretty easy. With optimal armor choice to maximize your AC, the best you can get (using mithral) is +11. Anything above this with just mundane whatever with price being the limiting factor for usage is likely unacceptable. Now, if you said in the flavor "This armor can only be made from adamantine because dwarves love that stuff and mithral is for elves and we dwarves ain't no elves." then you could probably push the base armor bonus up a total of three points if you set Maximum Dexterity Bonus at 0, for an armor bonus of +11. If other limiting factors were introduced, you could push that higher, but that's another discussion.
 * As it currently stands, it needs to change, and also is boring, as Ghostwheel points out above. This does not meet the quality standards this site strives for. Fix it. --Ganteka Future (talk) 08:01, 3 March 2013 (UTC)