[Crawl] Light/heavy armour confusion

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Tina Hall .-- .-. --- - . ---...

> I think it's Loonie who keeps pointing out that light armour is that
> which has an EV of -1 or more, and anything from EV:-2 downward is
> heavy (light armour being the stuff that trains Dodging, and heavy
> armour being the stuff that trains the Armour skill), except I just
> found an artifact troll armour that is EV:-1 and I thought troll
> armour is heavy. Is it or is it not?

AFAIK Troll armour\hides are exception from this rule and are heavy.

PS "Elven" armour is always light, but no Elven troll armour unfortunately
;-)

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Tina Hall .-- .-. --- - . ---...

>>> I think it's Loonie who keeps pointing out that light armour is
>>> that which has an EV of -1 or more, and anything from EV:-2
>>> downward is heavy (light armour being the stuff that trains
>>> Dodging, and heavy armour being the stuff that trains the Armour
>>> skill), except I just found an artifact troll armour that is
>>> EV:-1 and I thought troll armour is heavy. Is it or is it not?
>> AFAIK Troll armour\hides are exception from this rule and are
>> heavy.
> Not a very good rule, then, when it just leads to confusion. I knew
> this stuff until you repeatedly came up with your rule.

Every rule has exceptions.


>> but no Elven troll armour unfortunately
> At first I was thinking of 'rabbit deer armour' as an analogy, but
> elven, orc and dwarven armour isn't made out of elves, orcs and
> dwarves, is it? <g>

I'm not sure - never seen one.

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Loonie
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