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				Advantages to light armor?
				
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Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:27 am 
				by 7ygy
				I'm currently trying to make a battlemage character, and I'm curious if there would be any advantages to him having light armor primary skills as apposed to heavy armor? I don't think speed is much of a factor here, so what's the difference between heavy and light armors besides (obviously) weight?
			 
			
		
			
				Re: Advantages to light armor?
				
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Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:45 am 
				by Jamie990
				Nothing really. Apart from that their "bonus ac" from different skills. Though light armor tends to have less AC than heavy stuff, early on anyway.In later expansions it all balances out. For a battlemage light is fine I think 

 
			 
			
		
			
				Re: Advantages to light armor?
				
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Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:28 pm 
				by 7ygy
				So, wouldn't heavy armor generally be a better choice then? I'm a little confused why anyone would want light armor :S
			 
			
		
			
				Re: Advantages to light armor?
				
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Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:10 am 
				by 7ygy
				Sorry to bump this, but I'm still pretty confused what the difference is DX
			 
			
		
			
				Re: Advantages to light armor?
				
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Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:52 pm 
				by Drakilian
				The only difference between light armor and heavy armor is heavy armor has ridiculously higher ac while lights armor has a slightly higher enchant space
			 
			
		
			
				Re: Advantages to light armor?
				
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Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:20 pm 
				by Zax-fa
				I reccomend rasvim battle mage for your character.
			 
			
		
			
				Re: Advantages to light armor?
				
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Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:46 am 
				by 7ygy
				Alrighty, thanks 

 And hm...Would Rasvim be better than a Derth? For a first time playthrough?
 
			 
			
		
			
				Re: Advantages to light armor?
				
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Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:21 pm 
				by Drakilian
				7ygy wrote:Alrighty, thanks 

 And hm...Would Rasvim be better than a Derth? For a first time playthrough?
 
 rasvim is the strongest class period, and they are the most powerful battlemage characters alive, btw do not use light armor, really it's annoyingly useless
 
			 
			
		
			
				Re: Advantages to light armor?
				
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Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:06 pm 
				by feralway
				So I'm an etherim thief, is it better for me using heavy armours or/and weapons?
			 
			
		
			
				Re: Advantages to light armor?
				
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:05 am 
				by Drakilian
				feralway wrote:So I'm an etherim thief, is it better for me using heavy armours or/and weapons?
Heavy armor is a must however the light or heavy weapons really just depend on whether or not you want a shield or two weapons