Vehl Leather Merchant Doesn't Sell Hide Armor

[lonnarin]

Description: Noticed that the tanner in Vehl only sells leather and studded leather.  I couldn't find any heavier hide armors in his inventory.

Location: Vehl Leather Merchant

Verified: think so

Reproducable: Until his inventory is updated

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

Hide Armor = Studded Leather Armor.

Bastard Sword = Katana

Greatclub = Maul

Aesthetics. Semantics.

[ycleption]

Er, well, they're almost equal...
Hide and studded have the same AC, but studded has bonus against piercing, hide against slashing.
Also, since studded, well, has studs, Druids (At least mine, I don't know whether its a "rule") use hide rather than studded.

[Dorganath]

There are three classes of merchants, one each for small, medium and large towns, each with their own inventories and pricing.  Now, they should all be the same, but they may also have intentional differences.  

I don't think Fort Vehl has any custom merchants (other than their names), so chances are good this would be apparent in more than just Fort Vehl, and may be intentional.

[lonnarin]

I looked around and it does seem to be a problem with every merchant.  I don't think it was meant to be like that though because I notice there are Two identical sets of studded leather for sale in infinite quantities.  I'm just worried about how druid restrictions bode for metal studs in leather, and am frantically learning to sew in order to make my own hide before the hierophant smites me.

[Dorganath]

I just checked the merchants in the toolset and none of them have hide armor. I'm not sure which merchant has it. There may be some sort of hold-over form a very old version.

I'll poke around in-game a bit, but it's looking like hide armor is not for sale through NPCs.

[Dorganath]

I did some checking in-game and I'm not seeing a leather merchant that sells hide armor.

If you could let me know where you've seen hide armor for sale I'll try and look into the discrepancy.

[Falonthas]

shouldnt the nature merchants sell hide armor?

since they sell druid amulets it would make sense they may have a few stray hides sewn together laying about under a root or something