Author Topic: Armor Crafting Question (Read 1745 times)

ShiffDrgnhrt · « **on:** January 03, 2007, 10:06:19 AM »

I'm not sure if it's possible or not, since i havent been crafting i game yet, but I the Vanilla Neverwinter Nights there s a suit of light armor thats chain mail. Can such a suit be crafted? Or is there even one available in game? In NWN it was called Aslyferund Elven Chain and counted as Type 1 Light armor. Just curious

Dorganath · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2007, 10:19:30 AM »

It is not currently craftable.

Stephen_Zuckerman · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2007, 12:35:12 PM »

Oooh. I like the sound of that.

Witch Hunter · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2007, 10:25:37 AM »

Yeah me too

Elvenchains are an all time favorite

Jearick Hgar · « **Reply #4 on:** January 31, 2007, 10:31:39 AM »

actually i think there is a chainmail that's light armor, if not then medium armor, but at any rate, it takes both cotton and copper ingots to make lemme see if i can dig up anything...

Jearick Hgar · « **Reply #5 on:** January 31, 2007, 10:33:43 AM »

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Faldred - 1/4/2007 10:54 AM How to make copper chainmail Collect:
7 Nuggets of copper
4 Cotton
[/list] Go to Tailor's Table (Craft Hall and requires sewing kit and equipped tailor's needle) with:

2 Cotton
[/list]You (may) now have one bolt of cloth (need two). Go to Tailor's Table (Craft Hall and requires sewing kit and equipped tailor's needle) with:

2 Bolts of cloth
1 Book of patterns (will be returned)
[/list]You (may) now have one chainmail pattern. Go to Public Forge (Smithy or Craft Hall) with:

1 Nugget of copper
[/list]You (may) now have one ingot of copper (requires seven). Go to Armor Crafting Anvil (Smithy and requires quipped smith's hammer) with:

1 Chainmail pattern
7 Ingots of copper
[/list]You (may) now have one suit of copper chainmail.

Witch Hunter · « **Reply #6 on:** January 31, 2007, 10:36:57 AM »

I wonder if mithril counts as light :s
it should

ShiffDrgnhrt · « **Reply #7 on:** January 31, 2007, 12:16:26 PM »

It had better. Mithril in NWN2 is light in strong just like Tolkien made it out to be, so If someone could make a suit of Mithril Chain that would be awesome

Weeblie · « **Reply #8 on:** January 31, 2007, 12:26:58 PM »

There are mithril armors circulating in game...

It's just a matter of having completely insane amount of gold, a persuade skill of 100+ and lots of halfling luck to find anyone willing to sell theirs.

Witch Hunter · « **Reply #9 on:** January 31, 2007, 12:57:33 PM »

Are they light though? or just chainmails with +500000 armor class?

Talan Va'lash · « **Reply #10 on:** January 31, 2007, 01:09:22 PM »

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ShiffDrgnhrt - 1/3/2007 11:06 AM

I'm not sure if it's possible or not, since i havent been crafting i game yet, but I the Vanilla Neverwinter Nights there s a suit of light armor thats chain mail. Can such a suit be crafted? Or is there even one available in game? In NWN it was called Aslyferund Elven Chain and counted as Type 1 Light armor. Just curious

There is no chain mail in NWN that is light armor. Period.

However there is a Padded Armor named Asyferund Elven Chain.

Talan Va'lash · « **Reply #11 on:** January 31, 2007, 01:10:56 PM »

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ShiffDrgnhrt - 1/31/2007 1:16 PM

It had better. Mithril in NWN2 is light in strong just like Tolkien made it out to be, so If someone could make a suit of Mithril Chain that would be awesome

This is because NWN2 uses D&D 3.5 rules where Chain Shirts are light armor.

NWN1 uses 3.0 rules where they are medium armor.

Blame WotC (at least I think that is a 3.0 difference not just an NWN difference.)

Jearick Hgar · « **Reply #12 on:** February 01, 2007, 03:25:45 AM »

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Talan Va'lash - 1/31/2007 1:09 PM

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ShiffDrgnhrt - 1/3/2007 11:06 AM

I'm not sure if it's possible or not, since i havent been crafting i game yet, but I the Vanilla Neverwinter Nights there s a suit of light armor thats chain mail. Can such a suit be crafted? Or is there even one available in game? In NWN it was called Aslyferund Elven Chain and counted as Type 1 Light armor. Just curious

There is no chain mail in NWN that is light armor. Period.

However there is a Padded Armor named Asyferund Elven Chain.

wrong, chain shirt bro. check the anvil or armor recipees, udner light armor it lists chain shirt. which imo is chainmail.

Talan Va'lash · « **Reply #13 on:** February 01, 2007, 03:42:22 AM »

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Jearick Hgar - 2/1/2007 4:25 AM

wrong, chain shirt bro. check the anvil or armor recipees, udner light armor it lists chain shirt. which imo is chainmail.

It is listed in the incorrect section then.

The heaviest armor that is still considered light armor for purposes of armor proficiency etc. in NWN are the 3/4 armors. Studded Leather Armor and Hide Armor.

Jearick Hgar · « **Reply #14 on:** February 01, 2007, 03:51:17 AM »

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Talan Va'lash - 2/1/2007 3:42 AM

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Jearick Hgar - 2/1/2007 4:25 AM

wrong, chain shirt bro. check the anvil or armor recipees, udner light armor it lists chain shirt. which imo is chainmail.

It is listed in the incorrect section then.

The heaviest armor that is still considered light armor for purposes of armor proficiency etc. in NWN are the 3/4 armors. Studded Leather Armor and Hide Armor.

There are appearances for the lgiht armors, i think only the studded leather section though, for chain mail, not to mention you could jsut throw the elven chainmail looking robe ontop of the out fit and call it chainmail. or there's a million of other thigns you could do. on one server a guy who could only wear light armor, did some fancy thigns with colors and completly played it off liek he was wearign full plate, took a good eye to catch that he wasn't.

egoober · « **Reply #15 on:** February 01, 2007, 04:33:53 AM »

Don't forget there is a big difference between a wearing a Chain Shirt, and wearing full Chain Mail.

The former is just what it says: A simple tunic, usually with short arms, of chain links. In RL this could weight as little as 6-10lbs

Chain Mail or Chain Armour is a full suit of chain mail. Think tunic with long sleeves, coif, greaves (translation, a chain helm, and full length chain leggings. Often the mail will be doubled in vulnerable areas. A suit could easily weigh 40-50lbs

Suffice to say that for a suit of Chain Armour to be considered "light" in anyone's mind, is going to take some enchantments, or might strange materials

ShiffDrgnhrt · « **Reply #16 on:** February 01, 2007, 02:12:06 PM »

Well its in the Forgotten Realms.... anyway I thought It might be possible seeing as how it existed in the orginal NWN. And a chain shirt SHOULD be considered light armor seeing how its only a chain shirt

Stephen_Zuckerman · « **Reply #17 on:** February 01, 2007, 02:20:21 PM »

Shiff: There was NOT a suit of Chainmail in NWN that was light armor. It was only CALLED Chainmail. It was really Padded Armor.

Chain shirts did in fact change from Medium to Light between 3.0 and 3.5. However!

Even in 3.0, items made of Mithril DID NOT RECEIVE ANY ENHANCEMENT BONUS.

All they got was the following:
- Armor Type reduced to a minimum of Light
- AC check penalty reduced by 4
- Weight halved
- Max Dex Bonus increased by 2
- Spell failure reduced by (I think) 25%

So... For a set of Mithril Fullplate, you'd end up with the following stats:
Medium armor, AC 8, Armor Check -6, 25lbs, Max Dex 3, Spell Failure 50%

Likewise, a suit of mithril chainmail (usually referred to as Elven Chainmail) would have the following stats:
Light armor, AC 5, Armor check -1, however many pounds, Max Dex 4, Spell Failure - (I believe).

A mithril weapon didn't confer any bonuses except to be lighter, and be harder to destroy.

Weeblie · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2007, 03:04:52 PM »

The same is not true here on Layo, though (I believe).

hawklen · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2007, 03:22:46 PM »

hmm. I saw a pesuedo 3.5 hak for nwn..wonder if that would work *he ponders*