How to train armor when playing draconian?

[nordetsa]

Was playing Draconian monk and realized I didn't have armor in my training screen at all. At first I thought it was because I didn't equip gloves or helmets, but even when I found those I couldn't train armor. Since draconians can't wear any body armor (though seeing zot draconains wearing fancy robes and stuff, I really can't understand why this is the case ), does this mean dr can't train armor, and has to rely mostly on dodging?

[crate]

You don't train armour because you can't wear body armours (you wouldn't want to do so anyway because if you put in the xp to get 22 levels of the skill you would get a whopping +4 ac at most). Instead you get good AC for free from your scales with no EV penalty.

Enemy draconians wear cloaks only, and your draconian can wear cloaks just fine.

[njvack]

Ah yes: "Armour" in Crawl actually means "stuff you wear on your body except for cloaks and bardings." Because.

[njvack]

"Things that let you train the Armour skill."

Is this... just a lie? Because I do like to do that

[njvack]

Damn. Add me to the list of people who like to make stuff up

Maybe this was a restriction once? Certainly back in the victory dancing days...

[Ossuary]

Being able to train Armour skill is not tied to items in your possession at all. You can train it if your species has a body armour slot, otherwise you can't.

That is just plain wrong, at least for 0.10. A MiMo cannot train armour when you start a game while a MiFi can.

[njvack]

Just checked; 0.11 does let you.

[Ossuary]

Being two versions behind is just plain wrong.

Is it my fault that CDO is stuck to 0.10?

[njvack]

Huh? I've played many hours of 0.11 on CDO.

[Ossuary]

Tiles?

[njvack]

Ah, that's right! Tiles exist

[Jabberwocky]

Ah, that's right! Tiles exist

And seems to be a majority, according to the polls.

[njvack]

Sigh. Kids these days

[mumra]

The other webtiles server has 0.11 and trunk: https://crawl.s-z.org/

[palin]

Start here: http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/