Quick dragon armo(u)r question

[Konebred]

Running a DEFE and was wondering what the optimum armor level I should shoot for to reduce the misfire chance on the top tier spells with a fire dragon armor.

[crate]

Mostly armour skill is for getting more AC. If you get it to level 45 then you eliminate all the casting/melee penalties!! You can also get around the penalties by using wizardry or just getting more skill in your magic schools, which is often better.

Get some levels of armour skill because they're cheap, but it's not going to be a big help for spellcasting.

[pikkle]

Mostly armour skill is for getting more AC. If you get it to level 45 then you eliminate all the casting/melee penalties!!

What do you mean by "level 45"? Was that a joke about an impossible skill level i.e. you can't eliminate casting penalties with Armour skill? Or at 45 AC does armour penalty magically disappear?

Sorry.

[Blyxx]

He's kidding about getting to 45 skill, but if it were possible, it would really work as he says! Armour skill reduces your base penalty by this formula:

[real evade penalty] = [base evade penalty]*((45-[armour skill])/45)

If armour skill was 45, you'd multiply the base penalty by 0, which would nullify it.

[Gilou]

Hi there,

Are there other tips for spellcasting in heavy armor ?

Thanks

Gilles

[onton]

Hi there,

Are there other tips for spellcasting in heavy armor ?

Thanks

Gilles

press Z and choose a letter. If you don't like numbers to the right, train some armour.

[Jabberwocky]

Mostly armour skill is for getting more AC. If you get it to level 45 then you eliminate all the casting/melee penalties!!

What do you mean by "level 45"? Was that a joke about an impossible skill level i.e. you can't eliminate casting penalties with Armour skill? Or at 45 AC does armour penalty magically disappear?

Sorry.

No it's not a joke. If you cheat your armour skill up to 45, you no longer suffer any kind of penalty to melee or magic. Unfortunately, this is impossible to achieve in any normal game.

[jejorda2]

Beogh's reduction of the armour penalty is pretty useful at high piety. I have better success casting as an orc in orcish plate than anything else in heavy armour. I'm a terribly player, so that success isn't anything to write home about.

[rebthor]

Hi there,

Are there other tips for spellcasting in heavy armor ?

Thanks

Gilles

press Z and choose a letter. If you don't like numbers to the right, train some spell schools.

FTFY. That was the whole point of crate's post above. Training armour does not reduce fail chances as efficiently as training the relevant school does.

[onton]

Ah, I'm even more wrong since the char is DE, training any magis school is easier and better than armour. My bad.

Hi there,

Are there other tips for spellcasting in heavy armor ?

Thanks

Gilles

press Z and choose a letter. If you don't like numbers to the right, train some spell schools.

FTFY. That was the whole point of crate's post above. Training armour does not reduce fail chances as efficiently as training the relevant school does.