duvessa wrote:Quazifuji wrote:Similar to how most weapon types have a rare top-tier weapon, and light and medium armor have QDA and PDA, respectively, I like that there's a rare, "ultimate" heavy armor type. Replacing CPA with more common iron dragon armor would diminish that excitement and uncertainty.
You must find a lot more iron and pearl dragons than I do.
Also QDA isn't top-tier. It sucks.
Maybe you're right, but I think you still understand what I'm trying to say. People were expressing balance-related concerns about the possibility of iron dragon armour being more common than CPA, and whether that was a potential balance issue. I wanted to point out that I think having the heaviest, highest-base-AC armour type in the game be rare was a good idea not just for balance reasons, but because it's just plain more interesting if you can't count on finding it with every heavily-armoured character, in the same way it's interesting that not every character can count on PDA or QDA if they want it, or not every sword-user can count on finding a triple-sword. Nitpicking about the exact relative rarity or strength of PDA, QDA, and CPA seems besides the point.
If Iron Dragons are much rarer than people in this thread believe, and changing CPA to iron dragon armour would not actually result in a notable decrease in rarity, that is worth pointing out, but if that's your main point then it would be better for the conversation if you expressed it better.
On that topic: aren't iron dragons at least reasonably common in Dis, even if they're really rare in other places? How hard would popping into Dis for some Iron Dragon armour be? Are we comfortable with the sentence "If you haven't found Iron Dragon Armour by the time you find a Hell portal in Depths, head into Dis and fight Iron Dragons until you get a hide" ever being said (whether it's good or bad advice, I guarantee someone would say it)?