Avantasian
01-20-2017, 05:18 PM
Here is the problem:
Mithril body gives Warforged light armor but makes them stuck with 5 max dex bonus (MDB), which makes it more or less useless due to how important dodge is. If you use composite body you have no MDB to worry about but instead you get no PRR bonus and you cap your MRR at 50.
Other races can use light armor to get the PRR bonus, increase the MRR cap to 100 while still having a high MDB (and thus high dodge).
Clearly something is off, and the reason why it is this way is because the MDB values are placed on the specific armor items and not on the "armor type" as a whole. It was never an issue before we had dodge and the MDB of light armors started to significantly increase with level.
The solution:
The first solution that comes to mind is to add a MDB enhancet on all docents, that changes the MDB based on your body feat.
That may take a lot of work however.
A much simpler solution would be to just grant Warforged and Bladeforged either a feat that increases MDB based on character level, or grant them a stacking feat every few levels that increases MDB.
How MDB should they get?
Examining: http://ddowiki.com/page/Category:Light_armor
Named armors:
Level 10: MDB: 7-9
Level 15: MDB: 11-12
Level 20: MDB: 11-19
Level 25: MDB: 19
Level 30: MDB: 22-24
Leather armors:
Leather MDB: 6 ML: 1
Skirmish MDB: 8 ML: 4
Feycraft MDB: 11 ML: 10
Spiritcraft MDB: 14 ML: 16
Celestial MDB: 18 ML: 22
Chain armors:
Chainmail MDB: 5 ML: 1
Skirmish MDB: 7 ML: 4
Feycraft MDB: 9 ML: 10
Spiritcraft MDB: 11 ML: 16
Celestial MDB: 13 ML: 22
My suggestion would be to match the chain armors up to level 22 and end up at 21 MDB at level 30.
The feat/s would be:
Level 4 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 10 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 16 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 22 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 24 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 26 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 28 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 30 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Mithril body gives Warforged light armor but makes them stuck with 5 max dex bonus (MDB), which makes it more or less useless due to how important dodge is. If you use composite body you have no MDB to worry about but instead you get no PRR bonus and you cap your MRR at 50.
Other races can use light armor to get the PRR bonus, increase the MRR cap to 100 while still having a high MDB (and thus high dodge).
Clearly something is off, and the reason why it is this way is because the MDB values are placed on the specific armor items and not on the "armor type" as a whole. It was never an issue before we had dodge and the MDB of light armors started to significantly increase with level.
The solution:
The first solution that comes to mind is to add a MDB enhancet on all docents, that changes the MDB based on your body feat.
That may take a lot of work however.
A much simpler solution would be to just grant Warforged and Bladeforged either a feat that increases MDB based on character level, or grant them a stacking feat every few levels that increases MDB.
How MDB should they get?
Examining: http://ddowiki.com/page/Category:Light_armor
Named armors:
Level 10: MDB: 7-9
Level 15: MDB: 11-12
Level 20: MDB: 11-19
Level 25: MDB: 19
Level 30: MDB: 22-24
Leather armors:
Leather MDB: 6 ML: 1
Skirmish MDB: 8 ML: 4
Feycraft MDB: 11 ML: 10
Spiritcraft MDB: 14 ML: 16
Celestial MDB: 18 ML: 22
Chain armors:
Chainmail MDB: 5 ML: 1
Skirmish MDB: 7 ML: 4
Feycraft MDB: 9 ML: 10
Spiritcraft MDB: 11 ML: 16
Celestial MDB: 13 ML: 22
My suggestion would be to match the chain armors up to level 22 and end up at 21 MDB at level 30.
The feat/s would be:
Level 4 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 10 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 16 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 22 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 24 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 26 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 28 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat
Level 30 Gain 2 stacking MDB if you have the mithril body feat