If you go the plate route you can pretty much give up on being able to hide. Personally I prefer chain, but I know some plate wearing mages as well.

YS is a good spell regardless of the armor type so its not really a factor.

>>nd have invis rings/cloak for this guy if hiding becomes a MUST.

You're aware invis is just a bonus to hiding ranks, + the ability to "sneak" with no RT right? You can be pointed out of invis just like hiding.

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It's not an either/or type of decision. Train both and have a set of each accessible, because they're each going to have their niches. For the moment you might as well train all 7 by swapping out one piece of equipment, like leg gear.

Just take your armor off to work stealth.


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Plate has been fine for me up through celps. I use HP/LP (LP chest, HP accessories). For the most part I've not worried about how many enemies engage me. I've not been killed (in a single hit) by open rolls, though I've died plenty of times because of my own stupidity.

YS is handy. With it up, I evade. Without it up, I don't evade. I end up stancing down a lot to move armors once I'm toward the cap for whatever I'm hunting.

I suspect that you're looking for a change of pace with this character. An HP/LP set up will let you play around with being a tank swarmed by angry dudes, which is much different than playing stealth.

I'm not saying you can't do all that in chain. I used HC/LC for a while and still work it in.

With the way things are right now, evasion is so important that, in my experience, the evasion penalty outweighs the protection plate provides to us. This is less true with YS up, but it's easy to lose track of the spell. For example, I take less damage wearing cloth in celps than I do wearing plate. I have enough cloth ranks that my hinderance is very small. I simply evade most everything that comes my way, and the things that do hit me get reduced a good deal by evasion. MAF takes care of the rest. I get hit more wearing plate, but they are often weaker blows; however, I can stay in combat longer in cloth.

I still think you should do plate. Armor is going to be less silly in the near future. And you can always backtrain things while you train magics. Some day soon general magic ranks will be the bane of your existence.


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