Lindwurm Scale Cloak v. Bone Platings

[Lampros]

What is better? The Cloak gives 40 extra Armor and immunity to the Lindwurm acid damage; and the Platings absorbs the first hit that is not armor ignoring damage.

[Decado]

Depends on the bro. Nimble? Bone plating.

Battle forge tank? Lindworm cloak if he is fighting lindwurm but otherwise I'd say padding is better.

[Whatever100500]

As far as I understand cloak protects only body armor itself. To actually safely attack lindwurms you'll also need an unique helmet with acid protection (at least helmets DO NOT protect body armor).

Either way, light padding or bone plating are much better general purpose choices.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Whatever100500:

As far as I understand cloak protects only body armor itself. To actually safely attack lindwurms you'll also need an unique helmet with acid protection (at least helmets DO NOT protect body armor).

Either way, light padding or bone plating are much better general purpose choices.

Hmm, I do have one unique helmet, so only 1 guy can safely tank the Lindwurm then :(

Originally posted by Decado:

Depends on the bro. Nimble? Bone plating.

Battle forge tank? Lindworm cloak if he is fighting lindwurm but otherwise I'd say padding is better.

I was thinking for my 4 tanks. One of them is Nimble, and the other three are Battle Forged. I could have an armor specifically for Lindwurms, but sometimes I get ambushed...

[chandl34]

I like the cloaks for the long-term usage against lindwurms. In terms of defense though, you're probably better with bone plating, or light padding if you have bad fatigue.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by chandl34:

I like the cloaks for the long-term usage against lindwurms. In terms of defense though, you're probably better with bone plating, or light padding if you have bad fatigue.

I have yet been able to make Light Padding - but probably because I spend the crafting materials as soon as I acquire them :(

[Tephros83]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by Whatever100500:

As far as I understand cloak protects only body armor itself. To actually safely attack lindwurms you'll also need an unique helmet with acid protection (at least helmets DO NOT protect body armor).

Either way, light padding or bone plating are much better general purpose choices.

Hmm, I do have one unique helmet, so only 1 guy can safely tank the Lindwurm then :(

Originally posted by Decado:

Depends on the bro. Nimble? Bone plating.

Battle forge tank? Lindworm cloak if he is fighting lindwurm but otherwise I'd say padding is better.

I was thinking for my 4 tanks. One of them is Nimble, and the other three are Battle Forged. I could have an armor specifically for Lindwurms, but sometimes I get ambushed...

Well first off, tanking doesn't mean hitting, and if you're not hitting them while direclty adjacent to the part you're hitting you're not going to get extra acid damage. Tanking means sitting there and tying them up while other people use 2-tile weapons to stab them.

I don't think you should tank lindwurm anyway when you can avoid it. Give everybody pikes, maybe a few with anti-armor 2-tile weapons given lindwurm have decent armor, and take advantage of the fact that their tail has no zone of control to KITE them... their tail can't attack if it moves, and their head has a 6ap 2-tile attack... and so if the tail is between you and their head, they can't attack if you hit and move away another tile.

I'd say it depends on the armor, bro, and enemy. Heavy lamellar armor gets padding, but sellsword armor gets bone plating, always, and in that situation the two armors are about equal against 1h weapons, but the sellsword armor with the bone plating would be much better for a powerful hit.

The way fatigue is now though, it would require a very high fatigue bro to not use padding for very heavy armors.

[Tephros83]

Originally posted by Lampros:

Originally posted by chandl34:

I like the cloaks for the long-term usage against lindwurms. In terms of defense though, you're probably better with bone plating, or light padding if you have bad fatigue.

I have yet been able to make Light Padding - but probably because I spend the crafting materials as soon as I acquire them :(

So you have a bunch of living shields then? It's the glowing resin that's somewhat hard to find. Spider goassamer shouldn't be too bad.

[千仞万渊]

lindwurm scale is better in most cases, except in extreme situation you have to sustain a hit with like above 100+ damage. That's say, 2h orc berserker/warlord, lindwurm head and schrat.

But bone plating will save you some money for tools, that's for sure.

[Abel]

I prefer Light Padding Replacement on armors in the 40 Fatigue zone (gives back 8 Fatigue for Coat of Scales and 9 Fatigue for Coat of Plates).

[Lampros]

Originally posted by 千仞万渊:

lindwurm scale is better in most cases, except in extreme situation you have to sustain a hit with like above 100+ damage. That's say, 2h orc berserker/warlord, lindwurm head and schrat.

But bone plating will save you some money for tools, that's for sure.

Hmm, but on a tank you should have 300-plus armor, and you will have 40 more from Lindwurm. So even 100-plus damage is not so scary then? ;)

Originally posted by Abel:

I prefer Light Padding Replacement on armors in the 40 Fatigue zone (gives back 8 Fatigue for Coat of Scales and 9 Fatigue for Coat of Plates).

I have yet to find the crafting materials for these. I guess I did have some but probably used it for something else.