Ebony Mail...Defect in Design

[Adipose]

Okay, on searching the light ebony mail, it seems to me that the shoulder plates need to come on up to the base of the neck. As designed, the only protection for that area is linked steel(chain mail). If one wanted to avoid weight increase then take the bottom bicep piece and reshape it to fit the spot now covered only by links. One good hit with any kind of heavy weapon and that area where the collarbone and neck merge is toast...along with the character. A curved steel plate, or pair of plates, is necessary. Should be able to do that without increasing overall weight...if the lower arm plates are sacrificed. Just looking at it makes my neck twitch.

 

Note, this is only critical if one is playing with one of the picky location damage mods. Otherwise, you could probably have a character wearing just about anything and as long as it has an artificially assigned strength factor it could be anything...up to and including a tee shirt and a pair of shorts. So, in the end I suppose, it depends on how realistic you want your game to be. Of course, if you're also running about with an unrealistically powerful weapon, then the bad guy could be encased inside an M1 Abrams and you'd still slice him open like a wet cardboard box that you hit with power mower.

[TeofaTsavo]

Picky point... mail should be mail maybe? Just saying.

 

Bethesda seems to have been unaware of the concept in general.