Cost of robes, plus mending, to make them last 200 months: Between 14000 and 15000 gold.

Cost of chainmail: 6000 gold, price escalates with stats.

So, yeah, chainmail is cheaper than great robes, and the stats aren't so much worse.

Edit: What if enchanted great robes only went up to a maximum of around 25/25, and could be combined with other forms of armour?

No, because then mages would be completely screwed.

Actually I payed around 25k for my robes, and it costs around 4k each time to get them mended, and the mending can give you up to 65 months.

So that's around 325 months for 45k, for the ones I bought, in the situation I bought/mended them.

Differant statistics, same conclusions as Verithrax, robes cost more.

If you get splendor robes and forget tailoring, can you keep the robes? And can you still mend and wear them?

Wow highest was 54/56? So I basically just got really lucky somehow getting 57/54 robes, They are worth keeping and repairing then?

Yes on the first part. You can still wear them also. But i'm not sure if other tailors can mend splendor robes that they didn't make.

Hm, you say forgers don't get enough profit, but from what I understand, greatrobes are basically a tailor's sole source of good profit. They may sell trinkets like hats and skirts, but the amount they rake in isn't nearly as much as greatrobes sales (when they get lucky). Actually, from what Shorlen's said, greatrobes probably cause tailors to lose money.

No, because then mages would be completely screwed.

They might be light full-plate, where you can wear it untill you take it off for the first time, at which time you can't re-wear it, since you don't have the tradeskill anymore.

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What's this?? MAGES/DRUIDS can wear chainmail, but Guardians/Wiccans can only use leather?

Edit:I want some chainmail I can hide away, nice and shiney, and imbued with Moonlit silveryness from drawdown! (Not that it effects it's stats, but it's a nifty cool thing nontheless)

Normal armour is something you wear that protects you from both types of
physical damage (cutting and blunt).

To see the status of your armor, type ARMSTAT. If your armor is damaged, you
will need to find a blacksmith to repair it for you.

The basic types of armour in Lusternia, aside from shields, are, in
ascending order of effectiveness, with the best armour an archetype may
wear listed:

Armour type............Archetypes which may wear them
-----------...............------------------------------
None..................Magi
Leather..............Wiccan, Druid
Scalemail
Chainmail...........Guardian
Field plate and
* Full plate............Warriors

* Full plate armour is a bit different, in that the only warriors who may
wear it are those who have forged it for themselves.

Armour Statistics
-----------------
Non-magical armour and shields have two armour-specific statistics:
protection vs. cutting damage and protection vs. blunt damage. The
WEAPONPROBE ability in the Combat skill will allow you to see these
statistics on a piece of armour or on a shield.

When being struck by a weapon on a specific body part, armour will only
protect you if it is worn over that part. For example, wearing chainmail
leggings will protect you from a knight striking your legs with a scimitar,
but it will not help you if he strikes your head. For that you would need a
helmet or armour coif.

Greatrobes start at 0 affluence and get 'worse' every time their mended, as far as I understand it. So, what's 90% or whatever of 0? Still 0? I certainly think so.

Nope, you can re-wear them even after removing them.

No, I ment -after- you lose the tradeskill. If Shorlen handed me his robes and I couldn't wear them, then he couldn't wear them if he gave up the skill, I think...

You mean the tawdry greatrobes I have stashed away don't help my begging?

I know what you meant. And I answered you.

*boggle* you can mend and rewear and all that stuff? wow, that's got to be the best tradeskill to give up then.