Forging was allowing people to create some obsenely powerful armour.
Normally I would fix the problem and let the beefier items stay until
they decayed (fixing all the items is rather time consuming), but the
armour was so massively high that knights were doing almost no damage.
So I could not let that go by and have moved all the armour to more sane
levels. I do believe that they are still above average, but they are no
longer god-like.

Penned by my hand on the 6th of Vestian, in the year 101 CE.