Question about Lemur 8th armor rank limitation

[Thasa]

Just a quick question. It says on the races page for Lemur:

max 8th rank for weapons and armors

Would make sense for heavy armors. However, seems rather silly that a race who is primarily focused on magic and probably wears robes and other light armor most of the time, cannot master them beyond the 8th rank?

Weapons limitation is also understandable for heavy weapons. However, if a staff is ever obtainable in the game, it's probably something Lemur would master as well.

How likely is the removal of this limitation, if it's mentioned to the dev team?

This isn't a complaint. If this is set in stone for Lemur, doesn't matter, I'll just use a different race, which can master the robes or any light armor.

[Karyuu]

Reading through the Lemur description:

[...] Until two or three months of age, their children have an almost transparent skin that reveals the underlying capillary circulation. Their body is neither very robust nor resistant. [...] Lemur women, graceful and ethereal creatures, are amongst the most beautiful of Yliakum: male lemurs are equally beautiful but lack in masculine features like muscle.

So they are a very fragile race, definitely not folks to engage in direct combat. Even wearing light armor would fatigue them after a certain amount of time, considering their delicate structure. Often expensive materials like velvet, brocade, damask or fine linen is used for Lemur clothing, and they do not like to encumber themselves.

*edit*

People roleplaying Lemurs, pay attention to this!

[lordraleigh]

I wonder if Xachas will have limitations for physically enduring skills as well, they also seem to be the "more brains the brawns" types.

[Thasa]

Just how robust and muscled does one have to be to wear the robes made out of "velvet, brocade, damask or fine linen"? Are the robes not included into the Light Armor category?

By the way, the only Lemur you meet in the game wears the robes.

[Karyuu]

I do not think robes will fall into light armor. It is likely to be a separate "Clothing" category.

[lordraleigh]

Not sure, but perhaps a lemur could be capable of becoming some kind of fencer though and not have the limitation on light thrusting weapons like rapiers(Fencers rarely used armor, but instead relied on reflexes and agility to parry, dodge and block attacks).

[Thasa]

I wonder if Xachas will have limitations for physically enduring skills as well, they also seem to be the "more brains the brawns" types.

Nope. It says this for Xacha:

No restrictions on skills

So, I don't think so. It doesn't say that Xacha are weak, just that they lean more towards magic.

Xacha is my next choice for my character, who is primarily a magic user. Too bad for Lemur, the Infravision sounded interesting.

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I do not think robes will fall into light armor. It is likely to be a separate "Clothing" category.

This is what the game says about Light Armor skill:

Cloth, Hide and Leather

Are robes not a cloth?

[Phinehas]

As a Lemur, you shouldn't be fighting in a way that requires armor of any sort. If you are, I will personally come and denounce you on behalf of the entire Lemurian race. We're above that sort of barbarism. If you can't find a way to do away with your antagonist more gracefully, then perhaps you should be off running a culinary establishment somewhere...

[Karyuu]

Are robes not a cloth?

Truth be told that confuses me. I would not include any clothing in an "armor" skill personally - it doesn't make sense to me to train how to use a casual garment. By that same standard, everything the character models have on by default would be considered light armor and they would all get an automatic light armor boost upon creation, if they are wearing something. Ultimately, I would interpret the in-game description to mean that some armor may have cloth parts - just as it may have parts made of hide and leather.

I wouldn't consider a summer-time dress as an armor piece - I doubt you would either I believe robes fall in the same category.

[pedenel]

Perhaps the armour made from cloth refers to things like padded vests and similar type of clothing which offers some minimal protection .... there are some other types but the names escape me at the moment.

[Garile]

Does this mean that unlike said before there will be different maxes among races? Does this mean enkies for example will be limited in how far they can train magic?

Would seem fair to me and definately makes chosing a race more then just looking at the pictures

PS: rank 8? Hope that is refering to something else then the rank 8 we have now when training skills, becuase that would really makes me question how they even survived as a race

[Garris Shrike]

So if one had a horde of Lemurs (See The Teller of Tales under stories), one might have them useless almost. (Which i did)

[Parallo]

Lemurs useless? Oh, just wait till Phinehas sees that! 

[Garris Shrike]

Oooh. I almost fergot Phinehas was back. Deary me.  oh well. He probably wont read it 

[Parallo]

He probably would have and he definatly will after he reads this.