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*Shrug* darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 15/02/2012 08:28:48 PM
We aren't going to come to an agreement on this ... A set of armor is all dandy I've said a million times that I simply think the value of the armor is not worth the effort of creating it. At the moment there are only a handful people in the world that can make cuendillar and the process has proven to take a lot of time for all but the very best. Perhaps this will change at some point, but judging from the relatively small number of cuendillar objects that existed from the AoL it seems likely that the Talent is rare. Given that they clearly did not make armor of cuendillar during the War of Power when they had much deeper resources it seems logical that if there was benefit to it they would have done it.

As for weapons, arrows would be very useful and advanced forging methods for blades already seem to exist in the WOT universe based on the swords we've seen ... which can ensure a cuendillar sword is as sharp as necessary and since it will never lose that edge there is not need to sharpen it again. I still think it's a waste of effort to create any of these things when the nature of the world is already beginning to change and the OP is being used regularly in battle and war machines are becoming common place and the days of the individual swordsman are coming to a close. Long range weapons will only get more sophisticated thanks to Rands universities.

Also we have zero indication that cuendillar is lighter than the iron it starts out as so your supposition that the armor would be light weight is not certain by any means.
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You busted him! I wonder why he would post it again... *NM* - 10/02/2012 07:25:47 PM 454 Views
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We're actually losing them by the troves. My apologies. *NM* - 12/02/2012 02:52:01 AM 416 Views
I rest my case. - 10/05/2012 04:34:02 PM 751 Views
Re: You posted this exact same question one year ago, with a lot of discussion - 11/02/2012 01:37:27 PM 948 Views
Agreed. - 11/02/2012 06:24:36 PM 742 Views
why not some plate armor. duh. *NM* - 12/02/2012 09:54:43 PM 456 Views
See? - 10/05/2012 04:35:25 PM 728 Views
Possible, but hard. - 11/02/2012 01:56:03 AM 853 Views
scale or plate armor would be quite easy *NM* - 11/02/2012 01:38:47 PM 389 Views
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Re: My thought was always about weapons. - 14/02/2012 01:53:59 PM 759 Views
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Ummm, Warders... - 14/02/2012 01:39:23 PM 685 Views
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some simple ideas for defeating warders armoured such. - 14/02/2012 09:52:41 PM 798 Views
Re: some simple ideas for defeating warders armoured such. - 14/02/2012 10:54:26 PM 640 Views
which way is it? - 15/02/2012 04:14:41 AM 655 Views
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That's really not my point. - 15/02/2012 03:21:15 PM 646 Views
My point is - 15/02/2012 03:52:43 PM 637 Views
Agree on all points *NM* - 15/02/2012 07:06:09 PM 532 Views
I never said that they could not be stopped - 15/02/2012 01:58:41 PM 746 Views
I really think you're over-estimating how difficult it would be. - 15/02/2012 03:22:44 PM 684 Views
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If armor is of no benefit... - 15/02/2012 06:19:30 PM 602 Views
Missing my point ... Cuendillar armor is impractical not useless - 15/02/2012 07:00:48 PM 734 Views
nope - 15/02/2012 07:21:03 PM 625 Views
*Shrug* - 15/02/2012 08:28:48 PM 750 Views
Re: *Shrug* - 15/02/2012 09:07:24 PM 917 Views
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what a lot of people are forgetting with their suggestions of plate armor... - 13/02/2012 02:36:50 PM 817 Views
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I believe AND I was hoping you would go into the physics of it :p - 14/02/2012 11:01:18 PM 630 Views
here ya go, I still skipped almost all of the math though. - 15/02/2012 03:00:09 PM 694 Views
Two things: *NM* - 16/02/2012 04:03:52 PM 423 Views

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