Mormacil wrote:chitin was the strongest lightarmor under glass, well it was above fur and leather anyway.
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Well, having spent a number of years rummaging about in the old TESCS for TES3 perhaps I can give you my input...
Chitin weapons were the lowest, least damaging class of weapons to be found in MW. Chitin armour was, as you say, the first armour step down from glass, but the difference between the armour ratings of glass and chitin was gigantic. I think glass had an AR of 50 and chitin something like 10 in the editor.
But chitin weapons were described somewhere as using serrated edges and being capable of inflicting nasty wounds. I'd imagine weapons entirely made of chitin being fairly potent and nasty, incredibly light (as they were in-game) but very, very brittle as they are made with organic material. They probably got the shaft in the final version of MW mostly due to game mechanics. The differences in quality and price between the cheapest materials such as chitin and daedric was much larger in MW than it is in Oblivion, which is much more balanced in that respect.
Here's the UESP entry on chitin by the way, most of it copied from the official Bethesda codex:
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Item ... les#Chitin
Love the minimalistic, clear-cut beauty of the Breton Archer sword and the Solingen by the way.
As a small aside: As for the official forums, well I have my own taste and I happen to like my characters mostly clad in classical leather or metal armours and using plain, less ornamented swords. I'm partial to iron and steel stuff. But most people who play Oblivion these days (and played Morrowind before) seem to be younger than me and have a more fantastic, escapist and "emo"-romanticised view on fantasy than I have. I'm no particular fan of wings and such myself so I mostly avoid posting in the character screenshot threads at all.
My
latest female ranger character didn't, in fact, receive a single reply when I posted. But then she showed absolutely
no cleavage at all.
Cheers, UQF