I'm currently wearing an HC balaclava and gloves, and an LC hauberk, but my HC never moves past clear. I can sit and lock LC, shield, parry, evasion, and multi, and it never moves. Do I need to switch to a chain shirt and HC greaves?

Yeah, like Ryeka said, make sure it's really HC and not neutral.

That setup you described should be moving HC above clear. Is your HC skill on the same level as the LC?

I'm training HC and LC at a good rate just by swapping gloves and vambraces

Leather Armor: 247 86% -> (34/34)
Light Chain: 191 59% -> (15/34)
Heavy Chain: 153 47% -> (10/34)
Cloth Armor: 158 82% -> (19/34)
Bone Armor: 160 96% -> (19/34)

My setup is:

Leather Cowl (head, eyes and neck)
Leather breasplate (chest, back and abdomen)
LC vambraces and LC gloves (swapping with HC vambraces and HC gloves when needed)
Bone greaves (swapping with cloth greaves when needed)

This is a ranger with armor secondary.

Bingo

Fyi, there's no such thing as a HC balaclava as far as I know. They're neutral.

The trader shop in Muspar'i has balaclavas, and I seem to remember hearing of one other shop. I can't remember for sure where it is though.

Ryeka and the brood


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If it helps, the newer armor shop in Haven has an HC helm:

HR>appr my helm quick

The chain helm is heavy chain.

The helm looks like it offers protection for the following areas:

head
neck
right eye
left eye

You feel certain that a visored chain helm appears to impose light maneuvering hindrance and light stealth hindrance, offering:
good protection and moderate damage absorption for puncture attacks.
good protection and moderate damage absorption for slice attacks.
good protection and moderate damage absorption for impact attacks.
moderate protection and moderate damage absorption for fire attacks.
moderate protection and good damage absorption for cold attacks.
low protection and moderate damage absorption for electrical attacks.

If you were only wearing a visored chain helm your maneuvering would be minimally hindered and your stealth would be minimally hindered.
But considering all the armor and shields you are wearing or carrying, you are currently fairly hindered and your stealth is fairly hindered.

You are certain that the chain helm is fairly sturdy, and is in pristine condition.

The chain helm is made with metal.
The chain helm is quite supple.
You are confident that the chain helm weighs about 110 stones.

Only a couple gold IIRC, but I've had it quite a while.

Meigs

>Is it possible to forge HC head armor without eye protection? What about store bought?

Chain Helm = Head

Full Chain Helm = Head/Neck

Neither covers eyes.

-Master Ndin, forging freak.

<<My usual set up for training HC/LC is the HC visored chain helm, forged HC gloves, forged HC greaves, and forged LC chain shirt, or full chain shirt. This set up keeps both armors tracking at almost exactly the same rate>>

This is excellent advice. It's the perfect dual-armor mix. Since you've been wearing an LC hauberk I'm guessing your LC ranks are higher. In this setup the shirt will grab just a hair over 50%, enough to keep it ahead of HC. This means that if you don't have a forged LC shirt, in a pinch the storebought neutral one should work, saving you some dough. Not as good a shirt obviously but doable.

As for the HC, Ciressa at the Riverhaven trading tables carries both low and high weight capped HC accessories and hauberks.

Kaxis

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