Alright i just have a few questions about trainin the both of these. right now i sit at about 220 hp and 180lp and i want to start learning them at the same speeed. Usually i can lock hp pretty quickly if i'm fighting something that trains either of them, while the lp will be around muddled or so at best. If i stand around with a few little pecs on me it will eventually lock but i want to know what others use to keep them at about the same learning pace. Right now i use lp helm, greaves, and gaunts and hp halfplate. If theres a certain combination that works really well i would lvoe to know.
Also i'm not a big fan of the lp helm because i seem to get smacked there alot and while i do have AS up alot i do occasionally go out without it and that seems to be where i get myself into trouble. So i was just wondering is there a better set up for training hp/lp which might not involve lp helms. Also what is the best non-rare metal type lp helms around?

-Perrick

Just wanted to get a ballpark, what is the highest HP/LP ranks I need to shoot for?

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Yep, thats all I am doing at this point, just to say I have more than anybody else. As you mention, no real benefit. Though, maybe forging 2 will have some.

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Interesting, I think I just found what I was shooting for.

Light Plate: 719 84% mind lock Heavy Plate: 836 11% mind lock

Actually this is pretty close to what I have in TF. Now I know what I need to maintain. :)

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PS. Sorry for posting actual numbers, but I figure once its posted on a different public forum its fair game.

Nice, thanks for the update, it looks like im only about 10 ahead in lp.

>...and you're armor primary, not tertiary.

...and he plays TF, not prime. But still, Tropicalo is not human.

Firstly, experience from wearing multiple armors is no longer affected by hindrance, but simply by the area of the body covered. Wearing more hindering LP will achieve nothing.

Secondly, in a few months, the HP and LP skills will be combining into single Plate Armor skill, so all this bother will become moot.

Thirdly, check that any of your LP pieces aren't actually Neutral Plate. If your HP skill got higher than your LP skill, any Neutral Plate pieces will count as HP, which will screw up your armor setup. Otherwise, it is normal for a chest/abdomen/back/arms piece of armor to get slightly more experience than all the rest of the armor put together. Just swap in some LP from time to time to balance it out if it bothers you, or see the above.

Lastly, LP is horrible armor. Absolutely horrible! If you have to train a second armor, it would probably make more sense to train LC. When the armor skill combination occurs, at least you will have two armor skills rather than one. I recommend that you change all your LP pieces for LC pieces.

I just wear half plate, HP helm and gauntlets, and swap out greaves for every other armor type....up until 2 weeks ago was only training HP and my LP is over 190 ranks, and HC and LC over 130, I keep letting cloth, bone and leather go cause the protection sucks horribly lol. But I'm armor prime, so it prolly won't grow as quick as mine did, but usually only takes 30 to 40 minutes to lock all 4 of the metal armros in a swarmy critter like deer.