Chain mail

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Name	Chain mail
Size to wear	Small, medium
Armour Class	8
Encumbrance rating	15
Maximum Enchantment	+8
Grants	nothing
Time to Wear	5

A suit made entirely out of tiny metal rings. Offering strong protection against weapons, claws and carnassials, chain mail hinders quick and stealthy movement.

Chain mail is one of the heavier normal armours you can acquire, providing substantial defense but at a heavy cost to evasion.

Desirability

Although players focusing on the Armour skill may get some use out of this early on, they should switch to plate armour or better as soon as possible for superior defense. Dodgers and casters will likely find this armour too heavy to bother with. In general, it's not worth wearing in the long run unless you get an awesome randart.

History

• In 0.30, chain mail's encumbrance rating will be changed from 15 to 14. Also, the ponderousness ego, previously exclusive to plate armour, will sometimes appear on runed chain mails.
• Prior to 0.13, chain mail had 7 base AC.
• Prior to 0.10, it had 6 base AC.

The increases in AC have been due to the removal of banded mail, and later, of splint mail.

	Image
Mundane
Magical
Artifact
	Unrandart chain mail
Lear's hauberk