(03-30-2015, 11:32 AM)Sounsyy Wrote: Now, practical thinking could be applied here saying - well, what if I had a mythril set of armor and I coated it with gold leaf? Would that work? Lore says yes.
Quote:Gilded Magitek Armor
It only took a few heated skirmishes with the allied city-states for Garlemald to realize that the magicks wielded by the realm's mages were too much for even the thickest magitek armor plating. Alloyed gilding has since been discovered to dampen the effects of elemental charges and is now standard issue.
I should note that the gilding is being used to dampen the effects of magic. Whether it actually allows the user's magic to be bolstered as well has yet to be seen, considering it's being done by Garleans. And it just happens to be a golden-hued alloy, we don't know the actual contents of the gilding itself.
(That said, I could totally see "tinfoiling" one's armor for extra protection against magic, if one could afford it.)
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