Elven vs. Mithral chain. What's the difference?

[nick1wasd]

So, whilst I was level up my updating my main PC for act 4, I was looking at fancy armor, he's meant to be fast and agile, so I was looking at the lighter end of things. I was reading about mithral and was very confused about what's the difference between Elven Chain and just plain Mithral chain, since "This mithral chain shirt is of master quality, and it does not impose an armor check penalty" is the plain one, why does the fancy one say " the armor is exceptionally quiet. Unlike other chain shirts, elven chain does not have the noisy trait" if there's no ACP to begin with in the base line one, why does the fancy one say that? Is Elven Chain meant to be chain mail and not just a shirt? Because it DOES NOT read that way, so I'm confused as hell

[Matthew Downie]

Previously discussed here

The difference appears to be that the mithral chain shirt is Noisy (-1 penalty to your stealth), has one less bulk, and costs far too much.

[nick1wasd]

Matthew Downie wrote:

Previously discussed here

The difference appears to be that the mithral chain shirt is Noisy (-1 penalty to your stealth), has one less bulk, and costs far too much.

Ahh, thank you for this. That discussion came to the same conclusion my group did around special material armor... Also that is weird that the mithral shirt costs more than making a shirt out of mithral....... PAIZO WHY YOU MATH WEIRD?!? :P

[Parduss]

This reminds me of a thought I've had about armour, Chain Shirt, Master Quality, I can imagine the extra "+1" removes the Noisy penalty.

[Joey Cote]

You think that is weird, go look at celestial armor and what you get for 1000gp compared to mithral chains shirt or elven chain.