What I'm talking about? See it for yourself:
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weight: 1.5
head armor: 34
difficulty: 9
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weight: 1.5
head armor: 29
difficulty: 9
This is just one example, one of the worst.
They say its because some items look good and some don't. I think that's just wrong and biased. Light Kuyak is still one of the best looking armors and best armors stat wise. Certainly, reason for that lies in fact that Nordmen clan use that armor
Even the slightest differences of one point bothers me, not because it makes one armor better than other one, it's because that tells a story of biased item balancers who obviously favorize certain items they use. Not just that, it's pretty obvious that turkish, mongolian and byzantium gear is worse compared to their favorite gear, for the same reason.
Also, leg armor isn't important at all these days. Giving one armor huge body armor rating and low leg armor rating makes it incredibly OP compared to item of similar weight which has more leg armor.
Sarranid Guard armor has the best armor/weight ratio in game, why there aren't other armors like that one?
Make it fair and right for everyone!