Originally posted by egg:

personally prefer daggers (no move speed penalty and slight manoeuvre while attacking) and troll leather top and legs with highest tier helmet (cause helmets dont impact movespeed) for 100% speed. i've skipped out on iron and silver top/legs so far, but i'm almost at the blackmetal age now and i highly doubt it's viable once i hit the plains. It's already a bit iffy at the mountain but good enough.

troll leather can be acquired right at the start of the game and its a shame its the best leather you can get, once into higher tiers every character is pretty much shoe-horned into being heavy armour guy.

do you guys have any idea how nice it has been playing this game, and not having to unequip my torso, legs, and weapon whenever i want to run somewhere?

before the inevitable "git gud" -> i dont want it to be OP or make the game easier, it would still obviously provide way less protection than the metal armours

I'm actually kicking around learning to mod Valheim JUST so I can put in balanced sets of light armor.

I personally love the light armor gameplay, but I don't want to be insta-squished after the swamp biome. Wish the developers would add it in.