Originally posted by KingNigelFarage:

thanks for advise, i was using all lvl3 leather armor without too many issues, but when i changed it to troll pants and bronze vest and got bronze sword, everything was killing me doing huge damage and a troll could catch me wher as before i was out running him if i got into trouble, he killed me in 2 swipes. are you sure its not ramping up?
thanks for the offer to help, but i dont have one of those staues to stop players destroying my base, and although u seem nice i really dont wanna risk losing all the time i put into my solo progress.

full level 3 leather would be 18 armor, 21 if you also had a level 3 cape

level 1 bronze plate, level 1 troll pants, and (presumably) your level 3 leather helmet and cape would be 23 armor, but now with an added 5% movement penalty for the bronze chest piece. so your armor value would hardly change and now you move slightly slower than before

enemy damage won't change unless the enemy was starred, as most enemies can come in 1, and even 2 star variants which massively buff their stats, as an example:

a skeleton has:
40 HP
and does 25 slash damage with a sword, or 20 pierce with a bow

a 1 star is:
80 HP
37.5 Slash
30 Pierce

2 Star:
120 HP
50 slash
40 Pierce

so you may of run into some of those potentially, because otherwise you really shouldn't notice much of a difference in protection, it'll be about what it was prior