I am trying to decide on the armor I want to give to my Berserker-thief. Does improved Maevar still drop the original shadow armor or is it different?
Thanks
Improved Mae'Var Armor
If I recall correctly, the armor is the same. Please note that I could be wrong as I haven't played Improved Mae'var for good while now. I'll just supply this tentative answer until someone that knows for sure pipes up. 
In the some games, full plate is sometimes a good armor to use. You can switch that armor out with another armor if you need thief skills. Perhaps, the shadow dragon armor? For sure the leather armor +3 allows the use of thief skills. You can take that from a bad guy in a certain building in the Temple district.
In the some games, full plate is sometimes a good armor to use. You can switch that armor out with another armor if you need thief skills. Perhaps, the shadow dragon armor? For sure the leather armor +3 allows the use of thief skills. You can take that from a bad guy in a certain building in the Temple district.
Yes he drops the same armour. Just finished the quest coupple of days ago.
But there are better armour for thieves around: The night's gift is similar but better, way better are Shadow dragon scale, Aeger hide (from Ribald), lately bladesinger (improvable in ToB), human flesh armour if you are evil; also improved aeger hide, improved human flesh and incarnadine chain if you have the item upgrade mod.
And with UAI and the right stats you can wear Jan and Valigar armours as well (the latter improvable with the mod).
In Tob you can get White dragon scale, gran master armour and leather of thorns (late in the game though).
But there are better armour for thieves around: The night's gift is similar but better, way better are Shadow dragon scale, Aeger hide (from Ribald), lately bladesinger (improvable in ToB), human flesh armour if you are evil; also improved aeger hide, improved human flesh and incarnadine chain if you have the item upgrade mod.
And with UAI and the right stats you can wear Jan and Valigar armours as well (the latter improvable with the mod).
In Tob you can get White dragon scale, gran master armour and leather of thorns (late in the game though).
thanks. thats a pretty comprehensive list. i am looking for armors that dont reduce thieving abilities like hide in shadows, move silently etc. Most of the armors, even aeger's hide, have a penalty
i am currently using nights gift + 5 which has no penalty and +20% to Move Silently. I want to play the game this time as a proper thief making full use of sneaking around and backstabbing the back side of evil, and I dont want to be changing armors frequently during the game (if I backstab an enemy party member and become visible, I cant change armor in combat anyway). so i was hoping that Maevars Shadow armor which give +15% hide in shadows would have been improved too
are there any armors that dont reduce thief skills but are AC 0 or 1?
thanks
i am currently using nights gift + 5 which has no penalty and +20% to Move Silently. I want to play the game this time as a proper thief making full use of sneaking around and backstabbing the back side of evil, and I dont want to be changing armors frequently during the game (if I backstab an enemy party member and become visible, I cant change armor in combat anyway). so i was hoping that Maevars Shadow armor which give +15% hide in shadows would have been improved too
are there any armors that dont reduce thief skills but are AC 0 or 1?
thanks
I don't know how much is implemented the penalty of armours for thieving abilities, but they never hindered my thieves. Also in the medium term there are a lot of items that enhance thieving abilities, while long run the ability points a far too many that you will not know where to but them. So for me that is not a problem, put the best armour that enables thiving skills and you are fit.