Wow. That's a bit of info! Thank you very much, Raze. I love these older games - people know quite a bit about them by this point. It's also good to see a dev surviving this long.

I had read about the one-time set bonus and had no problems getting that.

I'm not sure if I want to get into hex editing. I've never messed with that so I'm looking at tweaking my skills. More later.

While I do that, I'm also (obviously) interested in not having this happen again. I had significant resistances that contributed greatly to keeping me alive - particularly necessary while trying to fight these higher level creatures. Does this breastplate have to be clear of any resistances, bonuses and/or unnamed? ie, can I edit the Larian armor to take it's place?