From the game's files, battle hardened defender armor stats are :
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If you want to have a lighter, and more tanky juggernaut, you should upgrade it.
If it's really worth it ? I can't really answer as I don't have enough gold to get half the upgrade's price, but I'd say it's a bit too expensive to my point of view.
Edit : didn't see about imperial halfplate
BH IHP - blue stats :
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As strange as it could be ... BH IHP - red stats
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I'd say it's probably a bug or simply hasn't been done yet and is left for people searching through game code to find confusing, but it seems that the game wants the blue one to be better than the red one
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If you want to have a lighter, and more tanky juggernaut, you should upgrade it.
If it's really worth it ? I can't really answer as I don't have enough gold to get half the upgrade's price, but I'd say it's a bit too expensive to my point of view.
Edit : didn't see about imperial halfplate
BH IHP - blue stats :
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As strange as it could be ... BH IHP - red stats
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I'd say it's probably a bug or simply hasn't been done yet and is left for people searching through game code to find confusing, but it seems that the game wants the blue one to be better than the red one