Why does banded Iron armor not count as a matched set with iron armor? I can wear banded iron armor with iron gauntlets and boots and not receive the bonus of a matched set, why? This means that standard iron cuirass is better overall with this perk, and why can I with 100 smithing upgrade daedric to legendary but iron only to flawless? Wtf?

Also, I've yet to see some of the features mighty Todd and other devs were boasting about. I've dropped countless weapons, armor, and items in front of NPC's and they have never said anything or started a fight over the object, where is the AI they boasted about?

There's a quest where you are supposed to give money to a father so his son can get weapons and armors, but if you drop the armors the son will ask you 'can I have those?'.

I haven't got matched set to work yet. Full set of blades armour? nope.. full set of plated steel? nope... full set of ebony? You wish.

Compared armour rating before and after switching unmatched items.. never once worked. *sniff*

I think its broken

I can see that the well fitted perk (25% extra when wearing all heavy) works and the matched set perk works for dragon, ebony, daedric, orcish, imperial and nordic/standard steel as well as plate, though it doesnt seem to be working for iron or banded iron. Which is annoying because I want to have a full set of iron with a banded iron cuirass, for roleplaying and aesthetic purposes.

This is completely unrelated, but since downloading the 1.2 patch no enemies are respawning, like at all. Well at least, they are not respawning on the new game i started AFTER downloading the patch, on my old saves they respawn fine, but on any new save they don't. I probably should post that in the glitch forum. I'm a bit upset with the problem (and the few other problems) i;ve found with the armors. I though they would have at lest had the armor down pat, quests and stuff we can expect errors but armor?

the reason for that is the name "banded" iron chest pieace isnt part of the set, its only the ones with iron amor, iron boots, etc, same happens with elven armor if it has a name different to elven only the perk will not work

cheerz hope this helpz

I've seen someone steal my gems, but for some reason they bring back gear/weapons. Pretty cool AI to me