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[Bo-Rufus CMVII]

I'm having troble parsing this sentence in the wiki:

Non-armor users tend to get slowed down significantly if wearing more than 1 piece of armor with 15-25 units of weight.

Does the number of pieces have anything to do with it, or just the total weight?

Does speed degrade gracefully as weight is added, or are there thresholds to watch out for?

And if thresholds, does anyone know what they are?

[GhostDwemer]

Pretty sure speed goes down with total weight carried, and armor weight is reduced by a percentage determined by the armor user skill.

[Sutremaine]

It's total weight. Once a dwarf hits its encumbrance limit, further items will slow it down very quickly. The heavy armour items such as mail shirts, breastplates, leggings, and greaves are much heavier than the other armour items. Mail shirts and leggings are slightly lighter than breastplates and greaves, and take fewer materials, but don't provide much protection against blunt attacks.

There are no thresholds for the rate of speed loss, though there is a threshold at which the speed loss starts.