Talk:Silk Lingerie/@comment-80.217.196.85-20141007015651/@comment-24458380-20141012061354

Upgrading armor will never produce a deleterious effect for the player. Some armor have native negative effects (like -3% against Holy damage), but upgrading such armor reduces or completely negates these deleterious effects.

I think what you are referring to is that upgrading some armor will INCREASE YOUR DEFENSE against Lowered Strength, Lowered Magick Attack, Lowered Defense, etc.

In other words, the icons you see indicating a percentage with a sword (or staff or shield) and an arrow pointing downward is an INCREASED amount of protection against these debilitations that will weaken you.

Does that make better sense ?