[Kameron8]

I don't think it needs a change in reduction at all. Just let people use more armors. 25% less damage from all sources just sounds horribly overpowered.

Protection and Magic Protection is just a flat reduction to the amount of damage you take after defenses, only coming before DR, I think.

Even if Weathered Body dropped your torso's armor and m.armor to 0, it'd still be worth it. Because armor and m.armor is nigh useless with the numbers that get tossed around.

Agreed, on both accounts. I think we'll find that even if every single unarmored cloth torso is put on the table, the vast majority of people will still opt for the Cloak of Many Colors. Statistically, it's extremely solid. From a non-optimized standpoint, however, the option to choose some interesting torsos like the elemental gis or the Dragon Gi would be much appreciated -- some people just don't want to be carbon copies of every other punch man if they can help it.