I’ve noticed something. When people punch you in the game… it tears your mail armour to ribbons… its durability can reach 0 in a prolonged fist-fight. This is utterly absurd, and I was tempted to post this point in the bugs section.
Bare hands should inflict practically no damage to armour, you can beat on it all day and all you’ll break is your fingers. Hopefully modders will fix this in the future.