User blog comment:Penguinkangaroo/Weight as a Weapon/@comment-12176593-20130726233808

A better example would be "I have no armor because I only have iron/steel weapons and I'm waiting to get mithril before I equip armor" You have some iron armor or steel just for trading and a guy with a mithril sword and no armor chases you. You know you can't beat a guy with a mithril weapon so you drop the armor and run.

Of course, I never make any armor other than mithril because it is a waste of time and nobody is interested in armor other than hide/mithril. So this situation would never happen to me.