I agree with the topic, but upon discovery that a bronze plate and a bronze helmet would let you fight every animal up to boars without the armor even getting scratched as long as you kept yellow defenses up, I'm not sure if bronze helmet is that bad considering how easy it is to get compared to winged helmet, and how easy the quality is to get higher up for hermits and players who generally can't splurge enough materials to go high quality ore hunting/slag RNG tripping.
The only thing that seemed to cause 3 damage to the armor was tusk romp, but that can easily be avoided by just not punching for a few seconds.


Leather gilding would be super cool though.