Shattered Kingdoms

I agree with Orac. I haven't noticed any increase on pets due to MV. Armor on the other hand...

I could see it going either way. If hide is a 'meta item' that could be repaired if it could be taken off, I don't see why the spell wouldn't apply. Since equipment could theoretically move around a lot during the duration of MV and removing/adding the benefit to actual pieces of equipment could create many potential instances of error, I'm lead to believe the effect is more generally placed, conditionally, on equipment slots themselves. The question becomes how often that condition is evaluated, then.... huh, wow, that's a lot to think about, actually.

This is one of those things where clarification would be nice. I'm not so sure personal experience cuts it for something as deceptively simple as this.

The relevant personal experience I'm citing (and that I'm assuming Orac is referring to) is that despite casting MV on pets at various level ranges and against various NPCs, I've never noticed any pet's hide start deflecting blows it wasn't previously. I've also never noticed it's health start going down noticably slower. If MV worked on pet hides, I would expect 1 of those two things to happen. You're right that it isn't scientific but it's enough to convince me. I suppose if I were truly interested I'd go find a pet with plant hide or something, MV it, and test it against something that would normally fracture plant hide. But I'm not gonna!

Heh! I didn't mean to discount your claim, only to add my curiosity to the mix. I'm fairly sure its safe to take your word for it, on a practical level.

So the moral is that we haven't noticed Magical Vestment as something that would be of use on pets.