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Armours protect a player by reducing incoming damage. The system is built around four tiers of body armour, a separate shield slot, and an explicit multiplicative formula that determines the final damage taken. Heavier armour gives more mitigation but locks the player out of certain weapon families, which makes the choice of armour a real loadout commitment rather than a dump-stat upgrade.

Armour Tiers

Body armour is divided into chest, leg, and head pieces, each available in four tiers. Tiers improve mitigation but also weight; the heaviest tiers also carry the bow and spear restriction.

Clothing

Players who do not wear armour pieces wear basic clothing: Common Garment for the chest and Common Bottoms for the legs. Clothing provides minimal protection and is intended for civilian roles or as the underlayer beneath other armour.

Shields

Mitigation Formula

Armour mitigation is multiplicative across pieces, not additive. If three armour pieces have mitigation values A, B, and C, the total damage reduction is calculated as 1 minus the product of (1 minus each individual mitigation).

Final mitigation = 1 - ((1 - A) × (1 - B) × (1 - C))

Stacking heavy pieces therefore has diminishing returns: each successive heavy piece adds less than the one before. Quality variants modify a piece's base mitigation upward by 10, 20, or 30 percent depending on the quality tier rolled at craft time.

The Heavy Armour Trade-off

The most important rule on this page is the weapon restriction. Heavy and Reinforced armour pieces prevent the wearer from arming bows or spears. A heavy-plated melee fighter cannot also be a long-range threat without first taking off armour pieces. This rule shapes army composition: a faction needs distinct heavy infantry, light skirmishers, and dedicated archers, because no single player can be both.

Related Pages

• Weapons

• Combat

• Sieges

• Crafting and Resources