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Helmets occupy the head slot of the Druid's loadout. Pre-launch material confirms helmets as a slot separate from body armor, allowing players to mix and match defenses. Specific helmet types, stats, and set bonuses are still unconfirmed.

Role in the Loadout

• Specific defenses. Helmets often carry resistances against particular damage types or status effects, complementing the broader physical mitigation on body armor.

• Perception slots. In comparable ARPGs, helmets sometimes carry visibility, awareness, or critical-hit bonuses. Whether Fatekeeper's helmets do is unconfirmed.

• Visual presence. Helmets affect the Druid's silhouette in the trailers. The team has shown both heavy-helm and hooded-cloth variations in pre-launch footage.

First-Person View Considerations

Fatekeeper is a first-person ARPG, which changes how helmet design matters compared to a third-person ARPG. The player rarely sees their own helmet on screen, so cosmetic helm design matters less for moment-to-moment immersion than for preview / cinematics. Conversely, helmets that obstruct the screen edge or alter the field of view (closed visors, half-cages, breathing slits) are a real design lever the team can use to convey weight at the cost of visibility.

In practice this likely means most helmets are visually neutral inside the FPV bubble, with their identity living in inventory tooltips, looted set names, and silhouette in cinematics.

Hood vs Helm

Pre-launch trailer footage shows the Druid in a heavy hood as a baseline, with full helms appearing on enemies more often than on the protagonist. Hood-versus-helm is shaping up to be both a cosmetic identity slider and a defensive trade-off: hoods favor mobility and class fantasy, helms favor mitigation and full-face protection.

Synergies

Open Questions

• Specific named helmets are not revealed.

• Weight categories, mixed set bonuses, and visibility implications in the first-person view are pending the Early Access build.

• Whether helmets have transmog / appearance overrides for cinematics is unconfirmed.