Armor

Armor can be divided into three different catagories with various types of each. Each type has particular strengths and weaknesses and suit the needs of different character builds and play styles. Each category of armors gives different stats as proficiency increases if the player is wearing the full set of armor

Cloth Armor

Cloth armors gives the lowest physical/magical mitigation but also has the lowest burden and no Interference. Cloth armor also increases Magic Accuracy and Evade Chance

Cotton	Protective mage cloth; drops in variants that boost generic protection and elemental mitigation
Gossamer	Proficiency-boosting mage cloth; drops in variants that boost magic proficiencies, as well as the generic Fox/Owl type
Phase	Rare elemental-boosting mage cloth with zero burden and high evade; drops in variants that boost elemental damage, as well as the generic Fox/Owl type

When wearing all cloth armor, every 10 proficiency in cloth armor gives:

• + 0.25% Spell Crit Chance
• + 0.5% Magical Mitigation
• + 1 Wisdom

Light Armor

Light armors have moderate physical mitigation and low to moderate magical mitigation with moderate burden and Interference. Light armors also increase Evade and Resist Chance.

Leather	Basic physical protection light armor; drops in variants that boosts physical protection by various ways
Dragon Hide	High-resist elemental and magical protection light armor; drops in variants that increase resistance and elemental protection Note: Dragon Hide Armor has been rolled into Leather Armor as of patch 0.6.1.
Kevlar	Rare high-mitigation physical protect light armor; drops in variants that further boost physical protection
Shade	Rare low-burden high-evade/resist armor with physical damage/accuracy bonuses; drops in variants that boost evade/resist, crit/hit chances and primary attributes, as well as reductions in burden/interference

When wearing all light armor, every 10 proficiency in light armor gives:

• + 0.25% Attack Crit Chance
• + 0.5% Resist
• + 1 Agility

Heavy Armor

Heavy armors have high physical mitigation and moderate magical mitigation with high burden and Interference.

Plate	Highest physical protection heavy armor; drops in variants that boosts physical protection, resistance, or elemental protection
Shield	Rare physical protection heavy armor with block bonus;
Power Armor	Rare physical protection heavy armor with physical damage/accuracy/critical bonuses;

When wearing all heavy armor, every 10 proficiency in heavy armor gives:

• + 0.5% Crushing/Slashing/Piercing Mitigation
• - 1 Burden
• + 1 Endurance

Note: These lists describes armors that are currently on the loot table. The equipment shop may contain armors from previous versions of the game with stats that may not reflect the current descriptions on the current loot list or types of armors that have been removed from the list such as silk cloth armor and chainmail heavy armor.

See Also

• Damage Absorption & Mitigation
• Damage Avoidance
• Equipment
• Equipment Suffixes
• Item World
• Level Scaling
• Weapons