Crafted Armor

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Basics

Categories of Armor Crafting

The Craft tab of the Skills panel displays five categories of armor crafting, one for each race:

Armor: Empyrean
Armor: Drudge
Armor: Human
Armor: Lugian
Armor: Tumerok

Subcategories of Armor Crafting

Within each racial category there are subcategories for different items of armor, based on where the armor is worn. Each race has six such categories:

Worn On	Human	Tumerok	Lugian	Empyrean	Drudge
Head	Helms	Shakos	Heaumes	Helms	Hats
Torso	Jackets	Breastplates	Pauldrons	Breastplates	Armor
Torso and Legs	Robes	Robes	Robes	Robes	Rags
Legs	Greaves	Leggings	Kilts	Leggings	Shinguards
Hands	Gloves	Bracers	Gauntlets	Gauntlets	Wristguards
Feet	Boots	Moccasins	Sandals	Boots	Sandals

Additional sub-categories include:

Miscellaneous Recipes - Armor Dyeing. Despite being under a specific racial category, armor pieces of any race may use any dye recipe.
Practice Recipes - Practice Empyrean Armor. These recipes require the least amount of materials and are ideal for improving a crafter's skill.
Lodestones - Device. Used to create items for the Sigil of Unity quests.

Styles and Tiers

Most subcategories have four recipes to choose from, the exception being robes and Drudges (see Notes on Drudge Armor Crafting below). Each recipe has its own "style", which can be viewed via the Examine panel. These styles are associated with a certain beneficial effect or effects. For simplicity, styles are often referred to in-game as "tiers", which is derived from the order in which they appear in the panel. Additionally, the recipe title indicates which style it is, using common titles between all subcategories of a given race.

Style	Tier	Human	Tumerok	Lugian	Empyrean	Drudge
Light	1	Soft Leather	Vine	Scout	Soft Leather	Skull
Flexible	2	Brigandine	Tribal	Skirmisher	Brigandine	Spiked
Reinforced	3	Cuirboulli	Ritual	Warrior	Cuirboulli	Board
Battle	4	Augmented	Savage	Stalwart	Augmented	Painted Wood

The following outlines the effects of a given item of armor depending on its Tier:

Worn On	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4
Head	+ Health Regeneration	+ Maximum Vigor	+ Chance to Negate All Damage	+ Armor Rating
Torso	+ Health Regeneration	+ Maximum Vigor	+ Chance to Negate All Damage	+ Armor Rating
Torso and Legs	-	+ Maximum Vigor + Enchantment Slots	-	-
Legs	+ Health Regeneration	+ Maximum Vigor	+ Chance to Negate All Damage	+ Armor Rating
Hands	+ Health Regeneration	+ Maximum Vigor	+ Melee, Missile and Magic Accuracy	+ Armor Rating
Feet	+ Health Regeneration	+ Maximum Vigor	+ Movement Speed	+ Armor Rating

Item Level

Within a recipe there is the option to change its Item Level. When crafting a piece of armor at Item Levels 1-50, the Requirements for Use of the resulting item will include a Minimum Level corresponding to the Item Level. For crafts above level 50, the Requirements for Use will include a set amount of Arcane Lore.

See Arcane Lore (Crafting).

Recipe Difficulty

When examining a recipe there is given a difficulty range. This difficulty value determines, in relation to your skill level in the appropriate craft category, what the chance to succeed will be. The chance to succeed is then reflected in the color of the recipe title, with an approximate success rate being: green (100% and no craft XP), blue (90%), white (70%), yellow (50%), red (30%), purple (10%) and grey (0%, not attemptable). A skill level equal to that of the recipe's difficulty will result in a white recipe.

The difficulty of a recipe increases both with Item Level and with Tier, such that an Item Level 1, Tier 1 recipe will be the easiest to succeed with while a Level 100, Tier 4 recipe will be the most difficult. The following outlines such difficulty scaling:

IL	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4
1	1	-	-	-
15	45	55	-	-
25	75	85	100	-
35	105	115	130	150
50	150	160	175	195
100	300	310	325	345

To determine the difficulty of a given recipe, use the following formula:

(Item Level * 3) + (L100 Difficulty - 300)
The exception to this rule being Item Level 1, Tier 1 recipes.

Materials

The following is a summary of all gathered materials:

Mined	Refined	Butchered
Bone Iron Silver Stone Wood	Dramastic Moonglass Runewood Steel Tukalite	Bone Chitin Hide Sinew Tallow

The following is a summary of all NPC-bought materials:

Bought	Cost (GpU)	NPC	Location
Coal	0.5	Wolfgang the Trader Ilse the Trader Ursula the Trader	Cragstone (32.1N, 13.4W) Ikeras (10.6N, 62.1E) Linvak Tukal (10.0S, 31.2W)
Flawless Pyreal	50	Sabine the Trader	Cragstone (15.9N, 28.8E)
Gathered Deruwood	50	Harald the Trader	Hakata (8.7N, 75.4E)
Imbued Obsidian	50	Frank the Trader	Ondekodo (19.9S, 31.2W)

The following outlines which materials are used in which craft recipes:

	Practice	---	Tier 1 and Tier 2	---	Tier 3 and Tier 4
Human
Tumerok
Lugian
Empyrean
Drudge

Note that the number of different materials involved in a recipe increases with Item Level.

Gallery

Human

Soft Leather Tier 1	Brigandine Tier 2	Robe Tier 2	Cuirboulli Tier 3	Augmented Tier 4

Tumerok

Vine Tier 1	Tribal Tier 2	Robe Tier 2	Ritual Tier 3	Savage Tier 4

Lugian

Scout Tier 1	Skirmisher Tier 2	Robe Tier 2	Warrior Tier 3	Stalwart Tier 4

Empyrean

Soft Leather Tier 1	Brigandine Tier 2	Robe Tier 2	Cuirboulli Tier 3	Augmented Tier 4

Drudge

Skull Tier 1	Spiked Tier 2	Rags Tier 2	Board Tier 3	Painted Wood Tier 4

Statistics

Armor Rating

The basic Armor Rating of a piece of armor:

Increases with Item Level.
Differs depending on where the item is worn.
Has variation within a small range of 1-3 points.
Will gain a bonus if the craft is a critical success.

IL	IL	IL	IL	IL
1	21	41	61	81
2	22	42	62	82
3	23	43	63	83
4	24	44	64	84
5	25	45	65	85
6	26	46	66	86
7	27	47	67	87
8	28	48	68	88
9	29	49	69	89
10	30	50	70	90
11	31	51	71	91
12	32	52	72	92
13	33	53	73	93
14	34	54	74	94
15	35	55	75	95
16	36	56	76	96
17	37	57	77	97
18	38	58	78	98
19	39	59	79	99
20	40	60	80	100

Combat Delay

The Combat Delay of an armor piece is random within a set range. This range is constant regardless of Item Level. The standard range is 5-19, with robes being the exception, having a range of approximately 10-40.

Enchantment Slots

Tier 1

Armor pieces of Tier 1 have an effect which increases the user's health regeneration rate. The amount is constant regardless of Item Level and only differs depending on where the piece is worn.

Tier 2

Armor pieces of Tier 2 provide a bonus to the user's maximum vigor. The amount increases with Item Level and differs depending on where the piece is worn.

Additionally, robes provide one extra enchantment slot. This amount is constant regardless of Item Level.

IL	IL	IL	IL	IL
1	21	41	61	81
2	22	42	62	82
3	23	43	63	83
4	24	44	64	84
5	25	45	65	85
6	26	46	66	86
7	27	47	67	87
8	28	48	68	88
9	29	49	69	89
10	30	50	70	90
11	31	51	71	91
12	32	52	72	92
13	33	53	73	93
14	34	54	74	94
15	35	55	75	95
16	36	56	76	96
17	37	57	77	97
18	38	58	78	98
19	39	59	79	99
20	40	60	80	100

Tier 3

Armor pieces of Tier 3 vary in effect.

Pieces worn on the head, torso and legs provide a chance to negate all incoming damage. The amount is constant regardless of Item Level but differs depending on where the piece is worn.

Hand armor provides a bonus to melee, missile and magic accuracy values. The amount increases with Item Level.

Foot armor provides a bonus to movement speed. The amount is constant regardless of Item Level.

Tier 4

Armor pieces of Tier 4 provide a bonus to the pieces own Armor Rating. The amount increases with Item Level and differs depending on where the piece is worn.

Notes on Drudge Armor Crafting

To unlock Armor: Drudge craft recipes, complete the following quests:

Limitations to crafted Drudge armor include:

Shinguards, Wristguards and Sandals have 50% Armor Rating compared to other races.
Armor, Shinguards, Wristguards and Sandals do not have the option for Tier 1 or Tier 2 recipes.

Variations within crafted Drudge armor include:

The minimum Item Level for Tier 2 recipes is 1 as opposed to 15 for the other races.
The minimum Item Level for Tier 3 recipes is 15 as opposed to 25 for the other races.
The minimum Item Level for Tier 4 recipes is 25 as opposed to 35 for the other races.
The difficulty of Tier 2 recipes scale 1 (L1) - 300 (L100) as opposed to 55 (L15) - 310 (L100).
The difficulty of Tier 3 recipes scale 55 (L1) - 310 (L100) as opposed to 100 (L25) - 325 (L100).
Rags use the 5-19 Combat Delay range instead of the higher range used for robes.
Male and female Drudges are anatomically identical; there is no visual difference in their armor.