Armor

Armor is what keeps you alive between good food and a solid block. Every set is tied to a biome and a material tier. Heavy sets give the most protection but cost movement speed. Light and mage sets trade some armor for speed, stealth, bow skill or eitr regeneration.

Slots

Armor uses six slots:

• Helmet: pure protection with no movement penalty.
• Chest: the highest armor value, usually with a movement penalty on heavy sets.
• Legs: matches the chest and carries the second half of the movement penalty on heavy sets.
• Cape: low armor but high utility (frost resistance, fall damage immunity, stamina and more).
• Trinkets: no armor, but unique effects and adrenaline triggers.
• Accessories: the utility slot, holding one item that carries more, finds treasure or clears the mist.

Only the chest and legs normally reduce movement speed. Helmets and capes do not.

Heavy, Light and Mage

• Heavy (Bronze, Iron, Wolf, Padded, Carapace, Flametal): maximum armor, usually at −10 % movement speed. This is the default choice for melee and tank play.
• Light (Troll, Root, Fenris, Vilebone, Ask and similar): lower armor and little or no speed penalty, often with useful set bonuses (sneak, bow skill, movement speed, stamina).
• Mage (Eitr-weave, Embla): the lowest physical protection but strong eitr regeneration. You need it for serious staff builds.

Poison and spirit damage ignore armor entirely. Your only real defence against them is resistance from individual pieces, set bonuses or meads.

Progression by Biome

• Meadows: Leather (the first real set).
• Black Forest: Troll (light and sneak) or Bronze (heavy).
• Swamp: Root (bow and poison resist) or Iron (heavy).
• Mountains: Fenris (speed plus frost and fire resist) or Wolf (heavy, with built-in frost resist).
• Plains: Padded (the highest armor for a long stretch) or Vilebone (the light alternative).
• Mistlands: Carapace (heavy) or Eitr-weave (mage).
• Ashlands: Flametal (heavy), Ask (light, stamina) or Embla (mage).
• Deep North: Protector (heavy, the most armour in the game), Vanguard (medium, with a set bonus) or Caller (mage).

Fully upgrading a set adds a significant amount of armor. Quality does not change movement speed or set bonuses.

Useful Set Bonuses

A few sets are worth wearing just for their full-set effect:

• Troll: +15 Sneak.
• Root: +15 Bows, plus poison and pierce resistance (but weak to fire).
• Fenris: +9 % movement speed, +15 Fists, and fire and frost resistance.
• Vilebone: strong health and stamina regeneration, plus blunt and pierce damage.
• Eitr-weave and Embla: large eitr regeneration bonuses for magic builds.
• Vanguard: cheaper running and dodging, +10% health and stamina regeneration, and +10% pierce damage.

All Armor Categories

Armor Sets

Here is every set in the game, from rags to flametal, with what each one is worth at every quality and the bonus for wearing the whole thing.

Set	Image	Biome	Type	Pieces	Quality 1	Quality 2	Quality 3	Quality 4	Weight	Movement	Set Bonus
Rag Armor		Meadows	Light	2	2	4	-	-	4	0%	-
Leather Armor		Meadows	Light	4	7	14	21	28	15	0%	-
Troll Set		Black Forest	Light	4	19	26	33	40	15	0%	+15 Sneaking
Bear Set		Black Forest	Light	3	21	27	33	39	11	0%	Berserk: +30% health regen, +15% stamina regen, +10% slash and chop, and 25% more blunt, slash and pierce taken
Bronze Armor		Black Forest	Heavy	3	24	30	36	42	23	-10%	-
Root Set		Swamp	Light	3	24	30	36	42	23	-4%	+15 Bows
Iron Armor		Swamp	Heavy	3	42	48	54	60	33	-10%	-
Fenris Set		Mountain	Light	3	30	36	42	48	21	+9%	+15 Fists, and fire resistance on every piece
Wolf Armor		Mountain	Heavy	4	61	68	75	82	37	-10%	-
Vilebone Set		Plains	Light	3	48	54	60	66	11	0%	Vilebone Wrath: +20% health regen, +40% stamina regen, +20% blunt and pierce, and 25% more blunt, slash and pierce taken
Padded Armor		Plains	Heavy	4	79	86	93	100	27	-10%	-
Eitr-weave Set		Mistlands	Mage	4	49	56	63	70	15	-4%	-
Carapace Armor		Mistlands	Heavy	3	96	102	108	114	23	-10%	-
Embla Set		Ashlands	Mage	3	57	63	69	75	11	-4%	-
Ask Set		Ashlands	Light	3	84	90	96	102	11	0%	Ask's Endurance: -10% run and jump stamina, -20% attack stamina, +10% pierce
Flametal Armor		Ashlands	Heavy	3	114	120	126	132	23	-10%	-
Protector Armor		Deep North	Heavy	3	132	138	144	150	11	0%	-
Vanguard Set		Deep North	Medium	3	102	108	114	120	11	0%	-10% run stamina, -20% dodge stamina, +10% health and stamina regen, +10% pierce damage
Caller Set		Deep North	Mage	3	66	72	78	84	11	-4%	-

Notes

• Your armor rating is the sum of all equipped pieces.
• Heavy sets usually cost −5 % movement on the chest and −5 % on the legs.
• Capes and helmets never carry a movement penalty.
• Poison and spirit ignore armor, so bring the right resistance or mead.
• Upgrading raises armor but never changes weight, speed penalty or set bonus.
• Equipping a newly upgraded piece unequips it first, so check your gear before leaving base.