Some info about armors.

I notice some people where all augmented, or all epic, and I can understand for looks, but if your after power, here is a list of the right mixes for weapon damage, crit chance and spell crit chance. I hope this helps people out.

All these heavy armors are with bronze bindings, sheets, coils and hard leather straps.
Plate chest - type normal - 10.2 weapon damage
Plate legs - type augmented - 6.6 weapon damage
Plate helm - type epic - 4.2 weapon damage
Plate gloves - type augmented - 2.8 weapon damage
Plate boots - type epic - 3 weapon damage

Chain chest - type normal - 10.2 weapon damage
Chain legs - type augmented - 6.6 weapon damage
Chain helm - type normal - 4 weapon damage
Chain gloves - type augmented - 2.8
Chain boots - type augmented - 2.4

All of these leather armors are with bronze binding and straps according to yard type, supple for weapon crit and hardened for weapon damage.
Chest - type epic - 10 weapon damage or 4 weapon crit
Legs - type epic 7 weapon damage or 3 weapon crit
Helm - type fortified - 4.4 weapon damage or 1.8 weapon crit
Gloves - type fortified - 3 weapon damage or 1.2 weapon crit
Boots - type fortified - 2.6 weapon damage or 1 weapon crit

All of this cloth is made with carapacian bolts and straps.
Chest - type fortified - 4.2 spell crit chance
Legs - type epic - 3 spell crit chance
Helm - type epic - 2 spell crit chance
Gloves - type epic - 1.4 spell crit chance
Boots - type epic - 1.2 spell crit chance

If I made any mistakes please let me know.

 

Good info, though I'm more interested in armor defenses personally.

 

Ok, I can work on that next.

 

Thank you very much! Incredibly useful resource

 

Just to clarify, it is the count of the yards/bolts/sheets in each type versus the number of straps/bindings that makes one type more appealing. Thanks for the thread, a lot of people do not consider this.

 

Yes, its all dependent on the mat count in each piece. If you want to see examples of pretty much everything, Scoffer Kada has a crafting museum set up in renzia, nest pot in desolis.

 

My goal was to get the highest dodge first and the highest damage bonus second. Here's what I wear:

• Hardened leather helm.
• Hardened epic leather chest armor with leather straps and bronze bindings.
• Hardened epic leather leggings with leather straps.
• Hardened fortified leather gloves with leather straps and a bronze binding.
• Hardened fortified leather boots with a leather strap and a bronze binding.

I didn't use hardened leather for the straps because then I would get a damage bonus and no dodge bonus.

 

I have found that the differences in epic cloth are so little that it came to the "look" that I wanted. Style does count.

 

That's what patterns are for.

 

awesome info thanks so much

what were your dodge numbers if you dont mind me asking?

 

• Helm = +4% damage, +1.6 dodge.
• Chest = +8.4% damage, +3.7 dodge.
• Leggings = +5% damage, +2.6 dodge.
• Gloves = +2.2% damage, +1.1 dodge.
• Boots = +2.2% damage, +0.9 dodge.

 

I don't have all the numbers...

I went all Augmented Leather on my latest, using White Iron Bindings for everything, as I wanted to punch up the Health Bonus. I have been finding no appreciable difference in terms of difficulty in dealing with mobs, I just have more hit points. I'll probably fiddle with dodge next time.

There's still so many more metal binding recipes that I need... I really should have spent more time researching recipes while I still could... LOL

 

Thanks boss!

 

Just going to bump this as many people still ask about this.

 

missed this completely. thanks for the bump @Mac2

 

good stuff!!!

 

These are the kind of posts I lurk the forums for, very much appreciated!

 

@Barugon is this still the optimal Dodge set up? Thank you

 

Glad you did, I missed it the first time around.

 

Thank you finally some info relevant to my build!