Equipment

[Karjus]

Not sure anyone will find this useful, but started keeping little notes on things in the game. Figured I'd post some of the equipment up, apologies for the fact it isn't very organized! Depending on how long I keep making my own information, I'll try and update this now and then.

Notes

-Cost/Sell are based on Nightmare. I've no idea if the price changes on other game difficulties. Expect a lot of the Sell column to remain blank as I don't have the spare coin to purchase every item to just fill it in unless I need the item myself.
-Location Purchased is just that, a settlement where the item can be bought at Cost.
-Location Found lists the general area where the item either has a guaranteed drop from either a hidden spot or chest, and where it can be given as a quest reward.

Armor and Toughness Reduction

The amount of damage armor can absorb is worked out as follows.
A) Total all your armor together into one sum.
B) Your armor will always stop 50% of the total sum.
C) Your armor will also then stop an additional number, worked out by randomizing the other 50% of your total armor.

Example: Total Armor of 50. It will always block 25 damage, and then block an additional 1-25 resulting in a range of 26-50.

Toughness also reduces the damage taken, following the same rules as Armor.

Reference to Post with information: startradersrpg.proboards.com/post/66380

Weapon	Type	AP Used	Ability Used	Accuracy	Parry	Damage	Location Purchased	Cost	Sell	Location Found	Bonus
Long Knife	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	1	1	8-17	-	-	5	Initial Equipment	-
Half Blade	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	2	1	9-14	-	-		Initial Equipment	-
Hunter's Knife	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	2	1	8-15	-	-	12	-	-
Hilted Dagger	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	1	3	10-15	Oskahold	109		-	-
Infantry Dagger	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	2	1	8-18	-	-	20	-	-
Parrying Dagger	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	1	6	12-16	-	-		-	-
Long Blade	Light Blade	2	Dexterity	2	2	10-21	-	-		Initial Equipment	-
Broad Dagger	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	2	1	12-22	Oskahold	156		-	-
Scything Dagger	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	3	3	12-21	Riven Field	400		-	-
Vrotta Dagger	Light Blade	2	Dexterity	3	3	17-36	-	-		-	-
Sai Sword	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	3	4	20-24	Advanced Siege Camp	662		-	-
Hilted Long Blade	Light Blade	2	Dexterity	2	6	20-40	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	712		-	-
Scything Blade	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	4	1	18-36	Advanced Siege Camp	942		-	-
Scything Blade (Quality)	Light Blade	1	Dexterity	6	1	18-37	-	-		-	-
Training Blade	1-H Sword	2	Strength	2	2	10-21	-	-	8	Initial Equipment	-
Infantry Sword	1-H Sword	2	Strength	2	2	12-28	-	-	28	-	-
Arming Blade	1-H Sword	2	Strength	2	2	14-31	Oskahold	162		-	-
Short Sword	1-H Sword	2	Strength	2	3	14-30	Oskahold	213		-	-
Keen Arming Blade	1-H Sword	2	Strength	3	3	20-34	-	-		-	-
Broadsword	1-H Sword	3	Strength	3	3	20-46	-	-		-	-
Keen Infantry Blade	1-H Sword	2	Strength	3	3	26-40	Riven Field	573		-	-
Heavy Sabre	1-H Sword	2	Strength	3	4	24-44	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	744		-	-
Captain Lukai's Blade	1-H Sword	2	Strength	3	4	32-48	-	-	168	Oskahold	-
Cross Blade	1-H Sword	2	Strength	3	4	26-51	Advanced Siege Camp	942		-	-
Infantry Longsword	2-H Sword	2	Strength	2	1	18-30	-	-	19	-	-
Bastard Sword	2-H Sword	2	Strength	2	2	18-29	-	-	22	-	-
Cadet's Claymore	2-H Sword	2	Strength	2	2	18-34	Oskahold	178	44	-	-
Longsword	2-H Sword	2	Strength	3	3	17-29	Oskahold	235		-	-
Highlands Blade	2-H Sword	3	Strength	4	3	26-46	-	-		-	-
Breach Blade	2-H Sword	3	Strength	4	4	26-51	-	-	142	-	-
Falchion	2-H Sword	3	Strength	4	4	28-62	Riven Field	793		-	-
Claymore	2-H Sword	3	Strength	4	5	33-66	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	1036	259	-	-
Baronblade	2-H Sword	3	Strength	5	5	36-71	Advanced Siege Camp	1325
Club	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	3	1	6-23	-	-	8	Initial Equipment Red Hill	-
Banded Club	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	3	1	12-28	-	-		-	-
Warden's Truncheon	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	3	1	14-31	Oskahold	168		-	-
Cadet's Mace	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	3	1	18-33	Oskahold	223		-	-
Spiked Club	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	3	1	20-36	-	-		-	-
Infantry Mace	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	3	1	30-40	-	-	106	-	-
Chaplain's Heavy Mace	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	4	3	28-42	-	-	158	Oskahold	-
Heavy Mace	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	4	2	25-40	Riven Field	583	145	-	-
Spiked Mace	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	4	2	30-45	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	760		-	-
Flanged Mace	1-H Hammer	2	Strength	4	2	35-52	Advanced Siege Camp	975		-	-
Truncheon	2-H Hammer	2	Strength	3	1	7-27	-	-	18	-	-
Cudgel	2-H Hammer	2	Strength	2	1	12-28	-	-		-	-
Bandit's Truncheon	2-H Hammer	2	Strength	2	1	12-32	-	-		-	-
Banded Cudgel	2-H Hammer	2	Strength	3	1	16-30	-	-		-	-
Infantry Flail	2-H Hammer	3	Strength	3	1	14-55	Oskahold	232	58	-	-
Bar Mace	2-H Hammer	3	Strength	3	1	36-50	Oskahold	310		-	-
Heavy Cudgel	2-H Hammer	3	Strength	4	1	30-54	-	-	100	-	-
Infantry Maul	2-H Hammer	3	Strength	4	2	34-69	Riven Field	806	201	-	-
Flail	2-H Hammer	3	Strength	5	2	40-73	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	1072		-	-
Great Hammer	2-H Hammer	3	Strength	5	2	47-81	Advanced Siege Camp	1358		-	-
Training Spear	1-H Spear	2	Strength	3	1	13-19	-	-	8	Red Hill	-
Hunting Barb	1-H Spear	2	Strength	3	2	15-21	-	-	28	-	-
Bladed Spear	1-H Spear	2	Strength	3	2	15-25	Oskahold	164	41	-	-
Cadet's Spear	1-H Spear	2	Strength	3	3	17-23	Oskahold	215		-	-
Light Spear	1-H Spear	2	Strength	4	3	24-35	Riven Field	573	143	-	-
Light Spear (Quality)	1-H Spear	2	Strength	5	3	24-35	-	-	153	-	-
Pit Barb	1-H Spear	2	Strength	4	4	24-38	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	744		-	-
Spear	1-H Spear	2	Strength	5	4	24-42	Advanced Siege Camp	961		-	-
Spear (Quality)	1-H Spear	2	Strength	6	4	24-44	-	-	259	-	-
Heavy Spear	2-H Spear	2	Strength	2	1	21-28	-	-		-	-
Broad Spear	2-H Spear	2	Strength	3	1	21-28	-	-		-	-
Guard's Spear	2-H Spear	2	Strength	3	2	21-27	-	-	33	-	-
Warrior's Spear	2-H Spear	3	Strength	3	2	26-50	Oskahold	245		-	-
Double Spear	2-H Spear	3	Strength	3	3	26-52	Oskahold	326	81	-	-
Poleaxe	2-H Spear	3	Strength	5	3	28-71	Riven Field	866		-	-
Runkah	2-H Spear	3	Strength	3	5	32-81	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	1104	276	-	-
Hooked Poleaxe	2-H Spear	3	Strength	6	4	44-77	Advanced Siege Camp	1437
Short Bow	Bow	2	Dexterity	2	-	8-14	-	-	8	Initial Equipment	-
Light Bow	Bow	2	Dexterity	2	-	10-17	-	-	17	-	-
Flatbow	Bow	2	Dexterity	3	-	10-17	Oskahold	116	29	-	-
Yew Bow	Bow	2	Dexterity	3	-	10-22	Oskahold	162	40	-	-
Ironwood Bow	Bow	2	Dexterity	3	-	13-23	Oskahold	218	54	-	-
Hunting Bow	Bow	2	Dexterity	3	-	15-26	Nordhold	278		-	-
Cadet's Bow	Bow	2	Dexterity	4	-	14-30	Nordhold	421		-	-
Ashwood Bow	Bow	2	Dexterity	5	-	14-33	Nordhold/Riven Field	586	146	-	-
Ashwood Bow (Superior)	Bow	2	Dexterity	5	-	17-39	-	-	159	-	-
Recurved Bow	Bow	2	Dexterity	5	-	15-40	Riven Field	764		-	-
Oxenbone Bow	Bow	2	Dexterity	5	-	16-48	Riven Field	970	242	-	-
Oxenbone Bow (Superior)	Bow	2	Dexterity	5	-	18-56	-	-	263	-	-
Walking Staff	Staff	2	Dexterity	1	2	4-10	-	-	4	Initial Equipment	-
Rimwood Staff	Staff	2	Dexterity	2	6	12-22	-	-	134	Oskahold	+40 SP/+2 Dodge

Armor	Type	Armor	Parry	Bonus	Location Purchased	Cost	Sell	Location Found
Buckler	Shield	-	1	-	-	-	0	Initial Equipment
Wood Shield	Shield	-	2	-	Oskahold	30	7	-
Reinforced Shield	Shield	-	3	-	Oskahold/Riven Field	108		-
Banded Shield	Shield	-	4	-	Riven Field	480		-
Spiked Shield	Shield	-	5	-	Riven Field	832	208	-
Reinforced Clothing	Light	2	-	-	-	-	24	Initial Equipment
Heavy Overcoat	Light	6	-	-	-	-	33	Initial Equipment
Quilted Armor	Light	10	-	-	-	-	52	-
Quilted Brigandine	Light	13	-	-	Oskahold	256		-
Kallassian Overcoat	Light	16	-	-	Oskahold	409	102	Krellin Deeps
Cadet's Cuirass	Light	19	-	-	Oskahold*	537		-
Leather Jerkin	Light	22	-	-	Oskahold*	710	177	-
Boiled Cuirass	Light	25	-	-	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	1088		-
Stone Leather Cuirass	Light	25	-	+1 Parry/+6 Earth Resist	-	-		-
Leather Skin	Light	28	-	-	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	1296		-
Scarred Hide Cuirass	Light	28	-	+16 HP	-	-		-
Padded Clothing	Stealth	3	-	+1 Evasion	-	-	38	Initial Equipment
Rogue's Garb	Stealth	5	-	+1 Evasion	-	-		Initial Equipment
Reinforced Garb	Stealth	5	-	+1 Evasion/+1 Stealth	-	-	51	-
Quilted Sheathe	Stealth	8	-	+1 Evasion/+1 Stealth	Oskahold	288		-
Thief's Garb	Stealth	8	-	+2 Evasion/+3 Stealth	Oskahold	371	92	-
Reinforced Sheathe	Stealth	12	-	+2 Evasion/+1 Stealth	Oskahold*	473		-
Stealth Brigandine	Stealth	14	-	+3 Evasion/+2 Stealth	Oskahold*	665	166	-
Bandit's Garb	Stealth	16	-	+3 Evasion/+4 Stealth	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	1171		-
Bandit's Shadow	Stealth	16	-	+3 Evasion/+4 Stealth/+8 HP/+8 SP		-	292	-
Armored Overcoat	Stealth	25	-	+2 Evasion/+1 Stealth	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	1472	368	-
Fox's Overcoat	Stealth	25	-	+2 Evasion/+1 Stealth/+4 Damage/+1 Ranged Accuracy	-	-		-
Traveler's Robes	Mage	2	-	-	-	-	30	Initial Equipment
Quilted Robes	Mage	4	-	-	-	-	51	Initial Equipment
Initiate's Robes	Mage	6	-	-	Oskahold	288		-
Reinforced Robes	Mage	8	-	-	Oskahold	352	88	-
Warded Overcloak	Mage	10	-	+2 Elemental Resists	-	-	107	-
Acolyte's Garb	Mage	12	-	-	Oskahold*	435		-
Evoker's Mantle	Mage	12	-	+10 SP	-	-	8	-
Traveler's Overcloak	Mage	14	-	-	Oskahold*/Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	672		-
Quilted Overcloak	Mage	20	-	+1 Evasion	Riven Field/Advanced Siege Camp	1216		-
Korvain's Chain	Amulet	-	-	+10 HP/+20 SP/+2 Resists	-	-	77	Nordhold
Eye of the Fallen	Amulet	-	-	+2 Damage/+3 Ranged Accuracy	-	-		-
Traveler's Boots	Boots	-	-	-	-	-	2	Initial Equipment
Boots of the Hare	Boots	-	-	+1 Ranged Accuracy	-	-		-
Longhaul Boots	Boots	-	-	+4 Stealth	-	-		-
Sharp Shot Tread	Boots	-	-	+2 Damage/+1 Ranged Accuracy	-	-		-
Serpent-Tread Boots	Boots	6	-	+2 Accuracy	-	-	92	Oskahold
Kallassian Boots	Boots	4	-	+1 Dodge	-	-	40	-
Bloody Footfalls	Boots	-	-	+2 Damage/+2 Accuracy	-	-	107	-
Otherboots	Boots	-	-	+4 Resists	-	-	92	-
Boots of the Fox	Boots	-	-	+2 Dodge/+2 Stealth/+2 Security	-	-		-
Leather Bracers	Bracers	-	-	-	-	-	2	Initial Equipment
Banded Bracers	Bracers	2	-	-	-	-	25	Red Hill
Riven Arms	Bracers	6	2	+2 Dodge	-	-		-
Steel-Shod Bracers	Bracers	-	1	-	-	-		-
Singed Arm Guard	Bracers	-	-	+2 Fire Resist	-	-		-
Left Hand of Stone	Bracers	-	-	+8 Holy Damage/+1 Accuracy	-	-		-
Bracers of the Ox	Bracers	-	-	+8 HP	-	-		-
Guard of the Black Bear	Bracers	-	-	+28 HP	-	-	92	-
Guard of the Brown Bear	Bracers	6	-	+28 HP	-	-	92	-
Overcloak	Cloak	-	-	-	-	-	2	Initial Equipment
Cloak of the Hund	Cloak	-	-	+20 HP	-	-		-
Othercloak	Cloak	-	-	+2 Holy Resist/+2 Lightning Resist	-	-	25	-
Dusk Cloak	Cloak	-	-	+1 Ranged Accuracy/+2 Stealth	-	-	25	-
Warding Cloak	Cloak	2	-	+2 Holy Resist	-	-		-
Sunset Cloak	Cloak	-	-	+8 HP/+8 SP	-	-	40	-
Druidic Cloak	Cloak	-	-	+10 SP	-	-	25	-
Edged Cloak	Cloak	-	-	+6 Resists	-	-	107	-
Hellborn Wrap	Cloak	-	-	+6 Resists	-	-		-
Sage's Band	Ring	-	-	+8 SP	-	-	25	Red Hill
Ring of the Stalker	Ring	-	-	+1 Dodge/+1 Stealth	-	-		-
Serpentine Clasp	Ring	-	-	+8 SP/+1 Dodge	-	-		-
Ring of the Hunter	Ring	-	-	+6 Damage/2% Critical	-	-	92	Oskahold
Hawkeye Ring	Ring	-	-	+2 Dodge/+2 Security	-	-		-
Ring of the Bear	Ring	-	-	+2 Damage	-	-	25	-
Ring of War	Ring	-	-	+10 Damage	-	-		-
Firebrand Ring	Ring	-	-	+16 Fire Resist	-	-	92	Warm Cavern
Iceheart Ring	Ring	-	-	+16 Ice Resist	-	-		-
Relliat Winged Band	Ring	2	1	+1 Dodge	-	-		-

(Oskahold*) - Items are available after securing Nordhold. Armor available before is removed.

Item	HP	SP	Cost	Sell	Location Purchased
Small Healing Tincture	20-50	-	36	9	Oskahold
Healing Tincture	40-80	-	64	16	Oskahold/Riven Field/Siege Camp
Vial of Healing	60-100	-	160	40	Riven Field/Siege Camp/Advanced Siege Camp/Conquered Keep
Minor Healing Potion	100-140	-	230	57	Riven Field/Siege Camp/Advanced Siege Camp/Conquered Keep
Healing Potion	120-200	-	260	65	Advanced Siege Camp/Conquered Keep
Infused Healing Tincture	220-340	-	-	80	-
Major Healing Potion	420-560	-	-	112	-
Small Spirit Infusion	-	40-70	46	11	Oskahold
Spirit Infusion	-	60-90	92	23	Oskahold/Riven Field/Siege Camp
Vial of Spirit Restoration	-	80-110	190	47	Riven Field/Siege Camp/Advanced Siege Camp/Conquered Keep
Minor Spirit Elixir	-	120-160	260	65	Riven Field/Siege Camp/Advanced Siege Camp/Conquered Keep
Spirit Elixir	-	160-220	400	100	Advanced Siege Camp/Conquered Keep
Small Restore Elixir	100-200	100-200	-	150	-
Major Restore Elixir	200-400	200-400	-	400	-
Lesser Tincture of Good Health	20-50 ALL	-	84	21	Oskahold
Lesser Tincture of Vibrant Health	40-80 ALL	-	180	45	Riven Field/Siege Camp
Lesser Tincture of Vitality	80-160 ALL	-	350	87	Advanced Siege Camp/Conquered Keep
Lesser Suspension of Essence	-	30-50 ALL	110	27	Oskahold
Lesser Suspension of Spirit	-	60-80 ALL	220	55	Riven Field/Siege Camp
Lesser Suspension of Fiery Spirit	-	80-100 ALL	400	100	Advanced Siege Camp/Conquered Keep

Updates
13/12/13 - Out of curiosity while I wait for a bugfix on my current main run, I decided to blast through on an easy one to have a look at more drops. What I discovered means I'll be removing "Location Found" from items unless it is a guaranteed (like the Sage Ring) and adding a "Location Purchased". The difference in loot quality between difficulties is just too much for a generalized estimate to be useful.

16/12/13 - Starting updating to include version 1.1.19 items.

18/12/13 - Updated to include information on how armor works, and some reorganization.

06/01/14 - With version 1.1.25 the Cost/Sell columns are out of date, and will remain so until a further major update (as in when I get back to playing regularly!)

26/01/14 - Finally starting to play again! Any prices currently up are accurate up to version 1.2.3!

29/01/14 - Updated to include Riven Field.

31/01/14 - Updated to include the various Camps throughout Part 1.2.

[bobsoup]

Is there a limit how much equipment can be carried?

Obviously limited spots to be used at a time...

[John Robinson]

Karjus

Way to Go! Looks Great! (Yes please keep going with it). Looking forward to entries you make when magic staffs start showing up.

Exalt! +1

[fallen]

bobsoup - a limit of weapon, armor, item counts is on the list to add. Not currently in the game.

Great work Karjus, +1!

[slayernz]

Karjus definitely great work - I never thought to build up a database of things I found/sold/bought/stole

[johndramey]

Karjus - Thanks a ton! Very helpful, always nice to have spreedsheets to look at and plan out my builds

[Karjus]

..each time I update this thing, I'm finding myself ridiculously surprised at just how many items there are possible to find in one part as it is. Dreading keeping up!

[zciworezlo]

Got curious for myself, and whipped up something quickly in Excel to show your weapons list sorted in descending order by damage per AP. Here's what I got:

Weapon DamagePerAP

Captain Lukai's Blade 20.0
Infantry Mace 17.5
Chaplain's Heavy Mace 17.5
Broad Dagger 17.0
Bar Mace 14.3
Spiked Club 14.0
Heavy Cudgel 14.0
Keen Arming Blade 13.5
Cadet's Claymore 13.0
Double Spear 13.0
Cadet's Mace 12.8
Warrior's Spear 12.7
Long Knife 12.5
Hilted Dagger 12.5
Heavy Spear 12.3
Broad Spear 12.3
Infantry Longsword 12.0
Highlands Blade 12.0
Guard's Spear 12.0
Bastard Sword 11.8
Hunter's Knife 11.5
Longsword 11.5
Banded Cudgel 11.5
Infantry Flail 11.5
Arming Blade 11.3
Warden's Truncheon 11.3
Short Sword 11.0
Longblade 11.0
Bandit's Truncheon 11.0
Cadet's Bow 11.0
Hunting Bow 10.3
Infantry Sword 10.0
Banded Club 10.0
Cudgel 10.0
Bladed Spear 10.0
Cadet's Spear 10.0
Ironwood Bow 9.0
Rimwood Staff 8.5
Training Spear 8.0
Yew Bow 8.0
Training Blade 7.8
Club 7.3
Long Blade 7.0
Light Bow 6.8
Flatbow 6.8
Short Bow 5.5
Walking Staff 3.5

[Karjus]

I've been considering adding a column like this, but have been wary without knowing exactly how armor works as the numbers could be misleading.

For example, take the Broad Dagger (1 ap, 12-22 damage) and Bar Mace (3 ap, 36-50 damage).

Assuming optimum amount of hits at full AP and all (very unlikely) hitting on a target with average damage per blow (min+max/2)

Broad Dagger
7*17=119

Bar Mace
2*43=86

Dagger massively wins, even if it misses a single blow and will probably equal out if it misses two. But say armor removes a flat amount of damage per blow? Let us say the target has.. 5 armor.

Broad Dagger
7*12=84

Bar Mace
2*38=76

Looking at a much closer number, and by the time the target has 7 armor the Bar Mace wins out. Of course, armor could instead work as a percentage and then there's toughness as well. I'll say one thing though, those 1 AP weapons are incredibly nasty once you start throwing up flat damage buffs if you really focus on them.

[zciworezlo]

Good point! Flat reductions would affect lower AP weapons much more harshly, whereas percentage reductions would be AP-agnostic.

[Karjus]

However, do people think an average damage per swing and total swings possible per round would be useful? They'd be easy enough to add.

[fallen]

Karjus - armor always grants 50% of its points automatically. The second half of the armor value is rolled as a dice.

So, armor with value of 22 always blocks at least 11 points of damage, and rolls a D11 to decide about the rest.

This does not resolve the issue that 1 AP weapons are unbalanced. We are balancing out the fix for this and will hopefully see it deployed in early January.

[Alex Fury]

fallen - Perhaps a variable level of 'guaranteed damage blocked' depending on armor type?
XXX Light (padded/leather/hide) - 25% armor value XXX
XXX Medium (Chainmail/brigandine) - 50% armor value XXX
XXX Heavy (Plate-based) - 75% armor value.. XXX

Light : 33% armor value
Heavy : 66% armor value (found no 'middle' weight armor from an alternate post on armor types available)
Mage : 25% + buff to dice from woven-in magicks (most mage armor is usually cloth-based only in many adventure genres)

Perhaps shields/buffs/etc would be along the 50-75% value added, which would let the spells be more valuable to the lighter-armored party members, but still a decent boost to the heavier-armored ones
ie: buff of 4: light armor value 10 , heavy armor value 20... even at 'always' 50% 5->8 (75% buff value) is larger than 10->13 for percentage increase

Given, that would at least be for physical ones. But that could be a bit much for lower damage types like Light Blades, Bows or thrown-weapons unless a critical gets through (check for crit before reducing damage) as all armors have their weak points. But would go along in line with things such as stabby/puncture type weapons would be harder to go through a plate of metal as compared to cloth or hide-based armors. Whereas heavier edged or bludgeoning can actually hack through or even cave-in parts of armor with enough force.

That kind of variable could balance the 1 AP of light blades, as especially for heavier armor, it takes multiple attempts to get through a weak point in armor (sliding between plates, or finding an area that is not plated for movement requirements (such as underarm/armpit, throat, etc)

[morten]

Dec 17, 2013 14:09:54 GMT -5 fallen said:

Karjus - armor always grants 50% of its points automatically. The second half of the armor value is rolled as a dice.

So, armor with value of 22 always blocks at least 11 points of damage, and rolls a D11 to decide about the rest.

This does not resolve the issue that 1 AP weapons are unbalanced. We are balancing out the fix for this and will hopefully see it deployed in early January.

Thanks for the disclosure. This explains the huge spread of damage I have observed. Looking forward to the fix of 1 ap weapons :-)

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Alex Fury - the same variability is easy to achieve by controlling the armor protection that different armor types can provide. Heavy armor will far out-max Light armor, which will far out-max Mage armor. In these early days of E1, you'll start to see the spread already. This also helps avoid more complicated rules about armor.

The problem with 1 AP weapons is not the weapons damage, but the way they can be used to stack with talents. Any calculation of "damage per turn" for an AP weapon is woefully missing the point if it does not take into account talent bonuses.