Armor Ratings

How AR Works

Each piece of armor gives a speficic AR rating. Your status bar reflects your overall AR. In combat, the specific AR is used. The overall AR is for display purposes only. Your overall AR rating is a percentage of the specific AR of each piece equipped, equal to the percentage of your body that the piece covers.

For example: Gorgets cover a small percentage of your body. Tunics cover a large percentage of your body. This means that equiping an AR 30 gorget only increases your overall AR by a little bit, whereas equipping an AR 30 tunic increases your overall AR by a lot. That's because tunics cover a lot of your body, and gorgets only cover a little bit. That, however, is for displaying the overall AR only. The AR of both pieces is still 30.

The table below shows two things: The chance of getting hit in a given location and the percent of your total AR generated for that location.

Body	44%
Arms	14%
Head	14%
Legs	14%
Neck	7%
Hands	7%

When you equip a plate helm (30AR), it would give 30*0.14=4.2 overall AR, so if that was the only thing you had equipped, it should display as 4AR overall.

If you get hit in the head and you are wearing a plate helm, the hit will be vs. AR 30, even though plate helms (because they cover a small percentage of your body) only increase your overall AR by 5. Overall AR just gives you a general idea of your overall AR. Your actual AR depends on where you are hit, and the AR of the armor you are wearing at that location.

Reguarding 'stacking' AR giving items:

The AR value you recieve will be from which ever piece of armor gives the HIGHEST AR. So if you have on ringmail sleeves that have AR 10 for example (covering only the arms), and a chainmail tunic with an AR 15 (covering both chest and arms), then you will recieve the AR from the TUNIC, since 15 is higher than 10.

Armor Ratings

Armor group/shield/helm	Normal AR	Exceptional AR
Leather Armor Leather Yoroi Leaf Armor	30	36
Studded Armor Leather Ninja Gear Gargish Cloth Armor	35	42
Bone Armor	38	45*
Ringmail Armor Studded Yoroi Hide Armor Gargish Leather Armor	49	48
Chainmail Armor Gargish Stone Armor	45	54
Platemail Armor Dragon Armor Plate Yoroi Woodland Armor Gargish Platemail Armor	50	60
Buckler Wooden Shield Gargish Small Plate Shield Gargish Wooden Shield	14	16
Bronze Shield Metal Shield Wooden Kite Shield Gargish Kite Shield Gargish Medium Plate Shield	22	26
Kite Shield Heater Shield Order Shield Chaos Shield Gargish Large Plate Shield Gargish Large Stone Shield Gargish Order Shield Gargish Chaos Shield	30	36
Orc Helm Elven Glasses	30	36
Circlet Royal Circlet Gemmed Circlet	38	45
Helmet Raven Helm	40	48
Bascinet Close Helm Nose Helm	42	50
Mail Hatsuburi Vulture Helm	45	54
Winged Helmet (Paladin) Winged Helm (Elven)	50	60

• Note: Exceptional AR for Bone Armor only applies to Magical Bone Armor. Non-magical, exceptional bone armor does not exist and can not be made.

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