Armor Use

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The Armor Use skill is used to reduce the effects of wearing armor on one's actions, including attacking roundtime, spell hindrance, and maneuver hindrance. Depending on the armor, specific amounts of training are required to train off the hindrances of the armor. Spell casting hindrance can never be fully trained off (only minimized). For detailed information, see the article on armor.

Each rank in Armor Use also provides 1 point towards Armor Specialization.

Max Ranks and Training Point costs

Type	Square			Semi			Pure
Profession	Rogue	Warrior	Monk	Bard	Paladin	Ranger	Cleric	Empath	Savant	Sorcerer	Wizard
Max Ranks Per Level	2	3	2	2	3	2	1	1	-	1	1
Training Point Cost	5/0	2/0	10/0	5/0	3/0	5/0	8/0	15/0	-	15/0	14/0

Training Required

To reduce the penalties associated with wearing heavy armors, the following amounts of training are necessary, in number of ranks. See the Armor page for a table of the penalties themselves.

Table: Armor Use Skill Rank Requirements

AG	ASG	Name	RT/AP	Spell Circle
				MnS	MjS	Cle	MnE	MjE	Ran	Sor	Wiz	Bar	Emp	MnM	MjM	Sav	Pal
1. Cloth	1	Normal Clothing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	2	Robes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2. Leather	5	Light Leather	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	6	Full Leather	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	7	Reinforced Leather	6	-	-	-	-	6	-	2	6	-	-	-	6	6	-
	8	Double Leather	6	-	-	-	-	15	-	6	15	6	-	6	15	15	-
3. Scale	9	Leather Breastplate	10	10	15	15	15	27	10	20	27	10	15	15	27	27	6
	10	Cuirbouilli Leather	15	15	20	20	20	35	15	27	35	10	20	20	35	35	10
	11	Studded Leather	20	20	27	27	27	70	20	50	70	10	27	27	70	70	15
	12	Brigandine	27	27	35	35	35	130	27	110	130	35	35	35	130	130	20
4. Chain	13	Chainmail	35	35	50	50	50	210	35	210	210	50	50	50	210	210	27
	14	Double Chain	50	50	70	70	70	290	50	250	290	50	70	70	290	290	35
	15	Augmented Chain	50	70	110	110	90	390	70	330	390	50	110	90	390	390	50
	16	Chain Hauberk	70	110	170	170	130	490	110	410	490	190	190	190	490	490	70
5. Plate	17	Metal Breastplate	70	210	390	390	210	590	310	470	590	310	390	310	590	590	90
	18	Augmented Breastplate	90	230	450	450	250	690	370	550	690	310	450	310	690	690	110
	19	Half Plate	110	250	530	530	290	790	430	570	790	310	530	310	790	790	130
	20	Full Plate	130	290	850	850	330	890	490	850	890	890	790	890	890	890	150

Calculating Required Ranks

The relationship between ranks and skill is non-linear. The formula to calculate the number of ranks required to attain a certain skill level will vary. Find the range of skill values that your desired skill level falls into and use the corresponding equation to calculate the number of ranks:

• Skill ≤ 50 : Ranks = Skill/5
• 51 ≤ Skill ≤ 90 : Ranks = 10 + ((Skill - 50)/4)
• 91 ≤ Skill ≤ 120 : Ranks = 20 + ((Skill - 90)/3)
• 121 ≤ Skill ≤ 140 : Ranks = 30 + ((Skill - 120)/2)
• 141 ≤ Skill : Ranks = (Skill - 100)

Roundtime and Maneuver Penalties

• How many ranks are required to minimize the RT penalty of my armor?

The "RT" column in the table above lists the necessary ranks to fully train off added roundtime for each armor sub-group. For more information about armor-related roundtime penalties, see Armor.

• How many ranks are required to completely minimize the maneuver penalty of my armor?

Maneuver systems take the Action Penalty of your worn armor and apply an additional penalty for every 1 second you are under-trained for that armor. Once you have fully trained off the roundtime penalty, you can train further in Armor Use for an Action Penalty reduction. For more information on this, see Overtraining Benefits in this article.

Overtraining Benefits

Overtraining in the Armor Use skill will reduce the experienced Action Penalty of the armor. Every 50 ranks acquired above the minimum ranks required to train off Roundtime penalties will result in an Action Penalty reduction of (Armor Group - 1). The maximum reduction is capped at 50% of the original action penalty.

"For example, an augmented breastplate requires 90 ranks of Armor Use to train away its RT adder. It has an Armor Group (AG) value of 5 (skin = AG 0, robes = AG 1, leather = AG 2, scale = AG 3, chain = AG 4, plate = AG 5). Its base action penalty is 25. So, if it is worn by a player with 140 ranks of Armor Use, the action penalty will drop to 21, to 17 at 190 ranks, and to a minimum value of 13 at 240 ranks." - GM Coase

AG	ASG	Name	AP	Ranks	Reduction Tier
					1		2		3		4		5
1. Cloth	2	Robes	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2. Leather	5	Light Leather	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	6	Full Leather	-1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	7	Reinforced Leather	-5	6	-4	56	-3	106	-	-	-	-	-	-
	8	Double Leather	-6	6	-5	56	-4	106	-3	156	-	-	-	-
3. Scale	9	Leather Breastplate	-7	10	-5	60	-4	110	-	-	-	-	-	-
	10	Cuirbouilli Leather	-8	15	-6	65	-4	115	-	-	-	-	-	-
	11	Studded Leather	-10	20	-8	70	-6	120	-5	170	-	-	-	-
	12	Brigandine Armor	-12	27	-10	77	-8	127	-6	177	-	-	-	-
4. Chain	13	Chain Mail	-13	35	-10	85	-7	135	-	-	-	-	-	-
	14	Double Chain	-14	50	-11	100	-8	150	-7	200	-	-	-	-
	15	Augmented Chain	-16	50	-13	100	-10	150	-8	200	-	-	-	-
	16	Chain Hauberk	-18	70	-15	120	-12	170	-9	220	-	-	-	-
5. Plate	17	Metal Breastplate	-20	70	-16	120	-12	170	-10	220	-	-	-	-
	18	Augmented Breastplate	-25	90	-21	140	-17	190	-13	240	-	-	-	-
	19	Half Plate	-30	110	-26	160	-22	210	-18	260	-15	310	-	-
	20	Full Plate	-35	130	-31	180	-27	230	-23	280	-19	330	-18	380

Armor Specialization

Main article: Armor Specialization

Warriors, Rogues, and Paladins training in Armor Use can also train in Armor Specialization skills. In general, these skills allow the character to either increase an armor's effectiveness or decrease its negative effects on the wearer. Each profession has access to unique skills tailored to their stereotypical hunting style.

Resources

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