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 casting hinderance, and maneuver hinderance. Depending on the armor, specific amounts of training are required to train off the hinderances of the armor, and certain hinderances can never be fully trained off. For detailed information, see the article on armor.

Contents 1 Max Ranks and Training Point costs 2 Training Required 2.1 Calculating Required Ranks 2.2 Maneuver vs. Roundtime Penalties 3 References

Max Ranks and Training Point costs

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

AG	AsG	RT	Man	Spell Circle
				MnS	MjS	Cleric	MnE	MjE	Ranger	Sorcerer	Wizard	Bard	Empath	Paladin
Cloth	Robes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Soft Leather	Light Leather	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Full Leather	2	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Reinforced Leather	6	8	-	-	-	-	6	-	2	6	-	-	-
	Double Leather	6	8	-	-	-	-	15	-	6	15	6	-	-
Scale	Leather Breastplate	10	13	10	15	15	15	27	10	20	27	10	15	6
	Cuirbouilli Leather	15	18	15	20	20	20	35	15	27	35	10	20	10
	Studded Leather	20	23	20	27	27	27	70	20	50	70	10	27	15
	Brigandine	27	30	27	35	35	35	130	27	110	130	35	35	20
Chain	Chainmail	35	40	35	50	50	40	210	35	210	210	50	50	27
	Double Chain	50	60	50	70	70	70	290	50	250	290	50	70	35
	Augmented Chain	50	60	70	110	110	90	390	70	330	390	50	110	50
	Chain Hauberk	70	80	110	170	170	130	490	110	410	490	190	190	70
Plate	Metal Breastplate	70	80	210	390	390	210	590	310	470	590	310	390	90
	Augmented Breastplate	90	100	230	450	450	250	690	370	550	690	310	450	110
	Half Plate	110	120	250	530	530	290	790	430	570	790	310	530	130
	Full Plate	130	140	290	850	850	330	890	490	850	890	890	790	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)

Maneuver vs. Roundtime Penalties

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

This is the number of ranks required to train off what is frequently referred to as the "Maneuver Penalty" (listed in the "Man" column in the above table). The actual formula for the amount of skill required to reduce all physical penalties to a minimum is Ranks = 20 * Hindrance (hindrance values can be looked up on the armor page in the column labeled "RT"). At this skill level, the action penalty listed for the armor will be exactly the value that is subtracted from your percent chance to execute a maneuver such as evading spells like Boil Earth (917) and Elemental Wave (410) or simply standing up. As your ranks gradually approach this value, the penalty that is applied to these rolls will vary somewhere between the maximum penalty (listed under "MAX" on the armor page) and the action penalty (listed under "AP"). The rate at which this is reduced is undocumented. Characters with high Agility and/or Dexterity are not granted an additional bonus towards the reduction of this penalty.

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

This is the number of ranks required to train off what is frequently referred to as the "Roundtime Penalty" (listed in the "RT" column in the above table). Due to rounding or truncation of fractional roundtimes, the amount of ranks required to reduce penalties on one's roundtime, such as when swinging a weapon, is reduced. To calculate the amount of ranks required to train off the penalties imposed by a set of armor, use the following relationship: Ranks = ((20 * Hindrance) - 10). Note that this is the equation specified on the official play.net armor page. It is, in fact, a bastardization of the previous formula, Ranks = 20 * Hindrance, adjusted to remove fractional roundtimes. Characters with high Agility and/or Dexterity are granted an additional bonus towards the reduction of this penalty.

• Example calculation for brigandine armor:

Maneuver Penalty : Skill = 20*(6) = 120 , Ranks = 20+(((120)-90)/3) = 30

Roundtime Penalty : Skill = (20*(6))-10 = 110 , Ranks = 20+(((110)-90)/3) = 26.66667 ≈ 27

References

• http://www.play.net/gs4/info/armory/armor.asp