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Tier 5 in-game earnable Kaelar plate armor 3D renders.[1]

Heavy armor is predominantly plate metal, but may incorporate other influences, such as leather.[2]

List of plate armor

info-orange.pngThis section contains information from Alpha-1 testing. It will be updated when new information is made available.
Item Icon Type Rarity Level requirement Set
Ethereal Plate Gauntlets 474bc006-8668-4bc7-8977-6cb9cec3f73f-0.png Gloves Rare 1 Etherial
Ethereal Plate Spaulders 89657f56-5b8b-4a36-9eb5-70f341680a18-0.png Shoulders Rare 1 Etherial
Faded Breastplate dcb18dd8-0ab8-45d6-ae4a-9f07a7d33bd3-0.png Chest armor Poor 2 Faded
Faded Plate Boots 6bdd7e14-e272-496c-a427-3c7238a2ff42-0.png Boots Poor 2 Faded
Imposing Plate Belt PlateBeltIcon.png Belt Rare 9 Imposing
Plate Belt of Dragons Protection PlateBeltIcon.png Belt Legendary 15 Dragon's Protection
Plate Boots of Dragons Protection PlateBootsIcon.png Boots Legendary 15 Dragon's Protection
Plate Cussies of Dragons Protection PlatePantsIcon.png Pants Legendary 15 Dragon's Protection
Plate Gauntlets of Dragons Protection PlateGlovesIcon.png Gloves Legendary 15 Dragon's Protection
Refurbished Plate Boots ba6330d6-e98f-4071-b38c-cb9a4ab2fe4d-0.png Boots Uncommon 8 Refurbished
Refurbished Plate Gauntlets f6bab455-aaf6-43c2-8de3-298312e484b1-0.png Gloves Common 7 Refurbished
Transcendent Plate Helm PlateHelmIcon.png Helmet Legendary 15 Transcendent
Worn Breastplate ef7076bf-9647-4d64-81a9-063f827aacca-0.png Chest armor Common 1 Worn
Worn Plate Boots 0bc2bb75-6b58-4056-936e-6588b2544489-0.png Boots Common 1 Worn
Worn Plate Cuisses 247ffc93-04d3-42c9-8544-fe71653f1520-0.png Pants Common 1 Worn
Worn Plate Helmet 3a274f3a-6471-4c38-8949-6dd5d5a2d376-0.png Helmet Common 1 Worn
Worn Plate Vambrace 87b75ce7-da02-4c44-9a3e-37bb5c8cc79b-0.png Wrists Common 1 Worn

Armor characteristics

Kaelar armor.[5]

You're not going to get one set of armor that's going to be situationally relevant for every encounter you might face- that's crazy- and as a result of that you're going to have to succeed in acquiring sets that are situationally relevant for the types of encounters you are intending to face.[6] – Steven Sharif

Light, medium, and heavy armor weights have different characteristics.[7]

  • The stat values on armor can include both damage dealing and damage mitigation stats.[6]
Certain armor types are going to have certain type of predominant stat values. So there's going to be certain waterfall stats and/or certain primary attributes that are available on certain armor types; and then if you want to have the one that's not more prominently available- those will be rare to get- you'll have to elicit the services of a crafter who's very capable within that particular type of armor in order to get the non-traditional stats and/or waterfalls available. So there's still the ability to get whatever on these but they're going to be more predetermined for certain types of stats and waterfalls.[7] – Steven Sharif
There'll be certain types of set bonuses granted across specific full sets or partial sets of armor types. There will be a similar function in how damage is mitigated based on the type of armor you're wearing and how that relates to physical or magical incoming damage. So that's something to keep in mind. It's going to be situational what type of adversarial foe am I facing and what armor is the best against that to mitigate damage.[7] – Steven Sharif
You're going to have certain strengths and weaknesses of armor sets and those can be specced into by your opponents. For example, I might place some type of elemental enhancements on my weapon that horizontally changes my outgoing damage and that's going to reflect based on the opponent on my target opponent and what type of armor they have available to them to counter that.[7] – Steven Sharif
We're playing a little bit with the idea of these universal skill sets, such as dodge, parry, block, active blocking, stuff like that; and progression within those areas. There is something to be said I think for incorporating itemization choice as part of that system as well; and how it might affect that system. That's something that I think is going to be coming up in the pitch phase here shortly from design as we implement those universal skills. So you can look out in the future for more information on that.[7] – Steven Sharif

Class weapons and armor

Weapons and armor are not class locked, but certain classes are more efficient with certain types of weapons or armor.[10][11][12][13] Certain abilities require certain items to be equipped.[14]

Weapons are intended to be somewhat agnostic in the sense that you can find a way for a weapon to be utilized by different classes. Not just the rogue is going to be able to use daggers. Because if you restrict equipment through that, it makes the economy more difficult to have sustainability across the market of items.[13] – Steven Sharif
Q: We had stated that we were going to allow people to use any class combination, which would be both your archetypes together, being able to use any weapon. Do we see problems that could occur with that, for instance like a bow tank, or an orb tank or things like- will there be some strangeness there, or are there problems that you first are foreseeing in the future?
A: We're giving a lot of flexibility to the crafters in our game. They get to help define the stat block that a particular item, weapon, or gear has; and that stat block can be relevant to any particular class or archetype combination. So in that sense the idea is, no not to see any strangeness there or not to see any elements that would dissuade a person from that customization perspective.[15] – Steven Sharif

Racial weapons and armor

Armor racial appearances in early Alpha-1.[16]

Violet light and myself are wearing exactly the same armor set right: Same stats, same everything, but it drops for her it looks one way, it drops for me it looks another way; and... a small part of that is gender, but then the other part of it is race. So because I was a Vaelune in that playthrough my armor was in the Vaelune style; and when she picked it up it was in the elven style because she was an elf. So that gives you an example of sort of the breadth of looks that we're going for and how we try to capture like who you are as as a character and allow you to build your look that way.[17] – Jeffrey Bard

Dünir and Empyrean racially styled armor concept art by Keith Kovach.[18]

We have essentially sets that exist across all races; and each race that dons those armor sets is going to have their own racial influence on the presentation of those particular sets. So that's something that's unique in how each of the races get diversified.[19] – Steven Sharif

Weapons and armor are not race locked, but armor will take on a racial appearance.[19][20][21]

The customization of equipment per race is really focused on Armor sets not Weapon props. Weapon props will, from a model standpoint, will translate pretty one-to-one across the races.[22] – Steven Sharif
Let's say for example you have the Eagle set or something, right: The Eagle set has in art, it has a thematic design that's going to include certain attachments to the armor. It's going to include color palette and theme. It's going to have some aspects to it that define it as the Eagle set, right. When a Elf wears the Eagle set or when an Orc wears the Eagle set, you obviously have two different cultures there; and you don't want to stomp out that culture by assigning a de facto 'This is the Eagle set and this is how it looks on everybody.' What we want to have is cultural influences play a role in showing how that set looks.[22] – Steven Sharif
When you say, what if I'm an Orc but want to look like an Elf and I want my Eagle set to be the Elf representation? Well the issue becomes there that Orcs have a different organic model. You know, their body is different than that of the Elf. So, from a scope-creep standpoint, it's one thing to add different influences that represent the cultures that are donning the armor; it's another thing to adapt each influence as a matrix that can be worn pretty much by everything. From a scope perspective, that's a very difficult task for the character artists to tackle. So instead what we've done is, in order to facilitate a variety of cultural representation between the races but allow for the sharing of assets like different armor sets, we give different representations of those armor sets to each race.[24] – Steven Sharif

Appearance

Alpha-1 female plate armor 3D render.[25]

We want to be realistic with the application of particular types of armor, such as plate armor. In this regard for the different sexes there's a fine line that has to be drawn between accentuating the form of the sex as well as making it somewhat realistic and actually applicable to the environment.[25] – Steven Sharif

  • Armor will not be overly sexual in appearance.[25][27]
    I'm more of the mind that it wouldn't really serve a purpose to have bikini plate armor, just in like reality, if you're going to have armor, it should be protective. I think from a fashion statement is enjoyable for some people, but it's a an immersive issue.[26] – Steven Sharif
    • Some armor and costumes will be more revealing than others, but there will not be nudity in the game.[29]
    There might be sliders, but there are not gonna be naked sliders.[29] – Steven Sharif
Each race is getting its custom geo pieces, which then will share thematic components such as color palette, attachments, design filigree. Those types of things will get shared across the geo but generally you're going to see unique races with unique geo.[30] – Steven Sharif
  • Cosmetics can be used by all races but there may be slight variations to make them work with the body builds of each race.[35]
  • Hair will likely be masked if helmet display is toggled on.[40]

Appearance slots/Transmogs

Alpha-2 plate armor set 3D renders. 3D model by Jan-Allen Cauton.[43]

Gear will have appearance slots (Transmutation/Transmog/cosmetic slots) that are used to copy the appearance of an item (in some cases).[44][45]

  • There are rules when applying cosmetics to specific items, unlike costumes, which don't have level restrictions.[46]
  • Cosmetic slots can be toggled on or off on their character by the player.[47]
  • A "default player appearance" may be automatically applied during sieges or other large scale battles to improve client-side performance.[48][49]
Cosmetics, whether purchased from the shop or earned in game, are an important component of MMORPGS I personally enjoy; and there's a lot of collectors out there who spend a great deal of time either in-game achieving these things or spend money purchasing them from the cosmetic only marketplace; and we don't want to demean or reduce that achievement or that expenditure. So it's going to be situational where the default appearance will be applied and can be activated.[48] – Steven Sharif

Gear sets

2nd Sword Division non-cosmetic gear set 3D renders. 3D model by Keith Kovach.[50]
Equipping the Titanbark gear set in Alpha-2.[51]

We're going relatively traditional in the gear access points by being driven by level tier that players will have access to. So as you advance in your adventuring class you will begin to unlock the ability to equip gear of a higher level.[52] – Steven Sharif

Gear sets (also known as tier sets) are a part of Ashes of Creation.[53][52][45]

Q: How often will armor be part of an entire armor set with other cosmetically matching pieces versus unique armor pieces that don't match or go along with anything else in the game?
A: There is a balance of both set pieces and non-set pieces and usually you're going to see at higher grades within a tier are going to be more predominantly set driven; and the lower interstitial power levels of the gear for that tier are the potentially bespoke pieces; and obviously those pieces are catered around a number of different interactions, such as ones you get from quests, ones that you get from drops, ones that you can craft, ones that you get from legendary bosses, ones that you get from guild-oriented tasks, or in-game favor and unique currencies. So there's different types of acquisition models and each of them has a spattering of either bespoke pieces or set-oriented pieces; and there are even varying levels of set pieces as well. So you might have a full eight piece set, or a three-piece set, or a five piece set, depending on where it lives within the tier.[53] – Steven Sharif
  • Players gain bonuses depending on the number and tier of pieces they have equipped.[53][52][45]
    • An overarching set effect is granted to wearers of exclusively one "type" of armor, for example: all cloth, or all plate.[8]
    • There may be set bonuses that members of certain communities will obtain based on gear set type.[53][45]
    • Set bonuses will not provide new abilities, but certain higher-end weapons and armor will have active abilities, but the intention is that these abilities will not radically redefine the way an archetype is played.[54]
info-orange.pngSome of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.
  • Certain set bonuses may trade off core gear stats.[59]
  • There are passive abilities that can be chosen to become more adept with certain set types.[45]
  • There will be viable non-set builds.[59]

Best-in-slot armor

What is considered best-in-slot is based on a character's role and the type of encounter they are facing.[60][61]

  • The goal is to not have overarching best-in-slot items that are meta for all situations.[60]

Armor types

Dünir tier 5 plate armor 3D render.[65] This render does not include any special effects as a result of enchanting.[66]

Armor types in Ashes of Creation.

Visuals

See also

References

  1. ↑ Livestream, July 30, 2021 (1:07:03).
  2. ↑ Livestream, October 16, 2017 (15:11).
  3. ↑ Livestream, May 26, 2017 (53:10).
  4. ↑ Interview, July 18, 2020 (1:02:44).
  5. ↑ steven-character-armor.png
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Livestream, March 31, 2022 (1:17:32).
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 Podcast, September 29, 2021 (52:58).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Interview, July 18, 2020 (1:02:08).
  9. ↑ Livestream, July 25, 2020 (53:08).
  10. ↑ Interview, July 9, 2023 (1:38:34).
  11. ↑ weapon augments.png
  12. ↑ class weapons.png
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Livestream, May 4, 2018 (45:37).
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Livestream, February 9, 2018 (47:05).
  15. ↑ Livestream, June 30, 2022 (55:31).
  16. ↑ Video, September 30, 2020 (2:44).
  17. ↑ Livestream, September 30, 2020 (47:47).
  18. ↑ Livestream, July 26, 2019 (54:06).
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Livestream, March 31, 2022 (4:57).
  20. ↑ Livestream, May 26, 2017 (44:11).
  21. ↑ Livestream, May 26, 2017 (20:46).
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Podcast, August 4, 2018 (53:43).
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Livestream, October 28, 2022 (1:41:06).
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Podcast, August 4, 2018 (55:17).
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Livestream, May 29, 2020 (50:20).
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Livestream, May 26, 2017 (19:51).
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Reddit Q&A, 2019-01-8.
  28. ↑ oversized.jpg
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Livestream, December 23, 2021 (1:34:07).
  30. ↑ Livestream, September 24, 2021 (1:25:27).
  31. ↑ Livestream, November 30, 2023 (1:40:11).
  32. ↑ Sparkly.jpg
  33. ↑ Livestream, November 30, 2020 (1:05:22).
  34. ↑ Livestream, May 24, 2017 (24:19).
  35. ↑ margaret-gear-appearance.png
  36. ↑ cosmetics obtaining.png
  37. ↑ Livestream, July 18, 2017 (54:56).
  38. ↑ Livestream, July 28, 2017 (9:47).
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 helmet.jpg
  40. ↑ Livestream, October 30, 2020 (1:13:22).
  41. ↑ weaponslots.png
  42. ↑ Livestream, September 3, 2017 (48:56).
  43. ↑ Livestream, May 31, 2023 (58:37).
  44. ↑ Interview, August 24, 2018 (5:28).
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 45.4 Livestream, November 17, 2017 (22:33).
  46. ↑ Livestream, November 30, 2020 (57:50).
  47. ↑ Livestream, February 9, 2018 (50:29).
  48. ↑ 48.0 48.1 Livestream, July 25, 2020 (54:10).
  49. ↑ Livestream, November 22, 2019 (1:08:05).
  50. ↑ Livestream, June 30, 2023 (1:30:40).
  51. ↑ Video, January 27, 2023 (45:46).
  52. ↑ 52.0 52.1 52.2 Livestream, November 30, 2020 (54:29).
  53. ↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 53.3 53.4 Livestream, July 28, 2023 (1:22:48).
  54. ↑ Livestream, September 29, 2023 (1:15:47).
  55. ↑ Interview, September 10, 2023 (47:13).
  56. ↑ Livestream, February 24, 2023 (46:15).
  57. ↑ Livestream, November 19, 2021 (40:53).
  58. ↑ 58.0 58.1 Livestream, April 30, 2021 (41:18).
  59. ↑ 59.0 59.1 Livestream, November 17, 2017 (56:07).
  60. ↑ 60.0 60.1 Interview, July 9, 2023 (1:43:38).
  61. ↑ Livestream, May 29, 2020 (1:33:11).
  62. ↑ Livestream, June 30, 2022 (1:18:55).
  63. ↑ Livestream, May 10, 2017 (14:45).
  64. ↑ Livestream, March 31, 2022 (1:19:41).
  65. ↑ Steven Sharif Twitter.
  66. ↑ Livestream, January 28, 2022 (56:12).
  67. ↑ 67.0 67.1 67.2 67.3 Livestream, February 9, 2018 (7:31).
  68. ↑ no capes!.jpg
  69. ↑ Livestream, February 9, 2018 (15:01).
  70. ↑ Polymorphic Breastplate.png
  71. ↑ 71.0 71.1 Livestream, July 28, 2017 (31:30).
  72. ↑ belt items.jpg
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