Sacred 2:Armour Lore

Armor Lore

Increases armor protection and reduces the regeneration penalty caused by armor. Grants the ability to wear higher-level armor without a penalty to movement speed.

• Armor Resistance Bonus +X% (refer to table below)
• Regeneration Penalty from armor equipment -Y%
• Item level without penalty Z

Skill level	1	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	74	75	80	90	100	110	120	130	140	155	170	185	200
Armor Bonus, +%:	9,8	41,7	71,5	96,9	118,5	137,3	153,6	168,1	173,5	180,8	195,1	221,1	243,8	264,2	282,2	298,3	313,1	332,5	349,5	364,5	377,7
Regen Penalty -%:	−0.4	−4.7	−9.0	−13.0	−16.6	−20.0	−23.0	−25.9	−27.2	−36.0	−37.5	−40.2	−42.8	−45.2	−47.3	−49.3	−51.2	−53.7	−56.0	−58.1	−60.0

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Mastery

• Further reduces the regeneration penalty.

Properties

• Increases existing armor (resistances).

• Especially effective in combination with Toughness skill (which provides all armor types).

• This skill will unlock item attributes that require Armor Lore skill (like "Defense (Armor Lore)).

• In the later game, Damage Mitigation % becomes a fairly common armor modification that requires Armor Lore Mastery (75 or more hard skillpoints) to unlock.

• "Item Level Without Penalty" reduces the speed penalties for equipping high-level armor, and can help with unmounted run speed. This skill doesn't allow equipping armor above certain threshold (which depends on character level - see Items/Usable Item Levels)

Breakpoints

• Item level without penalty is increased by one for every two skill points spent, starting at character level value. It is capped at 250.

• Regeneration time bonus depends on character level and item quality. It decreases at every level-up, forcing you to spend more points into this skill.

• The Armor Bonus is increased in steps as shown in the Armor Lore full table.

The Armor bonus at a given skill level x is given fairly precisely by the following formulas:

• 400*(x+1.5)/(x+100) Pre-Mastery
• 600*(x-32.5)/(x+66) Mastery

The bold marked numbers are the smallest upper bounds of this progression, which will never at any skill level be exceeded.

As an example, attack and defense at x=75: 75 is the first mastery level, so we take the mastery formula and we have

600*(75-32.5)/(75+66) = 600*42.5/141 = 180.85

This value compared with the table value is a good example of the precision the formulas offer.

See Also

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• Skills
• Combat Arts
• Items
• Item Modifiers
• Player Contributed Guides