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Equipped non-tattoo armor provides AC (Armor Class), which reduces damage. Armor starts with a base protection value and can be enchanted to provide further protection. These two numbers appear after the armor in brackets after the armor name, e.g. Elven gloves [3, 15]. (If the armor is unenchanted, only its base value will be shown, e.g. A Pair of Leather Boots [2].) Armor with no enchantment is called base armor. Generally, determine armor damage reduction as follows. Multiply base AC by a random amount from 100-200%. Subtract this value from the damage. For physical damage, reduce the remaining damage by approximately 0.165% for each point of AC (including base value). For magic damage, only enchantment (plus value) reduces damage. Exception: Enchantments for Displacement Boots and the Mage Shield do not grant AC at all. The order is MgS/AC/Endurance/Protection. That is the MgS gets used first, then AC, then Endurance. Most pieces of armor will reduce dexterity and magic ability when worn. Double Chain Mail, for example, is notorious for this. Many pieces of armor will increase stats proportionally to how much they are enchanted. Examples of this include Elven Gloves and the Cornuthaum. You can pay to increase armor enchantments using the Blacksmith or forge armor yourself (Forging).
Armor that has been enchanted increases PR on a per-minion basis. The PR increase from Armors higher than base is determined by the armor's power weight and the armor's level of enchantment. Given a minion with power P, armor with enchantment N, and a power weight of W, the adjusted power of a minion is:
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| Body Armor (16) | Headgear (8) | Gloves (9) | Shield (6) |
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Adamantite Cuirass Banded Mail Chain Mail Combat Gi Double Chain Mail Fluted Steel Cuirass Hard Leather Armor Leather Scale Mail Mithril Chain Mail Mithril Cuirass Ring Mail Soft Leather Armor Steel Breastplate Steel Brigandine Steel Cuirass Trollskin Armor |
Armet Cabasset Cornuthaum Hard Leather Cap Heaume Helm of Durin Helm of Ecthelion Helm of Clearsight |
Alatar's Gloves Beleg's Gloves Cesti Elven Gloves Helm's Gauntlets Leather Gauntlets Leather Gloves Tulkas' Gauntlets Noldorin Spellcasters |
Buckler Kite Shield Mithril Shield Small Wooden Shield Tower Shield Shield of Capacity |
| Cloak (5) | Footwear (6) | Power Shield (2) | |
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Cloak Cloak of the Istari Elven Cloak Robe Shadow Cloak |
Leather Boots Greaves Steel-shod Boots Elven Boots Chain Mail Leggings Displacement Boots |
Buckler of Mandos Mage Shield |
| Tattoo (2+2) | Familiar (6+4) | Rune (3+2) |
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Tattoo of Augmentation Tattoo of Endurance Lesser Tattoo of Augmentation Lesser Tattoo of Endurance |
Jigorokano Familiar Fire Familiar Ice Familiar Steel Familiar Halidon Familiar Electric Familiar Lesser Fire Familiar Lesser Ice Familiar Lesser Steel Familiar Lesser Electric Familiar |
Rune of Enlightenment Lesser Rune of Solitude Rune of Solitude Lesser Rune of Balrog Flame Rune of Balrog Flame |