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The '''Armour''' skill improves the effectiveness of your armour and reduces most of the penalties associated with the more cumbersome varieties of body [[armour]].

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[[Felid]]s, [[Draconian]]s, [[Octopodes]], and [[Poltergeist]]s cannot train Armour due to their body restrictions.

==Useful Info==
Each level in Armour skill will:
* Give bonus [[AC]], equal to ~4.5% Base AC per level. ("Base AC" is the combined AC of all your armour, after considering multipliers like [[Deformed]], excluding AC from their [[enchant]]ment)
* Reduce body armour [[encumbrance]] by ~2.22% per level.
: This reduces the penalties to [[evasion]], [[spellcasting]], and [[Ranged Weapons]]. Note that body armour also penalizes the [[Dodging]] skill directly; this penalty is ''not'' impacted by Armour skill. Armour skill won't reduce the [[stealth]] penalty, either.

==Strategy==
Armour skill provides a percent boost to AC and a percent reduction to encumbrance. Therefore, there is no specific threshold of Armour skill "required" to wear a given body armour. If you're playing a [[Fighter]], for instance, you'll want something heavy like [[chain mail]] or [[plate armour]] - whether you have 3 Armour skill or 15 Armour skill.

[[Strength]] has a big impact when determining what body armour you should wear, arguably more so than Armour skill. As an arbitrary example, say a player has 10 strength and are considering [[swamp dragon scales]]. For this specific character, gaining +2 strength would have a ''greater'' impact than ~6.92 levels of Armour skill (the exact value also depends on [[Dodging]] skill).

In the [[Early Game Character Building|early game]], the impact of the Armour skill is relatively small, so it is better to train offensive skills first.

==History==
*Prior to [[0.33]], the AC bonus from Armour skill did not take into account [[Deformed]]-type multipliers.
*Prior to [[0.32]], AC was not tracked to 2 decimal places; only whole points of AC mattered.

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