Equipment
Armor Classes
Plate, leather, and robes — three armor families, three combat styles.
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Three Families
Every armor piece belongs to one of three families that line up with the three combat styles. Plate armor is forged from bars and pairs with melee. Leather armor is fabricated from cured hides and pairs with ranged. Robes are woven from cloth and pair with signal magic. Wearing the wrong family for your combat style penalizes accuracy and damage.
Plate Armor
Forged from smelted bars in the Forging discipline. Bodies, helmets, boots, and shields. The highest raw defense at every tier — mandatory for melee builds. Trains and is gated by Fortitude.
Leather Armor (Ranger)
Cured hides at three tiers: Dark Leather (T2), Brown Leather (T4), and Black Leather (T7). Crafted in Fabrication on the Leather tab. Each set is body, coif, and boots. Required for ranged combat — wearing plate while shooting bows kills accuracy.
Where Hides Drop
Hide drops from monsters in every combat zone. Tier 1–3 zones (Sporeveld, Miasma, Resonance) drop Dark Hide. Tier 4–6 zones (Crucible, Pale Reaches, Shattered Expanse, Abyssal Veins, Signal Apex, Hollow Core) drop Brown Hide. Tier 7+ zones (Incubation Vaults, Architect Necropolis, Genesis Lab) drop Black Hide. Hide is heavily weighted in the drop pool, so any combat session in those zones builds toward your next leather set.
Robes
Woven from fabric in Fabrication. Four schools (Volt, Cryo, Toxic, Pyro) each have a Robe (lower tier) and a Vestment (upper tier). Required for signal magic — wearing plate or leather shuts down spell accuracy.
More in Equipment
Inventory & Gear
Equipment slots, equipping items, and trading with merchants.
Enhancement
Upgrade your equipment with alien compounds, but beware the risk.
Shards
Crystallized resonance energy. Consume for a temporary buff or forge into permanent jewelry.
Role Jewelry
Rings and amulets forged via Gem Resonance. Pure combat gear: stats and build identity, no economy bonuses.
Equipment Tiers
How the eight equipment tiers work and where to find each one.
Boss Trophies
Named trophy gear earned by defeating zone and tower bosses.
Tower Legendaries
Unique legendary items from the Conduit.
Weapon Requirements
Weapons and armor require specific combat skill levels to equip.