Armor Rating, Rarity & Quality

Armor Penetration reduces the Armor Rating considered by that attack. Steady Aim keeps its existing AP20 rule, while Armor Break still lowers effective Armor Rating by 10 for its normal duration. Rarity also improves protection in PvM through the existing hit-location armor calculation.

Rarity supplies the family Armor Rating curve. Exceptional quality and Reinforced modify that rating in order. Materials keep their own durability, requirement and contextual resistance identity, while Ward affixes keep their existing PvM resistance effects. A material does not silently replace the rarity curve.

Wearing even one Leather or Studded armor piece reduces your total mana recovery rate by 50%. This applies to passive recovery and to the faster recovery while actively Meditating, after the other regeneration bonuses are calculated. A normal recovery interval therefore takes twice as long.

Leather still allows the full Meditation skill contribution; Studded first reduces that contribution to 50%. The final armor penalty then applies to the resulting total rate. These are separate steps, so Studded is not simply equivalent to Leather.

Ordinary combat wear is half its former rate: each otherwise valid loss has a further 50% chance to be prevented. Self Repair and PvM Preservation keep their existing checks, so actual wear may be lower. The amount lost when wear occurs and normal repair rules are unchanged.

Clothing also receives the 50% prevention check, but retains its own wear rules rather than the armor or shield percentages.

The retired corrosive exceptions no longer add per-swing Slime/Acid Elemental wear, large blunt-hit armor losses, Ilhenir’s equipment corrosion or Verite/Valorite Elemental item destruction.