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This seems to be the best armor in the Exiled Lands, right? On a 1x server how many complete runs of the Arena dungeon would you have to do in order to craft the full set? I have yet to even complete one run because I am a complete noob and we have 2x NPC damage but I was just wondering if anyone did the rough mathematics on this.

Thank you very much, and good luck!

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Chilled is weaker than not-Chilled. This is likely an oversight, but one that has not yet been corrected.

As for a calculation, this is less simple than you may assume, as Armor Scraps come from three different sources.

  1. Arena Champion drops 5-8.
  2. Champion of the Warmaker drops 10-15.
  3. Rusted Key chests drop 1-2, but there are four of them; 4-8.

So you could say one run earns you 19-31 Armor Scraps (25 avg) and you need 75, so three runs.

However, the Arena Champion can be skipped, and arguably should be. The time it takes to kill her and the risk she poses to players who arenā€™t familiar with her compared to the small reward makes her hardly worth the effort.

Additionally, the rusted key chests take 30 minutes to respawn while all of the enemies take 15, so if you do runs back to back, every other run will be missing these chests too.

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What @Tephra posted is an excellent explanation. The only thing I want to add is the following:

This really depends on what you mean by ā€œbest armorā€. If you mean that it grants you the highest damage reduction, then I believe you are right. But there are many other aspects of armor to take into account, such as the bonuses it offers, weight, impact on stamina regeneration, etc.

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75 for one piece of the final Godbreaker armor, right? You have to craft Rusted ā†’ Chilled ā†’ Godbreaker? So 375 armor scraps total?

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Yeah I skip the arena champion and only get 2 of the 4 keys and this sets me up to about 16 scraps a run the crafting through a garrison armor bench.

Due to the negative of this being the heaviest armor, I use the scoutwright and then add the armor reduction kit to all the pieces but I have been tempted to leave the gloves and boots for gliding joints for climbing. Carry Mistmourn as your shield of choice and you are ready for most things .

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Ah sorry, I was going by memory and forgot that costs are halved when using a Garrison Armorerā€™s Bench, which I do.

The Rusted Set is 20 per piece (100). Upgrading it to one of the other sets is 8 per piece (40).

Base cost total is 140.
Improved Bench will reduce that to 105.
Garrison Armorerā€™s Bench reduces it to 70.

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Iā€™m just gonna jump in to emphasize on what @CodeMage said above :slight_smile:
Consider whether itā€™s worth farming for it for you or not. The thing is, armor protection is not linear, itā€™s a curveā€¦ namely this curve:

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What does this mean? Means that the difference between 1200 and 1500 armor is 4.5% damage reduction (70.5% vs. 75%)
And in most cases the difference isnā€™t even going to be that muchā€¦

For example you craft any flimsy DLC epic armor, like the pictish warchief with a shieldwright itā€™ll give 1320 armor (72.5% protection) / you craft your Godbreaker and itā€™ll have 1594 (76.1% protection) so the difference there is even lessā€¦ 3.6%.

Bottom line, armor has diminishing returns :slight_smile: so you should focus on the other stats instead, though in the case of the Godbreaker, those are pretty nice too, the question is whether theyā€™re nice enough to specifically farm for themā€¦ or whether thereā€™s no rush and youā€™ll craft it when you have nothing else to do with the scraps anyway.

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With GB armor, the DR isnā€™t the reason why because of the limited returns, itā€™s the bonuses that the pieces provide a long with the DR. Gas mask, healing, extra stamina recovery, and durability fixing or main weapon are all very nice

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and now you can finally illusion it so you donā€™t look like Larry the bucket salesmanā€¦

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Exactly :smiley: - and thank the gods that armours donā€™t need to be oiled to stop the infernal squeaking!

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