Equipment

Understanding Slots and Bulk

Slots are where you wear armor or jewelry and each slot can only be used by one piece of equipment at a time.  If you attempt to wear a piece of equipment and are told that you don't have the available slots to wear it, check to make sure that your race has those slots and that nothing else is using them (command "eq list").

Bulk is a measure of how heavy and physically impeding the armor is. Each primary guild is assigned a bulk limit for hermetic and spiritual spells. For skills, bulk limit depends on skill category. Effective percentage with those spells and skills decreases while equipment of higher bulk is worn.

Weapon damage

We use "weapon class" as a way to measure how effective a weapon is. The weapon class is a numerical representation of the damage  potential of a weapon. This value can range from 0 (think cotton ball) to 100, although only the rare and powerful artifacts have a weapon class above 80.

💡Weapon class is capped at three times your level, wielding a higher level weapon will not benefit you

Weapons can do a mixture of physical and non-physical damage. For example, a magic flaming sword might do 50% of its damage as physical damage from slashing and the remaining 50% as fire damage from the flames.

Dealing non-physical damage is desirable because:

1. Armor is less effective against non-physical damage

2. Monsters might be vulnerable to particular damage types

In addition to the raw damage that they do many magical weapons will have special attacks. These special attacks can apply a range of effects like stunning, interrupting, knocking down, or freezing your opponents.

Cheat sheet for equipment commands

keep all eq - Prevent all your currently equipped gear from being sold or dropped by mistake

label all armor as <X> - Applies a label to your equipment so other people can tell who it belongs to (replace X with your name or whatever else is useful to you)

i - Shortcut for inventory, will show everything in your backpack

eq - Show what you are wielding and wearing

eq list - Shows all your slots and also gives you an overall rating for your armor

wear / remove - change what armor you are wearing

wield / unwield - change what weapon you use

How does armor protect you?

The protection value of armor (abbreviated as PV) is a rating for how effectively the armor protects you from damage. It is a number from 0 (no protection) to 1000 (the very best magical armor).

We use the following scale to explain armour protection:

• Armor has no effect

• Armor protects very little

• Armor protects somewhat

• Armor protects moderately

• Armor protects strongly

• Armor protects very strongly

In addition to physical damage there are several different types of damage (help damage types).

The protection you get from armour will change depending on the type of damage that you are receiving.

• Physical -- Protects very strongly

• Acid -- Protects strongly

• Cold and Fire -- Protects moderately

• Disintegration -- Protects somewhat

• Electrical -- Protects very little

• Harm -- Protects very little

• Poison -- Protects very little

• Psionic and Illusion -- Armor has no effect

• Sonic -- Armor has no effect

• Holy and Unholy -- Armor has no effect

• Asphyxiation -- Armor has no effect

💡 Monsters who are wearing armour will receive the same benefits. Dealing non-physical damage is a great way to bypass their armor protection.