Lets start with the metals. The metals go from soft to hard, that means more damage when you hit something with it and less time needed to fix as you use.
The metals are: Bronze
Iron
Steel
Alloy
Mithril
Obsidian
Laen
The metals also may come magically enhanced, this will help in is ability to hit harder, increase the protection level, slow down the damage from use and make it capable of hitting magical creatures.
The magic abilities are: Silvered
Bright
Shinning
Glowing
Lustrous
Brilliant
So, with that said, lets start with ...........
Body Armor: Body armor is probably the most important armor you can get. It in it self does the most protection to the characters body and is one of the hard'est to find as far as quality goes. Beginning armor is good for a lower class character (from level 1 to 5) but beyond that, your going to need to up grade your armor as your grow in experience. As with every thing else just about, armor can come in magical classes(and in some really odd cases, you can find leather in even metal classes, don't ask me how....)
Your going to want to find magical armor as soon as you can, it takes more damage and last longer in between repairs. Most really good magical armor can not be bought but must be earned, and how do we earn it? well, ya got to kill something normally big and mean. Once ya have the better armor, go right to the heal hole and get fixed, I have found from the past that I need better armor to fight big bad monsters, but I need to fight big bad monsters to get the armor to fight the the big bad monster to begin with......
OK, now ya know where to get the better armor, ummmmm, i'm just not sure what ya need to kill to get the good stuff, so here you guys need to send me e-mail about where to get it. As for the dull hoe-hum stuff, not a problem, I know where all that is.
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