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Reading equipment stats

Base equipment values, examples and limitations.

Base values

These are unmodified base values, not final item or character stats. Light, Agile, upgrades, manufacturing, talents and built-in attributes can change item behavior.

• Weapon damage: physical base damage, not dice, spell damage or final hit damage. Bows require ammunition.
• Speed: an index, not seconds. Titanic weapons list their effective index, which already includes their slower attack.
• Full-speed STR: the effective STR an unmodified weapon needs for its skill's normal speed floor, including the weight check. It is not allocated STR or the fastest modified attack. Titanic weapons stop a step above that floor, and their value is the threshold for that step.

Weapon examples

Item	Base weapon damage	Base full-speed STR
Dagger	2	18
Superior Dagger	3	22
Exceptional Dagger	4	26

Weight check

The base weight STR check rounds weight up to whole effective STR. It is not full-speed STR. Even meeting the listed weight STR, level, sex and extra stat gates does not guarantee equip eligibility. Light changes item weight. Manufactured equipment bypasses only the template level check.

Protection and limits

• Defense Ratio helps avoid physical hits; it is not damage absorption. Base values exclude instance upgrades, manufacturing and attributes.
• Armor PA applies at the struck location. Shield PA applies only on a successful eligible block and is not added to armor PA. Neither is a whole-character damage-reduction percentage.
• Not applicable: the field does not apply. None: no requirement of that kind. Pending verification: no verified value supplied.

Special-effect descriptions are not included.

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