Armor Layering

[PureHydro]

I can see circles on certain Armor. All types Heavy, Medium and Light. Some have two circles some have one and I have one that is filled and its my best Heavy armor. I took it as loot from a battle. How does one add layers to my Armor? What materials are needed, what crafting station is required?

[Godzilla Diaper]

This will answer all of your questions, but it also spoils things so... up to you if you want to read it.

Armor will come with slots and you need to find Tracker's camps that will offer a higher quality recipe as a reward for the questline and sell lower quality armor layer recipes in exchange pristine fangs. First Tracker's camp in Tiltren is Northwest of StromKapp keep following the road past the lumbermill.

You will create armor layers at the forge with your blacksmith once you receive the recipes. You will need to obtain some white leather from phantom wolves and boars that spawn in the forests occasionally for the best recipes. Those fights are much more difficult than normal animals.

Once you have an armor layer in your inventory you just open the character sheet of the guy you want to add it to and right click the layer from inventory. All of the other materials are common or bought from merchants (coal is bought from the blacksmith).

You can also craft armor with slots and if you are lucky you can craft up to 3 slots. Crafting 2 slots is guaranteed if you hit all the plates yellow. You are going to need a lot of iron and leather if you want to craft your own gear. Iron can be hard to come by, the best place is to find mines and mine it, the mine will occasionally replenish the iron and become available to mine again.

[PureHydro]

Ive found that tracker camp but they want me to kill a large ghost wolf. Ive yet to find this wolf, the item they give me to follow instuctions only tells me it came from north of the stables. It doenst create a circle quest icon on the map. Ive fought plenty ghost animals already and yes they are touch cause my guys keep running away. However no super ghost wolf. Is it north of the tracker camp?

[Takichi]

Originally posted by PureHydro:

Ive found that tracker camp but they want me to kill a large ghost wolf. Ive yet to find this wolf, the item they give me to follow instuctions only tells me it came from north of the stables. It doenst create a circle quest icon on the map. Ive fought plenty ghost animals already and yes they are touch cause my guys keep running away. However no super ghost wolf. Is it north of the tracker camp?

Its a Search Quest, the Stables is the Hind
If you wanna know exactly:
[spoilers] You will Find a Corpse near the Stable, which will after examine it, show you a Blood Trail, follow it brings you to a Special Ghost Animal Pack, thats the one to Kill[/spoiler]

[Stardustfire]

btw its only a normal wolf, not ghost, ghost hunts first appear in the second sectors hunter quest. important fact, becasue for ghost wolfs you ever need to wait for nighttime to appear.

[PureHydro]

Where exactly is this stable with blood. Im at the Highland tracker camp and theres one horse to the top right. I see no highlighted option to examine anything near whatever might be a stable. Is it at another location, Ive searched around ive even ventured to Gosenburg, paid the 200 and everything. Im lost cant find these stables also I have 999 fangs now. (is this capped at 999?) Apparently I can use them to buy things from the trackers but not until i kill the Large she wolf Sikha. I also already killed a large ghost pack but I guess it wasnt the one with Sikha.

[Soul4hdwn]

Originally posted by PureHydro:

Where exactly is this stable with blood. Im at the Highland tracker camp and theres one horse to the top right. I see no highlighted option to examine anything near whatever might be a stable. Is it at another location, Ive searched around ive even ventured to Gosenburg, paid the 200 and everything. Im lost cant find these stables also I have 999 fangs now. (is this capped at 999?) Apparently I can use them to buy things from the trackers but not until i kill the Large she wolf Sikha. I also already killed a large ghost pack but I guess it wasnt the one with Sikha.

if you started the game fresh (and default starting location), the stables were literally down the hill you started from torwards the first city...

[Godzilla Diaper]

Originally posted by PureHydro:

Where exactly is this stable with blood. Im at the Highland tracker camp and theres one horse to the top right. I see no highlighted option to examine anything near whatever might be a stable. Is it at another location, Ive searched around ive even ventured to Gosenburg, paid the 200 and everything. Im lost cant find these stables also I have 999 fangs now. (is this capped at 999?) Apparently I can use them to buy things from the trackers but not until i kill the Large she wolf Sikha. I also already killed a large ghost pack but I guess it wasnt the one with Sikha.

The stables is south of Stromkapp it's probably the first building you ever saw in the game. There is a dead body across the road it's a small thing to highlight so it's easy to miss.

[PureHydro]

Thank you. Plateu Stables is what they meant. Here I was thinking all locations have a stables. At no point do they mention 'Plateu' Stables. Just north of the 'stables'. Yes and I found the dead body you can click on and followed the blood trail. Probably not but im gonna try to capture the Sikha wolf and add her to my troop. Ive added wolves and Alpha wolves. I have a bow master that has good synergy with animals. Ive tried to capture leaders of enemy troops but the knock out option doesnt show up for them. Im thinking the capture option wont show for Sikha either.

[BedlamBetty]

After crafting 50 armors you get 3 layer slots instead of two from crafting armors.
After crafting 50 layers, you can remove the layers from armor without destroying them. This allows you to keep your good enhanced layers to upgrade the better armor you get from drops and merchants, as long as it has at least one slot. Layers are good all through the game, but they really shine for levels 5-6 where the crafted armor is at level 5 and on par with what you would get from drops, especially with three enhanced layers that give bonuses to stats. From level 7 on, crafted armor is much worse than dropped or purchased armor and you are likely to simply not have layer slots to use the layers in. Still, keeping your enhanced layers from removing them after crafting 50 gives you options you would have to use resources to obtain otherwise. I would suggest getting the 50 crafted layers from regular layers that don't use white leather, so you aren't using all that expensive white leather just to reach a title. Same idea for armors, rags count as armor, so just craft a ton of them to get to 50 crafted armors.
To note, if you are also going after 50 crafted weapons for the weapon buff on craft, throwing knives don't count as weapons crafted, I'm assuming throwing axes don't either, leaving the bec de corbin or the seax as the most inexpensive options to reach 50 crafted weapons