Where to find excellent armor (act 1) ?

[achipalachau]

Hello.

My character is level 9 and I am currently doing as many quests as possible at the Remnants Camp.


I have a blue quality sword with 30 damage but .... armor level I still have the one that was given to me at the lumberjack camp.
And it protects almost nothing.

I understood that there was an excellent one in the northwest of the Remnants Camp, but that it was necessary to kill a group of hunters.

I tried but impossible for me, I even tried to bring them to the camp so that the 2 guards would help me but they do not come there.

Do you have another solution to find a better one before I go to nemeton or others?

Thanks.

[Goedeke]

You can buy one at the market in the remnants camp.

Apart from that you will get an even better armour when joining one of the camps. In my opinion there is no reason to delay joining a camp for too long. You won't miss out on too many quests. I think only the ones that are part of joining a camp will fail once you made the decision for one of the camps and you can complete these for both factions before actually joining one, if you are a completionist.

[Laub]

Originally posted by achipalachau:

Hello.

My character is level 9 and I am currently doing as many quests as possible at the Remnants Camp.


I have a blue quality sword with 30 damage but .... armor level I still have the one that was given to me at the lumberjack camp.
And it protects almost nothing.

I understood that there was an excellent one in the northwest of the Remnants Camp, but that it was necessary to kill a group of hunters.

I tried but impossible for me, I even tried to bring them to the camp so that the 2 guards would help me but they do not come there.

Do you have another solution to find a better one before I go to nemeton or others?

Thanks.

Same level. Better armor is locked behind factions or maybe quests. It's a harsh world. There is no armor for everybody. ;-)

[Phantom]

The best pre act 2 armour is from the bandits left of the arena town

A set of 6 very powerful enemies

Spam traps and drag them out one at a time - bear traps are OP when spammed

OR slowly drag them one at a time back to camp and have the townguards kill them

One of them drops a key, which opens a chest in their camp with the bandit armour (~80 armour and 10% crit chance)

This is your best set until you join a faction and have the best armour in the game crafted for you (more defense but you'll lose that sweet 10% crit)

[achipalachau]

Thank you for your answers.

[Magus Coldfire]

Originally posted by achipalachau:

Hello.

My character is level 9 and I am currently doing as many quests as possible at the Remnants Camp.


I have a blue quality sword with 30 damage but .... armor level I still have the one that was given to me at the lumberjack camp.
And it protects almost nothing.

I understood that there was an excellent one in the northwest of the Remnants Camp, but that it was necessary to kill a group of hunters.

I tried but impossible for me, I even tried to bring them to the camp so that the 2 guards would help me but they do not come there.

Do you have another solution to find a better one before I go to nemeton or others?

Thanks.

What I did with level 3: I learned craftsmanship 1, bought the Crow's Feet recipe and made over 10 Crow's Feet.

First of all, I killed all the trash mobs that are right under the bandits camp NW from the Remnants camp. You can easily do this, just place 4-5 Crow's Feet all over the place and let the enemy walk over them. Each Crow's Feet hit gives a bleeding stacking, leading to heavy bleeding within seconds. Then it's just a matter of holding your distance and dodge. After you have cleared the area below the bandits camp, lure the bandits down. Just keep running until only 1 bandit is following you. And now repeat the steps. Place Crow's Feet and lure them over it. The slow helps you to regenerate stamine if you had to dodge and the bleeding kills them for sure. What you should know: If the traps bleeding killed the bandits, you won't get experience, but trust me: You will not miss much experience and the armor helps you BIG time. Don't even try to attack them. Some of them may be able to one- or two-shot you. In my case, after I have killed 4 of those 6 bandits, one of them had the heavy key for the treasure chest. I then lured the last two bandits down, walked around the building, ran up the bandits camp, opened the chest and took/equipped the armor right away. Now, even if those 2 bandits hit you now, you will not lose to much health.

If everything goes smoothly, this should take you about 30-60 minutes to achieve and you will safe that time, since future fights will be so much easier with that armour.

[gungadin22000]

If you do a few quests for Olaf, the bartender at the neutral inn between the Remnant camp and Nemeton, he will give you some armour as compensation. I think I did 2 quests for him to achieve that.

[achipalachau]

""I learned craftsmanship 1, bought the Crow's Feet recipe and made over 10 Crow's Feet. ""

Where can I learn this please?

[Zaimda ^-^]

Hey u guys missing a Primeal Forest questline. Im already in act 1, finished Primeal Forest questline, obtained my spark and armor when i do not even get inside Nemeton. Its hard, very hard way to go into but if u are enough skilled u can beat these stronger wolfes or boars. Gl guys!

[Slip]

I found leather armor in the woods south of remntant camp, somewhere in a bag or buried, cant remember exactly where. It was close to the npc that wants to hunt those birds with you.

[Tangentric]

If you don't mind save scumming a .. very .. tricky fight with two metal golems, you can have ancient rune armour in Act 1 by collecting the 3 pieces of strange metal. Just did this on level 14, needed a lot of scrolls.
Up until then, the Heavy Bandit Armour is definitely the best, which is west of Remnants camp, but that's also a tricky fight. Recommend Crows' Feet and Bear Traps for those tight bottlenecks.

[King Diamond]

Originally posted by Tangentric:

If you don't mind save scumming a .. very .. tricky fight with two metal golems, you can have ancient rune armour in Act 1 by collecting the 3 pieces of strange metal.

These golems drop these pieces of armor, is it correct?

P.S. There's an Epic Barbarian Poleaxe available in Chapter 1, somewhere in the ruins near the very beginning of the game but it's a tricky path there through a lot of caves. This axe has 98 attack damage but requires 74 prowess.

[Magus Coldfire]

Originally posted by achipalachau:

""I learned craftsmanship 1, bought the Crow's Feet recipe and made over 10 Crow's Feet. ""

Where can I learn this please?

Some merchants sell the recipe. Costs like 50 gold or so. You can definitely get it in the Remnants camp.

[bijou]

Questline in the Primeval Forest can get you a blue quality armor, Clothing of the Bonded:

19 Armor (+7 compared to Leather Armor)
32 Magic Resistance
Base Focus +6

[Nakaris]

Originally posted by achipalachau:

Hello.

My character is level 9 and I am currently doing as many quests as possible at the Remnants Camp.


I have a blue quality sword with 30 damage but .... armor level I still have the one that was given to me at the lumberjack camp.
And it protects almost nothing.

I understood that there was an excellent one in the northwest of the Remnants Camp, but that it was necessary to kill a group of hunters.

I tried but impossible for me, I even tried to bring them to the camp so that the 2 guards would help me but they do not come there.

Do you have another solution to find a better one before I go to nemeton or others?

Thanks.

In theory you have 2 options for "decent" armour in act 1.
YOu can ether try to get the bandit armour in the northwest as you wrote. If you struggle to achive this you can utilze snare traps in combination with crow feets. Both are in your lvl range easy to come by and highly effective. If you dont want ro wipe out the whole squad you thecnicly only need to kill the guy in the front (the one who trigger the conversation with the coin toss ) he got the key on his corpse whish will open up the chest for the armour.

the second one is the beygone armour if you collect all the Bygone Signets on the map. But this "can" be without the first mentioned armour extremly hard and resource intensive depending if you even havnt a decent weapon.

Like i said thats the 2 realy decent ones in theory if you want less you can go for the primeveal forest armour ( faction quest), the leather armour at olafs or even one step below this one the hauler armour in the deep mines or after taking hostage in the the south excarvation side.

Personaly i would suggest trying to get the bandit armour the tears and sweat to get it makes the endaveour absolutly worth it.

[Nakaris]

Originally posted by King Diamond:

Originally posted by Tangentric:

If you don't mind save scumming a .. very .. tricky fight with two metal golems, you can have ancient rune armour in Act 1 by collecting the 3 pieces of strange metal.

These golems drop these pieces of armor, is it correct?

P.S. There's an Epic Barbarian Poleaxe available in Chapter 1, somewhere in the ruins near the very beginning of the game but it's a tricky path there through a lot of caves. This axe has 98 attack damage but requires 74 prowess.

If your not going for the axe there is a smiliar strong sword in the ruins east of olafs tavern in the ruin ( the ruin has on the right upper corner some bars you cant get trhough). There are 4 hidden switches in each corner of the ruin which will open up a secret passage under the central god statue. The sword is lying on the left side on the table.