How to get best armor?

[Atlar]

Recently married a Vlandian Lord... damn that armor! 50 on the helmet alone... So, how do I get towns to sell that kind of stuff?
I've set up my home city (Marunath) with ironmonger, carpenter and tannery but the best they've ever sold was a "Kilt over plated leather" with about 40/10/10.

Has anybody figured this out?

[Condasoft]

From what I've found when you increase the prosperity of a given fief it has a chance of stocking rarer gear more routinely.

[✪︎DΞ︎AD_iwnw]

I've found that towns in the western empire have lamellar armor a lot. Which is the best imperial armor.

[Eclipse]

need higher tier clan, and then you need to visit a city with high prosperity.

recall that Armor WEIGHT is also considered a "Best Armor" factor.

Northern Lamellar Armor for example only weighs 1.5 while Southern Lamellar Armor weighs 8.9. both provide equal armor protection.

[Atlar]

Originally posted by ScouseShoota:

From what I've found when you increase the prosperity of a given fief it has a chance of stocking rarer gear more routinely.

So, how much prosperity for the good stuff?

[I got 1984'd]

I found that as your clan rating goes up, you get access to higher tier gears in towns. But that also depends on the town's prosperity also.

[Rigsie]

Originally posted by Eclipse:

need higher tier clan, and then you need to visit a city with high prosperity.

recall that Armor WEIGHT is also considered a "Best Armor" factor.

Northern Lamellar Armor for example only weighs 1.5 while Southern Lamellar Armor weighs 8.9. both provide equal armor protection.

Never even SEEN northern lamellar yet!

I was trying to always kit northern and finally I just said screw it because the empire armor just routinely seemed to be better on the body. Some of the northern stuff is fine elsewhere.

Guess I have not got far enough in.

I know when you go to manage a town, if it has a smithy, you can see the armor and weapon tiers it is capable of manufacturing. I assume if you want you can close down, say, tanner, and change to a smith, and get better armor from that town that way, and the expense I guess of whatever cool stuff tanners make.

And why would you ever close down a brewer. BAHAHAHAHA!

[I got 1984'd]

Originally posted by Rig Nan Roach:

Originally posted by Eclipse:

need higher tier clan, and then you need to visit a city with high prosperity.

recall that Armor WEIGHT is also considered a "Best Armor" factor.

Northern Lamellar Armor for example only weighs 1.5 while Southern Lamellar Armor weighs 8.9. both provide equal armor protection.

Never even SEEN northern lamellar yet!

I was trying to always kit northern and finally I just said screw it because the empire armor just routinely seemed to be better on the body. Some of the northern stuff is fine elsewhere.

Guess I have not got far enough in.

I know when you go to manage a town, if it has a smithy, you can see the armor and weapon tiers it is capable of manufacturing. I assume if you want you can close down, say, tanner, and change to a smith, and get better armor from that town that way, and the expense I guess of whatever cool stuff tanners make.

And why would you ever close down a brewer. BAHAHAHAHA!

I have bought/sold and closed down all brewers in calradia. Or at least turned them into something else.

[Kolumbo]

One option: marry a lord, bring them into your party, and take all their top-tier gear.

[Modslave]

The spawn rate chance on T5 and T6 armors and weapons even on high prosperity cities is extremely low to the point of almost being non-existent, there is a Community Patch effort which fixes it to a certain degree, but the Community Patch also has some pretty major CTD issues atm too because its in early development.

[Tyberi]

Originally posted by Kolumbo:

One option: marry a lord, bring them into your party, and take all their top-tier gear.

Did you even read what OP wrote?

[Bomada]

i've always had my best of luck with khuziat cities as far as lamellar

[I got 1984'd]

I have all the jeweled helmets in calradia im rich af

[Atlar]

No luck so far, Kilt over Leather is still the best... My town is at 8.5k prosperity and the smithy is supposed to make "ultra armor"... guess it's really abbout clan level.

[VOLUME SHOOTER]

enable cheats or go to the most prosperous town for the armor type that you want and check the market

[Kahvipannu]

Originally posted by Atlar:

No luck so far, Kilt over Leather is still the best... My town is at 8.5k prosperity and the smithy is supposed to make "ultra armor"... guess it's really abbout clan level.

Not true anymore, towns can now produce top tier armor in the beginning too.