Leg armor, or Leggings, have the highest Prevalence among armor Equipments. Except for combinations of IRON and BRONZE, that always make HAGANE, the Material of the other piece is irrelevant; the product will always be the Material of the leg piece.

Armor found in Vagrant Story fall into one of four categories. There is no word in the English language for "piece of armor at a particular location on the body", so for the sake of this guide, the awkward but functional word 'Equipment' is used, as in, "A Rondanche and a Freiturnier are both equipped on the Arm Location, and are therefore both Equipments of the Glove type".

]The levels of armor, from weak to strong, are called Tiers for the purpose of this guide. Armor and Shields all have 16 grades, or Tiers. They ascend in their degree of physical defense, but the early grades (Leather and Wood) offer superior magical protection for their level. Armor Tiers, and therefore the individual pieces of armor within this Equipment category are arranged by Defense (STR), from weakest to strongest.

Note that while the values for Strength, Intelligence, and Agility are true for any Equipment by that name, the Type resistance values (Blunt, Edged, and Piercing) will be altered by crafting, and can all three be raised as high as 100 for any Equipment. Base values, before the bonuses for materials are added

Armor and Shields have Defense / STR, to protect against physical attacks, and Defense / INT, against magic.

Leggings[]

Base values, before the bonuses for materials are added. No Plate Leggings drop from enemies or are found in chests, in the game.

	Strength	Intelligence	Agility	Blunt	Edged	Piercing
Sandals	1	7	0	0	0	0
Boots	2	3	0	1	1	1
Long Boots	2	5	0	2	2	2
Cuisse	3	5	0	3	3	0
Light Greaves	4	5	0	0	0	4
Ring Leggings	5	6	-1	4	3	0
Chain Leggings	6	7	-1	5	4	0
Fusskampf	7	8	-1	5	0	8
	Strength	Intelligence	Agility	Blunt	Edged	Piercing
Poleyn	8	9	-1	0	5	10
Jambeau	9	10	-2	5	7	0
Missaglia	10	11	-3	12	12	12
Plate Leggings	11	11	-2	-	-	-
Fluted Leggings	12	12	-2	10	10	10
Hoplite Leggings	13	18	-3	15	6	0
Jazeraint Leggings	14	17	-3	-	-	-
Dread Leggings	15	15	-3	-	-	-

Type resistances anecdotal & Vagrant Story: Ultimate Armor FAQ and Vagrant Story: Item Stats, both by Samuel Riesterer

Materials Bonuses[]

See Main Article Materials

Two items of the same Design and Tier but of different Materials will have different Strength and Intelligence bonuses. Thus it can be seen that Strength and Intelligence are intrinsic properties of Material types. However, these stats are not uniform across all combinations of materials and armor Equipments, leading to discrepancies between guides as to the value for materials, as can be seen from the two charts below

Armor Material	Strength	Intelligence
Wood	+ 2	+ 8
Leather	+ 1	+ 7
Bronze	+ 3	+ 3
Iron	+ 5	+ 3
Hagane	+ 7	+ 4
Silver	+ 4	+ 3
Damascus	+ 9	+ 5

Less of an intrinsic property of materials is their Affinity and Class. Nonetheless, there is a preponderance towards set values for these properties.

	St	In	Ag	Hu	Be	Un	Ph	Dr	Ev	Ph	Ai	Fi	Ea	Wa	Li	Da
WOOD	+5	+8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	-6	8	8	-6	-4	-4
LEATHER	+1	+6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	5	-1	-1	-5	-5
BRONZE	+3	+2	-2	-1	-1	2	-1	-1	-5	8	-5	-5	3	3	-2	-2
IRON	+5	+2	-2	1	1	-2	1	1	0	10	0	-4	-4	0	-1	-1
HAGANE	+6	+3	-1	5	5	1	0	5	5	14	3	3	-5	-5	-5	-5
SILVER	+4	+2	-1	0	0	20	15	0	5	5	-5	-5	-5	-5	-5	20
DAMASCUS	+9	+4	-1	10	10	-2	0	10	10	20	-5	-5	-5	-5	20	-20

Affinity[]

Main article: Affinity

If the player watches the Affinity changes at all they can hardly have failed to notice green Light affinity gains when casting Heal, and the creeping tide of red Dark affinity losses as well, so it hardly need be said that this is an effective, if slow, way of gaining Light. Silver weapons will do the trick too, and there is no shortage of Quicksilver and Shrieker dolls around.

For Dark element, (be sure you can survive there, first and) Teleport to Sinner's Corner. Dispose of the skeletons, leaving the Dark Eye. Either pop a Mana Bulb or use the Siphon Soul Defense move to get half of the Dark Eye's power back each time it casts. The Dark Eye will run out of power to cast its damage spells, and turn to its innate ability, which does a tiny amount of damage but still gives Dark Affinity levelups fairly regularly. Dark Eyes give Phantom Class levelups much more frequently, so if that is counterindicated, try the Gremlins in Atone for Eternity (near a Heal Square) or Those who Fear the Light with their dark-damage Damascus weapons. Enemies have a RISK counter also, albeit a more generous one, so eventually the chosen would-be killer will discover for themselves the equation: high RISK equals high MISS rate, and the process of finding a new attacker will have to start over.

Equipment[]

The values of Strength and Intelligence below have not been checked for accuracy. As materials affect these values, a baseline for armor below the bonuses added by materials must be established (the armor values minus what is added by materials). The system used for materials (a base value lower than Leather) will be applied to verified data. Together with the values for the Materials, the Defense bonuses of any piece of any Material can be determined. Heavier armor slows down the character somewhat, hence the minus to Agility.

Resistance to weapon Types is not an intrinsic quality of Materials, but of individual pieces, and that information is verified in any case.

Tiers and Progression[]

Main article: Leggings Combinations

Regular Combinations are: <Tier> + <Tier + 1> = <Tier + 2>. Tier Combinations that are abnormal elsewhere are more the norm here. Chain Leggings in particular are in six progressive combinations, and Light Greaves in five. To a lesser extent, a handful of regular combinations are missing.

T1 Sandals + T5 Light Greaves = T6 Ring Leggings
T2 Boots make no progressive combinations
T3 Long Boots + T4 Cuisse = T5 Light Greaves
T4 Cuisse + * T5 Light Greaves = T6 Ring Leggings
T5 Light Greaves + T6 Ring Leggings = T7 Chain Leggings
T5 Light Greaves + T7 Chain Leggings = T8 Fusskampf
T5 Light Greaves + T8 Fusskampf = T9 Poleyn
T6 Ring Leggings + T7 Chain Leggings = T8 Fusskampf
T7 Chain Leggings + T7 Chain Leggings = T9 Poleyn
T7 Chain Leggings + T8 Fusskampf = T9 Poleyn
T7 Chain Leggings + T9 Poleyn = T10 Jambeau
T7 Chain Leggings + T10 Jambeau = T11 Missaglia
T8 Fusskampf + T9 Poleyn = T10 Jambeau
T9 Poleyn + T10 Jambeau = T11 Missaglia
T9 Poleyn + T11 Missaglia = T12 Plate Leggings
T11 Missaglia + T11 Missaglia = T12 Plate Leggings
T11 Missaglia + T12 Plate Leggings = T13 Fluted Leggings
T12 Plate Leggings + T13 Fluted Leggings = T14 Hoplite Leggings +
T14 Hoplite Leggings + T14 Hoplite Leggings = T15 Jazeraint Leggings
T15 Jazeraint Leggings + T15 Jazeraint Leggings = T16 Dread Leggings

Sandals[]

Impossible or nearly impossible to craft Sandals of any material other than Leather, due to none of the Devolutions of other armor resulting in Sandals.

Boots[]

Boots and Long Boots have Type resistances as balanced as the later Missaglia, albeit much lower

Long Boots[]

Six of the sixteen in game are equipped by Skeletons but never drop. One is found in a chest. All are LEATHER. It is possible to craft them in other materials by Devolving higher Tiers, but it takes some pretty fancy combinations and is of only aesthetic use.

Cuisse[]

Light Greaves[]

Ring Leggings[]

Chain Leggings[]

Fusskampf[]

Poleyn[]

Jambeau[]

Missaglia[]

Main article: Missaglia

Extremely valuable for their high and perfectly balanced Resists. One on a Crimson Blade in Rue Crimnade, two on Blood Lizards, one in a chest. The other thirteen are on Liches and Lich Lords.

Plate Leggings[]

No Plate Leggings drop from enemies or are found in chests; they must be crafted, and their Type is therefore a factor of the ingredients used. Since they can be crafted from two of the superlative Missaglia, their Resists can be very high.

Fluted Leggings[]

One in a chest in the Great Cathedral, level 2. Guildenstern wears SILVER Fluted Leggings, but they never drop.

Hoplite Leggings[]

One, chest in Third Iron Maiden. Hoplite is the apex of magical protection, and subsequent Tiers have more protection against Physical and less against magic.

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