Padded Armor Schematic

The Padded Armor Schematic is the entry-tier Battle Armor recipe an Armorsmith trains as one of their earliest crafts. It produces a full nine-piece set of Padded Armor — boots, chestplate, gloves, helmet, leggings, and matched left/right biceps and bracers — that provides equal kinetic and energy protection plus bonus resistance to energy and poison damage-over-time effects.

How to learn it

Available at the very start of the Armorsmith profession tree — effectively a starting schematic for any crafter who has unlocked their first Field Armor or Battle Armor box.

Resource quality recommendations

Padded uses a leather-leaning resource profile: high-quality Hide (scaley variants preferred) drives the bulk of the encumbrance and mitigation stats. Vegetable Fibers feed the synthetic-cloth layer. Steel handles the metal-segment reinforcement on the chest, helmet, and bracers.

Crafting strategy

The chestplate and helmet require three- and two-identical Battle Armor Cores respectively, while limb pieces require single cores or none. Experimentation favors effectiveness and encumbrance — the balanced resistances make Padded usable in nearly any PvE content, and the broad ingredient list keeps it cheap to mass-produce. Approximate resource amounts; exact counts vary by patch.

Inputs

Resource class	Amount	Slot
hide	80	Scaley Hide
vegetable-fibers	45	Synthetic Cloth
steel	30	Metal Segment

Outputs

• padded-armor item