Armor Perks

Equipped armor gains experience as you kill NPCs or use Upgrade Parts on it. Upon gaining enough experience it will unlock new perks and their color will change.

The first three perks on tier 3 gear are always predefined. Some tier 4 items have random perks on the first three levels however.
The fourth perk you are able to choose by dialog window once you unlock it. Exception to this is when you level your armor by Upgrade Parts then perk will be random.
The fifth perk is always random.
The sixth perk (also called "legendary") is picked from different table of perks instead of the regular one. Legendary perks work against NPCs only.
Every armor can be upgraded by Roger to gain one additional perk, or by Cotsford in Vegas at the Wattz factory.

List of armor perks

Perk Name	Effect
Advanced Plate	+7 Normal DT +15% Normal Damage Protection (PvP only)
Anty-Termal System	+7% Plasma and Fire DR +50% Lethal Damage Protection against Fire and Plasma
Bonus Movement	10% shorter running time
Cured	+9% Normal DR +75% Lethal Damage Protection against Normal
Defense Enhancement	+3% all DR 20% to give heresy status on attacker
Defensive Belt	+2% Damage Protection Applies Slow with 40% power for 5 sec per stack to attackers
Explosive belt	Ability to use suicide
Fill The Gaps	+20% Chance Critical Resistance +25% in defensive crit rolls
Firegeckon's Enhancement	+6 Fire and Explode DT +15% Fire and Explode Damage Protection (PvP only)
Bonus SPECIAL	2 points to one of S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
Heavy	+15% Critical Roll Resistance Decrease attacker chance to apply effect by 20%
Heavy Stonewall	Reduces attacker's ST by 15 in heavy handed roll
Integrated Gloves	+10 Melee Damage
Iron Skin	+30 HP, lower enemy's melee damage by 15%
Laser Reflector	+9% Laser DR +90% Lethal Damage Protection against Laser
Mirror System	+7 Laser DT +15% Laser Damage Protection (PvP only)
Penetration Protection	Lowers enemies DR penetration by 12%/19%/25%/30%/32%/37% Lowers enemies DT penetration by 15%
Regeneration	+15 Healing Rate, +0.12 AP regen/s
Shock Protection	+7% Explode and Electric DR +20% Lethal Damage Protection against Electro and Explode
Sneaky	+50 Sneak
Special Force Bonus	+2 ALL DT +33% bleed resistance
Speed Mechanism	+1 Action Point and 2 Slow resistance
Strategic Improvement	+100 to AC and +5 Sequence
Survivalist	+20 poison resistance and 10 poison resistance cap.
Terminator Mode	Ability to use Terminator Mode
Tesla Addition	+6 Plasma and Electric DT +15% Plasma and Electric Damage Protection (PvP only)
Tesla Attacker	Ability to use discharge
Utility	+50 CW +30% rad resist +30% poison resist -1 reload AP cost

List of legendary armor perks

Perk Name	Effect
Advanced Defence	+20% Damage Protection against NPCs
Powered	Take 10 less damage from attacks of NPCs
Anty-Crit	-30 to NPCs crit chance, -60 to NPCs crit roll
Nightmare Defence (Gifted)	NPCs lose 2 AP when attacking you
Super Regen	restore 25% of damage taken from NPCs as HP after 5 seconds

Rerolling

All perks on armor can be rerolled by Boyce in Junktown or Vault 8 (yes there are two of him). The cost is in local currency and matches the amount of experience it costs to get that level, except for the 4th perk which you can normally choose, and the one added by wattz cores or t4 parts. The rerolling is random, so expect to spend a bit before getting exactly what you want.

Level	Experience
1	15,000
2	100,000
3	200,000
4	50,000
5	6,000,000
6	50,000

Armor Experience

Total amount of Experience required for equipment to level up depends on its tier, type and current level.

Total Experience Needed = Base Experience Needed * Experience Needed Modifier

Base Experience requirement and Experience modifiers to get specific equipment to a specific level can be seen in tables below:

Armors EXP Base

NOTE: Patch 5.4 Armors EXP Base Tier I Tier II Tier III Tier IV Tier V Tier VI Level 1 7 500 15 000 30 000 60 000 180 000 900 000 Level 2 50 000 100 000 200 000 400 000 1 200 000 6 000 000 Level 3 100 000 200 000 400 000 800 000 2 400 000 12 000 000 Level 4 625 000 1 250 000 2 500 000 5 000 000 15 000 000 75 000 000 Level 5 3 000 000 6 000 000 12 000 000 24 000 000 72 000 000 360 000 000 Level 6 25 000 000 50 000 000 100 000 000 200 000 000 600 000 000 3 000 000 000

Armors EXP Modifier
NOTE: Patch 5.4 Armors EXP Modifier Armor Type Experience Needed Modifier Leather Armors 75% Metal Armors 50% Combat Robes 100% Combat Armors 150%

NOTE: Armor EXP Modifier only applies to levels 1-4.

See Also

• Weapon perks
• Roger