User blog comment:PitchBlack696/Blog: Admins Board/@comment-4009941-20131107063958

We might have to remove the "Armor Skills" thing for frontier armors on monster pages because its kinda complicated on frontier.

Most armor starts with minor skills but builds up as you upgrade it levels.

For a quite extreme example Akura Vashimu armor has not 1 but 4 armors just for when its blood changes color to color the armor even though they all have same skills. It starts with 2 slots, 127 defense, recovery Speed up+1, Sharp Sword+1 and Item usage duration down(Or whatever you call it) are the skills. When upgraded to max level it has 15 slots(Full 3 on each part), 773 defense and gets Attack Up Large, Large Wind Resistance, Paralysis Sword+2(Add Paralysis to any weapon with special items) and Fatal Furry+1(Gives +50 Affinity and Evasion+1). Also in another twist of paths upgrade Akura Vashimu armor to max of its first level and get the option to turn it into Akura Jebia armor instead ending with 13 slots, 497 defense, runner and Affinity+20 skills. The reason for such lower skills and def is Akura Vashimu has more levels of upgrade than Akura Jebia.

Upgrading armor costs materials instead of Armor Stones.

Each level of armor usually has 7 upgrades. For example lets use upgrade levels of Akura Vashimu  armor> :Akura, Akura F, Akura FX, Akura HC and Akura HS. At the end of "Akura" 2 paths show one if to Akura F and the other is to Akura U(Akura Jebia armor that also follows the color change patterns) that path only leads up one more level known as Akura R(Top leveled Akura Jebia armor). For G-rank Akura Vashimu armor you create it from base named "Akura G" its not upgraded from normal Akura Vashimu armor just like all monster G armors. Levels for most G armors are: G > GF > GX.

With skill point changes at each level and material for upgrades instead of Amor Stones you can understand some confusion.

Akura Vahsimu G armor starts with: 3 slots, 1251 defense, Guard+2(Has included affect of Guard Increase skill on frontier), Crystal Tolerance(Immune to Crystal status),  Gou Attack+2(Attack up by 35) and Reflection+1(If monsters attack when you are guarding you can reclect some of it back at them causing damage just by guarding yourself). Maxed it has: 13 slots, 1945 defense,  Gou Attack+3(Attack up 50), Reflection+2(Increased damage), Guard+1, Sharp Sword+1, Crystal Tolerance and Charged Power Up+1(Increased attack strength from charged attacks).

So much variation its hard to just simply say a armor has a few skills with Frontier. Also looks like its not gonna be easy to make armor pages for this game.

Akura Armor color variations (Note Akura G armor stays normal and I skipped Yellow because I ran out of instantly availible materials to make it and Frontier saves instantly after you make something). Remember color changes nothing but looks in Akura armor.