Cracked Armor

The visual effect of cracked armor on a character: a white shroud circling around the legs

Condition. While suffering from this Condition, you have -20 armor (minimum 60).

Concise description: You have -20 armor (minimum 60).

— In-game description

Related skills

Skills that cause cracked armor

• Mark of Fury
• Well of Ruin — when a foe within the well takes physical damage.
• Weaken Armor
• Shrinking Armor
• Lightning Hammer — PvE version only.
• Lightning Surge
• Lightning Touch
• Shell Shock
• Shockwave — to nearby foes only.
• Teinai's Crystals — if target is affected by a Water Magic hex.
• Thunderclap
• Spirit Rift
• Sundering Weapon
• Aura Slicer — if enchanted.
• Rending Aura — end effect.
• Staggering Force — end effect.
• "Finish Him!" (PvE-only) — if target has less than 50% health.
• Alkar's Alchemical Acid (PvE-only) — if target is a Destroyer.
• Low Blow (PvE-only) — if target is knocked down.

Skills that benefit from cracked armor

• Distracting Strike
• Body Blow
• Piercing Trap
• Body Shot
• Shock Arrow
• Teinai's Prison
• Deft Strike (PvE-only)

Skills with cracked armor-dependent effects

• Chest Thumper

Skills that also reduce armor

See also: Skills that affect armor rating

• Healing Signet — on yourself while activating.
• Barbed Arrows — on yourself while activating.
• Elemental Resistance — on yourself.
• Physical Resistance — on yourself.
• Shadowy Burden — if target has no other hexes.
• Aggressive Refrain — on yourself.
• Soldier's Fury — on yourself.

Notes

• Cracked Armor takes effect before the armor cap.
• There are no upgrade components that influence the duration of Cracked Armor, as there are for most other conditions.
• For a maximum level character, an AR of 60, from a flavor standpoint, is essentially considered unarmored. An armor rating of 60 offers no damage reduction or increase to the listed damage of a weapon or skill.
• Cracked Armor uses the same animation as Weakness.
• Opponents suffering the full effect of cracked armor will take 41% more damage.
  • It often has little or no effect on party members who are casters, since their maximum base armor rating is 60; it almost always has some effect on martial classes.
  • It almost always reduces protections offered by armor-boosting equipment mods, such as of Defense or Shaman's Insignia.
  • It almost always reduces the bonuses of armor-boosting skills like Armor of Frost.
  • Many foes in hard mode will suffer its full effects, since even casters can have armor ratings of 80 or more.
  • Since cracked armor gives a percentage-based increase in damage, targets with AR 80 (the lowest rating that receives the full effect) will suffer the highest amount of increased damage.

Bug.Cracked Armor will reduce armor ratings as low as that of the target's Core armor, if that value is below 60.

Bug.Cracked Armor has no effect if you use a skill or combination of skills or effects that boosts your armor by +46 or more. See also armor calculation.

Trivia

• This is the only condition added to the game after the release of Prophecies. Only a few older skills were updated to make use of it: Weaken Armor, Mark of Fury, Lightning Orb (prior to the September 13, 2012 update), Staggering Force, Rending Aura, and Spirit Rift (each of these pre-dates the release of Eye of the North).

See also

• List of condition removal skills

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