🛡 Valheim Armor Calculator
Estimate damage taken, shield blocks, movement penalty, food HP, resistances, and effective hits survived by biome.
| Build | Armor | Move | Dmg/Hit | Hits |
|---|
Comparison rows use level 4 pieces, your current enemy damage, your current resistance settings, and no shield block.
| Set | L4 armor | Move | Use case |
|---|---|---|---|
| Troll leather | 40 | 0% | Forest stealth |
| Bronze | 48 | -10% | Elder melee |
| Root | 42 | -4% | Pierce fights |
| Iron | 60 | -10% | Swamp tanking |
| Wolf | 82 | -10% | Mountain frost |
| Padded | 100 | -10% | Plains brawls |
| Carapace | 116 | -10% | Mistlands hits |
| Flametal | 122 | -10% | Ashlands fire |
| Enemy | Main type | Raw hit | Biome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Troll club | Blunt | 60 | Forest |
| Draugr archer | Pierce | 48 | Swamp |
| Drake | Frost | 90 | Mountain |
| Deathsquito | Pierce | 90 | Plains |
| Seeker soldier | Mixed | 155 | Mistlands |
| Charred warrior | Slash/fire | 125 | Ashlands |
| Setting | Multiplier | Best example | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Very resistant | 0.25x | Strong mead | Short timers |
| Resistant | 0.50x | Cape or mead | Type-specific |
| Normal | 1.00x | No modifier | Armor only |
| Weak | 1.50x | Bad matchup | Spike damage |
| Shield | Block | Parry | Timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wood shield | 20 | 1.5x | Early safety |
| Bronze buckler | 28 | 2.5x | Parry focus |
| Iron buckler | 40 | 2.5x | Swamp parry |
| Black metal | 90 | 1.5x | Plains shield |
| Carapace buckler | 78 | 2.5x | Mist parry |
| Flametal shield | 110 | 1.5x | Ashlands wall |
Valheim armor reduces the damage that players recieve from enemy in the game. Valheim armor work differently, depending on the pieces of armor that a player wear. While players can choose armor from different biome, choosing a different set of armor will change the way that players and there characters move in the game, as well as the amount of damage that they take from the enemies.
Valheim armor does not eliminate damage that players take from enemies in Valheim, but it does reduce the amount of damage that their character take. The amount of damage that Valheim armor can reduce depends on the size of the hit that they take, and provide more effectiveley protection for small hits to the character than for large hits. Consequently, two different set of Valheim armor may provide differing level of protection for players characters, even if the Valheim armor number of each of the two sets of armor are similar.
How Valheim Armor Protects You and How to Pick the Best Gear
Shields provide armor to players before their Valheim armor provides armor to their characters. By use a shield to block or parry an attack from an enemy, players can make an otherwise dangerous attack more manageable for their character. However, if players only focus on their Valheim armor value, but not their shield choice, they may take more damage from an enemy that deal a large hit to their character.
Resistance value are another important factor in Valheim; resistance values reduce the damage that is of a specific type. Some armor piece and meads provide resistance to specific types of damage; this can often be more effective than Valheim armor value alone. Players must make sure that their characters resistance values match the type of damage that enemies of a specific biome may do to them; a character that lacks resistance to frost damage, for example, will fail if it encounter an enemy that deals frost damage to the player.
The importance of food and the rested bonus is in the fact that they increase the total health of a players character. While both food and the rested bonus do not change a players Valheim armor values, they do increase the number of hit that a player can take before there character dies. A character with high Valheim armor and low health will die quickly from a series of small hits.
In contrast, a character with moderate Valheim armor and high health will be able to survive a series of those same small hits. Thus, players should of use the Valheim armor calculator to determine the tradeoff between Valheim armor and health for their character by adjust the food and rested bonus values in the calculator. Another factor to consider is the movement penalty that certain type of armor can cause to a players character.
The heavier a players armor is, the more slow that their character can move. Thus, using armor with a high movement penalty may make it difficult for the character to dodge enemies or to stay out of range of the attacks of an enemy. Even if a type of armor is highly survivable, a high movement penalty may prevent players from want to use that type of armor.
The Valheim armor calculator makes it possible for players to view the movement penalty of different types of armor, thus allowing them to decide if the protection of armor is worth the movement penalty that that armor can cause. Starved enemies in Valheim can be dangerous for players, due to the fact that their attack multiply the damage of the hit that they land on a players character. Therefore, the Valheim armor that is effective against normal enemies may not be as effective against a starred enemy.
The Valheim armor calculator includes the damage multiplier that enemy stars can deal to armor, allowing players to determine from the calculator whether or not they need to upgrade their Valheim armor, their resistance stats, or there shields. Before facing an enemy in the game, players can test out different type of armor and shields in the Valheim armor calculator. By using the calculator, players can determine which type of armor and shields are the best to use against which enemy, thus allowing them to avoid dying during the encounter with that enemy.
