Dusted cloth

Training stops at Grand Master (100). Past it, skill comes from dusted cloth: linen woven with metal dust and cut into a shirt, a hood and boots, worn beneath your armour in their own slots. Browse every piece under Items › Dusted cloth.

The four roles

Every piece is made for one role and raises every skill of that role:

How much it adds

Each metal has a set power. Each piece you wear adds a quarter of its metal's power, and wearing all three pieces of one role adds the last quarter, counted from the weakest piece. A full set adds the whole power.

• Gear and crafted cloth can take a skill to 180 at most.
• Each Ascendant piece of a role raises that role's limit a third of the way from 180 toward 200. A full Ascendant set reaches 200.
• Broken cloth gives nothing until it's mended.

Don't wear it too early

Cloth that carries a skill to 100 before you've trained it there stops that skill rising while you wear it. The game warns you when you put it on. Take it off to keep training, or wait for Grand Master. A Master (90) might still wear iron cloth to sign their work as a Grand Master.

The crafting ladder

• File ingots into dust at an anvil, weave the dust into dusted cloth, then cut the shirt, hood and boots.
• Every recipe needs Smelting 100 (90 for iron) as well as Blacksmithing and Tailoring at the metal's number in the table above.
• From silver up, that number is past 100. To reach it, wear the Artisan set of the metal before: iron cloth lifts you toward copper, copper toward silver, and so on.
• Crafted cloth carries its maker's name and title.

The recipes are under Recipes › Tailoring and Blacksmithing.

Ascendant cloth

Ascendant pieces can't be crafted. They drop only from creatures of level 55 and up, with their own pity counter. See Unique loot › Ascendant cloth.

What points past 100 do

Skill past Grand Master keeps paying where 100 used to be the end: more damage, more blocks, bigger gathering yields and faster mana regeneration. Titles continue too: Elder (125), Exalted (150), Mythic (175) and Ascendant (200).

Wear

Whether cloth wears out is a rule chosen when the world is made (a Mac host can change it):

• Lasts forever: once made, a set is yours.
• Wears, and can be mended: using a skill has a 20% chance to wear one of the pieces raising it. A tailor mends it for half its materials.
• Wears out for good: the same wear, but a spent piece crumbles to dust and can't be mended.