Armor

If a good weapon is your best offense, good armor is your best defense. As your power and wealth increase, your armor collection should reflect your changing fortunes. A complete set of armor includes hand protection, pants, a shield, and some sort of body armor.

Using Armor

Like weapons, armor is worthless during combat if it's sitting in the bottom of your knapsack. You need to put it on, preferably before that large and malevolent troll decides to make lunch out of you.

To put on a piece of armor, move to your inventory and right-click it. A description of the piece appears. Click Use to equip it, just as you would a weapon.

If you are already wearing a similar piece -- for instance, you're wearing a leather chest protector, and want to put on a chain mail coat instead -- the old garment is automatically retired to your knapsack when you choose the new one.

Enhancement & Repair

Like weapons, armor gets pretty bashed up after a while. You can either replace it, or restore it with the Mend spell.