Item: Mantis Plate
The beautiful plates of this +2 resilient Greater Ready full plate armor are shaped from the carapace of a deadly mantis, providing excellent protection with added flexibility. When wearing a suit of mantis plate, you gain a +2 item bonus to your Athletics DC.
Activate—Mandible Vambraces 2 (concentrate, manipulate)
Effect Make a melee Strike. If you succeed, the target is caught by the spikes on the armor's forearms, taking an additional 6d6 piercing damage (DC 30 Basic Reflex save).
Craft Requirements The initial raw materials must include the arms and carapace of a deadly mantis.
Trait Effects
Bulwark: The armor covers you so completely that it provides benefits against some damaging effects. On Reflex saves to avoid a damaging effect, such as a fireball, you add a +3 modifier instead of your Dexterity modifier
Invested: A character can invest only 10 magical items that have the invested trait. None of the magical effects of the item apply if the character hasn’t invested it, nor can it be activated, though the character still gains any normal benefits from wearing the physical item (like a hat keeping rain off their head).
Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.
Armor Specialisation Effects
The sturdy plate provides no purchase for a cutting edge.
Heavy Armor: You gain resistance to slashing damage equal to 2 + the value of the armor's potency rune.
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