Vagabond Armor - The most Expensive Promo (Patreon)

Vagabond Armor is an armour set split between two different promotional content boxes.  If you want a set of this armor it's going to cost you in the region of $50 (plus shipping and customs), so that pretty much makes it the most expensive armor set in the game in terms of real money.  You get 1 useable model (Aya in Vagabond Armor) + 5 cards.  That's not a lot, so the set would have to be really damn good in order to be worthwhile.

I'm not going to beat around the bush here, it's one of the best armor sets in the game, though it is a very limited scope armor set and essentially works as a DPS variant of leather armor.  

What does Vagabond Armor do?  Well it's a mostly leather set that uses the following items:

Tabard - Accessory Body

Leather Cuirass/Hard Breastplate - Armor Body

Leather Skirt - Waist

Leather Bracers / White Dragon Gauntlets (not yet craftable) - Arms

Leather Boots / Cloth Leggings - Body

The set bonus for this armor set can only be gained if you do not wear head armor and your settlement is not Barbaric.  So you have two high penalties to work around in order to get this armor set online properly - in particular you need to know how to handle the Bone Witch (ugh), but the bonus is worth it.

It's 1 extra armor on all locations, plus the benefit of Sword Specialization and Sword Mastery for just the survivor wearing the armor set.  That's a quick route to having a master in your settlement without actually getting the innovation.  I don't rate sword mastery that highly, but when you can get it like this it is amazing.

The armor set itself is also easier to build than normal leather armor, because you can do the "underpowered" version that has the Cloth Leggings and Leather Cuirasse instead of the version with the Leather Boots + 

Builds:

Now let's look at one of the first builds I aim for with the set.  Please note that the Cloth Leggings is actually the Leather Skirt.  I took the wrong picture and I don't have time to switch it over.

1. Scrap Sword DPS

This is a straightforward +Luck build.  Unfortunately the issue with Vagabond Armor is how hard it is to get enough affinities online to activate the Scrap Sword.  Generally the Scrap Sword and the Luck Charm do not play well together.  but this route is less resource intensive than any one that would get the Scrap Sword Deadly online.  So it's absolutely worth it. 

The final slot can be a head accessory or even monster grease or another shield if you want.  It all depends what you feel you need for the build.

That written, let's move onto some more sophisticated builds.

2. White Mask/Scrap Sword 

Again, please forgive me, the Cloth Leggings should be the Leather Skirt (same affinity and position).

This is probably the best version of the scrap sword build because of the White Lion Mask.  You'll notice that there's synergy between the Mask and the Tabard in particular.  This set is decent for tanking with in the mid game also.

For the remaining three builds I'm going to show you some of the more sophisticated and crazy things I've done in the past. 

3. Death Mask DPS

We have no affinities at all here, but thanks to the setup I've chosen you end up with an Ink Sword that crits on a 3+.  The other sword can be whatever one handed sword you desire.  I've chosen Griswaldo because I became quite good at farm building them.

You don't even really need an Ink Sword if you take advantage of the True Blade Secret Fighting Art from the Flower Knight because it gives you Deadly and +3 luck as standard and the Ghostly Beauty/Narcisstic/True Blade combo of disorders/SFA was literally BUILT for Vagabond Armor. However Ink Sword does make things stupidly powerful vs. crittable locations.

Also, this build is crazy good with Twin Steel Swords and True Blade Secret Fighting Art.

4.  Affinity Based Bruiser Variant.

Here we're taking advantage of how good Griswaldo, Fetorsaurus and Blood Paint are when they work together.  Essentially for one activation you get two attacks + block 2.  It's amazing <3

5. Standard Black Sword Bruiser:

Finally here we have the most straightforward version of the build.  This is a support/bruiser build that hits like a truck.  The Black Sword is pretty much the best weapon to use with the Vagabond armor if you have access to the Gorm expansion because Vagabond Armor will activate the Black Sword fully and give you a ridiculous statline.  Blood Paint ensures that you have Block 2 up all the time while you attack, which will protect you from some reactions as long as you activate it before the Black Sword.

The Trash Crown is there because it's an amazing support item that's usually hard to fit into a build.  Here it makes your head super tanky (7 armor minimum) and also gives you a ton of utility. 

This is basically what Aya the promo miniature has for her gear anyway.  So you've already got a miniature for this one built!

So there you have it.  A very expensive promotional item to purchase, but 

it makes swords so much more interesting and powerful than they usually are and I am of the opinion that it is worth the costs.