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* In ''[[Literature/GrailQuest J.H Brennan]]'s ''Saga of the Demonspawn'', you go through Books 1 - 3 without any armor. In the final book you get your first armor which is a shirt of magical Levenskin, making it a very useful find. But it pales in comparison to the glowing shield and the Dragonskin armour you can get just before you meet the [[BigBad 3 sorcerers who started this mess]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has the Masterwork Armor set. Which it isn't quite the best melee armour in the game, its stats are usable all the way to endgame and it's actually repairable, making it a popular choice. It's the highest-level player-created armor, requiring [[{{Cap}} 99 Smithing]] to even begin, and the process is laborious. First, every metal in the game needs to be combined into an alloy bar, which have to be refined down several more times (consuming more metal in the process) to produce an immaculate alloy bar. This bar then needs to be folded 1,001 times to create a single Glorious Bar. Each Glorious Bar need to be smithing four times over (a long process each time) to produce a Masterwork Armor Piece, which must be lined with leather. Finally, a number of steel Masterwork Rivets and used to turn a number of pieces into a finished piece of Masterwork Armor. Assuming a player starts with all the materials on hand, a full set of Masterwork Armor takes ''twelve hours'' to produce.

** The next stage up from Terminators' Tactical Dreadnought armour is Gravis armour (shown on [[http://steppingbetweengames.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screenshot_2017-05-23-20-26-53-1.png the far left of this image]]), introduced specifically for Primaris leaders in 8th edition. Unlike Terminator armour, it also boosts the wearer's Toughness stat.

* ''LightNovel/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'': Maple's "Armor of the Black Rose", a unique equipment that's part of a set with a shortsword and a greatshield that Maple obtained by defeating a poison dragon solo on her first attempt. The set only boosts the VIT stat (even the sword), which when combined with Maple's already absurd base VIt stat and the multipliers she gets from her passives makes her invincible to all attacks that don't have the armor-piercing property. It also has skill slots, which allows Maple to attach skills to her equipment in order to use them without expending MP a limited amount of times per day, and destruction growth, which makes it self-repairing and makes it stronger every time it does so.

* Adamantine armor in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' can be this way, enhanced greatly by being masterwork quality or the even better artifact quality (which multiply the chance of deflecting attacks by double and triple, respectively). The material property-based damage logic can make it a little more complicated, though: adamantine is unbreakable, but adamantine cloth provides little protection from blunt attacks. Even rigid adamantine armor isn't very good against blunt damage and terrible against blunt projectiles because of its low density. And for some reason, whips basically ignore ''every'' armor almost entirely.

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has armor crafted from diamonds. However, you'll need a ''lot'' of diamonds; even basic boots will take four diamonds to make, let alone breastplates or pants.
** The 1.0 release had a bug where damage reduction from armour was applied twice, making a player wearing a full suit of diamond practically invincible. This greatly impacted on the strategies employed during the first Reddit "race for wool" tournament as obtaining diamond armour or denying it to the other team would often decide the match.

** Karna from ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' possesses a set of armor that puts all other to shame in the form of one of Noble Phantasms, Kavacha and Kundala, a coat of armor and earrings made of [[HardLight solidified]] [[ThePowerOfTheSun sunlight]] that is stated to be "difficult to destroy even for the gods." In addition to their own natural strength, they reduce ''all'' incoming damage (physical, magical, and even conceptual) to 1/10th of its original value before even accounting for his own natural toughness [[spoiler:like when he was [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled from the inside out by wooden stakes that tore through his body]] and bypassed the armor's defense, and all he did [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction get a bit annoyed before burning the stakes away]]]]. Not for nothing is it agreed in-story by many that the only Servant who can match him in a fight happens to be [[Literature/TheIliad Achilles]] himself, whose immortal body takes reduced damage from opponents whose Divinity is lower than his and completely nullifies any damage from the non-divine. Ultimately he was never defeated with the armour on [[spoiler:as he needs to destroy his armour to activate [[FantasticNuke Vasavi Shakti]] in an attempt to finish off Sieg as Siegfried, but the attack is blocked by Astolfo using Achilles' Akhilleus Kosmos, allowing Sieg to deal the finishing blow.]]

* In ''Series/TheMandalorian'', the titular character wears a suit of armor made of beskar steel. It can hold up to blaster bolts, krayt dragon acid, and just about anything else with nary a scratch.

* The Apex Armor from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''. Able to repel everything from swords, laser fire, and even point blank explosives. And of all the bots it could go to, it winds up in [[spoiler: Starscream's]] clutches. It's only real drawbacks are its lack of built in weaponry which, given the [[SuperStrength greatly enhanced strength]] it provides the wearer, is a minor concern, and the fact that it's [[MightyGlacier not particularly fast]] and [[ShapeshifterModeLock prevents the wearer from transforming]], which is a larger concern.

* The Dragonscale Armor from ''VideoGame/SpellforceIII'' sports the maximum armor rating and massive bonuses to every single elemental resistance. A properly specced warrrior wearing the complete set becomes immune to elemental damage and virtually impervious to physical hits (up to 96% damage reduction is possible). All it takes to acquire it is defeating an [[BonusBoss Elder Dragon]], and a shit-load of money for the nearby smith to craft the armor from its scales.

* The Apex Armor from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''. Able to repel everything from swords, laser fire, and even point blank explosives. And of all the bots it could go to, it winds up in [[spoiler: Starscream's]] clutches. It's only real drawback is its lack of built in weaponry which, given the [[SuperStrength greatly enhanced strength]] it provides the wearer, is a minor concern.

* Shardplate in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''. Not only can it take absurd amounts of physical damage and mend itself by consuming {{Mana}}, it is also one of only two things that can block a [[SoulCuttingBlade Shardblade]], with the other being a different Shardblade. In addition, it makes its wearer immune to Surgebindings and Voidbringer special powers, such as stormform's ability to throw lightning.

* In Myth/ClassicalMythology, no weapon could pierce the skin of the Nemean Lion. Hercules killed it by strangling it, then took its skin to wear himself. [[FridgeLogic How did he manage to skin the Lion is anyone's guess though.]] He used one of its own claws to do the trick, as apparently it wasn't immune to itself.

** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has the Enclave Hellfire Armor from the ''Broken Steel'' DLC, which has the same DR as the base game's T-51b, but unlike that, can be fully repaired with other suits of its kind (there's only two T-51b armors in the game world even including DLC) which are easily acquirable from dead Enclave troopers, and has a strength bonus along with increased fire resistance. Normally this would it easily the best armor in the game... however, due to a bug, that title really goes to the Winterized T-51b armor from the ''Operation: Anchorage'' DLC. It has the same DR as the Enclave Hellfire Armor, but also has astronomically high condition HP and will not significantly degrade over the course of gameplay, apparently due to the developers accidentally putting the simulation version in the armory instead of a normal degradable version.

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*** The Advance release introduced the Hero's Shield, the spiritual sucessor to the Paladin's Shield (see below) which is won from a BonusBoss in the BonusDungeon, while the the DS release introduced a whole subset of this called Onion Equipment. Like the Adamant Armor you need to collect tails randomly dropped from enemies.

*** Archers in in Skyrim, however... will kill you just as easily as you level up. It doesn't matter if you are wearing the all-powerful custom armor or block with a shield; it's all the same to the archers (unless you've been increasing your shield proficiency as well or you avoid the arrows completely). Something to be said about your enemies getting stronger as you do...

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** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has the Enclave Hellfire Armor from the ''Broken Steel'' DLC, which has the same DR as the base game's T-51b, but unlike that, can be fully repaired with other suits of its kind (there's only two T-51b armors in the game world even including DLC) which are easily acquirable from dead Enclave troopers, and has a strength bonus along with increased fire resistance. Normally this would it easily the best armor in the game... however, due to a bug, that title really goes to the Winterized T-51b armor from the ''Operation: Anchorage'' DLC. It has the same DR as the Enclave Hellfire Armor, but also has astronomically high condition HP and will not significantly degrade over the course of gameplay, apparently due to the developers accidentally putting the simulation version in the armory instead of a normal degradable version.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has the X-01 Power Armor, which is basically the ''FO2'' and ''FNV'' Enclave armor with a different name.

*** There's also the Mystile. While it doesn't gives the highest defense, it has huge evasion bonuses and 3 pairs of materia slots. You can only find it in 2 chests, but there's a GoodBadBug that allows you to get a third.

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has the Enclave Hellfire Armor from the ''Broken Steel'' DLC, which has the same DR as the base game's T-51b, but unlike that, can be fully repaired with other suits of its kind (there's only two T-51b armors in the game world even including DLC) which are easily acquirable from dead Enclave troopers, and has a strength bonus along with increased fire resistance. Normally this would it easily the best armor in the game... however, due to a bug, that title really goes to the Winterized T-51b armor from the ''Operation: Anchorage'' DLC. It has the same DR as the Enclave Hellfire Armor, but also has astronomically high condition HP and will not significantly degrade over the course of gameplay, apparently due to the developers [[GoodBadBugs accidentally]] putting the simulation version in the armory instead of a normal degradable version.