Soulframe Armour Guide — Sets, Attunement Gates & Skins

P16 acquisition update (patch transcription; not tested in-game): Orengall's Armour now drops from the Siege of Kearnhold, replacing Everflame Runes there. Alca's Children no longer sells that set and instead offers Coronal of The Sleeve, Gilet of The Sleeve, and Buskins of The Sleeve for Favour. The Wiki separately lists a Suit of The Sleeve Zenith bundle for 230 Arcs, containing all three pieces. That is the bundle price; per-piece Favour prices, rank gates and defence values remain unconfirmed. The older catalog table below is not a complete P16 armour list.

Quick answer — armour in Soulframe

TL;DR: Soulframe armour pieces (helm / chest / legs) each carry a Virtue attunement: if your Virtue total is below the piece's requirement, you only get its lowest armour rating. The site catalog tracks 11 Rare armour entries — 3 full sets (Circade, Tempest Leathers, Regalia of Rood) and 8 boss pieces. Cosmetics: Moonsteel Thread + Bestitching at Verminia permanently unlocks armour looks; pigments are four-tier colour gradients with adjustable brightness and saturation.

• How does armour scale? By Virtue attunement — same threshold rule as weapons: below the requirement = lowest rating only (Virtues explained).
• Where do sets come from? Circade — one-time Crypt puzzle; Tempest Leathers — chests/deeds/votives; Regalia of Rood — Collector Crate / Hark / Vadagar Stag; boss pieces from The Mendicant King and Mestra Carmo. Full table below.
• Hotfix 15 news (Aug 19, 2026): the Circade set no longer takes up inventory capacity and duplicate acquisitions were fixed — see the Circade × Hotfix 15 section.
• Fashion: Moonsteel Thread from Zenith Wares unlocks skins via Bestitching; pigment recipes come from the three faction shops.

How does armour work in Preludes 15?

Armour is three slots (helm / chest / legs) plus cosmetics. Every piece carries a Virtue attunement that follows the same gate rule as weapons — meet the threshold and the piece scales with your Virtue; fall below it and you still wear the piece, but at its lowest armour rating. Since Preludes 15 made Virtue allocation free per loadout, you can re-gate your armour whenever you swap builds — and skins/dyes are stored per loadout too, so looks and stats travel together.

Armour attunement and Virtue gates

• Below the gate = lowest rating. A mismatched armour piece doesn't stop working — it silently drops to its minimum rating (community-measured system rule, consistent with the weapon attunement gates). Check your Armoury tooltip before committing a piece to a build.
• Match your dominant Virtue. Just like weapon gates, pick armour whose attunement matches where your points actually are — a Grace build wearing Courage-attuned chest is paying the gate without the payoff.
• Related bug note (community): rune-unlocked bonus slots reportedly don't eat Virtue scaling (suspected bug) — see Totems P15 if you stack rune slots on armour-adjacent gear.

Armour sets and pieces (catalog)

All 11 published armour entries in the catalog are Rare tier. Three are full sets (armour-set category); eight are individual boss pieces (armour). Per-piece Virtue gates are shown in the Armoury in-game — the catalog lists sources, which the table below mirrors exactly.

Full sets (3)

Boss pieces (8)

Notes:

• Avakot backup pricing: every boss piece and set (except one-time Circade) has an Avakot merchant backup at 230–245 Dracs — the community "buy below 50" rule applies to cheap stock, but for Rare armour the merchant line is a duplicate-top-up, not a bargain (inventory guide).
• Capacity: since Hotfix 15, armour you buy from merchants no longer uses inventory capacity — see Inventory management for the full exemption list.

Circade × Hotfix 15 (August 19, 2026)

Hotfix 15 landed August 19, 2026 and reshaped the Circade set's story — official forum post #14922:

• Duplicate acquisitions fixed — the one-time gem-puzzle reward can no longer be re-granted.
• No longer takes up inventory capacity — the Circade set is on the Hotfix 15 exemption list (alongside Fable direct grants, mini-quest rewards, and Zenith purchases).
• Existing duplicates removed from player accounts.

The set itself is earned in the Crypt of the Circade — enter with a Crypt Key, clear to the final boss room, and solve the ten-gem puzzle to claim the full set. Full capacity rules: Inventory management.

Pigments — four-tier colour gradients

Pigments are four colour tiers, not just four colours (community-sourced): each pigment is a gradient with adjustable brightness and saturation, so a single pigment family covers a range of looks rather than one flat colour.

• Recipes are sold at the three faction shops — Silent Rose, Alka's Children, and Kith of Kings — so faction reputation feeds directly into your palette options.
• Pair pigments with Verminia's dyes at the Nightfold; both are saved per loadout alongside your armour skins.

Moonsteel Thread & Bestitching — armour skins

Moonsteel Thread is the skin currency: one thread permanently unlocks an armour piece's appearance via Bestitching at Verminia — and since Preludes 11 Hotfix 10, re-equipping unlocked looks is free.

• Where to buy: Wares of Zenith bundles (25 Arcs ×1 / 38 Arcs ×2 / 56 Arcs ×3), Avakot merchant (25 Dracs when stocked), or Steelsingers Guild standing after The Steelsinger quest.
• How much for everything? Community catalogs count ~69 threads to Bestitch every armour set (community-verified trivia).
• Skins and dyes are stored per loadout (community-sourced) — your looks travel with your build, not your bag.
• One caution from the item page: keep the physical piece in your inventory after Bestitching, or its look stays locked — sell duplicates carefully.

Sets vs mixed pieces (community view)

Community consensus (opinion, not catalog data): mixed pieces for stats, full sets for fashion.

• The catalog documents no set bonuses — armour value comes from rating and Virtue attunement, so mixing pieces to match each slot's gate to your build is the stat-optimal play.
• Full sets win on unified looks (and make the most of a Moonsteel Thread Bestitching pass); Circade is the standout one-time full-set pickup.
• Practical split many players land on (community view): wear whatever matches your Virtue gates, then Bestitch the look you actually want over it — stats and fashion stop competing.

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