Heavy Armor school

Heavy Armor includes Mail armor and Plate Armor and offers the best protection but biggest penalties for movement, encumbrance, and focus.

Mark, the trainer for Owls' Head garrison in the Hidden Vale, has been known to teach those who wish to wear heavy armor effectively.

-Adventuring Trainer

Heavy Armor Skill Tree

Active

Absorb Impacts	Decreases damage received at cost of increasing damage to armor. Heavy Armor Specialization increases the duration and decreases the penalties to armor durability.
Body Slam	Attack with a chance of stun that comes at cost of increasing damage to armor. Heavy Armor Specialization increases the duration of the stun.
Glancing Blow	Glancing Blow gives the player a Damage Avoidance bonus which increases their chances for blows to glance off their armor, greatly reducing the damage. The bonus is much larger for a few seconds immediately after use. Heavy Armor Specialization increases the duration of the larger bonus.
Inner Strength	Temporarily increase strength. Heavy Armor Specialization extends the duration.
Knight's Grace	Removes stuns, bleeds, and slow effects instantly. Heavy Armor Specialization adds a Heavy Armor Specialization buff for 30 seconds.
Provoking Shout	Adds a buff that dramatically increases aggro generation from all sources. Heavy Armor Specialization increases the duration
Taunt	Increases aggro on player. Heavy Armor Specialization increases the area of effect.
Valiant Warden	When used on a party member, applies a protective buff that will split damage between the party member and the Warden. Heavy Armor Specialization increases the amount transferred.

Innate

Deflection	Increases defense and deflects percent of damage received
Endurance	Increases strength
Hard Headed	Increases resist stun, knockback & knockdown effects
Heavy Armor Specialization	Heavy Armor Specialization is the devotion of one's self to the study of the use of platemail and chainmail armor. It increases the power of and flexibility of all other active skills in the Heavy Armor tree. Heavy Armor Specialization also acts as a bonus to the damage resistance of all heavy armor worn. At 80 it will double the damage resistance of all heavy armor. NOTE: Only one Specialization skill may be trained and one additional skill maintained at any given time or two may be set to maintain. Enabling training for a different specialization skill may set a specialization skill currently set to maintain to unlearn.

External Reference

• This is extremely outdated information only for historical purposes: Magic, Combat, and Crafting Skills on the Shroud of the Avatar Forums