Armor & Production: Undercover Armors   The Undercover Armors of Shadowlands are rare indeed, and hasn't been given much attention. However, the armors in themselves are far from bad, especially at lower levels, and the bonuses they provide can give you that little extra pick-me-up, so lets check them out!         Before we start, let me make it clear that this is not a quest, nor is it a tradeskill. It's an attempt to shine some light on a few rare sets of armor in Shadowlands, since much of the Shadowlands features tend to get forgotten in the everlasting quest for the next shadowlevel, or the next group of hecklers to kill. Our goal is to shed some light on these more obscure armor sets. Shadowlands features a lot more than just hecklers, spirits and lack of Yalmaha's. If you only look closer into the fabric of the 'lands, you will notice that quite a few interesting items might pop up from time to time. We'll take you through some of them here in this guide about the Undercover Armors (the children of Xan must've been sneaky buggers indeed to require this many undercover groups). When you go out and open up a can of whup-tushie on the nearest mobs, you might find one of the Undercover Armor parts dropping. Boss-mobs have a higher rate of dropping these, as you can imagine and its quite rare to find the parts you want, so you might be in for some camping. If you like to strut around in fashionable purple or minty green though, its definitely worth it. There are seven Undercover armors available - Bootlegger, Exploiter, Killer, Outsider, Saboteur, Smuggler and Zealot. Each of the seven sets fits two select professions. They all look the same when you see them in the loot window, and all the pieces are unique, which makes it a bit of a pain to store backup ones for your friends, however, they're not nodrop, which is a relief. The easiest places to hunt these are where numerous bosses are placed in the same area. Examples of this would be in Nascence Swamp with the named Spinetooth bosses and Malah-Ana's, or outside of Ergo's cave in Scheol where a number of Spiritbosses, dredges, Minx's and Imps have taken refuge. There are other bosses spread across the Shadowlands too naturally, so don't worry, you'll have ample time to hunt them out.   Killer's Body Armor This is a variation of a type of armor often worn by undercover groups.   Killer's Armor Boots This is a variation of a type of armor often worn by undercover groups.       Killer's Armor Trousers This is a variation of a type of armor often worn by undercover groups.   Killer's Armor Gloves This is a variation of a type of armor often worn by undercover groups.       Killer's Armor Boots This is a variation of a type of armor often worn by undercover groups.         That's what a complete set of (in our case) Killer's Armor looks like. Don't let the icons fool you, they don't look like that when worn at all, as you can see from a short little modeling of two armorsets below. As you can see, the basic design of the armors are the same - regardless of gender and type of armor. We suspect this is because the heads of the different undercover organizations hired the same clothes-designer by mistake, who figured he could do seven times less work and still get paid. He's probably being hunted down as you are reading this. Nevertheless - the armor is pretty spiffy, and its definitely unique - people will raise one or two eyebrows when they see you run around in one of these sets, that much we can promise you. Lets take a look at the stats, shall we? All the stats below are from armorsets interpolated at QL300 (since that is the max QL of the armors)...   Bootlegger (blue) Exploiter (black) Killer (purple) Outsider (green)     Chemical AC 3000 Cold AC 3000 Energy AC 3000 Fire AC 3000 Melee AC 4425 Poison AC 3000 Projectile AC 4425 Radiation AC 3000 Requirements Doctor or Adventurer Agility 900 Intelligence 900 Level 200 Effects Max Nano 1500 1H Edged 50 Pistol 50 Chemical AC 3000 Cold AC 3000 Energy AC 3000 Fire AC 3000 Melee AC 3000 Poison AC 4425 Projectile AC 3000 Radiation AC 3000 Requirements Fixer or Bureaucrat Agility 900 Intelligence 900 Level 200 Effects Dodge Ranged 125 Time&Space 50 Computer Literacy 50 Chemical AC 3000 Cold AC 3000 Energy AC 3000 Fire AC 3000 Melee AC 3000 Poison AC 3000 Projectile AC 3000 Radiation AC 4425 Requirements Agent or NanoTech. Agility 900 Intelligence 900 Level 200 Effects Ranged Init 125 Nano Init 125 Dodge Ranged 50 Chemical AC 3000 Cold AC 3000 Energy AC 3000 Fire AC 3000 Melee AC 4425 Poison AC 3000 Projectile AC 3000 Radiation AC 3000 Requirements Martial Artist or Shade Stamina 900 Agility 900 Level 200 Effects Add All Off 25 Phys Init 125 Evade ClsC 100     Saboteur (yellow) Smuggler (red) Zealot (cyan)     Chemical AC 3000 Cold AC 3000 Energy AC 3000 Fire AC 3000 Melee AC 3000 Poison AC 3000 Projectile AC 4425 Radiation AC 3000 Requirements Soldier or Engineer Stamina 900 Intelligence 900 Level 200 Effects Max Health 1500 Time&Space 50 Ranged Init 100 Chemical AC 3000 Cold AC 3000 Energy AC 3000 Fire AC 3000 Melee AC 4425 Poison AC 3000 Projectile AC 3000 Radiation AC 3000 Requirements Enforcer or Trader Stamina 900 Intelligence 900 Level 200 Effects Max Health 1500 Computer Literacy 50 Duck Exp. 50 Chemical AC 3000 Cold AC 3000 Energy AC 3000 Fire AC 3000 Melee AC 4425 Poison AC 3000 Projectile AC 3000 Radiation AC 3000 Requirements Keeper or Meta-Physicist Stamina 900 Intelligence 900 Level 200 Effects Add All Def 25 Time&Space 50 Melee Init 125     Final word Well, what is there to say.. The AC's of the sets aren't the best there is - although, one must remember that one sleeve is missing (unique sleeve) and so is a backslot item and a helmet. With some proper gear attached to those slots, the armor is far from bad. The various bonuses are nice as well, especially for the Saboteur and Smuggler sets - more HP is never wrong. As far as the requirements goes, 900 might seem a bit steep, but at level 220 it should be no problem to squeeze into these, and hey.. There are always lower versions out there as well. Last updated 30.January 2004 Contributors Harloana, Atlantean See what others have said about this article, or post your own comments regarding this in our forums.