SERVO GREAVES

BASE ITEM
LEGS
LEVEL 13

REQUIRES LEVEL 13

SERVO GREAVES is leg armor, wielded from level 13.

The requirement cuts both ways: nothing below level 13 ever drops one, and a hero below it banks the find rather than wearing it.

It is a pool base, so it climbs: the same shape returns later in the campaign as ACTUATOR GREAVES and EXO GREAVES, at requirements the endgame can actually meet.

Powered greaves that carry their own weight and some of yours — built for the colony's human staff, back when keeping humans was the plan.

What it does

MATERIALMAIL, which turns 1.6× what the same piece would in cloth.
ALSO DEMANDS10 STRENGTH to wear — heavier materials want a bruiser inside them.
WEARS OUT120 hits taken before it falls silent. It is never destroyed — a worn-out piece still hangs on you contributing nothing until a repair kit brings it back.
SALVAGEIt melts down: the merchant pays double what an ordinary piece of its worth fetches.

A fresh find in the hands of a hero who has spent no stat points — the piece itself, with nothing of the wielder in it. Your own STRENGTH, DEXTERITY or INTELLECT lifts these from there, as does an item level found deeper than the requirement.

Make quality

Every plain drop of this base rolls a make quality on top of the numbers above — the craftsmanship of that particular copy, stamped at the moment it drops and frozen for life. It scales the armor and the wear budget together, and it leads the name: a BROKEN SERVO GREAVES and a PERFECT SERVO GREAVES are the same base item and not the same find.

The bands overlap on purpose, so a good CRUDE can out-swing a poor NORMAL while a PERFECT always clears a NORMAL. Which one you get depends on the level of whatever dropped it: the two odds columns below are a level-1 killer and a level-60 one, and everything between is interpolated. Craftsmanship and magic are exclusive — a magic-or-better find is always normal make.

MAKE	ARMOR	SCALE	ODDS AT MLVL 1	ODDS AT MLVL 60
BROKEN	22–31	0.58–0.82×	20%	0%
CRUDE	28–37	0.73–0.97×	25%	6%
NORMAL	34–42	0.90–1.10×	52%	54%
SUPERIOR	39–48	1.03–1.27×	3%	28%
PERFECT	44–55	1.16–1.44×	0%	12%

What it becomes

The same shape comes back twice more, further down the campaign: an EXCEPTIONAL version and an ELITE one, generated from this base rather than authored beside it. They keep its look, its cadence, its reach and its arc; what changes is the level they ask for and the numbers priced onto the curve at it. A venue that pays this base pays its whole ladder, so a first-map find keeps dropping — as something else — into the endgame.

GRADE	REQUIRES	ARMOR	WEARS	MATERIAL
SERVO GREAVES (normal)	13	38	120	MAIL
ACTUATOR GREAVES	39	109	150	MAIL
EXO GREAVES	74	214	180	MAIL

Named items built on it

These relics wear this shape, with an authored block of bonuses on top — each on the rung of the ladder it names.

SERVO GREAVES, a base item legs in Ada's Trail, shown on the map of MARS where it drops — SERVO GREAVES — where it drops, in MARS.

Where it comes from

MARS carries it in its drop pool.
THE RIFT carries it in its drop pool.
BOOT HILL carries it in its drop pool.

Every one of those pools carries ACTUATOR GREAVES and EXO GREAVES along with it — the game expands a pool entry into its whole grade family at roll time — so the same venues keep paying this shape out at requirements 74 deep.