Artful Armor Guide

There are really two types of artful armor - the valor and the non-valor ones. This means for some of the armor you need to have at least a certain valor rank to be able to use it and for the other you do not. But this also means that the non-valor has slightly lower stats than the valor one.

Non-valor artful armor can be turned into valor artful armor by so called "illuminating" it, and the other way by "dimming" it. This is somewhat visible on the items themselves, the valor armor looks like it's glowing, while the non-valor one lacks that glow (even though the items themselves look the same).

For armor up to level 5 there is no artful armor requiring you to have a certain rank - so there is two different ways to obtain the same strength artful armor corresponding to the higher level ways of obtaining valor and non-valor artful armor. However please note that some of the armor obtained through the way for valor armor is transferable - while none of it obtained through the non-valor armor way is!