Hit Locations

There are 4 hit locations

50% chest
25% legs
15% hauberk
10% head

those are the percent chance to get hit on each location.
the damage your enemy makes from their weapon is reduced based on 1 piece of armor.

maximum pa is 80% on a single location
all armor has a "base" pa, for example legion plate has 50 pa base to be 'max pa' it would need to be pa30.

all hits on a pa30 legion plate would be reduced by 80%.

for example if u were naked, and someone hit u for 1500 dmg u would take 1500 dmg. but if u were wearing the pa30 legion plate and it was hit, u would take 300 dmg because 1500 reduced 80% is 300

Upgrading Equipment

Look in your Inventory Bag, you will see a little button called "[i]UPGRADE".
Drag and Drop your Item from Above and Click Upgrade.
Continue to Upgrade your Weapon/staff until they are +15.
If you run out of majestic points keep hunting Slimes.(pit is in the top part of town maps)

Suggestions

Mages = Buy the Master staff
Warriors= Buy the Master Hammer [PvM Weapon] / Master Sword [PvP Weapon]
Bmages = Buy the Master Sword + Master staff[ + Master BattleStaff/i]

What about Shields?

A shield STACKS on top of the part that got hit. If you are looking at Tav's example, and the player was holding a TowerShield PA39 (base 35 i think) which gets you 74PA, you would take the REMAINING damage and do the calculation on that:

Remaining Damage: 300
Shield PA: 74

New Reduction: 300/100*74 = 222
New Damage: 300-222 = 78 damage

Items such as M.Shield Wand do reductions (of 50PA i think) also, which would stack that again and half it to 39 damage, but of course shields and wands stop you from attacking back!

Note that the original servers (and probably most private servers out there) have bugged PA calculations which reduce the ORIGINAL damage with a shield instead of the REMAINING damage (making the reduction a HELL of a lot more), causing damage to go well in to NEGATIVE numbers. This is why you play alot of servers where mages run and get hit -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1, as anything 0 or below is set to -1 damage.

Magical Absorption

Armor

Magical Absorbtion armor has been changed into more specific purpose, each piece that u wear of the same type stacks up and adds to your total % for that element. maximum value is 100% for each element. at 100% you take 0 dmg by that element.

Fire = protects you from fire based magic(Fire Shock Wave)
Earth = protects you from earth based magic(Earth Shock Wave)
Air = protects you from air basd magic(Hurricane Blast)
Water = protects you from water based magic(Blizzard, Mass Blizzard)
Holy = protects you from holy based magic(Call Of The Gods)
Unholy = protects you from unholy based magic(Strike Of The Ghosts)
Unattuned = This means this armor Requires Attunement.
You can buy ANY Basic Elemental Attunement potion from shop (for 5000 gold) and apply it to this armor or shield.
Until it is attuned it protects you from nothing.

Necklaces

There is 2 basic types of necklace "protection and Elemental"
Protection gives you 25% MA to the Element and Elemental gives you 50%

Rings

At the moment there is only one MA ring thats Ring of Emmerald and gives you +20 MA