Your focus on crafting the perfect defenses has led you to a mastery of armor enchantments. Your armor forms a unique interface with magical and technological components that you have embedded into your own body, giving you greater defenses than one might expect.
Reticulated Armor
You gain proficiency with heavy armor. While wearing medium or heavy armor, you gain the benefit of the Toughness feat. In addition, while wearing such armor, any repair damage spell cast on the armor also heals you for half the normal amount.
Armor you wear becomes like a second skin. It cannot be sundered or forcibly removed unless you are unconscious or dead.
Customized Armor (Su)
You gain 2 Customization Points, which can be spent on Armor Customizations as if your armor were an aegis’ astral suit. Your effective Aegis level is equal to one-half your artificer level (minimum 1). You gain Slam Attack as a free customization.
You can only customize one set of armor at a time. If you remove the customized armor, you lose the benefits of your customizations until you don that suit of armor again or are able to spend 8 hours to customize a new suit of armor.
You do not gain any power points or become a psionic character. You cannot choose any customization that uses psionic energy (such as Energy Blast or Psionic Attacks) unless you gain the ability to use psionics from another source.
Customizations are supernatural abilities, which are suppressed in an antimagic field.
At 4th level, you gain 2 additional customization points. At 10th level, you gain 3 points, At 16th level, you gain 5 points, and at 20th level, you gain an additional 5 customization points.
Structural Support (Ex)
At 6th level, you improve your armor’s interface with your body. The armor check penalty is reduced by 2 (to a minimum of 0), the maximum dexterity bonus is increased by 1, and the damage reduction is increased by 1.
In addition, the damage dealt by your armor’s Slam Attack is increased by two steps.
Second Slam (Su)
At 10th level, you gain a second copy of Slam Attack as a free customization, giving you two primary slam attacks.
Improved Reticulated Armor (Ex)
Starting at 12th level, when the armor you wear is the target of a repair damage spell, you also heal for the full amount.
Radiant Armor (Ex)
When you reach 18th level, you infuse your armor with powerful defensive magic. You learn the radiant barrier spell if you don’t already know it. Once per day, you may cast radiant barrier on yourself as an immediate action.
False Construct (Ex)
When you reach 20th level, you are able to craft and customize your armor so perfectly to yourself that you practically become one with it. While wearing your armor, your creature type changes to Construct. It reverts to your normal type as soon as you remove your armor.
You gain only the following traits of the Construct type:
- Immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects).
- Immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, stunning, disease, and death effects.
- Not subject to critical hits, nonlethal damage, ability damage, ability drain, exhaustion, or energy drain.
- Not at risk of death from massive damage.