Equipment Modifiers

Since, almost all weapons, tools, and armour in Middle-Earth will feature some sort of attribute upon crafting. These may be beneficial, or they may be harmful. Note that you will still get attributes even when summoning items from the creative menu.

Getting attributes
Attributes are automatically applied to applicable items when they're crafted, or when they're generated in the world. If the attributes on something aren't suitable, it's always possible to reforge that piece of equipment using an anvil to get better attributes, for the material cost involved in forging the item in the first place. If you don't like spending materials on reforging, it's possible to go to a trader and have the equipment reforged for you, though it'll cost you some cash. In fact, it is rumoured that the most powerful attributes can only be obtained from traders...

Be careful! When combining item attributes, positive and negative attributes will end up offsetting one another! There is a maximum of three attributes on any given item.

Armour
The maximum protection for any suit of armour is 80%, the protection of a full suit of Mithril Armour.