Base armor amount is read incorrectly ,thus armor perks do not grant any extra armor rendering them useless. Running DD&SS v7.3a modpack with AS v.1.10.23

Base armor for any player is 0. Add some Added flat armor perks to gain base armor. Worn armor is not base.

Bulwark and the 3 nodes before give armor, TBH I have not seen many players use armara. As it seems like an attunement that only benefits when levelled up quite a bit, and other attunement offer effective perks early into your attunement ( also handing out armor % buffs that are useless at least until you have bulwark which is minimal 9 points ) Just feel it to be at least fair to Armara to let people that choose this to start out with a flat armor increase so they dont feel they have a useless attunement early on