An armor’s base damage thresholds represent the long-term protection your armor provides, and determine your damage thresholds (before any bonuses from other features). When recording your character’s damage thresholds in the “Damage & Health” section of your character sheet, you always add your character’s level to those values. For example, if your level 1 character has base thresholds of 7/15 with no other bonuses, they would have a Major damage threshold of 8 and a Severe damage threshold of 16.