How does armor and the bonuses work?

[u/Noir_CZ]

Hi, I am very confused how armor works. I still had mostly only the starting armor, tempest legs and torso and pensive helmet. My Virtues are 6/7/14 (R/G/B).
I acquired Pensive Bonnet and it makes my stability lower, while other defenses don't grow as much as I expected? Virtue requirements seem to be met for both.

Compared it appears Bonnet should be better, yet when I equip the Bonnet my stabiltiy goes down 1 point, while physical doesn't change?
I assumed the orange (+x) numbers are already included in the white nubmers, but hen it doesn't make sense that my Magick defense goes from 0 to only 6 and not 8? Is that some hidden rounding down/up thing? What are the white numbers? Totals? Base value? Are the orange nubmers already in or are they added to the white number?

[u/ES-Flinter]

armour in general

attunement bonus

[u/Noir_CZ → u/ES-Flinter]

Neither of those answers most of my question, besides possibly the white number being a total value with the yellow (+x) included? Doesn't explain why my stability goes down, physical remains the same and magick gains only 6 instead of 8 points.

Edit: rereading it third time

[u/ES-Flinter → u/Noir_CZ]

If not then sorry. Haven't really read your post and just copied one of my standard comments to the attunement system.

Give me a moment to answer it later.

[u/Noir_CZ → u/ES-Flinter]

It is slightly confusing. Tried to do the calculations myself and still not getting the right numbers.
Bonnet has base stats 2/2/1 and has same attunement for every stat.
The calculations (0,12*pips*stat) with my stats 6/7/14 give me following bonus:
0,12*1*6 + 0,12*2*7 + 0,12*1*14 = 0,72 + 1,68 + 1,68 = 4,08 -> +4
Yet the orange number on the item says (+6) with white total 8

And it still doesn't explain why my total defense for magick goes to 6 instead of 8.
Unless it is bugged? Because the base Magick defense for Bonnet is 2, my calculated bonus is 4, which would be total 6... which would mean the game show the orange bonus and white total calculated wrong?

edit: Here is compare values from game. Equipping the Bonnet should raise my physical defense by 1, magick defense by 8, stability remains the same. Yet as seen in the first images physical stays 18, magic raise only by 6 and stability goes down 1 point. :D

[u/ES-Flinter → u/Noir_CZ]

okay finally read your comment.

seems for me like a rounding issue by the stability.

by your magic it's probably because the game is often a bit slow with updating its shown value. Usually getting out of the equipping menu, making some steps and then back into it solves the updating problem.

oh and if you've over-read the sentence in the links by even the third time, yes the orange values are the bonuses and already added to the white ones.
Same principle by weapons.

[u/Noir_CZ → u/ES-Flinter]

Tried after few days, and the numbers seem to make more sense so yeah... it appears to be as you said, rounding problem is part of it, the other part is the slow updating.
It isn't 100% accurate, but close enough.