Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Question from a non armorsmith
I had some sweet 80%ish layered kinetic, composite armor. The condition started to not look so good so i was thinking about repairing it, and i check it out,, and its stats are down to 41% now. (all sliced by the way)
Bug or by design?
Any workaround for this?
Thanks 8)
Suzo Busa HG
Master Smuggler
Naritus
It should be that way, when someone "decays" it starts to get brittle or starts to have holes. Decay isn't just "I have to buy a new piece of armor in 3 weeks" If you dont repair it the effectiveness drops.
BTW same thing for guns if you dont repair your gun the damage is greatly reduced.
Norda
The sad reason is that only composite can be made to work well against all damagetypes. The only drawback of composite is the encumbrance, but in our days of 2400+ doctorbuffs the encumbrance isn't a large problem.
R.I.S armor can also be made very good, but this armor is pretty much impossible to get the components for. So not really an alternative.
Padded: 2 layerslots instead of composites 3, leaves for less room in the customization department. It also requires tons of specific resources so it is hard to make. It has vulnerabilities to a few highly used PvP damagetypes, so again composite rules the day. Also, for the same protectionlevels on padded vs composite you will often have higher encumbrance! The last reason is that this armor is good looking and hence most people want it in some special colors. With 255*255 colorchoices it is not possible to stock this on vendors and have to be taken as an order.
Ubese: Made alot (mostly in black), so I have no idea why you haven't found any. Might be your server haveing a very compositeheavy playerbase, I don't know. Ubese is usually found with 70%+ kinetic and is an excelent choice for PvE because of the resists and the much lower encumbrance contra composite.
Chitin: Alot like Ubese, can be made with good kineticresists (60-65%), but can't be layered so will not reach ubese's potential. The encumbrance is rather low so it is a nice PvE armor nontheless. Requires massive amounts of organic resources to make though, so it is not cheap to make with 50cpu+ organics. So just about all smiths make ubese instead.
All other armortypes aren't made or used that often in my experience. Personally I make composite, padded and ubese, but will do customorders for others as well. Not on your server though. As for your question, try to get some high quality padded with kineticlayers, you'll be able to find 65%+ kinetic for PvE. Nice looks, but you better be prepared to get a bit more encumbrance with lower resists than the light 80% kinetic composite floating around.