Armorsmith Archive

Ill give you a quick run down...

Layers are all but meaningless now. They add a max of 4% to the final product and as you can see they take a whole slew of new resources. A full suit will require 127 layers/ Now if you figure all the extra costs its really not a big seller. I will make it upon request but that is rare.

There is a stickie up top that lists what is what. Im still gathering steam also. But from what I see on Final all you get to exp on is the condition. I am not sure if this is on all types but from what I have done that is what I am seeing. You also get a 400 boost in the final. Not sure if resource matter much. But I do know that in this stage it is 33% for OQ SR and DE. SO you will want to take that into accto when choosing resources..

What you make your core stats to will be the final plus the 400 mentioned earlier/

Not really sure how they get the numbers adding up to the core yet. But on your segs I think you will want to hit close to 940ish to get max stats on final. I was hitting 935 and my final came out 6950 energy 4950 ken and 5950 base.

Just read around especially on the stickies. Some are very imformative. But I havent seen one complete guide up yet.

ok its pretty simple if you think in terms of the armor as a whole...you need to know the three types and what they are good for...

ARMOR

Assault... kinetic oriented armor(meaning it is more geared towards kinetic and can get higher in kinetic then the other 2 counterparts)

Battle... this armor is balanced armor... you can swing it either way but wont be strongest at either...

Recon.... this armor is basically energy oriented armor...

LAYERS

well I personally use only 3 types....

Primus.... this is an advanced piece of layer... it will raise up both pretty evenly and pretty high... but will not excel one of the resists as a single resist layer would...(secondus and tertius dont bother... they are advanced but only for secondary resists)

Kinetic.... I use this on all three armor but like i said the best armor for kinetic is assault... i personally have gotten mine up to 7800 kinetic resist but that is with crappy scaley hide...

Energy.... again Recon is best for this... i have gotten my armor with recon armor up a little over 8k...

Note: well if you have the resources and time.. i would definitely use all 4 slots for armor layers as that boosts up your resists a lot... but will also take up resources

as for placing the layers to balance the energy and kinetic strong armors i usually use 1 primus and 3 Kinetic(recon) or 3 energy(assault).... this will get the armor to balance out...

ok i made 2 pieces... one with 4 energy layers and one with the minimum of 1 per segment... the 4 layer one came to 8078 energy resist... the single layer came to 7281 now that is both final product... so it is up to you but 8k is still better then 7200k whether it be 4 or 5% more that is still 4 or 5% less damage taken... its up to you

Hope this helps

Message Edited by Willvas on 05-21-2005 01:01 AM

Spot on guys!. thanks for the info, i'venot been online for afew days, so i'm gonna get down to some hardcore crafting over the next couple of days , wish me luck!!!