Armorsmith Archive
Thread: I see this is a bad time but
Primus. In my mind the negatives of using kinetic and energy layers (kinetic layers reduce energy protection and energy layers reduce kinetic protection) outweigh their usefulness.
There's nocompelling need for layers IMHO. Concentrate on making the best unlayered armor you can (getting the special protection close to the 6000 cap). Layers don't make that big a difference in reducing damage. We're talking 4.5 percent more damage blocked by increasing a stat from 6000 to 7000 and 3.5 percent more damage blocked by going from 7000 to 8000.
All that said, I DO use primus layerspurely for the bigger numbers they create. Primus layers reduce the special protection (elemental protection) of the armor, but elemental damage isn't really a factor in the game right now. I use primus in R.I.S. and in some suits of faction and regular armor, which I then call ELITE armor and triple the price.
Jonasquinn wrote:
with factional armor you have to be a member of the faction to buy the schematics correct??? and for someone with no fighting ability the only way I can see to get that is by buying it from a smuggler right???? and RIS how would one get the schematic for it without being a fighter???
Correct on faction. For RIS components, you have to buy them from other people if you do not hunt them yourself.
Jonasquinn wrote:
with factional armor you have to be a member of the faction to buy the schematics correct??? and for someone with no fighting ability the only way I can see to get that is by buying it from a smuggler right???? and RIS how would one get the schematic for it without being a fighter???
Ris is a quest that you can take without being a fighter. As for the components... You'll have to buy them if you have no way of ubtaining them yourself.