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Ubese is often found in the 70+ range on all servers. It is quite light and can be worn without buffs even unsliced. Add a voritor scale or krayt scale and you can often hit 80% here as well.

Composite is easy to make to 80% kinetic since it accepts more layers than ubese. However you are looking at encumbrance in the 650's across the board or a bit lighter depending on what smith you find. Slice it for encumbrance and this can also be worn without buffs. Generally composite is more expensive than ubese.

Find a good smith, and the encumbrance on 80% kinetic composite is a lot lower than krallic says... i'm not sure about your server, but on chimaera i can do 80% kinetic/58% base with around 540/490/550 enc unsliced, for the whole set. Get a few enc slices and it goes down a lot more.

Pretty expensive though, compared to Ubese. If you're fighting Krayts or other very dangerous mobs, you will have to go with 80% composite though. For 'normal' mobs, Ubese will do the job.

Message Edited by nameistvergeben on 04-18-2004 01:46 PM

I agree with you on the encumbrance there Cray, allthough it isn't always easy nor economical to seek out the 11 and 12 point smiths on a given server.

Thanks for the info though, now I know what to aim for on Chimaera. Just a question though: Are you cutting experimentation before you reach the max base then putting more into encumbrance (on the final assembly)? Because 58% base sounds low for useing the 100cpu kiirium.

If you want high kinetic and low encumberance, go with ubese. That is all Ubese is, high kinetic and low encumberance. It costs a fraction of what composite does. Give an armorsmith some decent voritor enhancements or krayt scales and have him make you some 80%. If you don't need any other protections, then going with composite is only an overkill. Save composite for PvP or fights that require other protections, and use the Ubese on the hunting.

You want to go with the cheapest armor that will get the job done, and that's Ubese...

you go through ubese jackets quick

there is no ubese biceps so the chest takes hits that would normally go there. Get some repair kits and do your own repairs. Most armorsmiths dont have tapes to increase repair anyways, so just do it yourself.

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Krallic wrote:
Thanks for the info though, now I know what to aim for on Chimaera. Just a question though: Are you cutting experimentation before you reach the max base then putting more into encumbrance (on the final assembly)? Because 58% base sounds low for useing the 100cpu kiirium.

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I dont have anyof the 100cpu kiirium any more, cause noone sells it. This is madeof the secondbest kiirium (which is crappy compared to the best).