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Hey everyone,

I was wondering how do you get your armor colored? Does it have to be colored by the maker, or can someone (ie visual image designer) do after you have purchased armor? I was also wondering what do I need to repair armor once it is damaged?

--Jade'en

Quoting Peyoan:

"but really, get a suit of high kinetic (50% or more) ubese armor,
it'll help you out A LOT!"

50%... Is that on any one piece or the kinetic protection from all the pieces added together?

Each piece has a % protection. From examine the piece and you'll see something like:

Protection:

Kinetic 54%

Others:

Electric 2%

Beam 2%

Being Poked with Pointy Sticks 3%

etc...

- Tyl

So what you mean is that each individual piece of armor should have 50+% kinetic protection? I haven't been able to find Ubese that good on Chimaera... yet.

be sure you're looking at good armorsmiths
A lot of people will decide (wrongfully in my opinion) to get the personal armor tree first (with chitin, tantel, ubese, padded) before techniques (for experimentation and coloring).

If this is so, they can make the higher level armors, but they make it very poorly.

Whereas if you have an armorsmith who has achieved Expert (through technique 4) they'll have 7 experiment points to drastically improve the armor. Not to mention a master armorsmith should easily be making ubese over 50%.

and if you're health is not good enough to wear it?? You much have stats lower than 300 in secondaries. Really, especially for brawler classes, you'll need to raise those secondaries a lot, especially if you use specials.

I checked out a set of Ubese that had 46% kinetic (47% on one piece). The total encumbrance for that set would've been 362/427/496 unsliced. That would've dropped my Strength and Constitution to 188 and 38 respectively, my Quickness and Stamina to 123 and -27, And my Focus and Willpower would both drop to -96. In other words, I couldn't possibly use that set without slicing it and migrating stats.

A friend told me about a shop on Tatooine (Chimaera) that sold Composite. Might seem like overkill but if the encumbrance isn't that much higher than it for Ubese, I might actually consider getting some. There was of course Ubese armor tooat that shop...

By the way - Anyone know of any good guides on stat migration? If it tells you how to adapt your HAM to armor that would be even better

that's awfully heavy. i make 51% kinetic ubese, total HAM hit approx: 320/340/250 (i don't wear helmet, i'm a swordsman/armorsmith so i need mind, wear bone or mabari helmet would be best).

and that's with one layer...
so there's no reason you shouldn't be able to wear my ubese, with helmet i'm sure it adds like 30ish to H&A, and 120ish to M.

it also depends on good resources, of course.
have your armorsmith use materials focusing on malle rather than Shock resistance if you're that concerned about HAM.
(btw: that's unsliced my suit).

honestly, if you're a veteran player, migrating the secondaries higher, mainly those that reduce how fast HAM drops when hit, is an obvious move. If i see someone with over 900 - 1000 in HAM bars, unbuffed, you can tell they're relatively new.

a lot of people ignore secondaries, and whether you use armor or not, you really should have secondaries higher than 300-400 anywho.

newbies... flame me... i'm ready.

My only question about your high secondaries is that i've noticed that the Cost stats (Str, Qui, Foc) increasing them from 500 to 600 had almost no effect on the cost of using the specials (a difference of 3 to be exact).I dont know if there's some kind of break over 600 or not, but anything less than that (400 min, human) seems to not make a difference. As a TKA I rarely wear armor, instead i get melee/stun defense clothing. (+12 melee/+45 stun). I have 62 toughness though, so YMMV.

I went to that store that sells composite. There were only boots left at the time but I checked them out. Not only did they offer better protection than any of the Ubese boots that I had seen, the encumbrance was also notably LOWER. That got me thinking that I should perhaps rather save up the credits for a set of composite instead. I might still get that set of Ubese, so I have some protection in the meantime.

As for defense clothing... How does that work? Sockets?

I use 65percent kenetic and carry a 65 percent composit and 65 composite helm for blast fights.

I'm currently at 3,3,3,3 in brawler and take on huf duns red to me with the help of a rock beetle, lots of stims