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I would probably say composite, but have no idea what marine armor has for stats. That said, how do you guys stay alive with NO armor? I know I get hammered for nearly 500-600 ham every fight... without my composite that would be 1000-1200 and I don't come close to having that much ham.

I wear a full suit of composite. All pieces of my armor is 40% resist except my helm is 44% . I also have equipe mk3 .

I run around in my nakkedness...but then again...I am a wookie.

Rebel faction armor is great. Some might say it is overpowered. The storm trooper armor stinks though so don't wear it if you are an imperial.

*Pets flame thrower)

Pay no attention to the fact that faction armor is vulnerable to heat

How is ST armor different from Marine armor (other than looks, in which ST is teh win!!!111!)? Are the resists/encumbrance different? I was under the impression that stat-wise they were just carbon copies.

I myself will be wearing a suit of (preslice) 44% Kinetic Ubese while hunting, until I can acquire full ST which I might wear for fun.

Thanks for the input. I will go ahead and keep my marine armor then. A bunch of people wear composite. Would comp be better than marine? Thanks!

Mac

Composite freaking OWNS marine. Consider it only has one vulnerability - stun. Second, consider that Composite can have upwards of 55% base effectiveness without even being brought within a klick of a slicer. You can easily get Composite up to the 85% realm with some good slices, not to mention getting electricity moved from the Special Protection to effectiveness catergory, meaning those pesky LLC's aren't a problem.

You can "easily" get it to 85%? Are you high? I believe the highest produced on ANY server so far has been 80%. If you get base 55% which is extremely RARE, then you get the HIGHEST possible slice in the game its only 77%.

You also didn't mention you need around 30 krayt armor plates to get the electric moved to a full protection.... lol.

Z

Right, and why would any of that be a problem for a Commando? Remember, a Commando with even a whit of intelligence, some skill, quick fingers, and a little teeney bit of luckcan solo Krayts all day long. Then a quick 2-hour trip to Endor for a half-mil of credits, and you're good to buy whatever armor you want.

Yeah, it's rare to get perfect slices (the 55% is base advanced composite, not including Krayt bits - it couldbe impossible on some servers due to resource constraints, but I wouldn't imagine that happening on many if any servers), but the half-mil should easily cover buying 3 or 4 suits of armor (which a day of soloing Krayts will net more than enough segments and scales to make 5 suits, unless your luck is absolutely terrible) which you can get sliced up (and choose the best of each piece).

It's not hard at all, it just takes a little patience to get all the components necessary to get the good armor.

Forgot to say, 55% is about in the middle of the advanced composite road - it could go as low as 45% ish with meiocre materials, but it can also get up to 60-65 with the good stuff.... you'll be paying through the wazoo, of course (100-ish cr/res).

I use composite (full set minus helm till I can get one sliced with lower encumberences). I tried going without any armor once but I got smacked down fast by those pesky rebel NPC's.

If faction armor is vulnerable to heat than that kinda renders it useless since a large chunk of people are either using a flame thrower or an FWG5

Personally prefer my exotic leotard. Usually the yellow, sometimes the white. Course it doesnt give the right look without my arms in my old old used up chitin.

Someday ill break down and invest in some composite. Not today though.

Vonni