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What's a good armor for commandos to use? How bout tailored items?

I'm also wondering that...I'm working toward commando at the moment. I got master creature handler...then they nerfed us (plus there were like 2386941823461892 creature handlers around). So, I surrendered that and decided to be something that no one was haha. Broken class or not...Well, yeah back to the good commando armor/clothes

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Well it depends. 1st and most importantly find a good crafter, poor armor will hurt more than it helps. Il use chiten for example, i ask many chiten uses what the kinetic resist on their armor is, usually they say 2.5-6.0% ok not bad right? I found a crafter who makes chiten with 35% yes thats thirty five percent kinetic resist. Big difference between 2.5 and 35.

Now each type of armor is better against certain damage types, for kinetic resist i dont THINK anything beats a good set of chiten. For energy resist(most blasters and things like it) the best is padded. Of course marine/storm trooper armor is very good, but thats expensive faction point wise and requires you to be overt. But ask around, do some shopping email/tell crafters to see the stats on their armor and what they charge.

I've been using a Composite suit of armor (28-33% resistance in all but stun). But, I only put it on when I'm about to take a hit. Otherwise I just run around in my boxers or whatever else i have.

Idealy I think the way to go would be similar to this, but buy enhanced clothing from master tailors. I was looking around at ariel dreamweavers shop on corbantis server and she had some nice clothing. One was a shirt named something like Optic Camoflague. The cool thing I noticed was the enhancements. Already built into it was Cover fire 5 camoflague 5.

How many pieces of clothing can you wear? Lots it looks like. If you can get enough custom clothing with things like defend vs's or +aim, etc... You could pike on some nice skill bonuses and maybe not have to wear armor. Looks like this is still new ground to tailors and I hope to see some really cool stuff coming out soon.

A5-10 bonus to flamethrower speed would give a new meaning to hotpants.

I normally wear pants and an open vest. No shoes, armor or anything else.

This is an interesting question in light of some comments made by the devs. We only have a handful of specials, and they all have a large delay on them. It may be that a commando with a flamethrower/HAR/heavy cannon weapon is uniquely suited to wearing the heaviest armors. If our weapons base damage output (after the promised upcoming fix) is high enough, we may find ourselves in the position of simply NOT using our specials much (and hence not being penalized much by wearing heavy armor).

OTOH, that's all just supposition until the fixes appear at least on test center so we can get an idea of what we'll really be dealing with. Right now, on live, I'm liking rebel marine armor. Nearly the protective abilities of composite but with significantly less encumbrance.

I pimp it out in my white robes, complemented by the maroon head wrap.

Nothing like flaming someone to death in style.

I wear my beautifull wookie fur. Problem is when I get flash back from the thrower I get a bit of that lovely burnt hair smell.

As a armorsmith,

Different armor are good in different situation. And each of them comes with a pricetag (price of purchase and HAM cost for using).

In heavy combat situation (when different type of dmgs are involved) such as PvP battles.

Composite armor are the king because it protects all kind of dmg except stun dmg. Expensive to wear though. You ll need food/doctor/spice buffing to actually wear a whole set of them... and that's after your armor is sliced.

Padded are great as well but they are vunerable to heat, acid and stun dmg. Heat and acid are pretty common in PvP combat (FWG5 and Dx2 pistol dmg). But overall, a good armor to wear in PvE combats.

Ubese and Chitin are great against Kinetic dmg (typical monster melee dmg) and pretty cost-efficient as well.

Tantel is mostly a energy upgrade 3 armor piece set. Good to use in conjunction with chitin.

Bone armor, good against energy attack and very light. Good for people taking a lot of energy based dmg and prefer to take as low HAM encumberance as they can while using armor.

Armor pieces also protect different HAM pool. So a medic and most folks will want to protect their mind pool with a helmet when they come under attack. It's a good practice to hotkey the helmet, and only wear it when you are underattack and take it off when not so you are not encumbered with a low mind regen (since there is no reliable way to heal mind pool).

Abit Yg'Ami of Ahazi.

Any one else think it would be a good idea to design armor that only we could wear. This would help ease the pain of not measuring up to some other combat professions.

yes, but then the BHs want their own armor, the riflemen will want their own, even CHEFS will want their very own cookie-coat armor...

you see where this'd lead?

let the game be complex, but not too complex

Commandos and BH's SHOULD get their own armour. No one else should. THese are the Elite killers in the game. Im' saying this and I'm not a Commando, and am actually leaning more towards being a Rifleman. Rifleman should absolutely NOT have their own Armour. HAve you ever heard of a Sniper wearing Armour? THat is ridiculous! You guys are the Elite, along with BH's. Special Armour just for ELite I say!