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I dont think its armor that is overpowered, not at all.Armor would be fine, its buffs that are overpowered - namely secondary stat buffs - because they remove the consequence for wearing armor entirely (encumberance). I know it seems like a 'what came first, the chicken or the egg' type argument, but if you think about it if we weren't able to buff our secondaries to the 3000 range with doc buffs then high protection armors would carry with them heavy consequences. Secondaries would still be buffable by foods such as won-won, kiwik, spices, etc but only in a limited way. Its bull$h!t that someone can wear a suit of comp with 800 encumberance yet still spam specials with 0 HAM costs because their secondaries are >1500.

All of a sudden, without secondary buffs, armor would carry heavy consequences. Should i don that suit of ubese? It will protect me from 70+% damage, but I wont be able to spam specials indiscriminately. Do i want a suit of 80% base comp? Then I'm going to have to consider what foods I use, and give up some food effects for ones that raise my secondaries. My special use will also be highly limited, yet I will be highly protected. Or will I go unarmored, with primary stat buffs and secondaries buffed by foods and spice, and be able to spam specials like theres no tomorrow.

Then there would be a tradeoff, for all classes, between defense and offense, and encumberance would actually have meaning. The way it stands is complete BS, that you can get buffed by a master doc, put on a suit of 80-90% composite, and solo any creature or group of creaturesin the game -- including krayts, NS elders, ancient bull rancors, etc etc.