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i'm a budding armorsmith on Bloodfin and want all you out there to share the knowledge i've gathered (mostly so there are less questions for us armorsmiths to answer).

Armour Stats & actual protection

1000 = 10.5%

2000 = 20.0%

3000 = 28.5%

4000 = 36.0%

5000 = 42.5%

6000 = 48.0%

7000 = 52.5%

8000 = 56.0%

9000 = 58.5%

10000 = 60%

(I've used the armorsmith's little helper for the rough stats here, but mostly they match my tests, i'm also only refering to energy resists on recon for ease of describing it)

as a guide the best full layered armor would hit 10000 resists - only 60% actual damage protection, where a unlayered suit using perfect materials would hit 7500 resists - only 54%. (note a drop of only 6% for 2500 pt drop).

for most of us, we can't use perfect materials and i've assumed an avarage of 850 for SR and OQ (Armorsmith talk now). this consequently gives us a typical description for armor. full layered armor now hits 8700 resists giving a damage reduction of 57%, similarly a unlayered suit would have resists of 6700 givinga damamge reduction of 51%.

what i'm getting at is the difference between layered and unlayered. i have alot of customers putting in their special orders for energy resistant (jedi proof) armor with high resists, only practically achievable with layers. they don't understand what this number means and that the damage reduction is not linear.

to summarise:

using 850 avarage SR & OQ materials, recon armor for energy resists:

12pt quad layered: 8700 resist -> gives 57% uses 12000 units of materials

12pt un layered: 6700 resist -> gives 51% uses 4500 units of materials

when a customer asks for good armor and you hand them a suit of 6700 energy resist armor am i unreasonable to tell them its unessesary to make it layered. i see it this way:

unlayered 320k credits

layered 850k credits giving an extra 6% resists!

who would really want to pay over 500k credits for 6% resists? thats a couple of crates of good food, and a little more to buying a nice weapon.