What armor actually is best for Stealth?

[Tomha]

So it probably sounds like a dumb question "The Chinese Stealth Suit of course!" but I keep getting mixed answers and was wondering what you guys would say. Of all the people I asked, only 3 out of 10 people actually say that.

I had some people tell me Wood armor was the best if you can get the Chameleon effect on said pieces, all of them cause it apparently stacks.

Someone else told me Shadowed Leather was much better, which makes sense I guess, but better then the stealth suit?

It gets weirder cause they mention the Chameleon mutation + armor is the best despite not saying the armor had to have the Weightless effect. Apparently even in regular armor it helps? One person told me Shrouded Wood + 5 Chameleon Legendaries + Mutation = Perfect stealth armor, but that sounds insane.

I know there's a Chem that improves stealth for a time. And of course the Stealth Boys.

Right now I'm rank 3 Stealth, have Escape Artist, use a Bow and Sniper Plasma Rifle with the Chinese Suit and for the most part I end up fine, except for extreme situations like in the 76 Questline. Those turrets were able to pinpoint my ass and shred my suit like cheese after 1 arrow shot, even after moving away from where I shot.

[Hefutoxin]

Agility affects stealth.

Unyielding. +1 Agility, Improved Sneaking, Wood Armor with the Shrouded Mod would probably be the "best".

[FormerFishFarmer]

Originally posted by Hefutoxin:

Agility affects stealth.

Unyielding. +1 Agility, Improved Sneaking, Wood Armor with the Shrouded Mod would probably be the "best".

Yup, that, plus all the Perks, also, I think, Shielded Casual Underarmor gives the most Agility?
The Stealth Suit is for Rad Resistance with some Armor and limited Stealth built in, so even non-sneaky people can Stealth a bit if they want to. It's really a suped up hasmat suit.

[Eriskumma]

If you want very good stealth there's basically 3 options, each with their pros and cons; full chameleon set, chameleon mutation and weightless set, and low health and unyielding set.
I guess chinese stealth suit could count as 4th though, but it has serious disadvantage compared to "proper" armors when your stealth eventually breaks and also can't have legendary effects.
To get most out of them all require you to have maxed sneak perk and escape artist, and like others have said higher agility=better sneak which is why unyielding is so effective. Would recommend having one chameleon piece and 4x unyielding instead of full unyielding though, being able to go invisible helps a bit in certain situations.
For stealthy build armor itself is the "fourth line of defense", first three being stealthiness, mobility and perks, so armor type doesn't really matter that much, legendary effects are way more important. Wood does give some extra sneakiness with the cost of getting you insta-toasted when stealth breaks/glitches, which is quite often and in some cases like in uplink daily ops it's by (poor) game design. Same goes with chinese stealth suit.
I have 5 high level, low health, sneaky vats toons, all with 4+1 unyielding/chameleon armor, and haven't bothered to grind any of the newer secret service/recon/whathaveyou sets, most run a mixed set of combat/metal/marine/whatever pieces.

[Dracul]

I'm using the chinese stealth suit, 15 agility , 3/sneak 1/escape artist and Speed Demon mutation. Bird Bones is also appealing (+4 agility -4 str) but I basically have to run through most enemies for them to go into caution mode - mobility has been paramount for me so using The Fixer OR (they dont stack) Speed Demon mutation is pretty nice, I like wood armor (except that we cant craft it, that annoys me) but the radiation shield on the stealth suit is just too nice.

Downside is if you do get banged up, repairing that thing is pretty costly, and I dislike not being able to use any visual apparel.

[BizarreMan]

Originally posted by Dracul:

I'm using the chinese stealth suit, 15 agility , 3/sneak 1/escape artist and Speed Demon mutation. Bird Bones is also appealing (+4 agility -4 str) but I basically have to run through most enemies for them to go into caution mode - mobility has been paramount for me so using The Fixer OR (they dont stack) Speed Demon mutation is pretty nice, I like wood armor (except that we cant craft it, that annoys me) but the radiation shield on the stealth suit is just too nice.

Downside is if you do get banged up, repairing that thing is pretty costly, and I dislike not being able to use any visual apparel.

Just do Scorched Earth every time it pops and you will have plenty of repair kits to fix your armor.

[m142]

Stealth suit is meh.
You can simply pick 2 perks in agility with you'll use Anyway, and efect will be the same. Add up modification for less sound while moving on all 4 and you'll get even better efect.
On top of that thers metal/paint for shady places and Boom, you can enter mutated asses in sneak.
Only bright side of chinise is rad res. But im not sure if you can Wear underarmor with it and lossing that +6~+10 to stats sucks.

As for repair use white knight perk combined with fix it good.

[Papa Shekels]

I don't know if anybody ever fully tested this. I have heard that the innate stealth bonus from the covert scout armor is better than the bonus from thorn armor, but neither of those can roll better sneak as a tertiary legendary effect, so it might overall be better to have different shadowed armor with that legendary effect. Shrouded wood armor with a full set of sneaking effects would theoretically be the best, but I remember shrouded being broken and not actually doing anything a long time ago, not sure if that was ever fixed

[sascomander]

Full set of shadowed leather with chameleon would technically be the best if you want just straight stealth.