How noticeable is Civil Engineers vs Secret Service armor?

[Salem Graves]

Thinking of getting a set of CE just for fun but am wondering how noticeable the difference in DR is.

[KitKat]

Not really noticeable at all.

Stacking those DR/ER/RR stats you see in pip-boy and the "minor" differences between them is not something you'll ever notice on practice.

Simply because %-based Damage Resistances (such as Blocker perk card to reduce melee dmg or Fireproof for fire/explosive dmg reduction, Power Armor's innate resistance, Overeater's effect, Empath mutation stacking, etc) are much more noticeable ON PRACTICE, despite not being really at all visible in your pip-boy.

[NIkto Barada]

debatable. some claim that if you already run nerd rage it will do less. but if you arent DR isnt% based- every shot subtracts it.
some perks add minor dr or whatever but you already need as much perkspace as possible for your build.
as a hold out till bos r or SS .sure, since it can be traded why not, can pass it on later.
the autorepair can be perked too but the melee damage thing is too low and can be found in mutations via electricity(radiation can heal glowiing enemies so stay away from it).

[Krumbleskin]

I did the quest for this set, had enough of the family dialogue by the end. Looking at mods after and seeing 300 stamps for the jetpack just killed any desire to use it. Other mods where cheap but the whole grinding same levels over and over for stamps isn't what I want to do with time I have to play.

[Mooman]

Heaps noticeable because the Civil armour doesn't have an available asbestos mod.

The asbestos will stop you from catching on fire. This is mostly useful for self immolation from explosive weapons with fire damage (though oddly the Nuka World bow will set you on fire).

Maybe not important to everyone but this omission makes it a skip IMO.

[Mazarkis]

Originally posted by Mooman:

Heaps noticeable because the Civil armour doesn't have an available asbestos mod.

The asbestos will stop you from catching on fire. This is mostly useful for self immolation from explosive weapons with fire damage (though oddly the Nuka World bow will set you on fire).

Maybe not important to everyone but this omission makes it a skip IMO.

It has one, it's a reward for the Hell's Eagles quest.

[lordoftheapes79]

Civil Engineer armor has all the normal mods. They're stamp and Atlantic city expedition rewards.

Including a Jetpack.

[Phantom]

DR hits its first set of diminishing returns by 200
By 300 it starts to diminish hard
By 400 more is basically ineffective