What should I buy with gold?

[Grendalcat]

Just finished the Vault 79 quest line(Secrets Revealed), and now I can buy plans for gold from Regs. I have about 1000 units of gold. The question is, what should I buy? Is the SS armor worth spending gold? Or maybe the gauss pistol? Or maybe hold onto the gold for now, until something better can be purchased, such as from Foundation?

[Zarious101]

Invest in unlocking the Secret Service armor set, while the T65 power armor is nice, the Secret service armor is quite flexible and able to be used for a variety of builds. Don't forget to do public events with the ! mark for treasury notes because you can only trade 40 notes per day for 400 gold. I think it's 4250 gold for a whole set, 750 for each limb and 1250 for the Torso, not including the head in the price since it's mainly cosmetic. so it might take you about 8-9 days if you get your 40 notes a day turned in, maybe a little less depending on the scoreboard progress. Not 8-9 days in game time but just staying on top of the daily refresh. If you do 4 daily quests and maybe 8 events ( or just server hopping and doing the queen fight ) it shouldn't take too long each day to grind the 40 notes a day.

You could also just grind a lot on a day you're not working or going to school and get the 325 notes you need for the full armor set. so that could be about 82 activities that reward 4 notes.

[BizarreMan]

If buying SS armor do the helmet last because it’s solely cosmetic. Wasted bullion.

[Stardustfire]

when you have 1000 gold bullions grats to the big bunch of faction grinding extra miles you will have to do now. you choosen the longest route ( a few extra weeks compared to the other choises) to get factions maxed out for the measy bullion profit of 2,5 days worth (or even less when we count in Bullion weekends or the bullion trader in the wayward) .

for the choise what to buy, noone can tell you that when we dont know your build. SS armor is useless for PA users, and T65 is useless for none PA users as example. both are the best armors in there respective fields statewise.

the settler faction bullion vendor will sell a gauss shotgun plan when you reached max faction with them, the crater bullion vendor will sell a gatling gauss plan at max faction.
there is also Minerva with her random selection each week, what even include faction plans without the faction needed to buy them from her.

the fertile floors are ever a good grab from the settler trader, if you are into crops in your camp, when you made 2-3 more faction standing steps upwards with them.

[Grendalcat]

So I have never used PA, although I am hording PA cores for some reason.
Seems that you are suggesting SS armor would be best for me. Is it a lot better than Chinese Stealth Armor? Which I am using right now, and it has served me pretty well.

As I am closest to max rep with Foundation, I will probably keep working toward achieving that with them. Is the gauss shotgun a big improvement over, say, the Fixer?

I guess you could say my build is stealth commando.

[BizarreMan]

SS and CSS don’t compare.

Yes with CSS you get rad protection and super stealth . But SS has much better protection from damage. It can also be legendary.

If you aren’t specced for Shotgun, Gauss Shotgun is not for you.