Best Light/Medium armor in Fallout New Vegas

[Lord FarmQuad]

I have done a few playthroughs now (most are in offline mode so it didn't log the time) but I really have yet to figure out what the best light/medium armor is for fallout new vegas. I mostly just use Combat Armor or if I get that far the Assassin suit from dead money, but for some reason no matter what I use I end up getting rekt the moment I enter OWB. I don't like Heavy armor because I need to have the extra carry weight for my weapons and the ammo. Anyone have any suggestions

[MannsOverMeta]

Once you go into the DLCs at high levels, damage gets so high that DT doesn’t matter much anymore. You should still wear armor, but it’s best that it offers utility instead of just DT.
Both light and medium armor offer more than DT, light more so because perk bonuses. Thing is, most of the good utility armors are found late game or in DLCs.
Try not to worry about it too much. Just focus on not getting hit.

[Valden21]

For OWB, the best medium armor seems to be Gannon's family armor, but getting that requires that you finish his quest by getting him to join the Followers. Its DT is only slightly better than combat armor, but it gives +10 to Energy Weapons and +20 to Rad Resistance, and if you have Jury Rigging, you can repair it with any medium armor.

When it comes to light armor, you have a choice: either the reinforced gecko-backed armor, or Josha Graham's armor, both from Honest Hearts. The gecko armor might be the better of those two, as it gives you Fire Resistance, Poison Resistance, and Rad Resistance of +15.

[Optimore]

The Sierra Madre Armor is an unusually tough Light Armor that you can get pretty early in a playthrough (assuming you do Dead Money first).

The Assassin Armor is also useful from the same DLC. Slightly less but still above-average DT combined with a stealth bonus. It also looks cool.

[TheMessenger]

The Elite Riot Gear from Lonesome Road is in my opinion the best medium armor if not the best armor in the game, it has the good DT of medium armor without the drawbacks to mobility of heavy, and it gives some great utility buffs and with jury rigging can be easy to repair, its also fairly easy to acquire by popping into Lonesome Road and advancing the main story a little bit
the Elite Riot Gear gives +10 Guns +5 Crit chance and +1 Charisma with 22DT and the Elite Riot Gear Helmet gives Sneak Sight (Like a night vision varmint rifle scope/cateye when sneaking) +5 speech and +2 Perception with a DT of 6 and with jury rigging it can be repaired with reading glasses or almost any helmet/headgear

[MannsOverMeta]

Aren’t the riot gear helmets the only heavy helmets in the game? I don’t think jury rigging would work on them.
Also nice necro.

[TheMessenger]

The Elite Riot Gear helmet repairs with the normal riot gear helmet, advanced riot gear helmet and any heavy Armor, so power armor helmets work on it or just any heavy armor with jury rigging. You are right I didn't check that part as I haven't used the elite riot gear in a while thank you for that!

[Mister Holdout]

Generally speaking, these are what I consider the best armor sets:

(Light): Ulysses' Duster (13 DT, 5% crit chance), Joshua Graham's armor (15 DT, 3% crit chance), and Sierra Madre armor reinforced (18 DT).

(Medium): Elite riot gear armor (22 DT , 5% crit chance, +10 guns, +1 charisma), Gannon family Tesla armor (26 DT, +10 energy weapons, + 20 rad resistance), Stealth suit Mk 2 (14 DT, +15 OR +25 sneak , +1 PER, +1 AGL, +20% crouch speed)

You can compare the stats and determine which armor set is right for you. There is no wrong choice with these armor sets.

[joje]

引用自 Mister Holdout：

Generally speaking, these are what I consider the best armor sets:

(Light): Ulysses' Duster (13 DT, 5% crit chance), Joshua Graham's armor (15 DT, 3% crit chance), and Sierra Madre armor reinforced (18 DT).

(Medium): Elite riot gear armor (22 DT , 5% crit chance, +10 guns, +1 charisma), Gannon family Tesla armor (26 DT, +10 energy weapons, + 20 rad resistance), Stealth suit Mk 2 (14 DT, +15 OR +25 sneak , +1 PER, +1 AGL, +20% crouch speed)

You can compare the stats and determine which armor set is right for you. There is no wrong choice with these armor sets.

Does the gannon armor count as medium. What does exactly that mean. Do you run faster?

[MannsOverMeta]

The Gannon family Tesla armor is classified by the game as medium, meaning you run faster with it equipped than you would with heavy armor but slower than you would with light armor.

[joje]

Wow, how convinient.

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We're going to lock this thread up so it doesn't get necro'd again in the future. Thanks for your understanding.