MRP Integrity vs Damage Protection

[RIP Chicken]

Outfitting my Viper mk 4 with two class 3 MRP's and I was wondering between the E and D ratings which are better or at least if they're both good but in different types of situations.

ALSO I'm going no shields. Which would be the best type of armor to use?

Thanks in advance.

[FalterXV TTV]

So, in terms of the mk iv, and in terms of MRPs in general.
For armour start with (if you have the funds) reactive surface composite, this is the best for armourless ships to start as a base.

Explosive damage is the most deadly resist not to have. As missiles do not suffer damage penalties, so hurt armour and modules more than most.

IF running MRPs, D rated and 1 AFM. AFMs can repair MRPs just like canopies, adding for infinite module sustain.
For HRPs aim for D as well.
D always those 2, the E rates are kinda shabby-cheap stopgaps in my opinion.

Once we have that established, time to mod.
Heavy duty the bulkheads, and mod the HRPs to compensate for what you lack in total resist.
Handy tool is the statistics screen this will list all resistances on the ship itself at all times.

having a positive resist means you take that percentage of damage less from the full value, negative is that percentage more over the standard value.

The most dangerous guns to you wil be plasma Accels, these always ignore armour values.
Rail guns, if you have high kinetic will not phase you, rails do kinetic to armour, and thermal to sheilds.

Lasers already stuggle a lot with armour.
Missiles will spell death, if not modded to protect you from as much damage as possible, the MRPs will protect you from the breaching they cause, until they break, AFM saves you from broken MRPS.

Trivia time! you will run out of hull points (hit points) before module faliure doing this type of thing. MRPS and resist armour fits, even shields work in this way as well

o7 Good luck CMDR.
Viper Mk Ivs for the win! best small ship for combat.

[Arya]

I agree on Reactive Armour. Unless you're 100% based in Empire Space, you really have no excuse not to have it on an Armour Tank build. It makes a massive difference to your survivability - not only does it generously increase your health, it also increases your resistances to Kinetic and Explosive damage types, the types NPCs prefer to use against armour tankers.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by 狼 Wolfey:

It makes a massive difference to your survivability - not only does it generously increase your health, it also increases your resistances to Kinetic and Explosive damage types, the types NPCs prefer to use against armour tankers.

It is great to have on any combat ship, in general, as most ships switch to kinetic weapons when your shields are down. Expensive, yes, but the life is more so.

[raymazoida]

Reactive armour all the way!

[Arya]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

It is great to have on any combat ship, in general, as most ships switch to kinetic weapons when your shields are down. Expensive, yes, but the life is more so.

Sure it's expensive, but dying is more expensive :)