Best armor to get?

[Moonlight]

I'm finally leaving my power armor after a loooong time (I've always been with it since the one I found at Concord, and I'm level 67 now) and I can't decide which armor to get.

I saw on the internet that the heavy synth armor should be the best but I also saw that the marine armor should be the best.

Which armor is really the best? Looking for damage resistance and legendary effects. Thanks in advance.

[Balthasar☆]

You may check out the Unique Recon Marine Armor Parts that's sold out by some Merchants in Far Harbor. Recon Marine Helmet sold by Brooks in Far Harbor, Recon Marine Chest Piece by Cog in Arcadia, Recon Marine right Arm by Sister Mai in Nucleus and Recon Marine left Arm by Kane also in the Nucleus but be warned, all those parts are super expensive even when you have 10+ Charisma and Cap Collector, they still may cost up to 10k Caps per Part.

Otherwise i can recommend Heavy Synth Armor in which you are more Flexible with as of individual Legendary Effects you can have on each Part and provide almost as much Damage / Energy Resistance as the Marine Armor if the Heavy Synth Armor is Legendary of course as it has abit higher Resistance than their non Legendary counterparts.

[bigdale]

It is a pain the butt trying to find a matched set of heavy armour with good legendary effects. I wish you luck. The good thing about the marine stuff is you don't have to rely on random chance to find it. If you are willing to spend the time then hunting your perfect set will keep you busy for ages.

[Chaosium]

Plus you get a +10 cool points for wearing the marine armor because it looks so damn good

[Balthasar☆]

Originally posted by bigdale:

It is a pain the butt trying to find a matched set of heavy armour with good legendary effects. I wish you luck. The good thing about the marine stuff is you don't have to rely on random chance to find it. If you are willing to spend the time then hunting your perfect set will keep you busy for ages.

True, one of my Characters hit lv 120 soon and i've just found my second Legendary Heavy Snth Armor Part yesterday and fit pretty nice to my Melee Build.

[Moonlight]

Originally posted by Balthasar☆:

You may check out the Unique Recon Marine Armor Parts that's sold out by some Merchants in Far Harbor. Recon Marine Helmet sold by Brooks in Far Harbor, Recon Marine Chest Piece by Cog in Arcadia, Recon Marine right Arm by Sister Mai in Nucleus and Recon Marine left Arm by Kane also in the Nucleus but be warned, all those parts are super expensive even when you have 10+ Charisma and Cap Collector, they still may cost up to 10k Caps per Part.

Otherwise i can recommend Heavy Synth Armor in which you are more Flexible with as of individual Legendary Effects you can have on each Part and provide almost as much Damage / Energy Resistance as the Marine Armor if the Heavy Synth Armor is Legendary of course as it has abit higher Resistance than their non Legendary counterparts.

Yeah but which grants the best resistance? Heavy synth armor or marine armor? If it"s heavy synth armor, where can I find it? I always see like "Synth leg" not "Heavy synth leg"

[Balthasar☆]

https://imgur.com/Qf2RPd5

As you can see the Resistance Values on the first Picture are full Set of Heavy Synth Armor ( without Synth Helmet ) which 2 are Legendary and the Values on the second Picture are provided by a full Set of Marine Armor ( also without Helmet ), keep in mind i do have the Damage Resistance Perks which also provides 50 Points in both Damage and Energy Resistance. Also best place to farm Synth Armor is here http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mahkra_Fishpacking

[bigdale]

As you level up you'll encounter more enmies wearing the heavy versions of the armour and also they will enter the pool of possible legendary items. You'll always havea chance it could just be normal though.

[EolSunder]

all the heavy armor is basically fine to wear, a little more or less won't make any difference really, its all about what legendary mods are on them. You can also get the 2 clothing pieces with ballistic fiber for basically a 2nd suit of full armor.

After a certain point, armor value declines.

for instance as an example. If you have 250 combined damage resist.

a weapon shooting you for 10 damage will do about 1.5 damage. 85% reduction
a weapon doing 25 damage does 5.4. 78% reduction
weapon doing 50 damage has 72% reduction
100 damage attack does 64%
250 damage vs 250 resist = 50% reduction
1000 only has 17% reduction

so the higher you go, your protection is based off the strength of the attack against you.

base is attack value vs defense value = same, then its 50% reduction, and it goes up or down the higher the base attack. Since you usually fight stronger enemies later, you'll have stronger armor, but they will have stronger attacks, so it kind of keeps its balance.

You don't need to squeeze out every resistance you can, it won't make a huge difference if you have 200 total resist, or 220, etc. Not really at that point. The legendary mods you have on the items really make the difference at that point. A high resist heavy leather is nice, but a sturdy leather which has less resists, but has 15% protection from humans might really benefit you more. A full suit of heavy armor is nice, but drop down to sturdy armor and having pieces that give resists vs certain foes, or stat boosts for your type of build, etc might be much more useful.

I usually go with stat boosting items, agility and perception for shooting characters, strength and endurance for melee/unarmed, tow around a backup suit of charisma for shopping/speech checks. I collect suits of monster resist armor for those certain hard areas where having a 90% super mutant resistant suit is much better fighting 10 super mutant overlords than having a suit of heavy armor.