Best Set of Armor? (Not Power Armor)

[Humbleification]

What would you guys say is the best set of armor (underarmour, left and right arm, left and right legs and head)?

[JordanU]

Armored Maxon's coat with Armored newsboy cap.

[Tipsy]

*and chest :)

[Tipsy]

I'm only 30 or so hours into the game... best armor ive come across is Metal armor that I've modified. I've noticed Leather and Metal... What's the next tier?

[Sharky]

Mark 4/3 synth armor *****SPOILER***** you get it from the requsitions at the institute

[PilgrimX]

Leather and Raider are about equal, Combat and Metal are about equal with combat being lighter, Synth is pretty light for its protective and is the next tier up. So the best I've really found so far is Synth.

There is normal, sturdy, and heavy armor that I've seen so far- different modelling a bit. They are different base armors, and heavy combat fully modded is basically double regular heavy at I think a little over double weight. Higher level lets you see better armor. Most gunners I fight wear heavy combat.

Ballistic weave on the underclothing and hat is a gamechanger.

[Trehek]

Note, that there are stronger and more covering versions of armours with their names starting with stout and heavy. It's easy to miss with all the moddability. I missed it till quite far in the game.

The best is probably legendary heavy combat armour with a suitable armoured undergarment.

[Greb]

Heavy Combat armour with a Synth Field helmet and quite possibly a Shielded Vault suit. Unlikely you'll find Heavy Combat Armour with Legendary mods, especially the ones you like, but there's the attachmod console command for that. Synth is meant to be better but most of it is ugly as syn. One of the chesepieces looks kinda ideal but the rest is just pure terror. Might go better if you use the console to spawn yourself a synth jumpsuit...but meh.

[Riley]

Synth armour for energy resistance, Combat for both, Metal for balistic. Combat armour wins outright imo, because it covers both bases and is lighter than metal, but if you want pure phyiscal or energy resistances you have the options. Really it comes down to what you think is cooler, and if you use power armour alot, what you wear underneath is pointless anyway.

[Catmality]

Vault 111 jumpsuit, with combat armor

[k1rage]

fully uped silver shroud armor

[leftharted]

hmm; good to know about the prefix on the higher tier armors. My highest char is only 26; not sure if ive started seeing these yet.

That being said; im almost exclusively in my t60. only ever popping out to swap into my CHA gear; and then back again... nuclear physicist + early purifier's at the Drive In = barter for tons of Fusion Cores. mmmhmm.

[ImHelping]

If Synth armor keeps up the trend through all it's weight grades, then when FULLY UPGRADED, Synth armor is better than Combat armor.

That's the trick though, "When fully upgraded".

For example, normal (as on, not Heavy) Combat armor Chest, fully upgraded gives 22/22 Ballistic/Energy protection. While normal Synth armor chest, fully upgraded gives 22/27.

The sticking point. Combat armor only needs Armorer 2 to fully upgrade (lv 13 gated). Synth armor needs Armorer 4 (so, level 39 minimum).

I'm also a fan of Armorer 2 rank at least, because that lets me mod things with Deep Pockets. Which is +10 carry per limb, +20 carry for chest. I have a 4 STR so my normal 240 carry capacity is improved to 300 when wearing my Deep Pockets combat armor. Even if the armor itself weighs roughly 27ish.

[Mav]

I honestly hate the way the majority of armors look in this game. Synth armor to be more precise. And then when you change the material to like polymer on combat armor...it's just plain white with rust.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by DatGrunt:

I honestly hate the way the majority of armors look in this game. Synth armor to be more precise. And then when you change the material to like polymer on combat armor...it's just plain white with rust.

To me the worst part of Synth armor is that you are not allowed to wear sunglasses or goggles or other eye wear with the Synth helmet, unlike say an Army helmet.

So I'm constantly fighting with myself "Do I want to wear cool sunglasses with my 10 ballistic defense army helmet? Or do I want to wear my upgraded to 15/16 defense Synth helmet?"

For reference, normal combat armor arms and legs top out at 12/12.

[igloosfolly]

Silver Shadow from Hubris comics .