UL or L, which is more economical?

[dura_killer]

The UL Boar set has 3100 durability but the new Boar L has 13100 durability. Which is more economical if I burn lot of PED on Boar armor?

 

[mastermesh]

it depends...

It depends on your goals and things... short term, L is always better... Long term, UL is always better.... usually...

 

[Superhal]

You can calculate this almost exactly, actually.

Average decay per hour/day/week/month X Time X MU of Armor

If boar UL costs around +1k MU, and L costs 105% (25 ped per full suit), it would take 40 entire suits before you lost money by using L instead of UL.

 

[Immortal]

Use (L) armor while <130% indefinitely. The end.

You can calculate this almost exactly, actually.

Average decay per hour/day/week/month X Time X MU of Armor

If boar UL costs around +1k MU, and L costs 105% (25 ped per full suit), it would take 40 entire suits before you lost money by using L instead of UL.

This is entirely incorrect.

 

[SKULL]

You can calculate this almost exactly, actually.

Average decay per hour/day/week/month X Time X MU of Armor

If boar UL costs around +1k MU, and L costs 105% (25 ped per full suit), it would take 40 entire suits before you lost money by using L instead of UL.

then you ignore the higher durability of the L version

you ignore also the resale value of the boar(and the possible profit of selling for more later)
the market of most items is very low atm

 

[dura_killer]

With UL items I will also increase the level(tier) of the weapon and so my UL armors keeps on becoming better without using any Enhancers?

 

[SKULL]

nope without using (active)enhancers the defense rating doesnt change


after you tiered it to 1.0 you can go to 1.9 but if you dont tier it stops at 0,9

 

[Hijacker27]

(L) armour decays less, but you have to pay a markup (and can't always find the piece you're looking for).

My rule of thumb is if it's under 120% or so, go for the (L) piece, otherwise go for UL

 

[aridash]

Use (L) armor while <130% indefinitely. The end.

how do you arrive at this? the infomation about durability on the wiki suggests a 16% difference, and what else improves the economy of limited? i'd wonder if the practical difference is even that large, since the L armour retains full protection, so higher cost, than unL which decreases as the protection drops with decay.

 

[Immortal]

how do you arrive at this? the infomation about durability on the wiki suggests a 16% difference, and what else improves the economy of limited? i'd wonder if the practical difference is even that large, since the L armour retains full protection, so higher cost, than unL which decreases as the protection drops with decay.

yeah i was probably thinking of higher end armors when i said that (sup vs sup(L) for example the value factor is 135% vs atrox stalker)
ofc, it depends entirely on what the OP hunts (decay is the same vs exa, for example) but a figure of 120%-123% applies if hutning mobs worthy of the armor, without factoring in weighting.

 

[Executor]

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