Having recently sold my jaguar, and seeing the dropoff when going back to gremlin, I am thinking about getting a new set of armor.
My experience with Jag revealed a few key points:
1. Durability is not an advantage. My repair costs, with a few key exceptions, were about the same as when I used ghost and about double grem. Interestingly, the monsters where decay was equal or cheaper were the ones with mostly acid attack, although thanks to plates survivability was better.
2. The +7 impact vs gremlin was the biggest improvement, but it ended up being only a small difference. At best, I could do maybe 1-2 maturities higher than I used to with grem +5b's.
3. The biggest advantage of jag, imho, was the burn/penetration. During the robot war, this turned out to be a real advantage, and I didn't need to switch armors/plates when facing mixed groups of low drones+something else.
4. Cost: for what advantages jag could do, the cost/benefit ratio vs grem was really, really low. Although jag cost 10X as much as grem, I got maybe a 20% improvement on defense but a doubling of decay cost.
So, what I'm looking for in my next armor:
1. More impact, maybe 25 or higher.
2. A little bit in close or elemental damage, maybe enough to handle the lowest maturities without changing plates, maybe +20 or so.
3. Something relatively cheap for the UL version, maybe +3k.
Thanks for replies.
My experience with Jag revealed a few key points:
1. Durability is not an advantage. My repair costs, with a few key exceptions, were about the same as when I used ghost and about double grem. Interestingly, the monsters where decay was equal or cheaper were the ones with mostly acid attack, although thanks to plates survivability was better.
2. The +7 impact vs gremlin was the biggest improvement, but it ended up being only a small difference. At best, I could do maybe 1-2 maturities higher than I used to with grem +5b's.
3. The biggest advantage of jag, imho, was the burn/penetration. During the robot war, this turned out to be a real advantage, and I didn't need to switch armors/plates when facing mixed groups of low drones+something else.
4. Cost: for what advantages jag could do, the cost/benefit ratio vs grem was really, really low. Although jag cost 10X as much as grem, I got maybe a 20% improvement on defense but a doubling of decay cost.
So, what I'm looking for in my next armor:
1. More impact, maybe 25 or higher.
2. A little bit in close or elemental damage, maybe enough to handle the lowest maturities without changing plates, maybe +20 or so.
3. Something relatively cheap for the UL version, maybe +3k.
Thanks for replies.
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