Obligatory no “best” armor as a lot of armor passives turn out to be really useful, but light gunner is definitely a contender. Light armor speed and stamina with medium armor defense, shits pretty good

What armor is this

My go to is the Street Scout, I love the reload and extra ammo perk and i love how it looks

Peak armor

AKA Light Gunner armor

Exactly I really love when I get extra nades, but isn't it so much cooler to become the nade after you die?

MARTYRDOMMM!!!!

Cockroach armor has been so handy for me with the constant lifsteal on corpse looting

Also the venom resistance is great for wolfspider/scorpions

Orb Weaver armor is really good, the set piece bonus is really strong and can stun a lot of bugs out of their attack animations

Personally, I really like the butterfly armor. Even if I'm not wearing the full set, getting a damage reduction barrier after parrying makes the helmet alone really good imo and a lot of bugs (except spiders) have a fresh weakness so the rest of the armor is decent too! (Bonus fresh damage if parry barrier is active)

Ladybug armor used to be my favorite in Grounded 1, but "creatures are more likely to attack you" and "blocking uses less stamina" are two awful effects (but the set bonus is nice)

Lady bugs are easy with a smashing weapon

My go-to armor is scorpion armor. When playing Rogue, it feels pretty... OP. Combined with Wolf Spider Daggers, you can almost one-shot a ladybug and oneshot most of the creatures. I kill scorpions and ladybugs without using any busting weapon - it's just so overpowered

Armor: Combat - Mule/Ace or the super heavy suit Combat is unusable in 50% of the north

Combo armor is shit. It is a half measure.

Sci suits can run everywhere and have not much less BR than combo. I use a saturn full time, best thing i’ve ever used.

Weapon: Everything is good, but:

A-545 is good and doesn’t get nerfed, Fn f2000 is essentially the same thing, but has more distance and worse up close. AMB-17 is OP up close, absolute shit at distance, and playing with a 20 round mag(you can craft a 30 rounder in the north) is not fun. ASh-12 is op, but you craft it in Limansk(no idea what it’s called in english after Day X) and Limansk is badly designed and outdated, and it’s the most expensive gun. If you add up it’s barrel and mag which are vital for the gun to be good it’s like 110+ serum. PKP is really solid, but the gun before it(RPD) is comically bad.

Ace is best for combat armor. Centurion is not worth getting, it only has 20 more BR than ace but has big debuffs and 30 less carry weight.
Scythian for combo, but they are kinda useless right now due to map almost not having infections.
Saturn is really good and comfortable suit, but doesnt have much BR. I'd highly suggest getting it at least for labyrinth farm.
A545 is a great close quarters gun, and most of current north is close distance fights. FN tactical is great for mid ranges, its also much more comfortable in terms of recoil and accuracy (compared to A545)
Might aswell consider getting VSSM and Kriss vector, since new SMG barter tree is coming.

Might aswell start getting beast slayer, since when the dungeons will come, it'll be one of best armours out there.

This is for global so NA EU or SEA Armors right now craft-able is mule or cent for combat and scientist suit. Combo is mostly useless. Super heavy are good but mostly for clan wars and session battles it’s not worth open world anymore. I prefer cent the extra bullet res makes it superior for pvp but mule right now is better for open world with its bonuses. Weapons it’s mostly just preference there is a meta but the gap isn’t crazy. Hold off on smgs and snipers. Make any assault rifle besides f tac.

Best weapons come from Limansk, but Limansk is extremely bad zone. I hope the designer who made it gets fired unironically

Centurion with its massive head hitbox is virtually worthless. 9/10 a skat player will tank more shots than a centurion player just because most shots will hit plate or limbs. Against cent its almost impossible to miss the head and negate all your plate value plus gain a headshot multiplier. My biggest mistake was centurion

I use the mask of the mother demon, Termite chest sleek, and Mantis greaves, chance for poison, venom, bleed, and dust slow attack + dust guard if you ever fight termites or dust mites

broodmother helm, fire ant chest, mantis legs is what i used for max dps but the damage does scale off heavy once your in NG+4 and higher so at that point you can use whatever you really want (the dots do not scale with your dmg)

Another one i enjoyed was broodmother helm, termite chest, ladybug leggings to debuff enemy, heal more (with life steal)

I've been trying out using one piece of Broodmother, one piece of fire ant and one piece of mantis. It's alright but I think I prefer full Broodmother

Realistically sets arnt really good

You need to mix and match pieces with different buffs to be actually effective in anything past ng1

For bosses i use ladybug armor MAXED out for a boost in healing, I beat the IBM in it. But for other bugs in general i use the broodmother armor

Secret Service is best overall, but you need to grind SOOOO much gold, as well as scrip and modules for variations you actually want. Until you get this, you're better off just using whatever of the specific Legendary you want rather than seeking out the best of the best. If you don't want to listen to that, then Heavy Combat Armor would be the best outside of SS, so go for good variants of that.

Marine Armor is the best, second only to PA, according to loading screen tips ��

Secret Service armor is the best overall atm. Downside is you have to grind gold to obtain the plans. Then I would say till then combat armor since the mods are gained by scraping combat armor.

SS is the best.

Scout mods are expensive because they cannot be learned. Only purchased from modus.

CA is fine. Once you're around 300dr/er there is a lot of diminishing returns. Even if you got to 500dr it wouldn't be as good as PA for raw damage reduction, as PA has a flat 42% baked in as well as good dr/er/rad

So honestly get what you like. Legendary effects and mods are more important.

Heavy combat is the best matched set outside of ss

Heavy combat, heavy leather arms, heavy metal legs will give you the best overall stats of you don't mind a mixed set

I'd love to use the Plate 6 purely for the drip but its too damn hard to come across.

Really wish all gear was purchasable

Typically the M2 or the RPC, depending on what gun I'm running, and how many M2s I've got lol.

I have a few Phantoms but I haven't actually tried them yet. Maybe I'll change that soon just to see what it's like.

Nice name.

I run HP Lines key, TBO garage, and Ban Pa Elder room, SM OStrg for the black gear crates and the MSS/CSI/LRI crates. First week of reset all I could find was phantoms now all I find are plate 6s.

It’s all just RNG.

Rpc for tasks, where I'm not loot focus (like 5kg, but 3x3)

Sk-s + 6sh104 when I'm loot focused (similar weight total, but 4x4 inventory grids inside)

It just looks like rpc saved my life more times

Panties, then RPC. Both are easily available.

Absolutely, that's why it's good "purely for the drip"

I haven’t worn anything that isn’t 3++ between the phantom and plate 6 and I am kind of spoiled to the beating they take.

My priority for vest has been.

1. Phantom. 3++ front, side, and back plates. 12 slots.
2. Plate 6. Same as above but way heavier.
3. M2. Biggest of the 3+ vest
4. RPC. Smaller than M2 still 3+

I don’t wear anything else.

Level 6 vest with 1x Lead lined fabric & 2x refined exoskeletons, for Radiation, help you get in and out of Radiation Zone faster.

Have another vest with 2x Refined Tactical pouch and 1x Refined Steel plate for steady looting.

And a third vest with what the other guy said for general playing in a squad and looking to fight other teams.

Steel Front Armor with 1 Refined Penetration Plate and 2 Refined Reduce Damage Plates

Play that Phantom Robe istg its so good

Bright and shadow

bright robe i heard is the best before mythic

Bright robe or mythic level golden chest piece

Mythic golden

Common void robe

I hop between mythic gcp and mythic pc

Still mythic golden afaik, they nerfed it from its peak a while back but it’s still better than the other stuff. BR is probably second place