Is this Lame?

[DRO]

I have recently decided to give up on elemental armors. I have decided to stick with a neutral stormline. I picked the stormline because it is 11* so it must be pretty good, and it has 4 slots. I've done this for a couple reasons like not having to switch armors mid mission, (and possibly lose my headslot if i didn't have another 4 slot), I didn't like carrying 4 armors on me (i don't even like how clothes take up item slots), and I like that the neutral armor is decent against all elements (taking away the need for several armors). I mentioned this in another thread earlier and someone "lol @ neutral armors" ....implying that they suck. What do you think of my new decision? Is it lame? lol

[Kamiense]

Get elemental armors.

[Telina]

i believe stormline is a 10* armor. and its completely your preference. i like taking 300 damage from the buffed fire break mobs on my beast fortefighter. But its a pain to make 50% armor if your playing just for fun. it really doesn't matter unless you really care what people think about your character.

[NPCMook]

On 2008-01-19 17:18, Telina wrote:
But its a pain to make 50% armor if your playing just for fun.
If you are trying to make 50% armors you aren't just playing for fun...

There is no real Disadvantage, OR Benefit to wearing Neutral armor, you don't have a damage reduction, then again you also don't have a damage increase... so its a win/lose type of thing. Your call really do as you please...

[SATatami]

If you don't want to have to worry about switching armors, or tedious stuff like that, by all means, go green, or a low % ele armor of your fave color. Changing elements serves next to no purpose unless you have high % gear anyways.

[RegulusHikari]

Riddle me this. If I've heard so much that elemental % was nerfed, why is everyone still shitting themselves over a neutral armor?

IMHO, unless your armor is 30%+, I really wouldn't worry about it too much.

[DRO]

Oops stormline is 10*....but yeah, i know its really a matter of preference. Your opinions were not going to sway mine (unless there was some kind of ground breaking detail i did not think of). I was just interested in what everyone else thought. Thanks for the replies!

[Mikura]

Well, I don't think it's lame so much as...laziness? If you don't feel like switching armor all the time, neutral armor is fine. But I don't see how you do it. My FF and AT take a HUGE beating without the elemental defense backing them up so I can't imagine how many mates you'd burn through wearing neutral armor.

[Laranas]

I might switch to Neutral myself. I tend to wear 22%-ish lightning armors, and even against ground monsters I don't seem to take that much damage. Nor do I fight that many lightning mobs these days anyway, so I'll take the cheaper route and get plain-Jane neutral armor.

[SATatami]

stormline is gunner only, IIRC. So presumably, he's an FG. Meaning he's not in the fray like a FF or AT. So he doesn't really need the def.

[gryphonvii]

neutral armor is the human of armor

[DRO]

Yep, Im a cast Fihgunner/fortegunner

[steely]

the way i see it unless ur going have 4 armors of 30 %+ it wont make a huge difference. its also a good way to be cheap http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif thats what i do with my alt characters

[SStrikerR]

This is a pretty good idea.

[seph_monkey]

no, i always though that about nuetral armors but yea ppl just "lol" at me while there switching between there 7 diffrent armors
also i found this to be usefull during pvp because then they wont use just one element on you depending on your armor

[Tokagero]

i used to use neutral but now i just bring 2 decent % armors of the opposite element depending on the mission i'm doing
or if the mission doesn't have many monsters with different elements i just bring 1 armor of the element the mission has the most of
not too many missions have monsters with opposing elements http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_mad.gif except for this event mostly

[Silver_Wyrm]

elemental armors are superior to neutral...but...its not easy to stock up on S-rank ele armor, so if you make your first one neutral then make other elements as you find them it would make sense.

[SolRiver]

I make elemental armor base on what color it would fit my outfit...

[Darkly]

i just have 2 armours, one that matches my outfit, and the opposite element for when im fighting a mob thats the opposite to my first armour.

[Jasam]

I have two comletely unrelated elements for armour, neither of them are particulay high % though.

[SAtaarcoeny]

lol who said armors were nerfed it just seems that wat because of the wired amount df points we have applied to the att the monsters have .. but grab a 50% armor go to a 110 creature let it hit ur non elemental and u will take half of that damage within a 50 point range trust me i live for 50% (also get a legsless , 68% armor lol no damage)

hey is this my buddy dro that i havnt played with since i took a break from this game wtf msg me....

[Kylie]

I just carry two. I take the one in that area, and the opposite of that. So if I choose to go to another area and don't feel like going by my room, I just switch. Elemental % is nice, but it's not a huge difference to use one that's neutral.

[Fure_Rakune]

Originally when I made my first Stormline I wanted to go green with it, but at the last moment I felt the elemental percent would be through the roof!
Many hours later, my anticipation was rewarded with a 20% Fire Stormline. Not bad, so to remedy this I made another Stormline of the opposing element, Ice (which came out 10% so its basically neutral)
So with two stormlines of opposing elements, its like im wearing a neutral one!

[Laranas]

On 2008-01-20 05:38, SAtaarcoeny wrote:
lol who said armors were nerfed
I believe Sonic Team said it, actually.

[Powder Keg]

Nothing wrong with it, Green is the best color after all.

[Billy960]

Well I tend to solo a lot now so I really wanted to get a decent armor set. My main is a fT too so an fT going around with neutral armor? Yeah thats not such a good idea since even 1 hit will probably kill you. But for fG it is a good idea since you probably aren't getting hit that often. In fact my fG only has 1 10% armor that I use.

[Aviva]

nvm


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[stukasa]

One good thing about elemental armor: If you can cancel out the damage completely you'll be immune to status effects. I can zero out barta and megid damage from some enemies, though I should point out I'm a Newman fT. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[Weeaboolits]

I use neutral armor, I like my armor to block everything the same, also it matched the clothes I wore when I got it.

[Libram]

I don't have very strong armor, and that many different elements for that matter. The only character that has a full rainbow is Amelia, and without the elemental defense she'd be eating Scapes left and right when I decided to use my shotty.

[Anduril]

I wear a Neutral Hiragi-senba. Not so much for it not having any real elemental weakness, it's just because it was the cheapest Hiragi I could find... >_> <_<

[DRO]

Wow, I wasn't expecting all these responces, thanks. Anyways just to update the thread, im still using the neutral. I swithced to guntecher and my set up is like this:
Neutral Stormline
Sori / tech charge
solid / power s
tero / gaurd (lol when i got home i saw i was still using a mega rainbow)
suv


It has been working out pretty good for me, but the robot boss on the new mission PwNeD me. The boss fights are when I miss the elemental def the most.

[EngelBlut]

its an ok idea i still use dark armor more cuz im always on the hive

[Jainsea]

Yea. Ive been thinking of doing the same with a good 4 slot armor.
For my FF, but my FT, she needs all the help she can get so high%
armor for her http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif and I find myself carrying more armor then I care for due to this event atm -.- rghh! need more space Sega!! anyways it probally good idea for ranged types but not for Ft D:
If its working for you , more power to you then! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[Lineek]

JAINSEA, IYA BABES

anyways on topic:

Thats a good idea if you only want one armour, especialy with the price of decent kit.
Personally i carry two pieces of armour on me for my Newman fortfighter i always try to have one light one dark as on the that maps that have these they are normally the 1 main element with hardly anything else reducing switching. but this is because i buy my armour. if i got a good S rank armour board. id make it neautral to. for the increased success and the fact its expensive to buy the opposit element from when you need it.

[AZKlegend]

No, but isn't there a slot item that makes it protect to all elements 10%

[panzer_unit]

I'm making my Castest Line neutral. I usually wear an element that's un-opposed in an area so I get hit for non-elemental damage levels a lot anyway... the only thing I try and avoid is wearing wrong-element gear, 'cause that can result in some fast KO's.

I assume getting proper element stuff is more important for low-HP characters, where the extra damage reduction's necessary just to avoid getting wiped out on a bad critical or string of hits.

[SolomonGrundy]

some damage numbers:
grinning beta C with neutral stormline- 250 damage per bullet.

28% lightning stormline - 125 damage per bullet.

female newman AT, level 105