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Is pure PSI Caster viable?
Eldakar:
I wonder.. would pure caster in metal armor work?
LightningMonk:
It can work if you want to go through the trouble. I did do a heavy armor penalty pure caster playthrough once and was okay, not too fun. I feel like Anti-Rifle Tactical Vest are easier to tank with than metal armor in general situations.Especially with decent a Blast Cloth which can cover that specific weakness. Mobility would suck compared to a metal sloping crafted metal armor.
Eldakar:
Laminated Fabric (10% penality) + Anti-rifle Vest (50% penality) + Kevlar cloth (10% penality), thats 70%. Around the time you gather all components you can make a tactical vest your DT will end up around 15 (with ballistics feat it will be 18, with balcava and boots thats another 4 so 22). 22 x 600% for total DT of 132 . Quite good but penality will be 70%. And that DT bonus works only vs bullets, meele monsters will still hack you into pieces.
player1:
As a caster I prefer being able to ambush enemies.
Thus, my stealth needs to be good enough that enemies do not instantly detect me.
This is difficult with Anti-rifle vests. Even with Nimble and just insulated or sturdy vest, that is 45% penalty, which is can often be huge enough to not be able to pull ambushes, even with Black Cloth to add stealth.
They do still have their uses. If is is prolonged battle I would rather be unable to set up ambush and be better protected. Ambushes are only good against small groups of enemies anyway...
Interesting enough, high quality (not reinforced) Super Steel Armor made with Armor Sloping and with Nimble feat is pretty decent for ambushes (14% armor penalty, with Nimble). It is not best against bullets, but is all around decent against all types of mechanical damage (snipers, crossbows, melee...), so you will not have general weakness against specific type of enemies.
Thus my caster has 3 armors. The Super Steel Armor for ambushes, infused leather mutated dog armor for full stealth and acid resistance and anti-rifle vest for heavy bullet fighting.
Eldakar:
You want to ambush them for Tranquility bonus? It will be gone in next round when they hit you.
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