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Do I still need my cerberus armor?

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Zarin:
Hello,
I've assembled a cerberus armor somewhat early in Ao100. Even before then, I created some steel lava boots. Later on, I found Lava Armor and, on levels 56 and 58, Inquisitor's Set (boots first, then armor). I'm playing a Bullet Dance Marine with maxed out SoAG (5) and SoB (5), with Triggerhappy still at 1. I'm going to work on Tough as Nails and Badass next. I also have some assault nuclear plasma rifle, which also packs quite a punch, though not nearly as much as my combat pistol (PPT - why did I decline to assemble an energy pistol I honestly can't say) and a speedloader pistol.

The question is: do I really need that cerberus armor anymore? It's a regular one, so no melee, bullet and shrapnel resistance, and it's the only one needing armor shards.

Any opinions are welcome.

Aki:
The inquisitor's set saves you from Cyberdemons, Viles, Revs, lava elementals and mancubi, just off the top of my head. That leaves you with Shamblers, Bruiser brothers, and arachnotrons - everything else should be trivial by that stage.

The shamblers and bruiser brothers will deal less average damage but more maximum damage to the inquisitor's set. I'm too lazy to do the maths on the arachnotrons, but i'm fairly certain just looking at the numbers that the Cerberus should be better against them unless the halving of armor takes malek's down to 2 instead of 1.

If you're confident enough to take on those 3 enemies without your Cerberus, then you should be right without it.

Zarin:
Thanks for the advice!

Arachnotrons should be handled by Lava Armor well enough, and, with lava boots, I have plenty of opportunities to repair the armor :). This leaves acid as the only serious element. I do kill Bruiser Brothers in 2-3 volleys unless they manage to wear something big like Cybernetic Armor (man, is it common in my run!). I'm starting to get Nightmare enemies, up to cacodemons now, but they, too, die quickly enough.

My main concern is, of course, ammo (duh!), so I don't want to carry more extra items than necessary. I'm even considering dropping one or two of my 4 large med-kits, as I haven't used one in ages.

Eyro:
Then you're dropped into a complex filled with nightmare Arachnotrons.

LuckyDee:

--- Quote from: Zarin on October 03, 2013, 07:16 ---I'm even considering dropping one or two of my 4 large med-kits, as I haven't used one in ages.
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Don't know what difficulty you're on, but on HNTR you should be find with only 2, if you play at least moderately carefully.


--- Quote from: Eyro on October 03, 2013, 13:39 ---Then you're dropped into a complex filled with nightmare Arachnotrons.

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...maybe three...

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