Head or body gear and set bonuses

[maxwell_winters]

I find it head-scratching that 2 updates in a row new head and body armor have the exactly same stats despite the body armor being more expensive to craft. However, the game always valued the head gear much higher. Even the Football Helmet is more expensive than the Log Suit. And the reason behind it was very clear. Body armor severely limits what else you can wear, namely you usually want a mag or a backpack. There aren't any speed-boosting or storage slots for your head, so the best course of action is head armor + backpack/mag. 

It seems like the devs just copied proportions of the thulecite set but the suit and crown are not equal in stats. The suit has 50% more durability and sanity regen which makes more expensive cost justified. This is not the case for the Dreadstone and Brightshade sets, where not only do they have equal stats but the less desirable piece is more expensive.

These sets have bonuses for equipping both items. It's nice and all but let's be real, there aren't a lot of scenarios where you'd be wearing both pieces at once because again, you're sacrificing a slot of your mag or backpack.

I think either the crafting cost for body gear should be lowered or the gear should be buffed. Give it more durability or absorption. Set bonuses shouldn't be the only reason to craft them.

[Gashzer]

Dreadstone armour set has become my meta armour to have at all times.  I disagree, the set bonuse are 100% worth making/using the body slot armour. And if you want to make both pieces you need to save 2 uses of a construction amulet anyway so the slightly increased bodyslot cost doesnt matter.

If anything having the bodyslot piece for both brightshade and dreadstone armour more expensive allows for better resource duping with green staff/amulet if you only want to craft their helm pieces for a team of players or whatever.

Also you definitely underestimate the power of the set bonuses, atleast for the dreadstone set, wearing both armours halfs the durability damage that both armours take, so this results in your regen effects being atleast doubled in effectiveness for both armours. PLUS then the set bonus of faster regen when wearing both pretty much doubles the effectiveness of regen again!!  That means the regen effect is four times more powerful when wearing both over wearing only one piece.

Dreadstone armours becomes infinite durability when wearing the set. I never even come close to breaking them during fighting bosses.. the regen effect is sooooo strong its actually crazy good!

I have become a non-backpacker recently (finally started ditching carrying flint/grass/twigs with me after obtaining ruins gear like pick/axe and mag saving me space so i dont need a backpack lol, its so awesome you should try it). So the flexibilty of using the bodyslot armour with a beefalo hat/eyebrella is very handy for fighting in winter/spring. Bodyslot armour gets a bad rep for no reason.

[BB Marioni]

I've recently started to rely less on using a backpack and trying to manage my inventory slots better. I find it more comfortable as I could experiment using other stuff in the body slot, as well as wearing weather gear on the head while having body armor.

[Yuuko]

2 hours ago, Gashzer said:

I have become a non-backpacker recently (finally started ditching carrying flint/grass/twigs with me after obtaining ruins gear like pick/axe and mag saving me space so i dont need a backpack lol, its so awesome you should try it). So the flexibilty of using the bodyslot armour with a beefalo hat/eyebrella is very handy for fighting in winter/spring. Bodyslot armour gets a bad rep for no reason.

I've been on this trip lately too.  For me it was the magiluminescence.  I had been playing Warly and rushing beef for a while but eventually got off that kick and back to ruins rushing (I'm not comfortable going ruins taming beef.)  At first it was the speed boost allowing me to explore the topside quicker after a ruins rush (coming from beef to just walking felt too slow lol,) but as I used it I found it to be a very convenient light source.  I can easily work or fight through the night, or wear it with my cane for double speed boost.  Nightmare fuel is so easy to farm that my stack grows even while using magi as my primary light source.

Of course leaving my backpack behind at night took that item off the table, so I started using body armor more and found it really beneficial too.  Head armor is still good, but each situation is different.  In the ruins I really like body armor b/c I can just keep moggles on to be more aware of my surroundings.  For cold / heat / rain I use my head slot, so being used to the body slot made these seasons more comfortable.  The eyeball hat and shield are a lot more comfortable if you have body armor too - split that durability more ways.  It makes the armor go a lot further, and its less likely I'll accidentally break them.

I haven't used the dread or brightstone equips yet, but you make the set bonuses sound pretty good.  I'll have to try those out soon!

tbh at this point I think backpacks are a bit overrated XD  Obviously they are good in some situations too, but half of its inventory was wasted on junk I really didn't need to carry with me anyway.  Its really funny the timing too b/c for all the years I have played this game I had never had a Krampus sack drop but in 2 recent worlds we got one and most of the time it just sits in base b/c we're all using other chest pieces now lol