Armor & Schield after patch.

Hi all,

I've been playing starbound for a few hours and noticed that the dmg and armor value's still need tweaking.

but lets discuss armor for now.

When you start the game and are teleported down you wil receive about 16 dmg a hit from a ground monster (top side).
Oke so that dmg vs ur health bar is not bad. Then there are the birds witch hit you up to 70 dmg depending on the skill they use.
This is a little bit high in my opnion for ur starting planet.

Because of the crafting bug i made a iron bow (OP at the moment) and killed the ufo boss, crafted silver armor witch gives you 23 def (starting armor is 4 def). Note that silver armor can only be crafted after killing the ufo boss.
With my silver armor the ground mobs still hit me for 14 dmg. and the birds for 30 dmg depending on the skill. the bubble blast the birds use is bugged first hit in silver armor 14 dmg second hit 30-40 dmg.

Now lets get to the point of using a schield. while using a schield and ur starting armor the enemy hits u for about 14 dmg. so a decrease of 2 dmg points.

While using a schield with silver armor the mobs hit me for 12 dmg. Again a reduction of 2 dmg.

Now to take ur starting armor and the silver armor to tier 2 monsters.

Starting armor:
Ground monster 43 dmg
air monster 100 dmg (insta kill because lower max hp)
gun 34 dmg

Using schield
Ground monster 30 dmg
air monster 100 dmg (insta kill)
gun 5 dmg

Silver armor:
Ground monster 26 dmg
Air monster 73-100 dmg
gun 15 dmg

Using schield
Ground monster 19 dmg
air monster 53-83 dmg
gun 4 dmg

These are the value's ive been able to aquire.

The conclusion:
-Armor has more use then before but still needs fine tuning. (dont start the discusion of pre patch low mobs did one dmg with silver armor, this was because of the armor pen lvling style meaning they were lvl 1 and u were you armor lvl. And lvl difference would increase or decrease the dmg.

-Schields need more tweaking. Because the one i was using was the ceaftable one should be a lvl 15 schield with the current bug (or al schields should be the same, sadly i dont have this info). Didnt get a single dmg blocked notification.

I would like to hear onther opinions on this subject.

Thanks for reading,

Astico

 

They have become pretty useless.

 

Birds are way too powerful right now, but that could be due to having no elemental damage reduction. Either way, they'll get fixed eventually.

Shields definitely need to be looked into. As they are now, they're completely useless. Of course, someone came up with a great way to fix them.
http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/starbound-beta-shield-mechanic-revamp.46735

 

Yep shields are redundant now, might as well go for 2handed wpn

 

Weird

I was able to handle 2-3 bird hits last night. Dunno why everyone is whinning about OHOK birds

With the snow armor, I was able to withstand like 6 hits from ground monsters and 4-5 from birds