Starfield's BEST & WORST Legendary Armor Effects | Complete Analysis

What's are your favourite armor effects in Starfield? What do you think is the worst?

What about the one punch? You can buy the power beat in the key. But I’ve had it spawn on a legendary gun once in 12 runs too.

I think you really undersell Assisted Carry. It basically allows you to move at normal(run) speed while overencumbered for four times as long, meaning you can carry all the loot you get from a PoI without being restricted in exploration and combat. I generally don't find myself sprinting very often while clearing out a location, so this effect gives me a lot of uptime. Paired with personal atmosphere, it basically lets you carry as much as you want, indefinitely. If only there was a way to shut up your companion's constant griping about it.

3x bolstering with a cornered tanto knife playthrough. You just know someone is going to do that 😂

Your vigorous analysis is so appreciated. Thank you so much 👍

I’ve still never used an autoattempt on lockpicking
Lvl47

You must really be cooking rn

I just found Sentinel on the Mantis spacesuit, took a screenshot so can confirm it will at least possibly roll on other suits besides just the UC Vanguard one

This really explains why I don't see the point of trying to farm legendary equipment. With the effects being random, most of what you get tends to be total crap.

I'm honestly surprised this is the first video I've seen mentioning the chameleon stacking effect. Funny to me that you only mentioned the combat effects, as I exclusively keep 2 chameleon items on every character to steal things in plain sight. It's hilarious cleaning out entire store displays in broad daylight

Wait.. are you the guy that said that the cutter with max laser skills has the highest dps of any weapon in the game? Bogus dude. I've never played on anything less than very hard, and maybe you made that disclaimer, but past a certain level, it's trash. It does dmg and it does tick with the proc active, but highest dps? My gosh man... not even close. Some animals/people die quickly to it up to a certain low level, but there's a threshold that you run face first in to and it's 100% NOT viable. I'm not giving the alternative, because I want people to try it out for themselves. You'll never have been more disappointed in all your playthroughs. I even STARTED A NEW CHARACTER with a sole focus on the playstyle and man.... it's utter trash. This crits and ticks are wwwaaayyy too tiny to make a dent on most creatures.

Maybe you are deep into your next video, perhaps about ship building parts and ranking which ones are great and how to get them... if you do, please also test Comspike Module & Conduction Grid. I hear they do not stack, which is too bad if that's the case (but you can have more than one being you can get them from Jasmine at the Key).

I been trying to get another chameleon gear for ever. Only got on one suit

respect for all that work. thanks for the video

Found sentinel on a few space suits. Haven't seen it on packs or helmets yet though

The alien artifact power personal atmosphere makes any effect that boost 02 kinda usless due you get unlimited 02 for a shot time at the 1st lv

I like 3 pieces of Bolstering. I always go for the best base stats with bolstering and pump it up on the armor table.

Normally I don't like watching these types of videos. I prefer to figure things out myself. But with how expansive games are nowadays, and how extremely likely they are NOT to work the way they're supposed to, I got to say I very much appreciate people like you putting in the effort for gamers like us. Great videos!! Much appreciation!!

Best Starfield guides out there, thank you mister mumble

Great work

In all my tests the "Assisted Carry" mod also improved the O2 while sprinting. Not by 75% but by ~50%.

This is very quickly becoming my favorite channel for Starfield information and entertainment. Still learning a few things, and one of the hardest ones for me personally is learning how to actually stealth/ sneak well or to not get caught. I was really intrigued about how the scaling for Chameleon works along with the perk that gives you lesser-Chameleon. Is there by chance a way/ possibility to making an in-depth and informative video on sneaking/ stealth and how to best make it work? I always seem to get caught, despite having the perk dumps into it

Spoiler alert, it's a single player game so loot doesn't matter

How is this game this bad lol

I'm trying to piece together which armor is better... I have a suit that is refined with 86/78/80 and Combat Vet perk. I'm looking at another suit that is Advanced with 115/123/120 but no perks. My understanding from my research thus far is that each armor point =0.1% damage resistance so the 86 would be 8.6% Physical Resistance + 15% from Combat Vet vs 11.5% physical from the new gear. Is this correct?
* I understand combat vet only applies against humanoid attackers...

If you completely nullify fall damage with acrobat, you won't get your npc saying something when you get damage from fall like ouu you need a moment to walk that off ? lol

This changes everything for rerolling Mantis for some people. I remember people trying to triple roll mirrored or fastened types. Honestly 90% of the perks really don't feel worth it except double or triple -15% ones

There is no "godly" gear in this game. I have every weapon and every peice of armor known to excist and its all the same shit at my level. Most mobs go down in with 1-2 shots. As far as what you wear.. Same thing... I wear the Legendary UC gear I got when I did the Xeno mission. Havent changed it since, havent noticed a difference.

THIS was agreat vid on these poorly described armor perks. THANKS!

My first playrhrough i got sentinel on my Mantis Suit 🤘

Awesome video. Always fun to see why my initial weapon choice is the worst possible choice, again :) I went with tier 3 in pistols and keep finding great non-pistol weapons that make my pistol damage look tame.

Looking forward to a good video on ship weapons.
The testing I have done so far makes me think they made ship weapon stats and level requirements with a moving dart board. What we need to know about missiles is completely opaque. Still useful amazingly :)

When they introduce a survival mode (it feels inevitable) I really hope they explain environmental damage, damage protection and depletion better. I know it would be great for a number of skills as you mentioned. It could be a boon to any oxygen or weight related effects as well. That said their vision of carrying a bunch of space suits seems frustrating. I really hope they revamp things a little to let you tweak environmental resistances on suits or perhaps shift the stats to reduce what would be needed to be kept/carried. I'm actually really looking forward to a good survival mode since this game feels more perfect for it than previous many BGS RPGs but I hope they spend some care on it and don't rush out something half-baked.

Would love to see you do a video on the powers, what they all do, if they're worth using and how leveling them up effects them

I mod my own armor through the Amod command.. You can change the gear's quality and it's effects. With Amod you can literally take a level 1 starter weapon/armor and change it into the best advanced legendary version of the item the game. There are several lists online with all the codes or you can just use the console help command to find them. This probably would've saved you TONS of time. Open console, target item, then put in the code for desired effects using the Amod command and it's console ID . You can literally make any piece of gear you want with what ever effects you want on them.. Example if you want an Advanced Extended Clip, Rapid, Explosive Magshear, open the console target the Magshear and type the 4 commands below..

Amod 28F445 (Superior Quality Level 60+)
Amod FFA3B (Extended Clip)
Amod FEA04 (Rapid)
Amod FA8D6 (Explosive)

And you got yourself probably the most devastating gun in the game, no need to do the insane case spawn trick. You can spawn the weapon straight out too but then you have to mod it afterwards. You can also add attachments to guns and armor this way too, but with certain things like scopes it locks it permanently, meaning the option will be locked out if you go to a bench and decide to swap or upgrade it from there..

Personally, a set of chameleon and any carrying capacity effects is all I need. I might even say that I only need a set of chameleon,pair it with sneak dmg multipliers then you're good to go lol

Seems you missed some effects I just wanted to point out.

I have a maelstrom that has two effects you didn't even mention. If I find any more I'll just post them to this thread for you if you decide to make another video. Also have another weapon you missed two effects for.
#1 Skip shot
#2 poison
#3 rapid fire
#4 frenzy (I think you missed this one I'm not positive)

Bolstering is actually better the MORE DR you have, not less. This is because DR actually gives accelerating return.

Imagine you have 1000 HP and get hit with an attack that does 100 base damage and you have 0 DR. If you then add 100 DR you go from taking 100 damage to taking 90, which means you go from being killed in 10 hits to being killed in 12 hits.

But if you have 700 DR and add another 100 then you go from taking 30 damage to taking 20 damage. This means you go from dying in 34 hits to dying in 50 hits!

I'll be honest with you. I don't pay any attention to attributes on armor except for carrying capacity. The only attributes I look for would be placed weapons.

Outstanding video, very useful. But didn't understand your comment that PeaceMaker gets overwritten by lower tier effects.

Great and useful content!! Thanks for this. Sentinel is my fav, because I like to stand in the open, tank and destroy. LOL

Beautiful man. Thank you so much for your hard work. You have answered so many of the questions I've had about this game. I have a request, can you do a video on weapon damage scaling? What I mean is the raw number on the weapon and how or why those numbers increase during your playthrough. I have killed level 100 and level 60 guys and they seem to drop the same weapons with same damage numbers, as an example during my playthrough on ng+10 the A99 has gone from 40-46 base damage. But yet when I watch others videos I see guns with way higher damage numbers. Is it tied to the main quest? Is it tied to the UC Vanguard quest line? And yes I under the difference between the base and advanced but I'm talking about just the base a99 and all other base guns.
Is it skill tree perks increasing the numbers? I hope this makes sense.

When you’re watching a semi-serious video… and all the sudden he says “you have to be touching tips…”. Yep, my drink almost sprayed.

You missed the legendary effect shattering

Fellow kleptomaniacs, my tip for you is to make personal atmosphere star power you best friend. While active, it allows you to sprint and boost freely etc as though you were carrying nothing at all. Recharges quickly enough, really helps when trying to get within range of your ship after a loot run

Seen Sentinel on the Mantis gear while farming the stats from save scum.

As someone who loots EVERY single item, i find the Assisted Carry effect to be one of my faves. Enjoyed the video and agree with most of your other effect reviews though.

As far as Sentinel goes, i was able to get a Mantis suit with the sentinel effect via the mannequin farming savescum tactic.

In terms of a reliable method, are you aware that the mantis suit set is able to be reloaded infinitely to farm alternate effects?