Fallout New Vegas - Light Armor Tier List

I love the assassin suit, paired with the 1st recon beret and a pair of sunglasses, stealth type character I sorta feel like Solid Snake lol

poison resistance is a great stat for a melee build. since poison ignores all our other tanky perks.

It's a very effective strategy to head to Lonesome Road early and grab the items in the Hopeville Bunker. You can avoid all combat if you're quick and get some great items. Plus having ED-E able to repair your weapon for free once a day is amazing to get early and makes the trip worth it just for that. The Marked Scout armour is nice early on as well, so it's typically my low level go-to choice.

The one of the radioactive places where the radiation suit is completely useless is vault 34 for that place a suit of T51 B

Early game I like to use the
Basic leather armour until I get a set of reinforced leather armour but usually by the time my character is level 14 I use T45 d power armour and I also usually build my character for using power armour by putting 7 points into agility which counteracts the minus 2 to agility from T45 d although the medium armours look good I find that they always wear out at the wrong time and are expensive to fix because if you cant find another peice to fix it you have to buy one usually from the gun runners and that can cost a few thousand caps

Great Khan Armor
'Theyre reallly not that Great' :D

for radiation i use the spacesuit (+40 rad res) and I can wear a helmet/mask and ulyses mask if needed I add rad x

where's the stealth suit? I loved it cause it talks

Explorer's gear is S tier on aesthetics alone.

Where is the Wasteland Outfit and other Powder Ganger outfits?

The advanced radiation suit is rendered totally useless if you have done the lonesome road, ulysses mask has 50 rad resist..... Then top that off with some power armor and you are now a tank with a shitload of rad resist

Joshua Ghram's armor is my favorite just cause The Burned Man exists. That's all.

Chained prostitute armour. S Tier. No questions asked.

I can't believe radiation armor is better than other armors lol

Caesar's armor is D tier in my opinion just because obtaining it requires you killing Caesar, meaning that Caesar's Legion will hate you, and you can't wear it around any NCR. The benefit of disguing you as Legion doesn't really help you either, as Legion assassins will still attack you and there isn't much to do with Caesar's Legion that isn't the main quest.

Gecko backed reinforced leather armor is my absolute favorite, it has the same defense as regular combat armor, is very strong against cazadores, fire weapons, and has decent rad resistance, and is very durable. It fits the road warrior aesthetic perfectly, and does what armor is supposed to do; it keeps you alive.

I wish i could wear Joshua's armor and the Courier Duster together. Seen some badass art drawn of the Courier wearing the Duster over Joshua's armor

I can see why light armor is very popular. Not because of the perks like Light Touch, but because there are so many light armors in Fallout: New Vegas.

I played Fallout New Vegas for so long and I still haven't found all of the armors or weapons and whatnot so this game can still surprise you

My prefered armor setup EVERY time is: Eulogy Jones's hat, Lucky Shades, Viva Las Vegas, and a cigar in my mouth (from a mod) best armor in the game imo

Hey Ron question. What if you complete lonesome road as an idolized courier by all of the strip , ncr , and legion?

You can kill Caleb mcaffery and take his duster. 6 DT and +1CHR and +5 Guns. Great early game

Why on earth would a rad suit be that high?
There are only two places in NV with rads that aren't avoidable, the one town and a small section in lonesome road.

I use the dead horse stalker armor as my grognak build in nv Ik it doesn’t affect melee but just aesthetically it fits for me

Wish you could gecko back more styles of armor

another thing the spacesuit has going for it is you can still wear a helmet and shades while having the same rad resist as the advanced suit

Great khan simple armor should go higher simply for being stashed along chances knife and that fact you can get it 37 secs after leaving doc Mitchell's house lol.

In my current playthru I gave joshua graham's armor and the 1st recon cap and Raoul goes absolutely insane with the medicine stick and mysterious magnum especially after I got raoul upgraded thru his quest.

No sherif outfit? Been rocking it to level 10 so far

Light armor is KING in this game, and it isn’t even close. Although I do like quite a few of the medium armors. The only heavy armor I’d consider using aside from power armor would probably be the gecko backed reinforced metal armor, and even then I’d prefer the leather armor over the metal.

Gladiator armor unironically the goat it’s a quest item and you can keep it forever if you don’t care about the fights in the little gladiator arena in the fort so you can keep the armor for the entire game if you just walk backwards and get out before the gate closes

Light and medium armor is the way to go if you can’t manage your carry weight sufficiently for heavy armor like power armor. I’ve found medium armor to be the most useful even in late game.

was ncr armor not Medium?

I've been rocking the Space Suit since I picked it up. Great DT to weight ratio(especially when you add the helmet, which has 4 DT itself).

The +40 rad resist is awesome for areas like Vault 34, and it has a really unique look(sunglasses under the bowl!).

I just hit lvl 20, so I'll probably be replacing it soon, but it has been a great early-mid game item for me.

it's always been devastating to me that there's no really great cowboy aesthetic armor in fnv unless you mod it in

Armoured jumpsuit should be higher because you start the game with it

Vault 34 security armor is REALLY good mostly because it's from the base game, you can immediately run over to Vault 34 and yoink it to start off your build if you wanted.

Poison resist is pointless in old world blues since u get poison immunity via heartless

Standing high above S tier laughing at all the light, medium, and heavy armors is the Naughty Nightwear.
In New Vegas, luck and speech are the most powerful abilities.
If you kill every enemy from stealth, then it doesn't matter what your DT is.

Personally for my current build on my playthrough of FNV I think I'm just going Light armor since my character is Guns/Explosives/Sneak. Mainly laying traps and picking off what ever is left from a distance

The Assassin Suit is my favorite, even without running a sneak build because it has really nice DT for light armor, which means you can still get all the extra bonuses from perks for light armor, including the speed bonus. The stealth buff is also nice even if you aren't running a stealth build, just to get those first shot crits off in an engagement, or avoid a nasty fight. I also just think it's the coolest looking. Never liked the Chinese stealth armor's look much, honestly. It always reminded me too much of a bug, and it has too many internal bits showing. It fits what it's supposed to be, but I'm just not a fan. Assassin Suit looks a lot cleaner, and I even prefer it over the Mk. II.

Space suit carries so hard the whole game, especially in OWB

Say, would you ever do reviews of Fallout 3 gear relating to TTW?

Light Armor Melee is fun especially with the movement speed increase both from just light armor itself and the travel light perk.

New vegas and skyrim definitely did armors the best. The 2 best examples of
Different armors fit different builds, not...

Start at light and work to heavy

Thanks.

You can get caesars armor without killing him

If you dont have enough medicine skill and have the medical supplies you still can operate him, thought u need high speak skill to convince luscius

I mean you theorically kill him but, you don't get any bad reputation for it

Without jury rigging the gecko reinforced leather is my favorite light armor. Nice overall and I can repair it easily.

On the Merc armour, I hear you and agree with everything you said, but the unmatched early game drip of the Merc Troublemaker outfit and the Desperado cowboy hat makes it worth it for me 😅