If you invest points in armor now, you won’t get legendary parts at all. While I had my light and heavy armor upgraded, after robbing 5 Savage Country I didn’t get a single part. Moreover, I collected more than 200 red bags and the same 0. Having dropped my armor skills, in 30 minutes of play I began to find from 2 to 8 parts. This is of course not like before 10-20, but it is quite enough to produce everything I need.
I think you should thoroughly review the drop rates of many items. For example, brass knuckles and automatic weapon parts drop in roughly the same quantities with the same perk levels, but the best brass knuckles only require 6 parts, while the best automatic weapon requires 18. And the situation with armor components is also unclear: armor parts and sewing kits drop aplenty even without armor skills. Does it make sense to increase their drop rates by leveling armor skills? I think increasing the magazine drop rate and the armor drop rate would be sufficient.
Is there really a need for more armor parts or sewing kits? I already have so many of each that it's never an issue. And I wouldn't want to reduce the drops of armor parts if you don't have an armor perk as you might struggle to be able to craft anything without an armor perk, and I don't see any reason to perk into armor for my games.
Yes, enough armor parts drop even without the skill. With the skill, I stopped picking them up because I didn't need them anymore. I still haven't used up the 5 stacks lying in a chest at home, even though I've made armor for other players.
With this skill, magazines drop quite frequently. But I can't agree that the skill is only useful for magazines. The light armor skill, while not by much, does increase its protection, which sometimes proves useful. And the heavy armor skill partially removes the movement penalty, so you stop moving at the speed of a stunned turtle. I can't agree that these are useless skills, although they are not critical either.
I wasn't saying the were useless. I just don't have any reason to perk into them. Most things I kill aren't close enough to hit me when using a spear unless I miss, so armor isn't too big of a problem for me. I also don't normally perk into any other damage mitigation perks, or only at the end game when I have run out of other things to spend points on. And I rarely put armor mods onto my armor. Of course, if I was on insane difficulty, that might be different. And I don't use heavy armor, so speed isn't really a factor. Besides, by the time I have real armor rather than primitive, I have at least a bike, so I'm only running inside POI for the most part, and I don't have to run far in those, so it's even less noticeable. But that's just me.
Perhaps with a spear you really rarely take damage. But with brass knuckles everything is somewhat different. If ordinary zombies often fall from a blow, then blue and orange ones are not so easily knocked down. That's why I'm trying to start leveling up my light armor skills early, which is what I usually wear. In addition, I dig a lot, and for this I wear miner armor. It is heavy armor and, accordingly, I also pump this class of armor.
Yes, there are definitely weapons you'd want armor perks with. I'm just saying that if you don't need or want them, you should not be prevented from crafting higher tier armor until so late in the game. I'm about ready to start a new game by the time I can make Q6 armor.
It's a mix of things; the mish-mash nature of the design. On one hand, they want classes, the Heavily Armored Fort Tank, punching through everything and the Lightly armored Sniper, creating distance with the speed advantage. Then they go ahead and introduce "remove heavy armor penalties in combat", "Light armor now has nearly the same armor as Heavy"; armor sets of all weights intended for rifle combat; and they separate the armor bonuses from classes.
They can certainly balance it as needed. Every other magazine drops often enough without perks. Only armor is different. If anything, I'd say that armor is unbalanced compared to every other magazine. If they say that you should not get Q6 armor until day 30+ on 2 hour days (so 60+ for default days) even if you are buying every magazine you find and are using nerd armor and intellect mastery to increase chances for double points when reading them, then so be it. But I have a hard time believing that's the intended outcome if you have no points in armor perks.
