High end gear to aim for?

[LordChaos]

the explosives etc.. There are so many things that will get through your shield and harm you. And actually you can also trade health for a hit or two on a bot. 

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+ Updated.

wait does that mean that a better armor protects against thors/siegemasters fire?

and what do you mean by trading health? do RGs get a bit of Health when killing a bot?

I believe the fire is raw (true) damage, but it depends of your ironflesh if you want to speak of total % as we have more HP.. (obviously). Same for Thor, but I was speaking about the fact of receiving damage through shield, when being directly being hit at . 

As for trading for health, no you don't get HP when you kill a bot, but imagine that you are taking an aggro of 5-6, one of them is hitting you, you don't deal with it because he is behind you and you expect the ranged to deal with it or a slasher. Saddly, it doesn't happen often, which could get you killed. Yup, sad story. So the fact of taking a couple of hits for the "greater" good can happen often, such as fighting a wraith, sometimes you can't fight it back, and that also does depends of your armor. Unless it does only overhead then you're screwed lol. There are so many types of examples. Armor is essential for RG and weight isn't relevant. But attack speed does I believe at least for RG. 

The other classes are clearly "weight dependent" on the contrary and it is hard to afford with not that much money. (Zwei & Legio). -> For the output damage.