High end gear to aim for?

[Bobo]

(...) And actually you can also trade health for a hit or two on a bot. (...)

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

I understood the above that if you are strongly armoured you can afford the risk of getting hit if you engage agresively. The stronger the armour the more you can risk to get hit without being killled.