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Best gear in Eclipse Phase?

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clockworkjoe clockworkjoe's picture
Best gear in Eclipse Phase?
Let's talk about the best gear in EP. What are your personal favorites? best bang for the buck? my picks: Kinetic weapons in general - cheap and versatile with differing ammo types. My character uses a heavy pistol with accu-hollow points on full auto with great success. Medicines - healing nanoware that should be mandatory for all PCs. Mental Speed - think faster and +3 initiative bonus Neutrachem - cheap and safe method of getting +1 speed MRDR - best combat drug and pretty cheap too. Chameleon Cloak - cheap way to boost infiltration Armor mods - GET ALL OF THE CHEAP ONES - turn smart vac clothing into 23/19 armor for a few thousand credits. Second Skin and Smart skin - stacks with other armor Micograv shoes - you know you'll be in a room that suffers explosive decompression - make sure you have magnets on your boots. Nano detectors and a guardian nanohive - disassembler nanoswarms are hard to kill. Be prepared. Panopticon has some good software - there's a kinesics skillsoft of 40 that only costs 1000 credits plus 2 AIs that only cost 1000 each - technician and sensor AI have a ton of skills each that can help round out a character. Load them in a ghost rider module or in cheap robot bodies as helpers.
Yerameyahu Yerameyahu's picture
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The simpler method is to list everything in all the books that costs < High; buy *all* of them. Then add a handful of the High implants, and maybe one or two Expensive. :) The game doesn't encourage moderation with anything below High.
Re-Laborat Re-Laborat's picture
Re: Best gear in Eclipse Phase?
I find a 36-toother with a 1.5" pitch diameter and a diametral pitch of 24 works pretty well in Eclipse Phase.
Myrmidont Myrmidont's picture
Re: Best gear in Eclipse Phase?
RAW, a Crasher truck. All those CMs in a nice portable base. Definitely agree the smartfab vacsuit (with mods) is the way to go for armour, unless you want to fork out for the Crasher suit right off the bat. The survival belt and Tacnet software are also some of the better buys. For snooping duties, an explorernaut is one of the best stock bots, unless you want to go undetected.
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thelabmonkey thelabmonkey's picture
Re: Best gear in Eclipse Phase?
Aside from what's been mentioned, there's no reason any vaguely adventure oriented character should be without enhanced smell, hearing, vision + T/X/UV Ray emitters and eelware.