Legendary Mech Armor

[quigonquinn0]

I searched, but somehow didn't come up with anything, which kinda makes me feel like this should be more obvious. but...

What's the best way to get legendary mech armor?
Most items you can craft by making or upcycling their basic ingredients to legendary first. But, mech armor itself and 3/5 of its ingredients require/is holium plates, which can't be crafted at quality. Which then leads you to being stuck just making the armor and upcycling it over and over and over. Which also means making all the ingredients for it over and over and over (like power armor mk2), which is so inefficient.

What am I missing?

[mmmPI]

There isn't a best way, it is too simplistic of a definition because there are may ways to consider what is more valuable, some players will consider the best is the fastest, others the way that uses the least amount of ressources , other will consider the best the way that doesn't require extra infrastructure dedicated to obtain it and so on.

[quigonquinn0]

I'm thinking fastest at this point. I'm at late game, trying to get the achievement (using rare mech armor worked just fine). So, resource use is of minimal concern. I'm just sick of sitting here watching my recyclers churn lol

[mmmPI]

The fastest way i think would be to use legendary material and craft 1 armor if you have the legendary materials, if not try to craft rare or epic armor receipe from rare or epic material, using quality module, and recycle the armor when it's not legendary.

[quigonquinn0]

use legendary material and craft 1 armor if you have the legendary materials

normally I would but

mech armor itself and 3/5 of its ingredients require/is holium plates, which can't be crafted at quality.

unless I'm missing something?

[mmmPI]

mech armor itself and 3/5 of its ingredients require/is holium plates, which can't be crafted at quality.

unless I'm missing something?

You can put quality module in the plant that makes the holmium plate ?

[SirSmuggler]

You can recycle holmium plates in to homlium plates. So slap quality modules in the recycler and feed it holmium plates.

[wobbycarly]

You can recycle holmium plates in to homlium plates. So slap quality modules in the recycler and feed it holmium plates.

This.

[quigonquinn0]

oh boy jolly do I feel dumb

thanks!!

[NineNine]

You can also just make regular mech armors, recycle them and re-assemble until you get Legendary. That's how I do it. I think it's a heck of a lot easier than having to deal with making all of the quality individual parts.

[quigonquinn0]

You can also just make regular mech armors, recycle them and re-assemble until you get Legendary. That's how I do it. I think it's a heck of a lot easier than having to deal with making all of the quality individual parts.

yea, I've been doing that, but it takes forever. Especially having to craft hundreds and hundreds of power armor mk2.

[NineNine]

You can also just make regular mech armors, recycle them and re-assemble until you get Legendary. That's how I do it. I think it's a heck of a lot easier than having to deal with making all of the quality individual parts.

yea, I've been doing that, but it takes forever. Especially having to craft hundreds and hundreds of power armor mk2.

That's the whole point! That's the game! Scale up your factory so it doesn't take forever!

[quigonquinn0]

true, true. I'm just far end-game and just going for achievements before I start a new save. So I don't wanna wait around forever. In hindsight, I should've been working towards legendary mech armor for a long time, but I was just content with rare lol

[mmmPI]

If you have access to rare material already it's probably easier and faster to just try and craft the legendary armor from rare material and recycle the armor when it's not. This allow a single recycler to work on much more holmium plate than if you try to upcycle plate individually.

Another "better" way than trying to upscale the plate directly would be to try and craft electromagnetic plant, and recycle them, because you have a productvity bonus when making them, and still allow a single recycler to work on more holmium plate.