Gothic Armor

**Passive**

N/A

## In-game Description

*Ancient medieval plate armor, heavy as hell and just as protective as it looks. While it might not be terribly easy to move in, you can't dismiss it's defensive power. A downside of this armor is that it degrades quickly under continuous assault.*

### Set Bonus : Gothic Arms

*The gauntlets of the gothic armor are quite heavy and spiked, allowing you to throw devastating punches.*

## Tactical Analysis

The gothic armor is a piece of Exotic class armor. It has impressive stats, boasting maximum percentage of Protection allowed by the game and excellent level of resistances to Melee and Bullet damage. It also has very high durability points at 200, twice higher than any usual, destructible armors in the game.

Aside from having not active or passive ability, the gothic armor also has a few flaws. First, it is heavy and will hinder the movement speed and jumping power of the player a bit, but still noticable. Secondly, this armor degrades very fast because it can absorb so much damage and any damage absorbed by the armor will be calculate into durability degradation, thus making it's high durability more of a gameplay fix to make the armor works, rather than a bonus.

When worn with **Gothic Boots,** The player will recieve a Set Bonus called **Gothic Arms**, their Fist weaponwill be decorated with a pair of spiked gauntlet along with a massive increase in punching damage. This fist bonus damage stacks with the **Berserk Pack**.

The gothic armor is a bulky piece of armor for players that focus on the tanking damage and nothing else. It can be found quite unusually frequent and early into the game even on the hardest difficulties, allowing the player to survive early hordes while having low tier weapons. Unfortunately due to gameplay mechanic, the gothic armor suffers and break down very easily, making **Onyx Modpack** absolutelynecessary for any player that plans to stick with it for a long run. An **onyxed gothic grmor**, without any hindrance in durability, remains a solid choice of protection until very late into the game, where Unique armors are starting to appears. The **Nuclear Powerarmor** would be considered a direct upgrade for a gothic armor. A full set of gothic armor however, is a very different beast. The set bonus it grants equals having a berserk pack already active at the start of the map, upon actually getting a berserk pack, the player's fists will outdamage any weapon they probably has at that point, making it one of the best armor for monk run.

## Trivia

* Gothic Armor refers to a style of plate armor developed by the Holy Roman Empire during 15th century, Unlike the gothic armors in the game, their real-life variant cannot stops modern bullets.
* Installing an **Onyx Modpack** into a gothic armor causes a dractic changes, turning the armor black, lengthen the horns on the helmet and decorate both shoulder pauldrons with large skulls
* Equip a full set of gothic armor causes the player's punches to generate faint shockwave effect on hit akin to the kick blasts generate by the **Shockwave Boots****.** However this seems to be purely cosmetic as there is no increase in range.