Armor cutoffs and purchases

[Lumi]

So my giant warrior is 19 now, and wearing a set of vanilla 4x AsG 15.



Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 150 50
Combat Maneuvers...................| 142 42
Polearm Weapons....................| 142 42
Multi Opponent Combat..............| 142 42
Physical Fitness...................| 146 46
Dodging............................| 96 22
Perception.........................| 96 22
Training Points: 0 Phy 121 Mnt (168 Mnt converted to Phy)


What armor cutoffs should I aim for? When is it worth dropping significant money on an upgrade? Should I try to get padded hauberk? Padded MBP? Wait until I'm in full plate to go for padding?

Should I bump Armor Use up to 3x immediately? I'm about to join GoS and plan to berserk in Warcamps. I have a 4x nagi with rebalance flares, which will be eligible for the first sweep flare in 4 more levels (50 ranks of MoC).

Oh, yah, CMANs.



Skill name Mnemonic Ranks
Charge charge 3
Specialization I wspec1 3
Weapon Bonding bonding 3

Available Combat Maneuver Training Points: 6

[DoctorUnne]

I'd go from torso chain to MBP to full plate and don't invest any money in any of them (beyond standard 4x) until you get to full plate.

[Lumi]

I'd go from torso chain to MBP to full plate and don't invest any money in any of them (beyond standard 4x) until you get to full plate.

I can deal with that. I'm already in augmented chain, though, so I'll just go to MBP when I can, and then jump right to full plate.

Thanks :)