My best looting loadout is 122kg ( increase to 144kg with Hercules ) as shown. You're fine again.Д¬onsidering how much of a non-problem radiation is when you finally find good anti-rad artifacts, to me, the Merc suit is just a no brainer.ДЄs I previously answered about the Mercenary Exoskeleton: If you do get radiation, just take a single artifact off and put it back on. Most of your slots are going to be filled with anti-rad, stamina, and/or carry weight artifacts anyway. The Merc suit on the other hand has never needed any Psi artifact buffs from my own experience, and the lack of radiation protection is a total non-problem. And considering how random the mutant encounters are you never know when you're going to run into a Controller.

Not really ideal, it makes the 5 slots seem kind of useless. On the Monolith one, at least two of your artifact slots will need to be swapped out for Psi ones when you encounter Psi mutants or anomalies.

The way I see it, the Merc suit is just better than the Monolith one. You'll need a couple Psi artifacts to cover the gap and make it so a single Controller doesn't kill you. You can boost it with some upgrades, but they're not enough. However, the base value for Psi protection is literally 0. The Monolith suit has way high radiation protection, enough that standing in a Red radiation area will do nothing to you. However it can be upgraded to have pretty high Psi protection, and this goes even further with a single Psi artifact (you probably won't even need an artifact ever if you go for Psi upgrades). The Merc suit has pretty low radiation protection, even with radiation upgrades. The main differences beyond artifact slots are the protection stats for Psi/Radiation.

The Merc suit allows you to use 5 artifact slots, as does the Monolith one. Merc exo is in CoC, personally I think it's the best one out of all of them, not just from a pure stats perspective either.

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