Builds

As I mentioned earlier, the builds in Age of Armor do not depend on the player's stats, but on the armor part's stats. This gives any player the ability to use any build. Here is a list of a few builds.

NOTE:
Its recommended to include Cash Shop perma Wings & r19 purple set parts in all builds. If a build already specifies a jetpack type, you can then transfer the stats from that jetpack to the Cash Shop wings, through the Parts Composing Provider NPC. Also, armor resistance build is pretty much a must, so make sure to have one, apart from any other build you may want to make.

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Armor/Energy Shield Resistance:

This build focuses on resistance, which lowers the damage you receive. Armor resistance is ultimately a must for all 3 races, but Neo Humans may require a bit more funding, due to their lower base armor durability.
The obvious advantage in this build is its tanking capabilities, although at the expense of a decreased firepower. Here is a chart that shows the damage reduction ratio, credits for the info go to Alucius:

1-75 AR/ESR: 1 Res = 1% damage reduction --------->75R=75%
76-120 AR/ESR: 5 Res = 1% damage reduction ------>80R=76%, 120R=84%
121-160 AR/ESR: 8 Res = 1% damage reduction----->128R=85%. 160R= 89% 161-244 AR/ESR: 12 Res = 1% damage reduction---->172R=90%, 244R=96%
244-294 AR/ESR: 24 Res = 1% damage reduction---->292R=98%

This build uses:
Head:
- rank 2+4 ar/esr head (Anillas Guard Officers, Logu Path Assault Commanders)
- rank 1+2 ar/esr, same as above, but harder to find (Domier Skywalkers, Headman of Darlon in Osider, random lvl 1-4 mobs in Domier & Osider).
Body:
- rank 1+2 ar/esr body (Dommier Guard Commanders, Pontiff of Darlon in Osider)
Arms:
- rank 2+35% hp arms (Dommier Annihilators, Osider Assaults)
- rank 3+4 ar/esr arms (lvl 19 Cargemiller Floater, Soer Cleaners, recommended for full ar/esr)
- rank 17/18 purple arms (they have both hp and huge amounts of dur, dropped by spaceship-like bosses in Luke and some bosses in FB45, temporal use only)
- r1+2 ar/esr arms, hard to find (regular lvl 1-5 mobs in Domier & Osider).
Legs:
- rank 4+6 ar/esr legs (Cargemiller Fury - special version, Soer Gunnery Commanders)
- rank 1+2 ar/esr legs, hard to find (regular lvl 1-5 mobs in Domier & Osider)
- rank 17/18 purple legs (they have both hp and huge amounts of dur, dropped by some bosses in FB45, temporal use only)
Cabin:
- rank 9+10 ar cabin (quest item only for enhanceds, temporal use only)
- anything with large amounts of dur (there are many of these, dropped in Andrew, Shadon, Luke, etc, all for temporal use only)
------ purple rank 17/18 cabins dropped by the north west boss in luke (they have large amounts of durability, temporal use)
------ purple rank 17 cabin, +10 armor res & +50%, dropped by FB40's King Kong.
------ purple rank 19 set cabins +60%hp & +10 resistance, obtainable from tb2 & FB50 I believe.
Core:
- rank 5+20 esr core (quest item in Domier/Yeaslis, only recommended for esr builds, temp use)
- rank 7+10 ar core (quest item, temp use)
- rank 10+10 ar/esr core (Sanbuick Lair Monster King, South Ironophila Maggot King - credits for Mars version go to airstrife, temp use)
- rank 15 purple core, +10 armor res and +50% armor dur, dropped by a boss in FB45.
- rank 16 purple core, +12 armor res and +60% armor dur, dropped by a boss in FB40.
- rank 17 purple core, +15 armor res and +75% armor dur, dropped by last boss in FB35 and one in FB45.
- rank 19 set purple core, 80% hp & 15 res, obtainable from tb2 & FB50 I believe.
Engine:
- rank 7+4 ar/esr engine (Alcaleph, FB15 - Exotic Planet)
- rank 8/9+8 ar/esr engine, hard to find (Dracula/"Dragola", FB20)
Jetpack:
- +1k ar dur jetpack for nats & enh, +500 ar dur for neos, I think fb40. These jetpacks are rather useless endgame anyways, since you will have so much dur, that 1k wont make a difference. I believe the dual lock ones may be a better choice.

At rank 15 or so, depending on which ones you use, these parts in total should add at least +85 base res (20 body, 20 leg, 20 head, 15 engine, 10/20 core) which basically will cancel out ~76% of the damage your armor/es receives. This build is a must at high lvls and endgame pvp/instances.

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Interval build:

This build used to have the highest dps in game, at the price of a very low survivability. Basically a glass cannon (glass machinegun, actually). Its also a bit expensive to use, it consumes much more ammo and batteries than all other builds (ranked guns consume A LOT of energy per regular shot).
In AoA, different weapon kinds have different re-attack speeds. This is called interval, and ranges from 1200 ms - milliseconds (talons) to 4500 ms (2 handed particle cannons). Skill chips, also modify the interval of the weapon when activated, generally making it slower (to compensate for the added damage, range, etc).
There are several armor parts, most of which cant be reconfigured, that also modify the weapon's interval, but lowering it, and thus making the weapon attack faster. This does not affect skill chips whatsoever though, since their interval modifiers completely ignore changes done by armor parts.
For example, lets picture a 2 handed laser (2400 ms interval), using armor parts that give it -50% interval, and a Brash 1 skill chip (Brash 1 = 140% interval time). Since interval armor parts only affect regular shots, a regular shot will be done in 1200 ms (50% of 2400), while a shot with Brash 1 will still take 3360 ms. Basically, in this example a normal shot can be fired almost 3 times in the amount of time it takes to do 1 Brash shot.
The build uses:
Head:
- rank 12 -20% interval head (quest item in an Ice Planet chain quest, not reconfigurable)
Body:
- rank 1+2 res body (same as res build)
- rank 15+4 critical body (the one used in critical builds, explained below)
Arms:
- rank 1 -15% interval arms, better for enhanceds and neos (Domier Commander Ships & Osider Commander Ships)
- rank 7 -25% interval arms, only available for nat humans (cant remember whether its dropped by Abnormal Crust Beast boss in Exotic Planet, or if its a quest reward)
- rank 17 -30% interval arms, all races, recommended due to its higher base dur & it reaches cap by endgame anyways as well (dropped by the spaceship-like bosses in Luke)
Legs:
- rank 7 purple legs, +50% hp & -10% interval (Flower Bud boss, Exotic Planet)
- since -10% may not be a lot, you can go with the r7 +50% hp or r8 + 55% hp legs dropped by the same boss, and which are reconfigurable
Cabin:
- rank 9 -20% int cabin, quest item only for neos, temporal item
- rank ~13 -10% int cabins, dropped by one of the assaults in Shadon (the one standing in the platform near the East warp zone I think)
- same cabin as resistance build, or critical build (explained below)
Core:
- same core as res build or critical build (explained below)
- any rank -10% interval cores, there are many types of these, lowest being rank 7, dropped by first boss in exotic planet, there are also r11 and 12 versions dropped by bosses in Shadon, one is purple and has +14 shoot range as well.
Engine:
- same engine as res build
- rank 7+10 shoot range engine (Alcaleph, sorta useless for enhanceds due to their lower lock range)
- rank 9+5 critical engine (same as the one for critical build, explained below)
Jetpack:
- -15% int jetpack for nat humans, neos can use the +5 critical one, no idea for enhanceds, all in fb45 I think.

The real interval cap seems to be at ~500 ms, regardless of what your weapon shows (eg, even if the weapon has a 3000 - 2700 interval, the real value stops at ~500 ms).
This build can do a lot of damage in very short amounts of time, but it requires quite some funding to increase its base damage (namely, high rank weapon, enhancers, and tf mod), especially if going vs resistance builds.
For pvp & bossing, interval builds work better as part of a team than soloing. Since some of their parts cant be reconfigured, they tend to have the lowest amounts of durability and resistance, so against endgame resistance type builds, their dps most likely wont be able to kill their opponent in time, before getting 1hit ko'd.
In a team however, they can hide behind the tanks and take care of their opponents quite fast.
Since their overall survivability is lower than that of other builds, you can also go for an all attack build, by using critical parts instead of resistance ones (for body, core, cabin & engine). That way your damage will increase even more, since many of your shots will also do twice as much damage. However, this will take away any of the little resistance you had left.

Note: when used with ranked weapons, this build seems to be calculating the "wrong" interval.
I have done a few tests, on the one hand it seems to be calculating about 75% of the real value (eg, -85% int becomes around -63%, -75% int becomes -56%, etc); but on the other one, the amount it deducts also seems to get smaller as the weapon's rank increases.
I tested a -75% interval build on a Rank 4 Adv 5 Med3 Laser, and a Rank 3 Adv 5 Med 3 Canister. They both had a 3k interval, so logically the build should have deducted 2250 interval (75% off 3k). However, it deducted 1650 off the canister (-55%) and 1500 off the laser (-50%).
The build can anyways be done without need for reconfiguring much stuff, so it doesn't hurt to have it in the warehouse in any case. Optionally, instead of using a ranked weapon, you can use it with a rank 0 weapon which has been upgraded through crystals, since those will not affect its speed, and since its main rank will stay at 0, the build will have full effect on the weapons' interval.

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Sniper build:

While interval builds work through "weak" yet fast attacks at close-medium range, sniper build works with slower but powerful max range attacks. The build is done by combining dual lock parts, to maximize locking and detecting range, and in some cases + shooting range parts as well (the firing range on ranked weapons increases as their rank goes up anyways). Also, since most mobs and bosses seem to be "blind" past some distances (generally around 75-80 meters), this build helps keeping the player safe away from the danger (most mobs don't aggro if you fly and shoot from that distance), but it doesn't fare very well at close ranges.
There are 2 ways of doing the build - one is focusing on using dual lock parts whenever possible, and using Charge/Snipe type skill chips to compensate for the firing range (slow but very powerful damage per hit), the other way is to sacrifice the dual lock cc/core or hp arm, and replace it for a +shoot range one, to obtain a slightly weaker dph, but much better dps.
Parts used are:
Head:
- rank 3+7 dual lock head (lvl 21 Cargemiller Floaters, Soer Tourer Leaders)
Body:
- same body as res build
- rank 1-20% error of weapon scanning (dropped by low lvl mobs in domier & osider, since you wont have much res as sniper, you can just reconfig the body to endgame to take down RR users way faster)
Arms:
- same hp% arms as res build
- r1 + 6/8 shooting range arms, dropped by Domier Commander Ships and Osider Commander Ships. The +8 one is very very rare, I don't even know if it still drops.
- r6 + 14 shooting range arms, dropped by King of Siden Dissasembly Monsters and I can't remember which of the 2 Special Bosses in General Coronal (I think the Inspector Officer).
The ranged arms may be the best choice, due to armor combining adding damage to them, and they provide the largest range boost possible as well. I believe both the r1 and r6 one should be able to reach cap w/o combining, although this will mostly depend on your luck with the normal reconfigurations, as usual.
Legs:
- rank 7+50% hp to shooting weapons legs (Flower Bud boss, Exotic Planet)
- rank 8+55% hp to shooting weapons legs (Flower Bud boss, Exotic Planet)
- pretty much any rank speed legs, several versions of these, such as rank 7 +1.5 move speed (Flower Bud boss), rank 13+1.5 move speed (Anion Assault Headman), rank 15/17/18 +2.0 move speed (dropped in Luke, cant remember which boss); all used to move away from fast incoming enemies, neos may also want to use another speed part due to their lower base speed.
Enhanceds should use the r3 +1.5 ones (uniques) they can obtain from the Recruit Base quest that continues from "What is [race]", called "Different types of [race]". Nats and neos should use the r7 +1.5 ones.
Cabin:
- rank 9+15 dual lock cabin (nat humans, quest item, temporal use only)
- rank 10 +11 dual lock cabin (Palermo Melter Leader, temporal use only)
- any higher rank cabin with +lock range (many versions of these, dropped in Luke, FB40, FB45)
- purple rank 17/18 cabins such as rank 18 +12 dual lock & +880 ar dur/+580 es dur cabin (cabin boss in Luke), or +11 dual lock & 800 dur r17 version (same boss & map), etc.
- r18 +~20 shoot range or so cabin, dropped in Luke as well I think (use only 1 +shoot range part, either arms, cc or jetpack. Shooting range arms are the best choice due to armor combining.)
- r19 + shoot range and -% scan error, useful for pvp when equipped along with the -% scan error body, dropped by the Mare assault I think (credits to Cartman1001 for the info)
Core:
- same core as res build
- rank 12 purple core with +9 dual lock & 760 ar dur (Shadon)
- rank 9 +9 dual lock core (Dracula/Dragola, not recommended though)
- any of the purple r17+ cores that combine range and scan error or another stat, ultimately up to you
Engine:
- rank 7+9 dual lock engine (Alcaleph).
- rank 6+7 dual lock engine, much easier to find but a bit worse than the 7+9 one (General Coronal Inspector Officers, Siden Alophila, Siden Assault Officer)
Jetpack:
- blue med 1 dual lock jetpack from FB40 (available to all races, although with different stats for each: enh version is +15, nat is +13, neo is +11 dual lock).
- blue med 1 +~16 shoot range jetpack, same instance I think (again, only use 1+ shoot range item at the time, shooting range arms recommended due to armor combining)
There are many cabins & cores that have only locking range, you can use them but try not to let it become higher than your own sense range, or it ll be useless.

This build will (or should) always allow you too see, lock and shoot first than anyone else. The downside are its low survival at close range (since you wont have much res left), and slow firing speed with Charge/Snipe chips (around 6.5 ms with slowest weapons for all races). Also, in crowded maps you wont be able to see at your full range if there are many mobs closer to you. It doesn't seem to work very well in spacewar when fighting against enemies located at very different altitudes either (EG, while I can get a lock on Nicholas Cage while floating ~110 meters above him, the game wont let me fire unless I am within 7x meters from him).

Note: since most ranked weapons just become slower, the Snipe/Charge skills are becoming even more useless. Thus, its better to just go with the 2nd way of making the build, and sacrifice a part for a +shoot range one (arms preferably). This will enable you to get rid of the slow Charge/Snipe chips and instead use the other ones, which will give you a way better dps.
Another alternative exists though, but its rather impossible to be done atm. The Bidirectional Energy Collection TF chips can greatly reduce the charge time of Snipe/Charge type skills, so you can get a good dps by using both chips in conjunction (activate BEC first, and use Charge/Snipe while the BEC effect is active). However, you would need to have them both over rank 6 or so, in order to start seeing decent results, which is easier said than done.Also, the effect wears out every after 60 seconds, so having to transform back and forth to reactivate it may be too much of a hassle.

In any case, ranked weapons tend to increase their range, so once they reach a high enough rank, their improved base range should be more than enough, specially for neos.

Note 2: as the sight range "decreases" in crowded maps, its preferable to stay away from large concentrations of players. I used to lose over 45 range whenever many players were close.

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Radar Reflection build:

This is another tanker build, but focused on evading attacks rather than withstanding damage. It has an almost identical damage output as the resistance build, since it also sacrifices damage legs. If you have low amounts of ref, this build will be more dependent on "luck", since you never know when a shot will land. When you reach <-1 rr however, this build becomes pretty much the best at most of the pve content in the game (only very few endgame bosses can actually hit with 100% accuracy, so you will be safe most of the time).
Parts used are:
Head:
- rank 10-10% radar reflect head (Balam Roller)
- rank 12-10% radar reflect head (Balam Interceptor Commander)
- rank 13-10% radar reflect head (Coniferous Assault, maybe the Balam one too, this head is the worst one though).
- rank ~14 -20% radar ref head (can't remember well, possibly Arcadia Assault)
Body:
- same body as res build
Arms:
- same arms as res build, either hp or res
Legs:
- rank 7 -10% rr legs (Flower Bud boss, General Coronal Commander, Siden's assault too)
Cabin:
- rank 12/13-10% rr control cabin (Leader of Bioboosted Armors/one of the assaults in Shadon, respectively - only for temporal use)
- same cabins as res build since you really shouldn't need an rr cabin
Core:
- same core as res build
Engine:
- rank 1-10% rr engine (Domier Annihilator, Osider Assaults perhaps, hard to find)
- rank 2-10% rr engine (Domier Guard Commander Leader, Pontiff Leader of Darlon, very common drop)
Jetpack:
- blue med 1 -20% rr jetpack for nats, neos & enh get a -10% one, all in FB45. I think they are all rather useless endgame anyways, since the parts can get to -105% rr on their own.

This tanking build is, if unprepared, much harder to take down than resistance build. However, its effects are sorta nullified against some bosses (such as some in Hate Valley/Dark Valley, since they have ~1 scan error), and can be countered by the other builds, either by reconfiguring rank 1 parts with -% error of weapon scanning (at rank 15 they should have around -54% each, which leaves your weapon scan error at around 25-50); or by using missiles. Also, the Haros (usable items) sold by the Deathmatch Supply npc can also greatly lower the weapon's scan error while inside DM.
At rank 15++, the rr build should have AT LEAST -9x% radar ref (-1x head, -2x leg, -2x engine, -10 cabin, -20 jetpack). Missile build is also useful against rr builds, since missiles' scan error is of 1-5 points usually, meaning they will NEVER miss. Generally missiles are chosen against rr builds, since they just need a good enhancer and ammo to deal high damage, which can be easily strapped on to any build (plus, purple rank 19 set parts greatly increase missile damage).
PvE wise, the build is just great, save for the aforementioned bosses.

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Critical build:

Like the interval build, this build is another form of glass cannon. It sacrifices pretty much all resistance for max dph, by using +critical hit parts whenever possible. Therefore, for pvp/bossing it also works better in a team rather than alone. With this build, you get the max dph possible (2x total damage if the critical hit connects), but in exchange for survivability. The build usually consists of:
Head:
- rank 1+2 crit head (dropped by lvl 1-5 mobs in both Domier and Osider)
Body:
- same as res build
- rank 15+4 crit body (quest item in Luke I think)
Arms:
- same hp% arms as res build
- r9 or 10 crit arms (FB20's Dracula) - credits to Cartman1001 & Arcanjo.
Legs:
- rank 7+50% hp legs (Flower Bud boss)
- rank 8+55% hp legs (Flower Bud boss)
Cabin:
- rank 18+5 crit cabin (dropped in Luke I think, there is also a rank ~16 one dropped by Element Guard Commander in Element Digging Valley I believe)
- same as res build
Core:
- any +5 or more crit core (rank 7+3 are dropped by first boss in ep, there are rank 17/18 ones in Luke as well I think)
- same as res build
Engine:
- rank 9+5 crit engine (quest item)
- rank 7+3 crit engine (Alcaleph)
Jetpack:
- I +5 crit jetpack for neos only, not sure in which dv instance it drops though.

At around rank 15, the build should have at least ~35 crit (1x head, 1x engine, 5-7 body, + core/cabin/jetpack), and 1 crit = 1% chance of doing a critical shot. The cap per part is currently 14 crit.
Critical shots will do about twice your total damage (after the ammo multiplier is calculated). Also, some parts can be found with a Deadly Strike stat instead of Critical (the cabin & core, basically), the difference is that deadly strike shots also ignore your enemy's resistance (useful vs res builds, since critical shots will only do 2x as much damage, while deadly also bypasses all the res). This build has perhaps the lowest survivability of all, since it gets most of its resistance out of the energy shield/armor hardeners on the core, but it does have more durability than an interval build. And as a bonus, any epic weapon above rank 3 will get a + critical hit bonus if its used along with a critical build. The bonus seems to be based on how much crit your build has atm of equipping the weapon.
I made a few tests with a rank 3 Advanced 5 Medium 3 Laser:
- For 10 base crit, it increased to 16.
- For 21 base crit, it became 33
- For 28 base crit, it became 46.

Note: the block stat from shield builds cancels out their opponent's crit/deadly strike chance.

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Missile Build (not recommended to nat humans for pve, since they already have canisters)

This is an expensive build, since it depends on high rank ammo, missile enhancers and combined armor parts to do good/high damage. This build also differs on other builds due to the fact that there are MANY parts which already come "ready to be used". Also, since the armor parts that provide + missile damage are VERY weak, there are a few different ways of making this build. This would be an example:
Head:
- r1-30% interval of shoulder weapon head (or any rank actually, since -30% is alot)
- same head as sniper build (since the highest rank missile weapons have a 80m fire range or so)
- same head as res build
Body:
- same as res build
- r15/16/17 purple body with missile damage & missile interval (a few of these, dropped in Luke & Shadon's north-most assault, also in some DV instances).
Arms/Legs:
- r1-30% interval of shoulder weapon arms and legs (or any rank again)
- same arms/legs as res build.
- r9 legs with +0.x damage to shoulder weapons, dropped by either the 1st or 2nd boss in FB18. The damage even reconfigured is too low anyways.
Cabin/Core:
- any +0.5 or higher damage of shoulder weapon core and cabin (rather pointless, since 0.5 is too weak)
- same as res build
Engine:
- r1 +0.3 damage of shoulder weapon engine ( again, rather useless since the damage wont be very high even at rank 14+)
- same as res/sniper build

As I have explained already in the Weapons section, the real damage of this build comes from the enhancers, combined parts & ammo. With a lot of luck (and sacrificing pretty much all survival), you can get + 4.0 or so damage out of all your reconfigured armor parts (roughly 1k damage if you use missile ammo 5). On the other hand, a rank 5 missile enhancer applied to a 6.0 missile launcher (this type of weapon exists for transforming mode) will give you +4.8 (10.8 total) , and a rank 6 enhancer would give +8.4 (14.4 total). With this in mind, you may just want to do a full tanking type build, or sniper, or any build at all, and just throw in the highest possible missile enhancer, since the damage you can get from parts is quite low when compared to the enhancers. Transforming mods also affect missile launchers, increasing the damage even more than what armor parts could.
Note: this build greatly benefits from the purple rank 19 set armors, since they give large amounts of damage bonuses. So the best may be to just choose any other build, and strap a couple of missiles onto it.

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Shield Build:

This is another tanking build, which focuses in increasing the shield's resistance, rather than the armor's. For pvp purposes, its important to take into account the fact that neos can nullify part of the target's shield resistance (Nebula skill chip), electro magnetic neos can skip the target's shield itself (Sunglow skill chip), and some ranked weapons can cancel part of the shield's resistance/block rate as well. At pve its a bit better since mobs don't posses such abilities.
Unlike other builds, this one has a few useful high lvl purple parts, which boost both the shield stats and the 1h weapon damage, and depends on less reconfigurable parts compared to the other tanking type builds. The parts used are:
Head:
- there are no heads with +shield resistance nor block, so the decision is up to the user. Good choices could be +armor resistance, or -error of weapon scanning (for pvp).
Body:
- rank 12 +16 shield res body, dropped by the Andrew and Zion Assault type Bosses

- rank 16 or so purple bodies with +100% shield dur & +150% recovery rate. The res bodies are better for endgame, but these ones are useful for a long yet temporal use.
Arms/Legs:
- purple rank 12/15/16/17/18 etc arms and legs, the low rank ones are dropped by the Leaders of Bioboosted Armors in Shadon, and the rest some bosses in FB35, 40 & 45, they come with +hp% to 1h weapons, and also either shield dur% or block.
- rank 14+24 block rate arms, dropped in Arcadia, I guess in Lasia too, these may be the best for serious shield builds.
Cabin:
- purple rank 12 , dropped by the Leaders of Bioboosted Armors in Shadon as well (temporal use only, has +11 shield res & +11 block)
- r16/17/18 purple cc with both shield res and block (best one has +20 all shield res & +20 block), dropped in some DV instances (fb40 & 45 I think)
Core:
- rank 9+12 res, dropped by the first boss in FB20.
- rank 16/17/18 purple cores with stats similar to the cabins of same rank, dropped in some DV instances (again, best one has +20 all shield res & +20 block).
Engine:
- rank 1+ 8 shield res engine, dropped by Domier Annihilators & perhaps Osider Assaults (very hard to get, r1+4 is much more common). Also dropped by common low lvl mobs in Domier/Osider.
- rank 3 + 12 shield res engine, dropped by the Anilas and West Logu assaults I believe.

Jetpack:
- +12 shield resist jetpack, not sure in which DV instance it drops, guess FB40/45 just like pretty much all other Jetpacks.

Equipping a shield will not automatically cause it to block all attacks. They work on a chance based system, similar to critical shots. The stat used in this case is block, I believe 1 block = 1% chance to block. This doesn't mean that the user will receive no damage, but instead, that the shield will receive it. So the higher the block stat, the higher the chance.
Shields usually come with 2 specific resistances (out of the 4 resistances - kinetic, explosive, electro & thermic), and some block stat. They have their own durability value, which recovers on its own (much faster than armor & energy shield), and can be healed by the Neo Human's basic buff skill (it heals some of its dur and adds some resistance to it I think). Rainbow wont do anything to shields.
While +block rate arms were used previously to achieve the 100 block (the arms cap at +65 block), now this can be easily done by using:
- r~17 purple cabin with +20 block & +20 res
- r~17 purple core with +20 block & +20 res
- r~17/18 purple arms with +~80% to 1h combat weapons & +~26 block (arm has also ~14 base block)
- any adv 5/med 3 shield, they include +30 base block
Adding the block of all parts should get you around 10x, which is pretty much all you need.
However, note that the arm only gives a bonus to combat weapons. If you are using shooting ones, you will be better off with the block one, since you can combine it with a r19 part and get even more bonus stats.

Im still not sure of how much res can the build achieve, so far I can guess that around 167-207 might not be impossible, since:
- the r~17 purple core and cabin ll give you +40 base res total
- The cap for shield res parts is 45 I believe, assuming both the body & engine reach it, then that's another +90 res total (130 total)
- the r7 shield hardeners from cs give +25 res (155)
- the res jetpack gives +12 (+167 total res)

That should cancel out around 89% of the damage the shield receives, without counting the base resistances from the shield, which give +~40 to 2 specific types (for each shield there are 2 versions of it, each giving res bonus against 2 of the 4 damage types). For some reason, shields seem to keep their resistances active even while their durability is at 0 (which means the shield is "dead"). I don't know if this is a bug or not.
Note that endgame shields only have about 5k durability. With purple parts + research though, you should be able to get an additional 10k durability or more, without even counting the enhancers.
One "advantage" the build gets, is that you can swap shields mid-fight, and the new one will be at full health (as long as it was at full health before starting the fight, of course). The damaged shields in your inv will not recover until you are out of fighting mode though, but if you carry many shields in your inv, you can go swapping between them as you need. There are no regular repair packages for shields though, only cs ones.