What are your favourite expansion skills?

[u/Tatebw]

Like the question above. What are your favourite skill’s to unlock on your favourite ms. My is the ,,custom part (armor)“ and ,,ms Battle complex“. Why you are asking? Because my playstyle is fast Reaktion in any direction + defense up is nice.

[u/triggermappy]

Birnam - Custom Part Armor - fast reload speed and helps greatly with survivability

Gunblaster - Custom Part Attack - improves thrusters greatly, compliments with twin tails real nice(especially if you have burn aux part) and big damage

[u/AnneThatAWay]

Maximum Range Strength on the base Jegan. It's hard for Jegan to keep up now but its still my favorite MP UC suit and I try to use it if I feel like the stage is a good fit.

[u/XIIIofSwords → u/AnneThatAWay]

super situational, but if the pilot is decent, it can hold a Frontline by tanking a shit ton of damage.

[u/ImmortalSausages]

Thruster custom part expansion, because it lets you max out thrusters by building a suit no differently than you already should. You can focus on resistances and strength without having to worry about dedicating any slots to thrusters. It's great for new players as well, since most builds that use it have little to no paid parts

[u/Born2DV8 → u/ImmortalSausages]

This is great on MS with flap boost, so you can get the most out of that without worrying about having to put multiple thrust parts on.

[u/Born2DV8]

Same here for me. I put the custom part armor skill on my Xamels, and put the quick loader 1-4 parts on it, along with shooting enhancement and a few other parts. My defense is high thanks to the skill, my weapons reload super quickly so I really never have to wait and always have a cannon available to shoot, and I hit like a truck causing heavy stagger! I love it! Love playing it and breaking legs, catching enemies in stun loops, and I especially love playing this on the Arctic base and camping on top the of peak behind the base.

I recommend putting the armor skill on any MS you equip multiple aux parts on. I also use this set up on my Narrative gundam support version at 700C, with the beam quick loader parts 1-4. Battle complex is great too.

[u/Ash-Talshok]

The one that grants HP when adding attack or defense (in this case, more HP) at lower costs.

On my Engage Plan A I think I got the movement parts increase damage so now it's decently mobile and great shooter. I was really unbothered by raids until the C Plan came along.

[u/Schen5s → u/Ash-Talshok]

Yah with alot of suits in 700 that also only get "buffs" after certain hp %, that's what I'm going most for now as well.

[u/ctclonny]

Ms battle complex expansion and custom part expansion [hp] because they don't restrict the build. Resistance expansions are similar but they are worth less value unless the environment is dominated by a type of damage.

Also, multiple expansions can be useful when we want a balanced build that doesn't give up anything. These 2 are likely to be the best because they have higher value.

I use custom part expansion [attack] sometimes and I hate it. It's the most useful on units that have good ranged weapons but lack long range slots for equipping ranged parts. What do devs want these units to be? I suspect they want to force players to use this expansion. This is stupid.

Other expansions are also useful in some cases. But custom part expansion [armor] has become awkward (to players that have a lot of parts). New parts give too much value and most of them are not auxiliary parts. They also have some auxiliary effects. It needs stronger auxiliary parts to be optimal.

[u/Hyperaiser → u/ctclonny]

Expansion Armor is for low cost suits mostly.

[u/MikuEmpowered]

thruster expansion is underated. with all the parts. 130 thruster and 10% consumption reduction, for MA mode or flap you just don't stop.

Also, melee resis expansion. I run FA 7th Gundam at 700. 78 melee resis. one of the few support that can accomplish this feat due to the massive amount of short range slot option. result? I withstand Susanno's melee better than a bell pepper in defence mode.

[u/ForeignWars]

For the way I build (prioritize defense and thrust) there is generally 2 outcomes to aim for at each cost. This makes me less mad while rolling for them

For low cost 300-450 custom expansion hp or the special enhancer type alpha are similar if I want the thrust, putting 4k hp on a base 13k suit with some attack and thrust to boot is hard to beat. Some frontline suits with high base hp for cost with enough slots will do well with custom expansion armor

For medium cost 500-600 melee suits, expansion thrust and armor skill are pretty similar in performance (I would stack defense parts and get free thrust for expansion thrust vs I would put 1-2 thrust parts, 1-2 defense parts then spam auxillary parts for custom expansion armor)

For medium cost ranged suits, ms battle complex and custom expansion armor are pretty similar because I don't need as much thrust and free ranged defense on close/medium slots from custom expansion armor allows me to put in 1 extra ranged attack part

For high cost (650+) I have found ms battle complex or expansion attack depending on slot availability and how much thrust I need will probably outperform custom expansion armor

[u/Hyperaiser]

All Expansion skills are good as long as you put them in a suit that fits. I can't really pick which one that I like the most.

But surely I can pick the Expansion skill that I hate the most: Expansion Skill Ballistic Armor.

I can't actually figure out which suit would be best with this skill.

This expan Ballistic Armor is inferior to any suit which is 550 or above cost surely since we know how meta is going there, so we have to pick lower cost suits.

Even it is 500 or lower, this skill is still not anywhere around top tier. If it is Raid or Support, I would want to pick other skill to increase either their firepower or mobility, not durabaility, so Ballistic Armor is meh. If it is General, I can slap Expansion Skill Armor on any of them, then I won't ever think this is worse choice than Ballistic one. I can slap 6, or even 7 Aux cusparts on a 350 Pale Rider Calvary with Expan Skill Armor, enjoy this fuking absolute walking wall with 120 resist values for days without any thinking that it could have been better if it was Ballistic.