Gold Chestplate Feedback

Depends on the situation, and it especially depends if you have the backpack. If you have the backpack and you lose all your shields then you might as well use the battery because it drops it below the normal cell time and its only 1 second slower than the cell (1.5 vs 2.5). The backpack still isn't increasing the amount of time you can stay engaged with someone, it means you have to abuse cover more to get those heals off. That's not the same thing. Half reload time for both weapon means you're dealing more damage than someone else because you're shooting more bullets than they can in a short amount of time. The other 3 items increase your durability in a fight so that you can deal more damage. Plus there is already a gold magazine that increases reload speed which is extremely rare, and I think I've only ever seen it on a gold weapon. Maybe I've seen it standalone, like once? But that's only for 1 weapon and is easily the rarest item in the game whereas I see gold armor in almost every single game when I survive the early game chaos. The armor definitely needs to change, but it should still get a defensive skill and not offensive. That's what gold guns/weapon mods are for.