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Is there a list floating around somewhere on 'suggested' gear for levels 5 & 10?
Not interested in weapons & armor, interested in the biotech stuff (personal aug, cybernetics), magic stuff (weapon fusions, spell gems, etc), & misc stuff you carry around in your pack (Starfinder backpack! Med stuff).
Unlike Pathfinder 1, The list of stuff you 'need' seems to be a lot smaller for high level play. For fifth level, I would suggest the following:
-Ability Boost: +2 to one ability score, can pick it up as early as level 2
-Relevant armor: A lot of people skimp on armor because the though it 'I'll get hit anyway,' but armor also goes to preventing grapples and other combat maneuvers, so as long as your armor is within a few levels of your level, it can usually stop that stuff. And since your AC vs. combat maneuvers is KAC+8 (most of the time) even a low AC character in decent armor should have a chance of not being grappled.
-A means of flight: A Jetpack armor upgrade is best here, but there are other options (like a spellgem of Flight 3). Even if you aren't a melee combat character, there are several scenarios where you have to maneuver in three dimensional space.
-Kits: These seem to be more and more required as the skill DCs skyrocket in the later games. Make yourself familiar with all the different toolkits (Medkits, basic toolkits, Armory Toolkits, Xinthi Holdings, and Engineering Specialty). There are kits that give you +4 to perception checks if you are actively searching outside of combat, +2 to one application of Engineering (such as Starship actions) +4 computers or Engineering to crack locks, +4 mysticism to identify items, etc.
-A couple serum's of healing, just enough to prevent someone from bleeding to death.
-A fusion on your weapon: Any fusion on a weapon will make it magical, and there are a few things out there with DR/magic. Also, incorporeal creatures still require magic to be hurt at all if you are using kinetic attacks. Certain fusions can also shore up the weaknesses of some weapons. hail pistols deal cold and piercing, but a cold fusion changes that to just dealing cold damage, so it changes to targeting EAC.
-Other than that, it highly depends on your build. Melee characters can benefit from a speed suspension which increases their land speed (especially characters that get slowed down in heavy armor), and Darkvision capacitors are nice if you don't already have darkvision.
-Another good idea are antitoxins and the new antibiotics. Even level 1 version gives you a +4 bonus to those saves. If coupled with someone using the medicine skill on you, that's a +8 bonus to the save!
hail pistols deal cold and piercing, but a cold fusion changes that to just dealing cold damage, so it changes to targeting EAC.
The last part of this is wrong. The frost fusion itself notes that it can never make a KAC weapon hit EAC. All the energy shifting abilities have that language.
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hail pistols deal cold and piercing, but a cold fusion changes that to just dealing cold damage, so it changes to targeting EAC.The last part of this is wrong. The frost fusion itself notes that it can never make a KAC weapon hit EAC. All the energy shifting abilities have that language.
Ah, my bad. Still, there are a lot of good fusions out there. Certain enemies have fire and electricity resist, which makes plasma weapons suck, but turning a plasma weapon into a pure fire or electricity weapon via a fusion reduces the problem. Also, ghost killer allows full damage to incorporeal, and my favorite (called) is basically a must if you use thrown weapons. Soulfire is basically a must on solarians, etc.
