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The Phlogistonic Regulator Armor Modification only gives 1/2 your level in resistance to Fire / Cold; however, the other resistance based armor modifications: Metallic Reactance (Acid/Electricity), Harmonic Oscillator (Sonic) and Otherworldly Protection (Vitality/Void) all give a resistance of 3 + 1/2 your level. Is this intentional or is this an errata that hasn't been fixed yet?
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Fire and cold are more common.
Also, Inventors sometimes deal themselves fire damage, so being resistant to it is better. You can change the type of the damage you deal yourself, but using that to get higher resistance to the type of your self-inflicted damage would require both a modification and a feat. Phlogistonic Regulator gets you that benefit for only a modification.
My Inventor has it. I think being a little lower is fair.
(Though that does mean you'll want to retrain it to a different energy resistance modification if you later take the Energy Barrier revolutionary modification. But that's easy for Inventors since they can use their Reconfigure feature.
(And if you want more evidence that it's intended, A) it's the same in the remastered book and 2) the Enhanced Resistance mod uses Phlogistonic Regulator as its example and says it raises the resistance to your level).
I agree. It's intentional due to Fire and Cold being the overall very common damage types. My armor inventor specifically covered those two with Charms of Resistance because they give a bigger resistance.