there hasn't been enough tests to confirm armor values..

but for weapons, cos they 'stack' you can see the levels on your character screen
low med high vhigh ultra max

but armor bonuses stack as well but you'll never be able to tell on your character screen
if both helm and armor had high normal defense, your character sheet wouldn't show a longer normal defense bar, but wouldn't qualify the defense value.

only if someone does tests can you really evaluate the differences.
I would like to, only when i get the gear tho = \

"Are you sure? That would mean that a "Maximum!" UV on armor is worth twice as much as a "High" UV. (Which... seems silly.)"

Armors and weapons have different UV bonuses. Getting Maximun ASI or damage as an UV would be overkill for example (and make wolver line useless).

Sorry, i don't have a clue for armor either. I suppose it's the same as weapons, but it's only supposition and i can't support it with any test (and i don't care either xD). Good luck in finding how it works, and please share if you find out.

Later when I'm at my computer I can take a screen shot of weapon stats, then another screen shot of weapon stats after the gear is factored in if you just don't believe me.

I have a Freezing Atomizer 4* bomb that has UV CTR Very High. It is also level 10 so it has the natural CTR Med.

If I look at it in my Arsenal it is listed as:

Freezing Atomizer
complete Level 10
*UV orange* Charge Time Reduction: Very High
*in blue, the one you get for L10* Charge Time Reduction: Medium

If I equip it and look at it in the summary at the bottom of the "Character Window" it reads:

Freezing Atomizer
Charge Time Reduction: Maximum

And yes there is a significant charge time difference between Very High and Maximum. I felt this after I upgraded my Freezing Vaporizer MK II to Freezing Atomizer and had to suffer through the heating process to get back up to Maximum. I don't really understand your confusion, but I will take a screenshot if that is what it takes. I'm sure somebody else here can back me up that they have some weapon or another with DMG Bonus, ASI, or CTR Max on weapons after their gear is factored in.

Armor UV "Max" is worth 4 points. It is only slightly more powerful than High, not twice as powerful. This is because Armor UVs do not have Very High or Ultra levels.

Also, Armor defenses don't have a hard cap like Weapons do. Skovler Coat with Max Freeze is better than just Skolver Coat, despite already being maxed out on freeze resistance. It is just that there are diminishing returns on the resistances.

"That's what I was suspecting. I'll do some tests soon nonetheless. Assuming that's true, "Maximum!" UVs on armor really ought to be renamed "Very High." They are confusing at best -- seems like an oversight/bug."

Not really. It is the highest protection you could get from a UV hence maximum. It makes perfect sense to me.

Very high just doesn't sound complete enough. If you had VH UVs on armor, you still feel like you need something else to complete it, even though you really don't. Whereas with VH on weapons, it matches up perfectly to the fact it is very high but not the maximum bonus attainable for a stat.

Maximum is 4 points on armor. Compare the bars to see. Its easy.

If you look at the different levels of status resist from UVs on armor it makes it fairly obvious that "Max" is the equivalent of a level 4, not a level 6.

Low gives .75 bars, Med 1.5 bars, High 2.25 bars. If "Max" was level 6 like many people think it would give 4.5 bars... its gives 3 bars, which logically from the previous levels would go to "Very High".

~Gwen

Your defense can go beyond the visual. There have been numerous threads about that already.