[b]Tier 5[/b] Armor drops with a [u]guaranteed[/u] Stat package of 75 (30/25/20 distribution), 11 Energy and a free “Tuning” Mod slot. With full Masterwork (+5 to the three lowest Stats), a 10 point Stat Mod and Balanced Tuning (+1 to the three lowest Stats) selected a Tier 5 Armor piece will provide a combined Stat package of 103 points*. [b]Tier 3[/b] Armor drops with a Stat package that ranges from 64 to 69 points, with the standard 10 Energy and no Tuning Mod slot. With full Masterwork and a 10 point Stat Mod the [i]maximum[/i] Stat package that can be obtained with a Tier 3 Armor piece is 94 points*. RNG will of course play a role in determining an Armor piece’s Archetype and Tertiary Stats regardless of the Tier, and a specific Stat distribution on a lower Tier Armor piece may be better for your current build than a [b]different[/b] distribution on a Tier 5. That said, if you put a Tier 3 and Tier 5 side by side each with the same Archetype, Tertiary Stat, Armor Set Bonus, Masterwork level and Mod selection (setting aside the Tuning slot), the Tier 5 will always be the superior item. [i]* Note that there is currently an issue with how the App calculates and displays Armor Stats, double-counting the bonuses provided by Masterworking and Balanced Tuning which can create a “phantom bonus” of between 5 and 15 points on Tier 1-4 Armor and as much as 18 points on Tier 5. This issue luckily does not occur in game, so you should be sure to take this into account when comparing what you see in the App to what appears in game.[/i] (΄◉◞౪◟◉｀)