Optimizing my build? (Smuggler)

[Newtles]

Howdy. First time posting here but I've been playing TiTS/CoC for a long while with the former being my favorite of the two. Recently I decided to stray from my usual merc character and ran a (very trappy) Ausar smuggler and long story short I found I enjoyed it a lot more and made a peculiar decision to stick entirely with a bow for my playthrough after finding Tanis. Later on I focused on boosting my evasion and increasing my general damage (Concussive shot is amazing with the Aimed Shot perk!) I've maxed out my character level along with my willpower, intelligence, and aim. My equipment is as follows:
Reaper Armaments Mark I Shield Gen
Hardlight Bow
Hardlight Dagger
Light Jetpack
Reinforced Bodysuit

Is there any further way to improve my build equipment wise and possibly stat wise (such as racial changes) or have I got the best I can get with what I have in mind?

 

[Newtles]

Also it seems I posted this thread on another section of the forum by mistake. If you see it on over in the "general bullshit" section I apologize.

 

[Lancer]

Well, racial changes actually have no effect on player stats, Fen disliked that aspect of CoC and scrapped it for TiTS.

As for your equipment, if you are adamantly sticking with bows for ranged I can't help you with that , but I would suggest picking up the Monofilament Saber or the Plasma Tomahawk for your melee weapon. For armor, there really isn't a one-size fits all armor (although they technically do fit every body type) so I would also recommend picking up the Omni-suit collar, it's evasion and sexiness boosts really mesh well with smugglers. I was going to recommend a couple more, but none of them have evasion bonuses, so they're not every helpful to smugglers.

 

[Newtles]

Well, racial changes actually have no effect on player stats, Fen disliked that aspect of CoC and scrapped it for TiTS.

As for your equipment, if you are adamantly sticking with bows for ranged I can't help you with that , but I would suggest picking up the Monofilament Saber or the Plasma Tomahawk for your melee weapon. For armor, there really isn't a one-size fits all armor (although they technically do fit every body type) so I would also recommend picking up the Omni-suit collar, it's evasion and sexiness boosts really mesh well with smugglers. I was going to recommend a couple more, but none of them have evasion bonuses, so they're not every helpful to smugglers.

I understand the reasoning for the omni-suit collar but why a monofilament saber? I never really touched the weapon myself and I've not looked at it much. I found the evasion on the hardlight dagger to be quite nice.

 

[Endwar]

I would actually recommend the Plasma Tomahawk like Lancer mentioned. I also recommend the Premium Armstrong Suit as it provides a good Evasion Bonus, but also a good additional 20 Shieldpoints

 

[Aurita]

Bit of post-dredging
Since it sounds like you're a ranged build with evasion in mind: Jumper Jumpsuit + Jumper Shield + Trick Bracer + Jetpack gives you a decent score on both shields and evasion. With this you could even go for Korgonne's Heavy Bow for extra damage. Your melee becomes a sidepiece so going for anything but Hardlight Dagger, Trick Bracer or other weapons with useful stats seems a little pointless. With the bracer you get some bonus shields and shield defense in exchange for evasion, so that's up to you.