So I usually ignore independant gear completely (except for the early game when I don't have enough guns and their assault/sniper rifles and expecially a handgun are just almost the same as PPs), but a sudden inspiration hit when I equipped heavy independent torso on an assault. No jump jets is of no importance since no prof with them usually, debuffs are somewhat bad but of no importance as well for quite some time (a trick to have sniper helmet corrects any accuracy problems one may have) - the important part is that they weight the same as normal assault armour, have tons more armour and cost MUCH less in time and resources than both odin and golem torsos. Bonus points for cool looks :D

Shame that in this mod enemies actually seem to target different body parts instead of just hitting torso. Or my luck was not that well, I dunno.

Any unexpected armour comboes that work for you?