You don't. They planned for armor to be another fomo aspect of the game changing every six months like light levels and everything else.... Make you question continuing to give these developers your money? At all in the least? They backed off on the power level reset but didn't have time to back out of the armor and weapons aspects where everything just goes away every six months. They are looking to make a disposable game where whatever is dropping right now is all the matters. Let that sink in before their next "these are not the droids you are looking for" speech later this week.