actually, toughness is only useful vs. minigunners and other conventional weapons, but it's main use it beating down the minigunner class a bit, that +4 damage theshold to every bullet has saved me many times against lsw and minigun users, no all i can think about is hunting em down, although it is a pain in the ass to create a 4 END sniper alt because of the obvious loss of the double toughness i've gotten used to...