In the last part of this guide we have produced Mk II Servos without much regard for what materials were used.
That isn’t always a good idea though!

We mentioned that a “Basic Leap Booster” is built using 300 “POWER Carbons”. This means that any carbon can be used, but one with a high Power value should be preferred.

The reason for this is simple – in Firefall, the power value of the material used changes the quality of the Basic Leap Booster. If the material used has a high Power value, you will produce a Basic Leap Booster with a high Quality level.
If you use a Basic Leap Booster with a high Ql to build a Kinetic Booster I, that Kinetic Booster will also have a higher quality. This in turn will grant a bonus to the Servos built with it – you can jump higher with them.

So, in short: If you use a carbon with a higher Power value for the Leap Booster subcomponent, your produced Servos will let you jump higher.
If you don’t have a high powered carbon though, don’t worry – the produced Servos do have base stats which you get regardless of what materials you use – so the result might not be ideal, but it will be usable.

As previously noted, there is one carbon that has Mass as its main stat, one that has Cores as its main stat, and one that has Power as the main stat – this would be “Energized Carbon” as suggested by the name.
If you have multiple carbons with a similar Power value, it’s recommended that you use Energized Carbon, for the following reason:

The stats of your material don’t just affect quality of produced items, but also the toll using these items will take on your battleframe in Firefall.

Each battleframe has a limited amount of available power, a limited amount of mass it can carry, and a limited number of CPU cores.
The values of the materials you use to produce your servos determine how much of these constraints is taken up by the servos.

2 Examples:

A - You decide to build your servos with Energized Carbon Ql 499 – Power 499, Mass 165, Cores 329.
The servos produced will have a high Power consumption, medium demand of CPU cores and low mass/weight. The servos will allow you to jump quite high.

B – You decide to build your servos with Carbon Composites QL 785 – Power 523, Mass 785, Cores 262.
The servos produced will have a marginally higher Power consumption than Version A, but will weigh MUCH more than Version A, with similar CPU demands. Even though these servos jump a small bit higher, they are worse than Version A, because they take up a lot more of your battleframe’s constraints.

Of course there are situations in which you would still use version B – for example, if you have finalized your other gear and found that you have a lot of CPU cores left free, or when you don’t have any other carbons and absolutely can’t/don’t want to get them.