Machines do so much damage though that the health added is pretty negligable.STarting health is 200 but max health is 700. That helped a lot for me. Plus upgrading the outfit with better mods.
What so did you not use any shock or frost ammo?
NEver used ice, shock, or coruption. Just used the max boltcaster, default bow, mid tripcaster, and tearblaster. Never bought a slingshot or the machine gun like thing.
DIdn't ever use non tripcaster traps either. Just sold those for shards.