I have been vaping for about 3 months and have tried out 6 different clearomizers and two RBA's. I like my Vivi Nova (clearomizer) at work on a VV batt because it is portable, no leakage, and easy to fill. However, I love using my RBA's (cobra and AGA T2) on my mech mod when I am at home. Definitely gives better flavor and throat hit, and I love being able to play around with the atomizer to get just the right vape. FYI, if you read into toooo much stuff before getting an RBA they will most likely scare you like they did me. I researched RBA's, mainly here on ECF and Pbusardo's video tutorials, for about a month before acquiring my mech mod and first RBA (Cobra). I read about how I need to make sure my battery isn't fully charged, how noobs shouldn't get RBA's (which is true to some extent), that you can easily blow up your battery/mod...etc All these things have some validity, but upon using my RBA for only a week I realized that as long as you use common sense, a multimeter, and do some research before buying an RBA, you will be fine. It is really easy to over analyze RBA's and get perspectives from 100 people that build them 100 different ways, and then you feel like you are buying a rocket launcher. It can be intimidating, but I've found that I learned way more in 48 hours of using an RBA then I did the entire month before I got one doing research. I am still grateful for the research i did, but some of it was overkill... Just my two cents from one noob to another...LOL