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-Shield Adaptation ( Reduces CPU usage of items associated with this by 3% per level )
Basically this skill lets you use one of 2 things. A Shield hardeners and Resistance amplifiers. One thing to note
Shield hardeners are basically useless! They increase your resist to enemy damage by 30 percent, but only for 10 seconds
trust me this is not worth it.
Use Resistance amplifiers

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Equipping 3 hardeners, a shield booster and a shield extender would give me a constant active resist with some extra hp, is this doable? Also stacking 3 active hardeners and 2 15% passive resists and going all in on damage reduction how much damage could I take?

you don't need a speed booster on shield tank, just put a shield amplifier or azeotropic shield extender

Should I bother having a Sica or should I always call in my Gunnlogi? In my brief life of tanker (only 1.5 mil SP) i never got my Gunnlogi popped and I lost about 4 Sicas

You may not be specced into Armor Tanks but is there any plan for an Armor Tanking version of this guide?

Check back here in a few hours about armor tanking. I don't armor tank but I do have a bit of knowledge in that respect from an armor tanking buddy of mine. I can help you make the right fitting choices and maybe post a bit on the skills required as well. Something similar to my original post inc.

:D Thanks!

Ok so here I am again poking you guys, what do you think about active sinks?

In particular for a railgun fit operating between 40 and 150 meters?
I like having the capability to push with the team and I cannot always recall my tank and switch to a blaster because of blueberries so I always feel like I'm not putting down enough shots due to heat buildup, should I use an heat sink?
Active or passive?
If I have an active heatsink and I overheat can I activate it to cooldown faster, or does it only work reducing heat buildup between shots?

And also: could someone breakdown the various turret tipes (blaster, rail, missile)?
What is the difference between standard, scattered, compressed, etc... for hybrid turrets?
What is the difference between standard, accelerated and fragmentation for missile turrets?
Is there a single Rail/Blaster/Missile that is better and I should always use?

Finally: Enforcer tanks?

I know it's a lot of questions but I really want to learn

Equipping 3 hardeners, a shield booster and a shield extender would give me a constant active resist with some extra hp, is this doable? Also stacking 3 active hardeners and 2 15% passive resists and going all in on damage reduction how much damage could I take?

Good questions!

For a rail gun, yes you will want a heatsink. In my earlier days of tanking I used passives, but now I always use an active on my rail tank.

What it does is reduce the heat cost of each shot by the % amount described in the description. So for an active heatsink you will want to activate it before firing.

The way your hybrids work:
Standard is just that, your standard nothing special turret

Scattered I think has better tracking speed, turret turns faster ( never ever use myself)

Compressed is your high damage output version, but typically produce a lot of extra heat, in the case of railguns they also have a charge time of 2.2 vs the standards 1.8. Check the descriptions, namely the attributes.

For missiles:
Frag missiles have extra explosive radius, 4.0 compared to standard and accelerated of 3.0 good for killing infantry but less damage overall.

Standard are just that, standard missiles

Accelerated are higher accuracy at range missiles, less spread. Damage is the same as standard.

Cycled missiles shot missiles in 3 shot bursts of 3 missiles or something like that( not my favorate) and the explsoive radius is 1.8, not good for shoot infantry.

And enforcers, are crap in my opinion, namely because of the price tag associated with them. 1.2 mil for one, and your standard tank is 200k. And the bonus really isn't great, but the worst part it takes like 2 mill sp just to get the enforcer skill to level 5.

The shield version and armor version both have an extra low slot(shields) and a high slot (armor). On the shield version you could probably equip an extra pg booster and make a better fit overall, but the armor versions slot is pretty much useless. I myself haven't bother with them, yet. Working on raising the skill to do some testing, but way I understand it, 'AV comes out of the woodwork to kill an enforcers. I know in game I always focus hard and heavy on them. Killing one gives you a bit of extra income!

i have posted about turret use in my above post. scattered btw is lower tracking speed and large cycled just fire .3 seconds faster then standard. compressed blaster should never be used because their high hit but lower RoF puts them at the same DPS as standard blasters but just w/ higher heat build up and there is no way to OHK with blasters. finally enforces are overpriced and have a speed reduction of 32% base on top of the lower stats. the rest you can read about them in game.

Thanks for the info man, my turret info was just off the top of my head. I thought maybe the cycled would be useful for anti-vehicle engagements, given the burst which might in turn give you tighter spread. I never use them anyways!

And do all enforcers have the speed reduction? I can see the armor version having a speed nerf but 32% less on a shield enforcer is just freakin insane!

Put a reference for turret info and enforcer info to your post here. Thanks man.

Aaaaaaaand I'm back! It seems I'm not able to fit on the PG side an ADV blaster along with a heavy azeo extender and a heavy ward booster. On the low slots I'm using two of those 15% pg modules. Am I missing something? Are there skills that reduce PG usage by modules? Is it possible at all to fit those at the same time?

Since 1.4 is dropping tomorrow and shared vision will be disabled between players, but scanners will still work fine I'm gonna be playing with them in my tank, I'll keep you guys updated

I think my problem is the logibro mentality, always my squad first