Its actually a bit more than 30 due go efficiency bonus, and you be neggating so much damage ypu wouldn't need health 37 dps is now 7 dps and when they reload you've already gained 60+ healthy back

i dunno. i really like this idea, but some of those numbers are still a little high. i don't think any of the shield based suits (exept for logi) should get more than 2 armor repair a second, and maybe even the logi no more than 5. because they already have shields that regen, and armor is just a backup

also even some of the ones for the gallente suits where pretty high, and need to be lowered just a tad.

oh and CCP already beat you to this, i don't know if you noticed but Minmatar Assault already has 1 HP/S armor repair on it XD i love me ma 1 hp/s, it has never saved my lilfe once... but it does allow me to go hide in a building alone and contemplate my life while my 135 armor slowly slowly regains from the 10 that it was at. then in 2-3 minutes i'm good to get back into the battle for a couple of seconds!

This gets a no from me.

First off, dual tanking is its own beast and is easy for Armor AND shields if your talking about true dual tanking and not the use of a single mod. Remove Ferros if you want to they do nothing for armor tankers.

Second, the repair rates for both are very comparable. Armor will have the advantage in short 15 secs or less fights due to the shield delay. You assuming 60 secs is the fault of your argument as no firefight lasts 60 seconds. If your talking 1v1 then one of you is dead by this point. Shields will have the advantage in between skirmishes until armor whips out the triage hives or rep tool where they then have the advantage.

One thing you must remember is that armor tankers have their shields up front acting as buffer resistance and quick regen. It may only be your base shields but 100hp+ will help a lot in short fights (which most fights are). Shields have no passive armor regen unless logi and get little resistance buffer from it.

There is no big resistance difference between shields and armor...seriously none. If you think explosive weapons are so powerful (they are supposed to be 120% to armor) then imagine shields facing a laser (120% to shields) which do similar damage but have about 5x the range. There are more viable lasers then there is viable explosive weapons.

Gal Logis will be more powerful than Cal Logis just from the bonus as there rep rate will be 17.5 vs Cal 20 assuming 2 reppers. If you want passive armor regen go Logi. Don't bring that into the other suits.

Passive Armor Rep is BAD.

It makes the usage of Armor Reps obsolete.

Why Skill into Armor reps when you don't need them?

To get a faster recharge, at the cost of 150 HP?

They'd be like Shield Rechargers. Sure probably SOMEONE uses them, but they are useless due to the fact that shields recharge naturally.

Sure, SOMEONE might use them after they implement this, but why? You can get WAY more Buffer, by using those slots for Plates, and you still recharge!

-1. Making a type of mods completely pointless is bad design. Point in case, Rechargers. The Reps are a part of the Armor Tanking lifestyle. If the 1.5 Penalty is introduced, which I hope it is, then Shield and Armor Tanks will need the same amount of Skills to be fully effective. Tada.

EDIT- Or, if you do this, Make Plates give similar HP bonuses to extenders.

No. Time to realize that there will be differences with armor/shield tanking, and regen is one of them. If you're sad your armor is being depleted on your shield suit, there are nanohives that will fix that problem for you. The fact that you realize these exist, but state that their under-utilization is cause for an across-the-board buff for passive armor regen, hurts your argument.

Given that there are solutions for a depleted armor amount--namely armor rep nanohives and Logi mercs--there doesn't need to be a buff so much as everyone needs to realize and use the tools at their disposal. This is a team game, and teams of people should think about coordinating their actions so that their team is stronger overall. If one more merc has to step up with a repair tool, then so be it. Problem solved.

Another thing to realize is that there's going to be fitting choices. Do I have more buffer? More repair? Faster shield regen? More shields? Etc. Some of those fitting choices are going to mean that you can't have everything you want. If you want to repair your armor, use the module for that (or, of course, the aforementioned hive/Logi). "But I want to use that lowslot for an energizer!" Well, then you don't have armor repair. That's the way fitting choices work.

If any buffs are needed, I would submit that the actual armor repair amounts provided by the modules themselves could use a slight bump, but only because armor repair---which happens regardless of in-combat or out--is supposed to be an "over-the-course-of-the-fight" type of tank. Meaning, shield is about buffer (surviving long enough in combat using speed/raw shield amount to kill before being killed) and armor is about tanking sustained damage while killing your opponent. At least that's what their regen/module active time/etc. indicate. However, with the armor plate buff incoming, it would seem that CCP has in mind that an armor buffer *could* be larger than a shield buffer, albeit with a speed penalty, but of course it would not regen at that point.