Scrambler Rifle don't give a ****.

Overall damage profiles from every weapon and explosive resistances not including AV weapons.

Scr does 40% more damage to shields
Ar does 20% more damage to shields
These are the only weapons I ever see, must I go on?

Please remove this misinformation

20 and 10

Caldari CK.0
S-210
A-120

4x66=264+210=474

S-474
A-120
Speed penalty= 0
RegenerationS= 31.25
Delay= 5/8
RegenerationA= 0



Gallente GK.0
S-120
A-210

4x135=540+210=760

S-120
A-760
Speed penalty= 14.28%
RegenerationS= 25
Delay=7/10
RegenerationA= 0

In comparison the CK.0 has an EHP of 594 and the GK.0 has an EHP of 880, in this scenario the GK.0 has the space to equip 3 damage modifiers that will boost his damage to 25% but the CK.0 can equip one complex armor plate which will negate the damage boost at the cost of 5% speed. In this new scenario the CK.0 now has an EHP of 729 while maintaining higher mobility and regeneration and thus negates the damage modifier argument. From my calculations 1 point of shield does not equal 1 point of armor, the HP difference is that shields is roughly 30% more resistant to damage than armor. So taking the 474 and adding the 30% damage resistance gives 616 shield HP plus the armor (210=135) gives an EHP of 871. Now comparing both suits again the CK.0 has 871 EHP, 4.75 m/s, 31.25 HP/s to 70% of his main HP, and 2 open low slots. The GK.0 has 880 EHP, 25% damage (negated by armor modules the CK.0 can possibly equip), 4.3 m/s, and 25 hp/s to 14% of his main HP.

Please remove this misinformation

20 and 10

Scr: +20% to shields, -20% to armor, 20+20=40
Ar: +10% to shields, -10% to armor, 10+10=20

Get it?

Scr: +20% to shields, -20% to armor, 20+20=40
Ar: +10% to shields, -10% to armor, 10+10=20

Get it?

Actually your numbers are wrong; the ScR does 50% more damage to shields than it does to armor, and the AR does 22% more damage to shields than it does to armor.

For example: ScR has 100 base damage, but 20% extra to shields means 120 DMG to shields. For armor, it's 80%, so only 80 DMG to armor. Therefore 120/80 = 1.5, or 50% more damage to shields than it does to armor.

The above reasons aside, high buffer armor tanking will always trump shield tanking because of the multiple external methods that exist to regenerate armor (repper hives, rep tools) which coincidentally also generate a ton of WP. Not to mention that a high buffer armor tanker who knows that he will receive external support can devote all highs to damage mods and all lows to plates, relying on teammate reppers to regenerate his armor.