When you think about it dust high slots are more like eve mid slots, while weapon and equipment slots would be high slots in eve.

I've always found it strange that weapon damage modules are high slot items.

Shield tanks are supposed to be hit and run, high damage, low HP units designed to do burst DPS then take cover to regenerate their HP quickly. The majority of shield modules are high slot items.

Armor units are supposed to be slightly slower, moderate damage units with high HP designed to sit and take a lot of damage over a longer period of time, and thus tend to have pretty solid defenses but with longer regeneration times. Armor modules are generally low slot items.

So why the hell are weapon damage mods high slot? Should the high damage output benefit, supposedly retained for shield units, not be low slot items? Instead they are built more for armor units because they don't infringe on the defensive slots that armor tanks rely on.

As it stands armor is capable of significantly more base HP which is augmented by more benefit from armor skills. This allows massive amounts of effective HP, and then paired with damage mods in the high slots, allows them to have a full gambit defenses as well as the most damage output.

I'm by no mean suggesting a massive nerf or buff to shields/armor, but I feel it would make a lot more sense if those damage modules were low slot items, and would alleviate much of the problems we currently see with Gallente units.


EDIT: To clarify, this change would probably be best paired with a move of many current Lot-Slot utility modules, to High-Slot. This would solidify the concept that shield units get more damage output, and armor units get more utility.

Yep, shield tankers should definitely have literally every single useful utility module.

Oh, and armour tankers should shield tank.

Which slots do the damage mods go in EVE?


Munch

Typically Low. There are a few exceptions but generally speaking they're low slot items. Scanners, EWAR, Target Painters, ect go in Medium Slots, though in Dust that means High. (High Slots in EVE are for weapons and a handful of other modules. Medium Slots in EVE are equivalent to High slots in Dust.)

You do understand that armor and shields at the prototype level have near exact same HP values right?
My Gallente assault - 504
My Caldari Assault: 490~

In an FPS environment going SLOWER is bad, generally. So to make up for it they have better health and access to better damage but generally armor tankers don't have many high slots.

Shield tankers have high mobility and relatively high up time and can engage far more frequently thus damage is not as important as oh say speed to duck in and out of combat which is a low slot item.

This ^^

You people seriously want to be able to run rings round armour tankers AND out DPS them !?

Shield tanks are supposed to be hit and run, high damage, low HP units designed to do burst DPS then take cover to regenerate their HP quickly. The majority of shield modules are high slot items.

You do realize that if you run Damage mods on a Shield based dropsuit you are running high damage low hp?

Well if an armor tanker wanted to have lots of HP and go fast, he can't reliably do it, because one plate is more than enough to cancel the effects of any kinkat he could install.

A RoF Module would be awesome awesome for low slots.
but no time soon of course.

I've always found it strange that weapon damage modules are high slot items.

Shield tanks are supposed to be hit and run, high damage, low HP units designed to do burst DPS then take cover to regenerate their HP quickly. The majority of shield modules are high slot items.

Armor units are supposed to be slightly slower, moderate damage units with high HP designed to sit and take a lot of damage over a longer period of time, and thus tend to have pretty solid defenses but with longer regeneration times. Armor modules are generally low slot items.

So why the hell are weapon damage mods high slot? Should the high damage output benefit, supposedly retained for shield units, not be low slot items? Instead they are built more for armor units because they don't infringe on the defensive slots that armor tanks rely on.

As it stands armor is capable of significantly more base HP which is augmented by more benefit from armor skills. This allows massive amounts of effective HP, and then paired with damage mods in the high slots, allows them to have a full gambit defenses as well as the most damage output.

I'm by no mean suggesting a massive nerf or buff to shields/armor, but I feel it would make a lot more sense if those damage modules were low slot items, and would alleviate much of the problems we currently see with Gallente units.


EDIT: To clarify, this change would probably be best paired with a move of many current Lot-Slot utility modules, to High-Slot. This would solidify the concept that shield units get more damage output, and armor units get more utility.

A roll on floor module?? I want me one of those, I'd stack three complex ROF modules and roll to the objective really freaking fast... maybe the complex module could be a ROFL module... just an idea.