Well when basic plates give more hp than complex extenders
and will we get ferroscale extenders? (No penalty)
And regulators have little effect
I run 3 extenders this doubles my cool down and if I try to counter act it I lose 80hp

Well when basic plates give more hp than complex extenders
and will we get ferroscale extenders? (No penalty)
And regulators have little effect
I run 3 extenders this doubles my cool down and if I try to counter act it I lose 80hp

it specifically states DEPLETED recharge delay.

a caldari assault has a base depleted recharge delay of 8 seconds, and i feel that it is a common enough suit to be a reasonable example.

now i don't know how much a proto extender will slow recharge, but lets assume 10% (this was how much the old complex armor plate slowed movement, so i think it's a reasonable worst case scenario)

so we fill the highs with extenders for a 40% increase in depleted recharge delay.. bringing it up to 11.2 seconds. (i'm gonna say 11 seconds because of reasons)

that's an increase of 3 seconds. on your DEPLETED recharge delay only. how often is that going to come up, REALLY?

how often have you gotten AWAY from a gunfight after your shields depleted for 8 full seconds, but NOT for 11 seconds? and honestly if they find you in that window aren't you likely dead anyway? if you're stacking extenders then you're NOT stacking rechargers, so that 3 seonds of shield regen you'll now be missing out on wasn't worth much anyway?

looking at this another way, how many people actually bother to use shield regulators? that is essentially the same stat that we're discussing here, just pulling in the other direction. if you DON'T use regulators, then you already DON'T value recharge delay very highly, and this nerf will likely have minimal impact for you.

and i guess this finally solves the "why should armor plates have a built in penalty if shield extenders don't?" question. of course we were all asking that when a militia plate only gave 40 armor instead of 85... and a complex plate had a 10% movement penalty instead of 5%....

don't get me wrong i get that this is a nerf that's probably not needed since ccp has been buffing the crap out of armor lately, and it may affect different suits differently (off the top of my head i expect it to hurt scouts more and heavies even less) but i really don't think it's going to be the end of the world? i doubt it will even affect how i fit?

Added shield extender 3% penalty - stacking slows down the depleted shield recharge delay.

If I'm reading this correctly, there is a 3% stacking penalty on the depleted shield recharge. So, using the same math as the OP, 4 extenders would lead to a 12% penalty to the depleted shield recharge. With a base recharge of 8s, the modified recharge would be ~9s.

I doubt most people run four extenders in the first place. For me, I would only lose a fraction of a second on most of my fits. With this said, it still seems like an unnecessary nerf. I was actually anticipating a small shield buff in 1.7.

If I'm reading this correctly, there is a 3% stacking penalty on the depleted shield recharge. So, using the same math as the OP, 4 extenders would lead to a 12% penalty to the depleted shield recharge. With a base recharge of 8s, the modified recharge would be ~9s.

I doubt most people run four extenders in the first place. For me, I would only lose a fraction of a second on most of my fits. With this said, it still seems like an unnecessary nerf. I was actually anticipating a small shield buff in 1.7.