Of course hardeners are OP. But the problem here is tankers will just hear you saying "it should be easy to kill tanks".

Here's the difficulty scale of killing tanks as it is:

[EASY]----------------------------------------------------------------[BALANCED]------------------------------------------{NOW}------[IMPOSSIBLE]


But here's now tankers see it:

[EASY]-[NOW, "BALANCED']


See, to them, there is no gray area between how nearly impossible it is to take out tanks now, and it being "easy".

we jumped into an ambush match. there was a missile gunnlogi roaming about.

so we both droped madrugars equipped with ion cannons onto the field to eliminate the threat. so we both find and engage the gunnlogi.

i was playing with my best mate last ngith. we jumped into an ambush match. there was a missile gunnlogi roaming about.

so we both droped madrugars equipped with ion cannons onto the field to eliminate the threat. so we both find and engage the gunnlogi. drop his shields below half then guess what.

its a double shield hardner fit.

as soon as these came up his shields didnt budge even though he is under fire from 2 ion cannon's that are both damage modded.
currently sheild hardners give 60% res. and with 2 of these you egt around 80-90% resistence ont eh shields for oh. say 20-40 secendos depending on the type.

so with these dual hardners up and on. the gunnlogi procced to bap both our madrugars with his xt msisile launcher 1 after the other.

now when you ahve just 1 tank under fire from 2 tanks fielding ion cannons. how in any way possible is it that these 2 powerful blaster cannons can not break the shields on a dual hardned gunnlogi. simpe the blaster can not put enough damage through the sheild thresshold.

a ion cannon deals 136.5 damage a shot. and when sheilds resist 80-90% of that it is worthless to shoot as not even a single point goes through, this is because the sheidls are regening more than what you can damage them. even with 2 ion cannons shooting the same tank they wont budge. and also the fact that the shield hardners last a ridiculos ammount of time and deaft the purpose of ''hit and run'' which was the general idea for caldai vehicles. they are now currently at ''stand and deliver'' which is what the gallente vehicles are supposed to do.


currently being able to fit 2 shield hardners is stupid. i have tried both blaster and railgun fits against my friends dual hardner gunni. and **** all damage goes through. missiles arent worth useing vs shields due to the 20 to 30% base resistence to explosives.

this wouldnt be much of a problem if sheild hradners gave 55 to 50% resistence. as fitting 2 of these would at least a blaster tank a chance of breaking the shields rather than haveing to attempt to survive untill the shield hardners drop after 20-30 seceonds.which in a tank fight is too long of a wait.

now i knwo shields have low hp ceilings and inr erturn have hgih ass resistence of 60% on thier hardners. but compared to the amrour harnders boost of 40% its to much of a gap in balanceing armour vs sheilds.

i wouldnt mind if either the sheild hardners lasted a shorter ammount of time. about 15-25 seceonds while retaining 60% resistence and colling down quicker.

or keeping current cycle/cooldown times in exchange for 55% to 50% resistemce boost.

but when you have 2 ion cannon fitted madruagrs with all complex modules (and a basic damage mod) that cant even kill a single gunnlgoi filedng an xt missile launcher and dual shield hardners and a complex sheild booster there is soemhting worng with the sheild hardners resistence boost, 2 ion cannons should have been more than enough to break the sheild threshsold to deal damage. but appaenrlty not since alot of gunnlogi fits use dual sheild hardners these days.