I personally like the proposed new suit bonus for Caldari but unless regulator/energizer modules get a buff I'm still not feeling Caldari..

If anyone remembers in Chromosome when shields would instantly start to regen in battle (unless depleted) I believe this was a bug but made shield tanking VIABLE (some would say broken) but this "bug" was removed/fixed before TTK dropped so low and Armor received a buff, I don't believe it would be seen as broken now..

Caldari assualts need a viable shield boost method, as it stand now we have to give up EHP to boost (which is fine) but the recharge delay against TTK makes it extremely worthless....

Im sure im going to have people say "shields aren't meant for CQC, they're meant for hit and run" I call BS especially being first line of defense... I remember in Chromosome when I actually played with regulators in my lows and I got mail after mail asking how do I take so much damage... Well its because the suit was actually working/boosting well with the regulators and how I see it, "as intended"..

Has anyone tried building a purely shield tanking suit recently? I did and it sucks.

Not at all.
It just means you can cut down your enemies from afar while close range units get in to wipe them out.

And armor has no choice, it's either brick or brick, so no choice for shields.

3x complex shield extenders
1x complex damage mod

1x enhanced CPU mod
2x complex regulators

Gauged nanohive
M1 locus
Duvolle
Syndicate SMG

With the assault bonus I regenerate at 31hp/s with a delay of 2-4 seconds. (Don't remember by now)

EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE, and is noticeably more mobile than my Gallente suit.

No one will play shields if we gotta sit at leadt 40 meters away from an objective.

Just a few notes:
I am as effective in both a Gallente, Caldari and an Amarr suit.

I find it hard to believe shields are underpowered when I pull off games that are as good or better than what I get with my Gallente Assault.

Mobility reduction can be a *****.

I think the simple solution would be to increase TTK so you can survive long enough to leverage your un superior regen as armor regend sll the time.

... Okay.
You realise that fit has 500 shields? And a damage mod as well?

In what way is it significantly outperformed?

That's a suit with 470~ shields.

Pathetic attempt.
Armour regens at a much lesser rate while giving up significant resources and slots.

Try again.

FWIW, that's the way I've found works best for my RR-equiped shield-tanked Caldari suits. Stay just behind the front lines using the superior range of the RR and the superior shield regen of the suit to its advantage.

It's not even about dodging bullets, that should be reserved to scouts.

It's about range dictation, getting away when needed, surprising your enemy with lightning attacks.
I can do all of that much better with a Caldari suit than my Gallente.

Resorted to parroting now, have we?
I will stop defending armour when you come up with a logical response that I cannot see a reasonable counterpoint to.

Try again, scrub.

Because you suck arse.
The average armor suit can take like 3-4 bullets more than the average shield suit.

Unless that dude has inhuman reflexes and has his turn speed hacked, can't see how you can't pump that little extra amount of bullets.
Especially into a target that is slower.

*slow clap*
I am truly impressed by your score. Clearly you are not a scrub and know exactly what you're talking about.

600 armour can be killed in a single second if you can aim, by the way.

We both have shields maxed.
Try harder.

I don't know about that one . Complex armor repairers work just fine and with the bonus of efficacy they work great . Armor tankers who place more armor on at the expense of the repairer because of the sake of damage mods and knowing that you will have a logi on the battlefield , take those type of risks on their own .

My armor is maxed out but I just don't use the complex repairers from lack of CPU / PG and my unwillingness to place CPU or PG enhancers on . Armor is in a way better state than shields now so shields need some type of buff for balance sake . The shield regulators and generators are somewhat like garbage and their CPU / PG is taxing to say the least when you are using complex on advanced frames . Even advanced would be taxing and would force one to loose a large portion of offense when you have players running double and triple damage mods .

I believe that ALL assaults should have their CPU / PG boosted along the lines of the LOGI .

Shield extenders need a small buff. At the very least the enhanced and proto. levels need re-configuring. Regulators need a better regen. timer to depleted shields. This would encourage us Caldari to stop 'brick tanking' and focus on our shields. Without it there is no reason to stop. Armor is better then shields right now. Pure shield tankers are non-existent because of this unbalance between shields and armor.