Sergeant Sazu
Snow Pirates
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Posted - 2014.01.26 01:53:00 -
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Whoah, are you guys seriously complaining about shields adding less than armor?
Shields can be extended less because your shields comes back fast once it starts to, and has resistance to more things than armor does. So obviously it would be fair to have less of it. Where as armor returns rather slowly.
It's just a matter of fairness.
On a personal note, I've stacked 2 Enhanced Shield Extenders on a lot of suits, and through experimenting learned that having a Complex + Basic takes up the same amount of space, but adds more shield. However this should stay as it is. It's an incentive to get Complex instead of stopping at level 3.
Also, I've always liked the idea of infantry getting Resistance Modifiers like vehicles did before the update, but it would be horribly abused unless there was a severe stacking penalty or inabilty to have more than one at once. |
Sergeant Sazu
Snow Pirates
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Posted - 2014.01.30 01:42:00 -
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Spkr4theDead wrote:You see, there's something called balance. Shield auto-regenerates without needing any modules, while you need a module to repair armor.
Everything already melts through armor much easier, why should shield have any more obvious advantages?
Exactly the point of my earlier post, but the numbers seem to sway people.
I recently got the ADV Minmitar Assault suit with a setup that works really well.
It has 405/169 HP, and an Ishukone Assault Submachine Gun as my primary, taking advantage of the clip size boost.
Pretty much, I just mow through everyone with my quickly returning shield and high movement. Yes, a Standard Gallente suit could easily pass 400 armor, but it doesn't fully return between fights. This is why shield extenders suck, otherwise I would be unstoppable. Plus, any armor tanker that shows up, I simply remove their pitiful shield, and then introduce them to my M1 Grenades. I pretty much don't die until I get teamed up on by 3+ people.
Shield tanking done right^^
Basically, with good shields you're brand new in a matter of seconds, while with armor you have to wait a while or have a repair buddy with you.
You guys get it now?
Oh my, protostompers. Well, there's this neat thing called a Forge Gun...
Raking in the rage mail.
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