Charlotte O'Dell
Fatal Absolution
Public Disorder.
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Posted - 2014.02.08 02:12:00 -
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The two have always been imbalanced.
Until 1.4, shields were the best, now, armor is better.
There are a lot of things to consider when judging this, such as how logis are fit as assault and have a passive armor rep, and that the combat rifle does +10 to armor and -5 to shields.
However, I don't agree with current penalities and tier systems for the two module types
Shields scale 22, 33, 66, increasing 33% in power from basic to enhanced, and 100% from enhanced to complex.
Armor scales 85, 110, 135, increasing 23%, and then 19%, accordingly.
The penalties are imbalanced, however.
Armor plates provide an enormous boost in HP for extremely little PG and CPU, when compared with shield modules, and only have a small penalty to speed. Their main drawback is the requirement to fit reppers.
Shields make better solo suits, as they should (combat logi taken out of consideration due to 1.8 changes), but have a huge CPU/PG cost, compared to armor, and stacking more extenders increases recharge delay- no good. No good at all.
The best solution would be to change how shield modules scale, to match with armor- 50, 62, 73, or something of that nature. Their fitting cost needs to be reduced as well, not to the same level as armor, as it has a passive regen and does not take up low slots, but enough so that fitting a well shielded suit does not REQUIRE CPU modules, and instead, can fit shield regulators.
Other problems with shield modules are energizers, rechargers, and regulators.
Energizers and rechargers are far too similar- energizers, at complex level, have a recharge rate bonus to HP penalty of 60:6, while rechargers have a ratio of 42:0. The difference needs to be more exaggerated. A change so that energizers give a 100% recharge bonus at complex level, while having a penalty of 30% to shield HP would do well, while rechargers would have a 40% bonus, and a 5% HP penalty.
Regulators need a lot of work. On a Caldari suit, a single complex regulator reduces recharge time by 1.5 seconds (assuming no recharge penalty was in effect)- that is hardly worthwhile. They should be changed so they are worth fitting- perhaps, at complex level, a 40% bonus would be in effect.
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