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Cat Merc
Ahrendee Mercenaries
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Posted - 2014.02.23 05:36:00 -
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After running armor suits for the entire duration of Uprising, and then switching back to a shield suit, I can tell you the penalty is far from small.
The mobility difference is huge.
I especially missed being able to jump over tiny ledges.
Shield regeneration bonus for Gallente Assault is about as useful as Sharpshooter for Nova Knives.
Tuna > Tacos
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Cat Merc
Ahrendee Mercenaries
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6740
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Posted - 2014.02.23 05:59:00 -
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N1ck Comeau wrote:Cat Merc wrote:After running armor suits for the entire duration of Uprising, and then switching back to a shield suit, I can tell you the penalty is far from small.
The mobility difference is huge.
I especially missed being able to jump over tiny ledges.
BTW, my Gallente suit has 504 armor and takes 80 seconds to fully recharge.
My Caldari suit has 480 shields and takes 17 seconds to fully recharge.
Repair hives are ineffective until you reach proto, and then they cost so much CPU/PG you just HAVE to bring a logi mule with you.
The only problem with armor vs shields is the logis, their insane CPU/PG combined with 4 equipment, 5hp/s passive rep and up 5 low slots (and a minimum of 4 low slots), allows them to be the ultimate solo armor tanker. I had assumed most people would recognize that i was mainly referring to the Gallente Logi.
Which isn't an accurate representation of armor tanking.
It's broken.
That's like nerfing the AR because the TAC AR was OP.
Shield regeneration bonus for Gallente Assault is about as useful as Sharpshooter for Nova Knives.
Tuna > Tacos
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Cat Merc
Ahrendee Mercenaries
EoN.
6740
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Posted - 2014.02.23 06:08:00 -
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N1ck Comeau wrote:Cat Merc wrote:N1ck Comeau wrote:Cat Merc wrote:After running armor suits for the entire duration of Uprising, and then switching back to a shield suit, I can tell you the penalty is far from small.
The mobility difference is huge.
I especially missed being able to jump over tiny ledges.
BTW, my Gallente suit has 504 armor and takes 80 seconds to fully recharge.
My Caldari suit has 480 shields and takes 17 seconds to fully recharge.
Repair hives are ineffective until you reach proto, and then they cost so much CPU/PG you just HAVE to bring a logi mule with you.
The only problem with armor vs shields is the logis, their insane CPU/PG combined with 4 equipment, 5hp/s passive rep and up 5 low slots (and a minimum of 4 low slots), allows them to be the ultimate solo armor tanker. I had assumed most people would recognize that i was mainly referring to the Gallente Logi. Which isn't an accurate representation of armor tanking. It's broken. That's like nerfing the AR because the TAC AR was OP. it is quite accurate considering all the other armour suits can get all that EHP, just without the other stuff, like the rep. Any armour suit, stacking plates, with any team support at all, is going to be extremely effective. All the armour suits can do it good, just the Gallente Logi can do it all.
Team support.
So I need to be team support to be more effective.
How is that broken exactly?
And stacking plates is the way of the dumb armor tanker, a healthy balance between armor and repairers is necessary.
Logi support, nanohives, they all can be taken away, and then you're left with nothing.
Shield regeneration bonus for Gallente Assault is about as useful as Sharpshooter for Nova Knives.
Tuna > Tacos
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Cat Merc
Ahrendee Mercenaries
EoN.
6741
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Posted - 2014.02.23 06:17:00 -
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N1ck Comeau wrote:\
even with a health balance of the 2, you will still have more total health, and your reps are constant. Also, the nanohives are what help make armour better then Shields. If they reduced the reps given on those hives, that would be a step in the right direction
Look above.
504 armor vs 480 armor.
Both Proto suits, one Gallente and one Caldari.
Did I mention the Caldari one has a Duvolle, Core Locus, Gauged and Ishukone Assault SMG?
While the Gallente one has a GEK38, C7 flux, K2 nanohive and syndicate SMG?
That's because the Caldari one can use a CPU/PG extender, which I can't afford to use on my Gallente suit.
Shield regeneration bonus for Gallente Assault is about as useful as Sharpshooter for Nova Knives.
Tuna > Tacos
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