With max skills and no mods, a CalSent will have 656 shield HP (rounded down, 525 base shield HP + 25% from Dropsuit Shield Upgrades, (5% Shield HP per level.))

Hopefully I'm doing this math wrong. It looks like even a STD Flux will wipe out a max skilled CalSent's tank.

With max skills and no mods, a CalSent will have 656 shield HP (rounded down, 525 base shield HP + 25% from Dropsuit Shield Upgrades, (5% Shield HP per level.))

I'm assuming the Sentinel's resist bonus applies to grenade damage since, you know, grenades are all splash damage. After the max skilled CalSent's bonuses are applied, the STD Flux will still do 900 Shield HP of damage, and totally wipe out your shield.

Am I understanding this right that any Joe Schmoe with a STD Flux will be able to wipe out any CalSent's tank and then finish him off with a peashooter?

Hopefully I'm doing this math wrong. It looks like even a STD Flux will wipe out a max skilled CalSent's tank.

With max skills and no mods, a CalSent will have 656 shield HP (rounded down, 525 base shield HP + 25% from Dropsuit Shield Upgrades, (5% Shield HP per level.))

I'm assuming the Sentinel's resist bonus applies to grenade damage since, you know, grenades are all splash damage. After the max skilled CalSent's bonuses are applied, the STD Flux will still do 900 Shield HP of damage, and totally wipe out your shield.

Am I understanding this right that any Joe Schmoe with a STD Flux will be able to wipe out any CalSent's tank and then finish him off with a peashooter?

Ahem

it has a 1 second depleated shield recharge delay.

That is all

The FLUX grenade is a special duty weapon. Not too many people use it. If it's only good against shields and equipment, so be it.

Ahem

it has a 1 second depleated shield recharge delay.

That is all

Ahem

it has a 1 second depleated shield recharge delay.

That is all

A few points.

I'm not sure why Rogue Saint had the idea that I'm running without Shield Upgrades V. I am. Not everyone is. I was clarifying for my post that I was using numbers including that skill.

Frank Olson, Flux grenades are no where near as rare in my experience as they seem to be in yours. I see Flux spam all the time.

Beck Weathers and the other 1 sec depleted shield recharge delay crowd. I know. I mention the case of a gorup of shield tanked CalSent's getting hit by an EMP OB.

So how fast are those shields recharging? 30HP/s, base. Someone tosses a flux, comes around the corner 2 secs after your shields are wtfpwn'ed. After the 1st sec, without mods, you've recovered 30 shield. Dude barbeques you with basically whatever weapon he's holding. Or even better, armor tanker gets caught in his own flux, already in your face, and starts shooting you right away. What happens then? You get wasted. There's no rush to kill a CalSent after he gets fluxed. Especially once you've recover 100 or so shield HP and a single shot will activate your regular shield recharge delay of 4s.

Smooth Assassin, you quoted my whole post and then said "They're AV +AE". What are? Fluxes? CalSents? Not fluxes, because I'll run them like I said above. I'll fit up an armor tank, and pop a flux in my own face to take down a CalSent and then burn through his little bit of armor.

Luk Manag, with 1.8 bringing the full line up of (supposedly) dedicated shielding tanking Caldari suits, I would love to see shield reppers. Just a point on your shield extender bit, yeah, putting any shield extender on a CalSent would be usless. 66HP from a complex extender is only a 10% increase to your HP with max skills, but by the time you get Shield Extension V to use complex extenders, you get a 10% bonus to their efficacy, so complex extenders will give you 72 HP. Which is still basically useless compared to the CalSents pool of shield HP.

And with 2 cplx energizers (which it more than has room to fit) it pulls back shields at 80hp/s 1 sec after being fluxed or 4s after taking regular damage. Gets better with a regulator too.

Ahem

it has a 1 second depleated shield recharge delay.

That is all

Its actually 65 hp/s with 2 complex, skills btw

Out of curiosity
Would a stacking penalty apply to Energizers and regulators together?

They are separate

Flux grenade is a specialized grenade.

If it DIDN'T wipe out shields, locus grenades would do everything better.
Literally everything.

Well maybe except wiping out uplinks, but bleh.

Sleek Locus is gonna be the equipment slayer in 1.8.

Splash Damage: 200
Blast Radius: 9 m

Equipment have 400 hp... or 450

In 1.8 all equipment will have 100 hp.

I think fluxes will still do better in terms of equipment clearing since they can go through obstructions (i.e. fluxing the tabletop or bridge from underneath).

They are separate

This is incorrect.