Wait, I thought that the CR had the opposite profile of Scr. Wouldn't it be 80% shields 120% armor?

So with Prof at 5 (using current mechanics)

SCR: 138% shields, 80% armor.
CR: 80% shields, 138% armor.
RR: 90% shields, 126% armor.
AR: 126% shields, 90% armor.
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That's odd, Why is the CR different from the rest? Shouldn't it be the weakest weapon against shields?

Explosives are the thing that are 80% shields - 120% armor.
Or at least it should be.

Ya but if they applied that to the CR wouldn't that make it, i don't know, balanced?

Proficiency shouldn't increase damage directly, but increase the application of that damage.

AR could perhaps increase range. Rail rifle could decrease kick. Scrambler could decrease heat build up.

Something along those lines. Something that isn't a direct DPS increase, but makes the current DPS it has easier to apply.

causes more damage....why wouldn't I get this skill?

That's odd, Why is the CR different from the rest? Shouldn't it be the weakest weapon against shields?

Causes only slightly more damage to your weapon's most effective damage type.

This will not appreciably increase your weapon's overall performance.

Is this REALLY worth spending 1.5 Million SP to Skill up?

when you have 40 million sp you'd be surprised what you find worth spending sp on

CCP made their Proficiency Skill the wrong way. Instead of increasing the strongest damage type of the weapon, Proficiency should increase the weakest damage type.

Example : ScR Damage 120% Shield - 80% Armor
Prof 5 increases Shield Damage : ScR Damage 135% Shield - 80% Armor

Prof 5 SHOULD increase Armor : ScR Damage 120% Shield - 95% Armor

To become Proficient in something is to overcome its weakness ... this should mean that Proficiency Skill would increase a weapons weaker Damage type to make the soldier more deadly.

As the Proficiency Skill exists in 1.8 there is really no reason to skill into it ... (in the example above) the shields will already be depleted very rapidly with the base Damage of 120% ... increasing the damage vs. shields will have little effect on the weapon's overall performance.

This leaves little to no reason for someone to Skill into a weapon's Proficiency, other than being required to be able to equip PROTO/Officer Weapons, as little to no benefit becomes of it.

If Proficiency Skill improved the weapon's WEAKER Damage type there would be incentive for people to skill as high as they could in a weapon's Proficiency, as it would greatly improve the weapon's overall performance.

Well, you are the exception ... MOST players in this game have less than half the SP you do ... and spending a month's worth of SP on a marginally effective skill is probably out of their reach when there are so many more skills that produce a better effect per SP spent

Not if assuming the CR uses Depleted Uranium for ammunition. In EVE, that is High Explosive, Medium Kinetic and High Thermal damage. Thermal is roughly equal against shields and armor, while Kinetic and Explosive more into armor. Resist mods aside.

The fact that PR is so weak against armor however, makes no sense. It should fire Thermal/Kinetic and be average at both.

But this isnt EVE, so... Just trying to justify the damage profile for the Cr :P

CCP made their Proficiency Skill the wrong way. Instead of increasing the strongest damage type of the weapon, Proficiency should increase the weakest damage type.

Example : ScR Damage 120% Shield - 80% Armor
Prof 5 increases Shield Damage : ScR Damage 135% Shield - 80% Armor

Prof 5 SHOULD increase Armor : ScR Damage 120% Shield - 95% Armor

To become Proficient in something is to overcome its weakness ... this should mean that Proficiency Skill would increase a weapons weaker Damage type to make the soldier more deadly.

As the Proficiency Skill exists in 1.8 there is really no reason to skill into it ... (in the example above) the shields will already be depleted very rapidly with the base Damage of 120% ... increasing the damage vs. shields will have little effect on the weapon's overall performance.

This leaves little to no reason for someone to Skill into a weapon's Proficiency, other than being required to be able to equip PROTO/Officer Weapons, as little to no benefit becomes of it.

If Proficiency Skill improved the weapon's WEAKER Damage type there would be incentive for people to skill as high as they could in a weapon's Proficiency, as it would greatly improve the weapon's overall performance.

Well, you are the exception ... MOST players in this game have less than half the SP you do ... and spending a month's worth of SP on a marginally effective skill is probably out of their reach when there are so many more skills that produce a better effect per SP spent