I've always liked the idea of them but thought the reduction even at proto level was just too small to be worth it.

Now if I could use them to get my delay down to like 1 sec, that would be useful.

for a scout suit at least. i was skilling them up for my caldari scout in 1.8, but while testing state complex ones on a scout mk.0, i noticed how useless they were, and here's why:

1.) it didn't really affect how fast shield delay was. it was noticeable, but it was still around 3 seconds, so it wasn't enough of a difference to matter. it did affect the shield depleted time, however i don't armor tank my scout mk.0, so with 77 armor, if i lost all of my shields then 9 times out of 10 i was dead before they had a chance to start recharging again.

2.) the loss of speed wasn't really worth it. i generally run 2 complex kincats in the low slots for my scout mk.0, so while using the shield regs, i was a lot slower than i normally am. the trade of kincats for shields regs was horrendous. since i couldn't run that fast, then i couldn't avoid gunfire like i normally was able to. needless to say, the cons outweighed the pros by a long shot.

i wouldn't recommend them to any scout, because you have to give up way to much to even use them.

i kind of dodged a bullet here. good thing i noticed all of this before i wasted another 730k sp on getting them to proto. also not so sure i want to get shield recharging to 5. they are much more useful than shield regulators, but i think i'll work on my cloak and magsec smg before taking them too much further.