Some math.

Militia large railgun does 1450 damage. Let's assume they don't fit a damage mod. with a 9% damage bonus to shield (is this ever going to be fixed CCP?) we arrive at 1580.5 damage. Two 40% hardeners reduce this to 568.98 damage (1580.5*0.6*0.6)

The base 2650 shield will go down in 4.1 hits. So a double hardened shield tank will go down in 6 shots from a militia railgun. Adding a proto shield extender brings this to 6.9 hits.

So basically, a militia tank that anyone can use can now kill a double hardened Gunnlogi within a single magazine. Dropships are now even more squishy, because they have to sacrifice most everything to get their health even close to the base health of a sica.

You need to seriously rethink this hardener nerf. The resists were fine, it was the cooldowns that were the problem. Now militia tanks will be even more prevalent, because it is no longer worth the money to run anything stronger.

Also, bravo on cutting railgun range, but giving it the same range as the forge gun? Really? Way too much overkill.

Hard to say how my dropship feels about this. At least they can't kill me in the flight ceiling

With the way FG are DS will survive fine, add in the rail nerf and its even better to fly the skies, swarms wont do ****

Yea um forges already wreck dropships with hardeners on, I predict the incubus getting 3 shotted by forges with hardener on..l

FG require aim and have a 300m limit

I can generally fly around unchecked and it takes 2 FG or a rdline rail to put the hurt to my fit

Either way its a massive buff to my DS

Not really
Python gets wrecked by forgea, now they wont be abke to attack the forger

Some math.

Militia large railgun does 1450 damage. Let's assume they don't fit a damage mod. with a 9% damage bonus to shield (is this ever going to be fixed CCP?) we arrive at 1580.5 damage. Two 40% hardeners reduce this to 568.98 damage (1580.5*0.6*0.6)

The base 2650 shield will go down in 4.1 hits. So a double hardened shield tank will go down in 6 shots from a militia railgun. Adding a proto shield extender brings this to 6.9 hits.

So basically, a militia tank that anyone can use can now kill a double hardened Gunnlogi within a single magazine. Dropships are now even more squishy, because they have to sacrifice most everything to get their health even close to the base health of a sica.

You need to seriously rethink this hardener nerf. The resists were fine, it was the cooldowns that were the problem. Now militia tanks will be even more prevalent, because it is no longer worth the money to run anything stronger.

Also, bravo on cutting railgun range, but giving it the same range as the forge gun? Really? Way too much overkill.

I think changing their effectiveness based on tiers would have been much better.

Shield:
Militia/Basic: 40%
Enhanced: 50%
Complex: 60%

Armor:
Militia/Basic: 20%
Enhanced: 30%
Complex: 40%

Or Something along those lines.

I think changing their effectiveness based on tiers would have been much better.

Shield:
Militia/Basic: 40%
Enhanced: 50%
Complex: 60%

Armor:
Militia/Basic: 20%
Enhanced: 30%
Complex: 40%

Or Something along those lines.