There's been some discussion lately about the effectiveness of armor repair (vs shield repair). I'm curious to get peoples' opinions on armor repairers vs reactive plates vs just regular plates (and I guess ferroscale plates, too).

I've heard that there's really two camps on the issue: you can go full repper (for best effect) or full brick tank. The full repper setup takes advantage of the armor repairer's function of continually repping while being hit, whereas the brick setup usually uses all armor plates and perhaps a reactive plate for some innate repair.

I've heard arguments that a full repper setup is better on a heavy suit (to better augment logi rep tools), while some people have claimed to go full brick setup in that case.

I'm really curious to hear about the community's thoughts on effectiveness/useage of armor tanking modules. Do Gallente setups do best with reppers or brick? The others, with no innate rep, do they need at least a reactive plate/repairer? Do shield tankers typically fill their lows with armor tanking modules, or do shields provide enough tank for speed mods?

wtf are reactive plates?

Garbage

Ferros are lighter and should have lower fitting requirements
Reactives... I'm not sure on
Plates are perfect
Reps are pretty good
Shield Extenders need lower PG requirements at ADV and PRO Variants
Shield Rechargers,Regulators and Energizers are fine how they are

Reactives, need a slight rep buff
Plates need a added 1% penelty
Reps need a buff by 1 or 2
Shueld extenders need to give 75 hp at pro and atd and adv need balancing
Shield mods need lower req's, slightly
Shield regs need a slight buff.

This is to much, in eve the current balance is 1 armor plate of the same level gives twice to 2.2x more HP than a shield extender of the same level. The difference is the repair between both where a shield ship repairs at 1.5x to 3x faster than an armor ship although that high repair is very dependant on a shield booster it is not acquired passively. The balance between shields and armor is way off when compared to EVE. What you suggest shifts the balance to heavily favor shields we are very close to balance but that balance does not indicate any buffs to shields only some fixes to fitting costs and a proper scaling to armor plates. In fact in EVE shields have a penalty to sig radius (a hit box in an fps) so consider yourself lucky that this isn't being used. As for the armor penalty does not decrease your top speed only your acceleration and turn speed, so our penalty is very harsh compared to eve.

Exept armor reps rep more than boosters in eve.....

wtf are reactive plates?

The only way reactive playes will ever be useful is if they can compete with plate/repper combos. Right now they just can't, and they're useless for it.

There's been some discussion lately about the effectiveness of armor repair (vs shield repair). I'm curious to get peoples' opinions on armor repairers vs reactive plates vs just regular plates (and I guess ferroscale plates, too).

I've heard that there's really two camps on the issue: you can go full repper (for best effect) or full brick tank. The full repper setup takes advantage of the armor repairer's function of continually repping while being hit, whereas the brick setup usually uses all armor plates and perhaps a reactive plate for some innate repair.

I've heard arguments that a full repper setup is better on a heavy suit (to better augment logi rep tools), while some people have claimed to go full brick setup in that case.

I'm really curious to hear about the community's thoughts on effectiveness/useage of armor tanking modules. Do Gallente setups do best with reppers or brick? The others, with no innate rep, do they need at least a reactive plate/repairer? Do shield tankers typically fill their lows with armor tanking modules, or do shields provide enough tank for speed mods?

There's been some discussion lately about the effectiveness of armor repair (vs shield repair). I'm curious to get peoples' opinions on armor repairers vs reactive plates vs just regular plates (and I guess ferroscale plates, too).

I've heard that there's really two camps on the issue: you can go full repper (for best effect) or full brick tank. The full repper setup takes advantage of the armor repairer's function of continually repping while being hit, whereas the brick setup usually uses all armor plates and perhaps a reactive plate for some innate repair.

I've heard arguments that a full repper setup is better on a heavy suit (to better augment logi rep tools), while some people have claimed to go full brick setup in that case.

I'm really curious to hear about the community's thoughts on effectiveness/useage of armor tanking modules. Do Gallente setups do best with reppers or brick? The others, with no innate rep, do they need at least a reactive plate/repairer? Do shield tankers typically fill their lows with armor tanking modules, or do shields provide enough tank for speed mods?

And for your last question, spread it out. for assault g-1 and g/1-series use 2 reppers and a normal plate, at proto go 2 plates 2 reps

I just made an assault gk.0 with all reps and its really good. 27hp/s. I run 3 enhanced shields and 4 complex reppers with waterer i want as a gun. U run faster than with plates and i get 550hp as a total. As soon as you take damage it just pops back up