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Posted - 2014.05.18 14:13:00 -
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Besides busting down the health gains of plates, while also bumping up the PG requirements (as the Cat said), the usefulness of Ferroscale and Reactive.. There needs to be one.
If you drop plate overall health, you have to hit Ferroscale as well. If you take a quarter (the number Cat tossed out) a Complex Plate(before skills) drops from 135 to 101ish. A Complex Ferroscale sits at 75 (before skills), meaning there is very little difference between the two (a CR sees no difference). A slight tweak to Ferro health, plus a major change to the PG costs (14 PG for Proto, more than a Proto Plate by 2 for 60 less health...) and Ferro could become quite handy.
Reactives... All they do is save you a Low Slot. I can use a Proto Reactive plate and get +66 armor (with skills) and 2hp/s with a measly 1% speed penalty. Or, if I have the slots, I could put a Basic Plate and Basic Rep, get +93 armor and rep rate of 2.5hp/s. Not only do I get better stats, but, I only use 30CPU and 2 PG, compare that to the 36CPU and 16PG of the Proto Reactive. At least I have the slot for the PG Upgrade?
Besides looking at the fitting costs, how would people feel if Reactives required some level of Armor Repair Skill as well? Maybe make that a tier lower than the Plating, so, Basic would require no level, Advanced would require Lvl 1 (or maybe even 2 so that the skill levels can unlock more things, I know CCP loves access skills), and Proto requiring Lvl 3 (again, or 4).
I was going to suggest equalizing Ferro and Reactive armor values, but, I realized that would make Ferroscale pretty pointless (1% speed reduction is minimal as is, and adding 2hp/s for the same armor amount would be stupid). Unless you make Ferroscale easier to fit and Reactives more difficult (but not more than they are). Let's drop that idea though.
Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:Cat Merc wrote:
I was defending the recharge more than the HP.
Which still pretty much invalidates shields as at 40 HP/s there's no reason to use shields.
I think it almost invalidates a Logi as well... I'm trying to imagine a suit with 40hp/s plus a core focused... Pretty beastly.
I think I'm over Dust now...
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