you're stupid because

• Amarr are annoyed about it too. We can't even use shield extenders or sidearm mods anymore.
• Try a shield extender out. It'll save your ass from remote explosive deaths, and in certain situations it's better than a second heavy mod. It's really useful when you're not engaging a ton of heavies and don't need extra HMG damage.
• shields also help immensely against forge gun blast damage

You do know sentinels get a 25% damage reduction from splash damage? Shield extenders are useless on armor based heavys i would rather use a damage mod to squeeze more damage out of the HMG. And why you complaining? Amarr sentinels have the highest natural HP and now that on proto they get 4 low slots they are becoming the hardest to kill heavy.

What in the sideways hell are you talking about? Both gal and amarr have armor resist against projectile 10/15. They're not changing the bonus just the slots.

I can see why people don't want a respec, because they don't want everyone all of a sudden switching to the Amarr scout or everyone all of a sudden switching to the Amarr sentinel and so on. But if everyone is switching to the same thing, shouldn't that be a sign to you guys that something isn't right? Perhaps CCP should keep doing hotfixes alongside respecs until they get a fairly equal distribution of allocated SP among players.


I have Shield Extension to level 5 as well because Amarr suits used to have all those lows and only recently has CCP started correcting it so Amarr have much higher preference to lows (as it should be). But what was I supposed to do before all this? And now I have about 1 million SP in Shield Extension I will never use.

Thats why I love Gallente suits in general, I love that shield HP and badass armor reps ticking up at the same time.

Oh Im not disagreeing with the change, I think it makes sense. I was more speaking to the point that I like to use a lot of reps on a Gallente suit because the shield is a nice buffer that recharges on its own. It allows the Gallente to be more regen focused than the Amarr since their HP is more balanced between Shields and Armor than the Amarr are.

I'm actually a little excited for this change, I might try some new fits.

Now this does bring up the interesting question of....what about the bonuses? Before the Amarr had the split resistance between shield and armor because of their 2 high and 3 low, whereas the Gallente had the dual armor resist because of the 1 high 4 lows. If we're going to go with the mentality that Amarr should be pure armor and Gallente a armor focused hybrid, should the Amarr and Gallente have their bonuses changed?

CCP hasn't changed anything yet nor have they made any decisions yet. Last thing I heard was CCP Frame saying to remember it is all speculative and later Rattati saying the same. Sounded a little ominous to me.