If you cut the armor too low you become susceptible to Flux grenades and Laser weapons.

My suggestion is to give it a 2 HP per second built in armor repair, so that you donGÇÖt get gimped by not having a low slot and at the higher level you can fit something other than the Armor Repair.

That being said, I tested the Standard Caldari Sentinel suit running with an HMG and found it to be viable. Not having the armor repair was not as big an issue as I expect.

I think a small amount of armor repair built in for all suits makes sense at this point. All suits with very rare exception hybrid tanking to some degree, so even Caldari units expect to take armor damage at some point, yet are often restricted by low slots so its not advantageous to waste a slot with an armor repairer.

Perhaps add a +0.2 Armor Regen/second per level to the Core Dropsuit Upgrades skill?

do not touch my calsent.

It is a pure shield tank. I pack about 900 shields with a regen rate of about 60 per second-ish and I run a regulator in the low. It is also my most survivable suit.

You may not change my slot layout. jerk.

I believe in running reactive plates in my low slots definately worth it.

Give me your fit i can barely fit 2 rechargers on it and im maxed.

Currently at standard lvl the caldari sentinel has no lowslot though a fair amount of its HP is armor (525HP shields, 390HP armor). Its a silly concept cause at standard lvl it cannot repair itself and is not self sufficent in that regard. I would say shift some HP from armor over to the shields mayble like 635shields and 260 HP armor (130 armor HP shifted to shields).

Another thing is i cant really make decent use of modules like shield regulators cause it requires usually 2 to make good use of them. So the sentinel should have changed module slot progression like this:

-STD
2 high.1 Low

-ADV
3high, 1 low

-PRO
3 high, 2 low

Overall the suit has more shields which it can faster regen and has better survivability vs HMG's and with 2 low slots you have more fitting freedom as just a reactive plate/armor repper. So at proto with all skills to 5 the suit would have stats like this:

Fitting (tank with lvl5 skills):
-2 rechargers, 1 shield extender, 2 shield regulators (all complex)
Shields: 866,35HP
Armor: 325HP
Shield regen: 66HP/s
Shield regen delay: 1,6 secs non depleted and 0,5 secs depleted
(comparison to what we have today is 4 secs non depleted and 1 sec depleted)

Overall the suit would make much better use of shield modules and the layout change would aswell offer more freedom as just "put a armor rep on". With the Hp shift from armor to shields it would compensate for the loss of 1 high slot. And remember shield tanking is not just a thing for highslots.

So please pickup the original concept that rattati was thinking about previously. Its for the better of suit.

The caldari sentinel should mirror the gal sentinel.

No it shouldn't.

Symmetry is awesome in theory and gets crapped on in practice.

And I am well aware of the recharge delay. Im a horribad person who enjoys making that window of opportunity so tight you couldn't pull a needle through it with a mack truck.

And it works. Less than 30 seconds to max shield from zero.

I wouldn't mind if all suits had passive armor repair, as long as my Gal suit gets more :>]