Meeko Fent
Kirkinen Risk Control
Caldari State
2092
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Posted - 2014.11.18 05:30:00 -
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PURE Shield
****. Too low HP to be anything other then sniper or scout. And if you're a sniper, you're prolly going to want damage mods, which take up highs along with shield mods.
PURE Armor
Rather good. Armor plates provide a good buffer, with highs open to damage mods meaning some pretty packing fits available.
Bricked on Shield
Quite good. The natural speed of shields make the penalty to speed less felt, and get another huge boost to EHP. One of the 2 fits I run.
Bricked on Armor
Ehh. The small amount gained by using extenders is less then what could be gained by the damage mods.
Of course armor suits DO lose a little strafing ability, but personally, unless you lie on the really bad at strafing or really good, you don't have any MAJOR difference in strafing. Why sentinels suck at strafing, scouts are great, and assaults are all kinda average at it.
Because you wanted to be something you're not.
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Meeko Fent
Kirkinen Risk Control
Caldari State
2092
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Posted - 2014.11.18 05:37:00 -
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Joseph Ridgeson wrote:The primary weapon of the primary Shield Tankers has a huge delay meaning that the weaker defense doctrine generally gets hits first before able to hit back.
The native repair of Shields allows the user to heavily stack Extenders and not worry about Rechargers. This is not so for Armor. This means that a Shield user saves SP if they do not want to use Rechargers/Regulators. However, on the flip side, Rechargers/Regulators are separate skills so Armor tanking only requires 3 skills to Shield tanking's 4.
Ehhh...
That recharge is great, but the recharge I feel is a bit too long for what shield was meant to capitalize on. Taking a hit and QUICKLY topping you're health off to allow reengagement with armor guys who haven't healed all the way back already (provided they don't have logi support)
I have to sacrifice my all important (and already smaller) buffer to get good recharge to capitalize on my strengths
Not to say shields are in a bad way, by no means are they. But the seem to not be being used as they were designed to back when we added energizers to balance S/A
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