shields work well if you play as intended with caldari/minmatar.

Caldari, Primary racial enemy is Gallente specialize in short range high damage weaponry. keep at range and receive small amounts of damge from your enemys wepaons as you're outside their optimal range.

Minmatar, Primary racial enemy Amarr. slow dumb, cumbersome opponents, use fast hit/run tactics taking short amounts of high damage with fast recharges of shields.

yeah soemtimes a suit doesn't have the racial weaponry but if you see a lot of reds using Combat rifles, change to heavy shields, if they're using BAR change to armour tanked rail rifle. as i've said in many posts before. DUST is rock, paper, scissors (lizzard, spock) don't come QQ'ing because your scrub FOTM is gettign its ass kicked, look at whats killing you and find the rock to crush their scissors

To put this into perspective

I have my Gallente Assault suit into level 4 and my Caldari Assault into level 1.

All armor skills for infantry in level 5 and all shield skills in infantry level 3.

Last week I got a 'Pyrus' ADV Cal suit. Since it is an Aurum suit I could use it even if I have level 1 in CalAssault.

I slapped in an ADV Rail Rifle toppled with 2 Enhanced Shield Extenders and 1 enhanced energizer and 1 enhanced recharger. On lows I put 2 enhanced regulators.

I went 20/1 with that suit sticking to it's supposed fighting style which is long range.

On my GalAssault I the most I can get in an average match is 15, on a good match is 20+ but also dying 5+ times

If you want to use a Caldari suit for close range combat then you will be at a disadvantage ofcourse.

Now, I will admit that Skirmish and Domination game modes are not good for the suit because if you want to win you gotta hack the objective. In Ambush these suits shine a little more since the only objective is too kill.

Now, I believe that when Skirmish 1.0 makes its long awaited return, Caldari suits would start to shine even better.

But for now also look at the kill feed. All you see is:
Combat Rifles
Rail Rifles
Assault Rail Rifles
HMGs
Breach ARs
Shotguns

Now, 4 of those are anti-armor weapons and absolutely wreak armor.
2 of them are Anti-Shield but one needs for you to get extremely close and the other well, it's not that OP.


Now, you should feel ashamed that I can use shield suits better than you, and I have been running all armor suits and Gallente suits 90% of the time ever since Uprising launched.

It's the argument that shield tank QQers have been making all of this time. Maybe Piercing put it in a way that's more appealing but he's saying the same thing that everyone else is saying.

Plus, I don't understand how a 1v1 faceoff would be undetermined but a team of armor tankers would beat a team of shield tankers. ??