A scout...a min scout with higher speed and smaller hitbox.

Well it's not like I strafe in it...

2 complex, I tried 3 complex plates vs 3 enhanced, didn't really notice a difference so 2 complex.
I kill alot with it, combat rifle because.
Or assault rail rifle if I feel like it.

Really I do much better with it than a pure shield tankedncal assault, nothing instakills me and I have great regen, and a hive.

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lmao
You strafe 20% slower than everyone else and move around 10% slower in general. Easy target.
No Assault uses complex plates anymore, even the Amarr switched to ferros.

Yeah, that's why I can strafe and kill juuust fine.

Wasn't the strafe penalty only 5%?

Then why do I strafe fine?

You can stand still and redberries won't hit you.

Try to find some real opposition and tell me just how many bullets you take to the face.
If they have a combat rifle, expect to die before the second pulse of your triage hives

so much **** waving...

wat about getting rid of the depleted delay a bit like the cal hvy?
otherwise i can see cal scouts with rr's wrecking all from distance while regening through ranged damage

@ people complaining about cal heavies with 120 hp/s regen.
Amarr heavies can have 125hp/s and approach 1500 ARMOR. With over 500 shield ontop of that if you feel like pretending youre a brick. This takes 2 people. They can also have 1200 armor at basic with the same reps.

Cal heavy with this fit would be much weaker at lower tiers, AND STILL GET F*CKED BY FLUXES.

Obviously shield recharge delays would have to be looked at, and i suppose shield regen and regen mods would have to be looked at as well.

There's your difference buddy.
It takes TWO people to achieve this kind of HP and reps, and one of them can't even fire their gun at the same time. And you can severe the repair of the Sentinel, leaving him with a puny amount of repair in comparison.
What happens when TWO Cal Heavys come around the corner?
Each firing their doom machines and together combine to have more HP than the Logi and Sentinel? While each repairing 123hp/s?
Also, 1500 armor is impossible, it really is. The max armor you can get on an Amarr Sentinel is 1300, and that's without any repair module, so you are 100% reliant on a Logi or you die.

what happens when 2 cal sents come around the corner? The same exact thing as any 2 heavies, exept they die alot faster.

Since there is always a logi around in a good match, heavies are always repped after a fight, so cal sents only ever have an advantage is if there are no logis and the enemies don't chase you and let you regen.

1v1 cal sent will always lose if it's a good player. If there is a heavy nearby and not 30m away you can only regen one cycle, I've done it with my heavy, I laugh as they try to regen thier shields But they don't have any time.


PPS: it's proto cal heavy or go home.
low hp or low regen, oh and laser tech still does near instakill damage at pro cal sent, really armor heavies have it so much better.

The question is whether it can be made to work and if so, how?

You can safely assume I consider 123hp/s calsent broken without the delay.

I'm talking with constant 123hp/s regen.
They would be nearly unstoppable in the right hands.

We could try giving all Shielded suits a 1s delay.

That way they can regen very quickly after taking cover, but not through damage.

I'm talking with constant 123hp/s regen.
They would be nearly unstoppable in the right hands.

We could try giving all Shielded suits a 1s delay.

That way they can regen very quickly after taking cover, but not through damage.

alright knuckleheads I'm gonna throw out a concept and we're going to break it, then see if we can put it back together in a semi-balanced way:

Shield recharge is the keystone of shield tanking.

So let's look at the reps. there's no shield transporter, and I'm willing to bet that's a ways off.

So let's look at the two recharge delay penalties. We have two, which seems redundant.

So let's assume the only recharge delay we keep is the depleted delay. Regen happens until your shields pop.

What breaks?

Can you think of a way to mitigate this?

Bear in mind the recharge penalty on extenders is a depleted delay penalty, so it doesn't affect the "Your shields are at half" delay.

this is a mental exercise to see if the concept easily breaks under the strain of math. if it doesn't, then well we may have found the buff shields needed.