So I've been playing with a new shield booster fit and have come to the same conclusion I had before. That they don't work the way you expect them to work.

I have noticed some talk from people claiming that perhaps you are taking so much damage that the booster is essentially canceled out. I can confirm that this IS NOT THE CASE.

For example, a standard blaster hitting you with a hardener up. Activating the booster quite literally does nothing. Same with a swarm user who would normally not do enough damage with one volley, yet active one as you are taking damage and nothing happens.


I do wonder though if these are working as intended. My guess isn't that it provides an injection of 1900 shields as it describes, but that it KICK starts your natural regen at a much higher rate until it reaches the "boosted" amount. So by this logic, any damage that would cancel the threshold for shield regen would also cancel the booster.


Another instance that makes me think this is when I had a swarmer hitting me in a pub match. It was near the end of the match and I was a bit curious on the amount of damage I could withstand from him. So I simply took the damage, got low and activated the booster.

This is where it got interesting. I hit the booster and started repping shields back but one volley hit me right as shields started regening. I did get my full boosted amount. But as the next 2 volleys came in and made contact, my natural regen did not stop though those volleys. I was repping at a rate of 300 - 400 shields rather quickly until I was back full again. After a short break for the swarmer to reload, I took damage as normal with no funny shield regen.

TL;DR
So in short, the booster kickstarts regen, at a MUCH higher rate than normal. So since it's tied into shield regen, any damage that is over the threshold that stops shield regen also neutralizes the booster. This may be intended, and if so, the description should be changed to reflect this.

Fit: 2 shield hardener - Heavy booster

Sure this could work in actually making them work the way most think they should. I'm a little hesitant on increasing the recharge threshold to 100% though.

Honestly I don't think they need to start regen. It should work like a heal, healing your shields by the listed amount. With shield recharge remaining separate. It provides one pulse for the listed amount then it's done.

I mean they did this once, before the major vehicle overhaul, with the shield reppers. Each pulse provided x amount of shield for x amount of seconds. When they came out with these I really expected them to work just like that but at one pulse rather than several.

In either case, intentional or not, I would like to see the description updated to reflect actual operations. And another small thing to note, given the how resource intensive the heavy mod is, it would be best to use a small. As it would provide nearly identical results since you have to break damage to begin with.

I'll be testing a small to see if it works any better.