I absolutely have to commend you on your work Aeon, but the efficiency bonus to the skill seems a bit much. Care to explain why you chose such numbers?

I like your proposal but why is EM resistance increased by 1.5% across both damage specific plate types. My main concern is not the Shield Resistance Values but those on the Energized Plating.

With the negative efficiency vs Armour that would be an equivalent 47% damage resistance vs Armour.

I am not sure how I like the idea of having different % resists for each damage type, as it simply makes some modules more effective than others, for example Laser based weapon is weakened most here while others are not, which would weaken the weapon considerably when compared to other weapons fighting against their opponent's 1x resist mod.

If you want to have different % resists for each damage type, then they should follow a logic based on Shield and Armor.

For example:

The lowest progression on Shields is Laser, while the lowest progression on Armor is explosives. Basically making it hardest to fit against a tank type's weakness. [EDIT:] Or perhaps Vice Versa would be better, based on True's Concerns.

Another concern which I voiced earlier is that I don't think general passive resist mods will work as well in DUST, as it becomes a rather straight forward math equation as to when a plate is flat out better than the adaptive, or vice versa. It is, in essence, a false choice as you would (on math) either be choosing the better or the worst one for -all- circumstances.

Another idea is to have these modules increase a tank type's blast weakness (Flux for Shields, and Explosive Splash for Armor) by a moderate amount, with the trade off of even lower resistances so that they are always a 'worse' eHP choice than buffer, but potentially made better by the Flux / Explosive splash resistance. Basically making the desire to take the mod for those unique benefits.

I do like the idea of adding skills for each type though, as I feel DUST could always do with more skills that provide some benefit to skilling into them (Other than just unlocks)

Pardon me for asking but is that not the same for explosive damage weapons like the Mass Driver. I only ask since the resistance for Explosives vs Shielding amounts to a 45.5% resistance. To some degree I was expecting an inverse profile. I suspected you might opted for the addition 1.5% as a result of EM weapons DPS compared to Explosive weapons DPS.

Sorry if I caused a misunderstanding.

I am not in any way supporting "active" mods, as I myself said earlier that I thought they wouldn't work as well.

What I meant was the "omni-resist" mods you were proposing. The concern being with the "omni-resist" mods that it's just a math calculation as to which is better at a given stage: Buffer or Omni-resist.
Again, not proposing active mods.

As to giving laser more resists, you neglect to consider that lasers get that "extra damage" from sacrificing on the other side of things (Armor). With the higher resist given to shield you effectively counter Shields fully with the same effort as any other damage type... but that doesn't "undo" the negative cost laser weapons have already suffered for that bonus, i.e their terrible damage vs Armor. Effectively, this creates a situation where Lasers are unfairly punished for their damage profile, as resist mods equally destroy their bonus same as any other damage profile, leaving lasers with a worse weakness than any other damage type (except explosive which is reversed)

Again wasn't criticising just wondering about your thought process which I see now is outlined.

You should take into account the values for explosive and laser damage with their opposite tank.

In short: Adaptive Armor Plating (electromagnetic) and Shield Resistance Modules (Explosive) should be greatly reduced, i.e smaller than normal resist mods.

In short, they shouldn't be "double punished" for having a +20 / -20.

@Rattati & All else, I strongly believe if this is to happen the sentinel bonus needs to be changed...perhaps to module efficiency of equipped resistance mods

Sorry, I used Shields as an example, but it applies to both tanking types. If anything, it benefits armor more, as they can more easily get more buffer.

You are correct, with plates you would roughly need over 1100 - 1300 (depending on comparing at basic vs proto levels) for a resist to provide more EHP than a plate.

With Ferroscale however, you would need roughly 461 (basic) - 703 (proto) base HP for a resist to outstrip a ferroscale.

Considering Shields perform even worse than ferroscale, this means that the Adaptive modules replace ferroscale and extenders for most respectable armor / shield tankers after a very short point. (In the case of some Amarrian / Caldari suits, this is reached very quickly) After this point, one adaptive always outshines one extender / ferroscale of equal level, although more expensive in fitting cost. EDIT: [Up until stacking penalties, so after 2 (in most cases)]

While I am not against the idea of adaptive (resist all) items, I feel they have to provide bonuses that do not make them required for any eHP fitting, as the idea with resist plates / shield resistance should be that you trade overall eHP for specific weapon damage eHP.

What is with people and Sentinel resistances....

Yeah, sentinels may be for 'point defence' or whatever... But one can achieve that 'role' via other methods that don't involve JUST resistances, JUST damage mitigation and bullet spongy-ness.

Sure, make the role bonus resistance [mod?]-based... but racial bonuses could stand to be much more creative and augment the each of the four sentinels differently to allow for more interesting inter-sentinel combat (and combat in general).

That'd be a different thread entirely, and I'm sure it would be ignored just like my various posts on the generic Sentinel resistance bonuses.

Anyway, blah blah, I support resistance mods being implemented, blah blah.