Vulpes Dolosus
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Posted - 2015.03.17 17:26:00 -
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Shield tanking will always be worse than armor, mainly because flux grenades wipe out any shield tank, and to a lesser extent Scrambler weapons (highest burst DPS light weapons, highest damage profile, against the weaker tank (in terms of straight numbers)).
Other factors include: minimal speed difference per hp lost (due to ferroscales being about as good as extenders and fitting difficulties between kin cats and shield extenders), repair tools/hives for armor competing shield's higher native reps, and the lack of a damage threshold for breaking shield regen (people stopping you shield regen by plinking you from 80m doing <5 damage or falling down a small drop).
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Vulpes Dolosus
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Posted - 2015.03.17 17:47:00 -
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Boot Booter wrote:Vulpes Dolosus wrote:Shield tanking will always be worse than armor, mainly because flux grenades wipe out any shield tank, and to a lesser extent Scrambler weapons (highest burst DPS light weapons, highest damage profile, against the weaker tank (in terms of straight numbers)).
Other factors include: minimal speed difference per hp lost (due to ferroscales being about as good as extenders and fitting difficulties between kin cats and shield extenders), repair tools/hives for armor competing shield's higher native reps, and the lack of a damage threshold for breaking shield regen (people stopping you shield regen by plinking you from 80m doing <5 damage or falling down a small drop). What exactly would you change to balance them?
I don't know exactly, I have a few ideas but haven't given a whole lot of thought to it:
Change SCR profile to 15/-15
Nerf fluxes (keep range (for clearing equipment) but nerf damage, perhaps add an AV variant with much higher damage but lower radius and only affects vehicles, something like that)
Some sort of shield repair tool/hive. I'd like them to be somewhat unique from repair tools functionally, but that's for a different thread.
Lower fitting for extenders slightly
Damage mods to low slots (highs can have alternate weapons mods if they're introduced: range, dispersion, cool down, etc.)
Just to name a few things.
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Vulpes Dolosus
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Posted - 2015.03.17 18:49:00 -
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Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:Vulpes Dolosus wrote:Shield tanking will always be worse than armor, mainly because flux grenades wipe out any shield tank Considering a core locus grenade will do the same in most cases and actually kill you, I don't see the problem.
Not with a shield buffer or poorly thrown. The kill radius is much smaller than an equivalent flux grenade (even a STD flux).
Throw a core at a ak0 Sentinel and attack then do the same with a flux to a Ck0. Which is easier to kill?
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