It would be OP.
Imagine a cal sent, with 80 or even more shield recharge and no delays.

Seriously though I don't support it as a armour and shield tanked player with 2 logis with 1 shield and 1 armour rep tool would be OP (hence my NAMELESS post)

I would mind a shield booster like on tanks though.

It would be OP.
Imagine a cal sent, with 80 or even more shield recharge and no delays.

There isn't a single anti shield weapon that cannot casually annihilate this advantage even with the laser and plasma resists.


And quite bluntly a shield transporter that simply jumpstarts the regen and adds 15-25 shield regen per second would be on par with the 125 HP/sec core armor repairer used by logis.

It doesn't require much to matter, but it needs to matter.

The thing is lasers and blaster weapons rip trough shields like nothing and if you are not armor tanked its basically game over. On medium-long range you should have the option to get supported by a logi. And i certainly have seen enough armor tanked suits with rail rifles and scramblers who are getting repped by logis. Then there is the case of flux nades which wipes all of your shields when beeing hit and thats even the case when it was a militia.

Then we have the trench war ambush meta where 2 sides collide with each other but nobody moves. Armor tanked suits have the advantage cause they generate more WP and in the end just can OB the enemys to win the match.

Another thing is why beeing upset about high regen on shield suits? you have to sacrifice HP to have that kind of regen but the fact that passive armor reps+armor repair tools stack aswell is beeing ignored. In fact lets see how much armor rep a amarr sentinel can get:

AK.0 sentinel with 4 passive reppers:
39 HP/s and has 750HP armor with lvl5 skills

Minmatarr logistic with a lai dai flux repair tool:
87,5 HP/s

both combined:
126HP/s

So tell me now again why a shield recharger tool would be OP? The amarr sentinel has more armor HP without any plates then a cal. sentinel has shields with 2 extenders and 2 energizers. The truth is the amarr sentinel would beat the regen rate of the cal. sentinel by 1HP/s. Point is invalid for those fearing of "++ber repping heavys" cause that one certainly is allready here.

Seriously though I don't support it as a armour and shield tanked player with 2 logis with 1 shield and 1 armour rep tool would be OP (hence my NAMELESS post)

I would mind a shield booster like on tanks though.

Thats a pretty good concern to bring up. Do armor repair tools stack? I forget.

I think they do, maybe they shouldnt, for the same reason you bring up.

Also while on the subject, I think a deployable shield generator would be pretty cool. Think a dome forcefield that protects equipment and mercs when no cover is available. 400 or so health, 20hp/s recharge, 20 second depleted recharge delay.

This would be OP, for instance your team is that fricken good that they take no armor damage, so you switch to your shield rep tool from your armor rep tool, then drop them some Gauged hives to supplement their bullets. Unstoppable force!

This shield booster should overheat after boosting for a bit to prevent spam though and allow for a well timed takedown of the sentinel with enough coordination.

It would be OP.
Imagine a cal sent, with 80 or even more shield recharge and no delays.

This would be OP, for instance your team is that fricken good that they take no armor damage, so you switch to your shield rep tool from your armor rep tool, then drop them some Gauged hives to supplement their bullets. Unstoppable force!

Because equality of armor AND shields is somehow considered a nerf rather than parity.

There is nothing unbalanced about a shield repair tool.

Especially when armor rep tools are so damn powerful.

And the core 120 or 125/sec combined with the minlogi rep bonus is... not insanely potent?

How the everliving fck is having a shield rep tool somehow OP in the face of THAT??

I like the idea.

How about a shield regen nanohive as well? You could maybe keep the Cal logi bonus to hives but make shield hives the primary method of regening other's shields. This would maintain some distinction between armour and shields.

I'm not opposed to shield recharger tools, but I think it would be kinda boring if they worked just like armor rep tools for shields.

Why not make them a bit different?

Instead of giving them a set number of shield hp/s I think it would be interesting if shield tools worked kinda like a combined recharger + regulator.

(Just some numbers out of my ass so you get what I'm talking about. Totally not balanced.)

PRO Shield Modulator Tool
target receives:
+65% shield regen
-35% shield depleted delay

Cal Logi could get a bonus to those tools, e.g. 25% bonus to regen = 81.25%; 50% to delay = 52.5%

In that example a Cal Sentinel with 3x extenders + 1x energizer + 1x regulator could have a regen rate of ~95hp/s, with a delay of ~1.16s while still having 830 shields and 100% mobility.

The idea behind that is that shield suits couldn't just stack a ton of extenders and run around with a 0s delay shield rep, but instead continue to work like shields usually do.

The shield user can make the shield tool more useful by using rechargers/energizers + regulators on his suit, but he has to give up hp for it.

It would require new coding and maybe a clientside update. While my idea allready exists in the game files, just remember back when the Logi LAV's had infantry support modules. They just need to flip the bonus from the reptool and maybe make the beam blue instead of yellow.

Another issue with your idea is that the logi would get no triage WP cause he actually doesnt generate HP for the game mechanic to work.

A logis main WP generation comes from the logistic work he does and if that doesnt work out nobody wants to use it. This is the main reason why for example minlogis are so much liked simply cause of the reptool beeing aible to generate tons of WP. While with the nanohive bonus you only get 10 WP for resupplying ammo.

Basically its like this:
-no WP reward= no incentive to spec into it.