nope shields are fine CCP needs to find a way to fix turbo controllers. like heat pershot not second

why is that certain?

Shield suits, like the Caldari assault, are not in a bad state.

I'll just leave this here for you to ponder.

Dust.thang

Scroll down. It will show you the most used suit is the caldari assault.

1. Only 2 weapons have a positive profile for shields.
2. If armour suits have to chose between high reps or base rep, shield suits have to deal with needing a slot for the recharge to kick in faster. No one is forcing you to use a regulator.

Just give caldari a stat increase to sheild hp, recharge rate, depleted recharge time, and recharge time.

Fitting armour means I can't fit biotics, so that's a moot point. Also caldari are not the shield version of the gallente, they are 2 different suits that function very differently.

And please, don't complain that armour suits can get more eHP, doing that means they have no reps, they get caught with their pants down and they get punished for it. Shields need tweaking but caldari suits shouldn't be buffed (except logi cos its abysmal) just because you think it's stats are bad. If anything, all that needs to happen is a fitting reduction, a damage threshold and a shield repairer needs to be added.

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Then ask for a buff to regulators and a buff to the delay on the heavy frames. Also a shield repairer is NEEDED so logis can rep shield suits, it isn't fair that this isn't in the game but its not that shields are bad that cause shield suits to not be as good, its the lack of support equipment.

Caldari vehicles were arguably the strongest vehicles in the game hands down last build, RR [mainly the ARR] is a heavily used weapon that couples solid DPS with range in an anti armour meta, the Bolt Pistol for several builds has been considered one of the best side arms available, you have both commonly used Anti-Vehicle weapons available to your race [swarm launchers and Forgeguns] AND AV grenades, and by a great margin the largest amount of content available to your race AND you have more environmental sockets than the Amarr even have content.

Caldari Scouts have been FoTM before, Cal Logis have been FoTM, Cal Assaults arguably are a FoTM suit to a certain degree being able to break hit detection [Need to ask Jehuty how he does that] and can field suits with 50-74 regeneration per second.

Please do us a favour and open your eyes and realise that you have everything a player interested in Amarr or Minmatar content could ever want.

As for your last jab..... do you gauge the rifles over performances based on a modified anti-shield DPS from a Caldari-centric perspective or based on a poorly thought out comparison between the Tactical ScR variant against a normal AR variant. I definitely admit that both need a balance pass and perhaps a mechanics change but not a massive one.

By that logic yes the weapon is over performing. If you compare it to a weapon of its own variant then you will see that the Viziam ScR's total potential DPS on an Amarr Assault [1164 assuming no misses and max rate of fire is met] is not vastly more than the Duvolle Tactical Assault Rifle which reached 1090 anti shield DPS and a greater anti armour DPS profile.

But if we are making illogical arguments where we are reaching for facts from weapons that should not be compared to one another directlythe Boundless Combat Rifle is not particularly far behind the pack at a potential 927 DPS vs Armour with the Allotek Burst Rifle clocking in at slightly less ar 925 DPS vs Shields.

Looking at the statistics of each individual variation of rifles the weapons are fairly well balanced against one another and indicidative of what you should expect from the class.

Tactical = 1000 DPS
Burst = 900 DPS
Assault = 600-700 DPS
Breach = 550-650 DPS

Perhaps the rifles simply need more of a DPS homogenisation as well as the remaining variants not yet introduced.

1. Fit Regen
2. Use Cover

Seriously, set up a ck.0 with 3x Complex Extenders, 2x Energizers, and 2x Regulators.

You'll have over 500 shield that recharges almost instantly. This will also save you from the "Flux-Push" tactic.

Recharges.
40%
50%
60%

Energizer
55% -2% shield
70% -4% shield
85% -6% shield

A Caldari having a energizer and 4 complex extenders would give them a 58.05 recharge rate and 613.76 hp. Yeah I like where this is going.

Edit: Also interesting thing about the energizers they get better as you stack more of them but the stacking penalty still applies it's just a bit weird. But it's a bit neat.

These are my proposed stats.

caldari may be shield tankers but they are a slow shield-heavy race