Mina Longstrike
Kirjuun Heiian
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Posted - 2015.06.08 15:19:00 -
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You've summed it up fairly well... armor gets to have both damage and high raw HP and continues to recover through small amounts of damage (combined with the fact that the 'standard' of armor / armor repair is usually around 700ish hp and 20-25 rep)
Shields have lower raw HP values but higher regen values (sometimes) and they don't continue to recover through small amounts of damage.
This is exacerbated by the fact anti-shield weapons have higher inherent DPS (even assuming neutral profiles, not the exaggerated ones that are a reality) than anti-armor weapons. So even if they had the same raw hp values, shields would take more damage from anti shield weapons, the fact that they have less HP yet still take more damage makes it so that proportionally any damage taken is higher and lasts longer (because yay idiotic delays!).
Compound it with the fact that armor users in the majority of fights get to use 60-100% of their shields every time (which often makes up a non-insignificant amount of hp, ranging from 20-40% of total hp pool) where shield users usually have to fight on only their shields (cutting their total available HP pool down to 60-80% of listed EHP value... where they take proportionally more damage). Shields often feel like they're fighting with only ~half of their EHP value when put up against anti-shield weapons.
My proposition: A small EHP buff to shields, potentially the removal of the shield delay on extenders. Some sort of shield penalty to armor modules - armor reps = longer shield delays, armor plates = less shield hp or rep.
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Mina Longstrike
Kirjuun Heiian
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Posted - 2015.06.08 16:18:00 -
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^My proposition is based more on shifting a larger total % of the HP pool onto the primary tank for armor, rather than having a robust and frequently accessible non-primary tank.
Are you trying to say that it would be 'unfair' for all armor users to have ~amarr scout levels of shield HP? Cause I don't think it would be, I mean that's prettymuch the position that shield users are in with regards to proportional damage and armor.
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