It doesn't need a regen buff. I already have that. It doesn't help

I'm supposed to be the enemy of all things Caldari, so I shouldn't even be talking. ButGǪ any room for improvement in your dropsuit DOES need to stay within the lore/racial technology of the dropsuit. Otherwise, there's no fun or racial motivation in choosing one suit over another.

Caldari tech is about layering of shield energy and keeping a safe, covered distance from your enemy. Caldari don't explore recycling the energy faster, or restoring it quicker, or temporarily amplifying the shield in short durations.
GǪ.Minmatar are reportedly the geniuses for "regen" and re-"energizing" the weakened shielding.
GǪ.Amarr are (or will soon be) the masters of pumping POWER into "hardening" shielding in quick durations.

Caldari are only interested in layering more shields or reactivating a depleted shield module sooner.

For better or for worse, this is what you are stuck with if you love your Cald-design dropsuits. Your challenge is to make it work.

Honestly, the best thing that can be done for shields right now is fix the Scrambler rifle. Three shot kills on the heaviest EHP suits is not the way it should work. Shortening delay times and raising the threshold only works when you actually survive a volley. Check my other posts for some real interesting numbers. Right now the AScrR is rampant. Every kid and their mom runs it. Notice the kill feed next time you play. No reasonable amount of shield buff can fix the fact that the scrambler family is just way out of line with the rest of the guns and right now way over used because of it.

But armor suits got a shield delay nerf. From 7 depleted to 10 depleted. In other words, it makes the other regen much faster than the other side when it comes to shields.

I was using the 'Ukko' fit the other day, put 2 more militia regulators and went to town with it. I really don't know what the problem is.

Its really not that simple.

I just made a caldari fit today: Three extenders, two complex rechargers, two complex regulators, and a CPU upgrade. That fit had 530 shield HP, >200 armor HP, 88 Shield HP/S, and >2.00s recharge times. On paper, that's a very viable fit. However, there are multiple problems with this fit in practice.

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1. Laser weapons invalidate this suit (essentially).


The ScR has a base damage of 75Hp. Therefore I'm taking ~90HP (85.8) per shot, up to ~70m. So my suit can take six ScR shots before the shields drop, and then three shots before the armor drops. Let's just call it an even 10. If we consider someone who just is using the ScR with Prof. 5 (I.e. no damage mods), then the damage per shot goes up to ~100HP (98.67). With one damage mod, the HP per shot is at 106Hp, and with two, we're at 112HP. So, my very shield oriented fit can survive about 6 shots from a Scrambler rifle with someone who has fit their assault with just two damage mods (Which I am assuming is fairly common, if not conservative). Or, with a more likely scenario, 1 charge shot (~340HP) and three to four follow-up shots. And that is all valid within 75m of the user.



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2. Flux grenades invalidate this suit

With flux grenades doing 1200 shield damage in a 12m radius, there is no way to fit my shields to tank that. There's no way that anything other than a poorly fit caldari sentinel can possibly tank that. No amount of fitting is useful when a single grenade (12CPU / 3PG) can cancel out 7 mods worth of shielding in a second. If flux grenades had an analog in-game right now, there would be a riot. It wouldn't be fun to have your well fitted Gal Assault destroyed because a "Core Shredder Grenade" destroyed all of his armor and left him with 200 shields.



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3. Lack of equipment/team support pushes me to the sidelines of fights

Shield triage hives don't exist. So when I'm in a fight with a Gal Assault user at range, I pit my shield regen up against his compact (or triage) nanohive. At most, my shield regen is 88HP/s with two rechargers. In that fight, the Gal Assault is getting between 70HP/s and 80HP/s (20-30 from native reps, 50 from nanohive). And this a conservative number. If that Gal assault has any sort of team support, then my solo shield suit gets out-repped by the duo. You can't build a shield suit that depends on teamwork like an armor suit

This problem isn't solvable by "just adding regulators to your lows".

everf tried fitting shield regulators/ rechargers/ energizers??

they fix your dely problems.

your caldari suits have lows for a reason./ not armour.

3x Complex Extenders, 2x Complex Energizers, 2x Complex Regulators

I am literally performing better with that than I ever was before, even when I used Scrambler Rifles stacked with Damage Modifiers.

What everyone needs to realize is the beauty of the Caldari Assault Suit is when you use it to pick and choose your engagements. When I hang out at medium range and take cover whenever my shields get low, I am a serious threat. If you use Caldari suits like the Caldari intended, you will win.

The issue here is the damage mods. You should be able to fit damage mods, just like an armour tanker.

If energisers were buffed, you could get a good shield tank like this:
2 damage mods
1 energiser
2 extenders
2 regulators
1 biotic

All that needs doing is a buff to energisers so that you can fit damage mods as well as shield tank, and get a high enough regen to make up for the lower hp and regen delay compared to armour.

These suggestions stink. I can do really well with just 200-300 shield buffer, it's apparently hard to rub two brain cells together and not ruin this game with pure QQ.

There's nothing wrong with fitting two shield regulators. Yes armour tankers can fit damage mods without sacrificing tank, but they have to sacrifice plates to fit repairers.

Fitting regulators plus one or two energisers is how shield tanking should be. It's just that the amount of regen gained from this should be enough to make it worthwhile.