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Posted - 2015.07.26 17:14:00 -
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DeadlyAztec11 wrote:I doubt it. The Minmatar Assault is one of the the best.suits in the game and yet is a shield suit. I think the issue is that many people are trying to use shields as simply another type of armor.
They forget that while armor is supposed to be a brawling type of defense shields are supposed to be weaker but quickly repairable. Granted it's unfair that to run armor one must skill into only two specific skills while shields must skill into three.
Shields don't really feel that bad to me.
Scrambler Rifles are not necessarily out of line though when compared to the Standard AR and Rail Rifle on the Caldari Assault they are. The Standard AR needs a fundamental buff because currently it is not better than the Standard Scrambler Rifle or Assault Scrambler Rifle in close quarters. The Caldari Assault skill needs to be changed because better reloading is weak. It is very useful at level V with level V reloading, but it would be better to have a skill that allows one win a fight so one can worry about reloading.
I disagree. The Minmatar Assault may be a shield suit by lore, but the flexibility of its slots coupled with the very low (comparative) fitting requirements of armor mods makes it way more beneficial to run the suit as an armor or dual tanked fit. I've been shield tanking for about two years, and genuinely enjoy the faster "Stick and move" playstyle of shield tanking. However, it is impossible to make a shield fit that can compete in a way that armor fits can't do as well, or better.
Case in point: I currently have ~40M SP and was messing around with some Mk.0 fits. This fit is way more competitive than this one. To summarize, my armor centric fitting gains 92 eHP, 8 armor hp/s, and a 13% light weapon damage increase. The "sacrifice" I incur by choosing the first fit (armor) over the second one (shield) 18 shield hp/s (25 v. 43), four seconds on my shield recharge delay, and five seconds on my shield depleted delay.
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