What is that intended to achieve?

Well I mean I was just suggesting higher armour regen but like I said I haven't properly thought of it.......

shields finally get a break and now someone is already looking for another crutch

armor works just fine if you don't like speed penalties use ferros and you always have the option to stack a kincat

just because shields got a reasonable buff doesn't mean armor needs to change as the two suits that are primarily armor tanks already have higher ehp and can rep without delay trough damge with a buff from rep tools

its not like the armor meta changed any if at all shiled suits still die just as fast, they only have better survive ability meaning they can walk away from skirmishes more often instead of being put out for half a minute at a time just to fully rep back up

shields still suffer form many of the old problems that many complained about and anti shield weapons can still take then down before they can react if you get the jump on em

oh and I might mention that a breach shotty can one shot most if not all shiled suits other then heavies, while the AR can still shred trough em with or without the RoF bonus

I dont even have to get into laser weaponry that should be obvious

the point is armor still has a lot more benefits then shields do and armor users will still not do well with shield suits due to the vastly different play styles involved and the learning curve that it takes to get used to the other when you constantly run only one or the other

the one thing I would give armor and all the suits for that matter is slightly better base armor reps

Pretty sure amarr should have more armor regen than min. Because if they had this high regen they would have shield,stamina and armor regen better than amarr.

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Armor tanking has been and still is the superior of the two. "Punished for using plates" lol....How??? Ferroscale plates have no movement penalty and they yield more hp than shield extenders, while utilizing less cpu/pg at the same time.

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Armor tanking has been and still is the superior of the two. "Punished for using plates" lol....How??? Ferroscale plates have no movement penalty and they yield more hp than shield extenders, while utilizing less cpu/pg at the same time.

Armor tanking has been and still is the superior of the two. "Punished for using plates" lol....How??? Ferroscale plates have no movement penalty and they yield more hp than shield extenders, while utilizing less cpu/pg at the same time.

the reason armor suits should have higher base regens are for two main reasons the sake of survival and self sustainability (relying less on equipment to rep back up)

my suggestion would be to start from the top and work our way down

from gal to min to amarr to cal respectively

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my thought for this is to keep things in line with gal suits being the best for passive reps on armor side and cal being the worst while min duel tank and amarr focus more on raw hp rather then passive reps

Why do people always insist on directly comparing these two based purely on HP?

The inherent regen of shields is the counterbalance to this. Nobody fits 5x ferros because it's a completely awful fit, while 5x extenders is actually viable. Why? Because shields actually have a reasonable regen rate built-in while armour has a pitiful base regen. Regenerating 2 health a second out of a health pool of 700 is simply a stupid fit, while having a delayed regen of ~40 HP/s works and can work well, even.

Directly comparing ferros with shield extenders and going 'armour is better becuz it has big numbers' is a moronic comparison.