So, here I am, just recently fully qualified on everything needed to fit and use a CalAss ck.0, and occasionally using it to just get the feel of it, if you know what I mean.

Finally got the courage to start running it for real, not just when I felt "safe" that the enemy was redlined or otherwise incapacitated. And got one-shot by a shotty scout.

I remember conversations here, and in particular one thread where someone said that if I ran a standard Caldari shield fit I'd be one-shot by shotguns. Well, they're right, of course and I actually pretty much knew that. But it just irks me to use armour. I've got the hang of fitting shield fits that have excellent shield recharge, but of course I couldn't do that if I used armour.

I've been killed by Balac's and Frame's and most of them, if not all, have at least 300HP of armour. Clearly these fits are not using shield regs, and perhaps shield regs are pointless anyway, if you have shields of 600+HP.

So these fits have something approaching 1000HP, 600+ shield and 300+ armour. I've had an attempt to build something like it and managed to get close to 1000HP. If I use reactives, I can get 300+ and some decent repair rate. Ferroscale is even better and doesn't have the speed nerf but also no repair rate increase.

Then there is the issue of damage mods. People have said they use up to four. Presumably, that means they use armour to get a decent tank. I've tried that too, and managed to get about 600HP, half and half shield and armour. I've had people say that armour shouldn't be used on CalAss suits because it weighs them down too much but if they have 1000HP between shield and armour is that really a problem?

I really don't want to use armour on these suits. I find the whole fast recharge shield thing quite elegant. But what am I to do other than dual tank to avoid being one-shot? Or is that even a real problem - perhaps it's normal to get one-shot by a shotty scout occasionally. For me it seems to be getting monotonous. I'd rather find a way to avoid it if I could.