So your saying if you have the blaster equiped on the sica that you need 2 shield boosters and 1shield extender? Why 2 shield boosters?

Response to Covert Clay


Remove the small shield booster since you have a heavy shield booster already installed. Remove the missle turrets completely, so far due to their complete lack of accuracy since the winter updates, they are completely useless. Skill up in small blasters and railguns as your secondary turrets.

Replace the small shield booster with a shield resistance amplifier, another shield extender OR a shield hardener.

Skill up in small blaster turrets to level 4, then youl be able to upgrade to large blaster turret level 1 and have a better blaster as a main cannon.

Also skill up in vehicle command level 5 then go for Caldari or Gallente HAV level 1, militia tanks may be cheap and easy to replace, but there is a reason they are not standard issue. Go for the Gunnlogi or Madrugar as a first official tank.

Unlock either or, the only difference is that Claldari focus on shielding while Gallente focus on armor. When I had a madrugar before the reset, I had 9000 armor. Now I have a Gunnlogi with 6000 shields. It just depends on what type you want, shield railgun, shield blaster, shield missle or armor railgun, armor blaster or armor missle.

Unlock either or, the only difference is that Claldari focus on shielding while Gallente focus on armor. When I had a madrugar before the reset, I had 9000 armor. Now I have a Gunnlogi with 6000 shields. It just depends on what type you want, shield railgun, shield blaster, shield missle or armor railgun, armor blaster or armor missle.

It's not. Atleast not by wide sweeping margins. I've taken down plenty a Gunloggi and Madragaur with Somas and Sicas.

The devil is in the details. It's a habit from EVE but small changes are what make big differances. Between the 2 tanks, the Gunloggi gets 2 more mid slots, more CPU, and a higher base shields. This helps in several ways as Shield Control only effects base shield health so you get more out of it. The more mid slots and CPU allow better shield tanks since shield tanking modules require a lot of CPU useage. So the end result is a tougher (or more flexable depending on fit) tank.

As for getting the Gunloggi to 6k shields? That's easy to do. I've seen higher then that. Really it comes down to Shield Control skills and Shield Extenders. I'm not going to give away all my fitting secrets but if you manage your PG/CPU well and have a set fitting goal in mind it's possible. For the record I have a Sica that is over 6k shields :P

Just be sure to match Defence with Offence. You don't want to go in being a super tough tank and realize you died simply because the other tank can just output a ton of damage. I'm not going to say how but much later on you'll see Railguns doing over 2000 per shot so defences won't last forever.

I believe armor is better for anti-infantry because it is PG heavy. It is also able to repair its armor much faster than a shield tank can rep its shield. Armor tanks also have better damage reduction mods and great low slots, which allow you to have more EHP than a shield tank.

PG is good for an AI tank because blaster is much better than a railgun for mowing down enemy infantry. Blaster uses more PG and less CPU. Railguns use more CPU and have less PG. If you want to AI on a shield tank, you'll have some serious PG problems if you want to keep your tank alive. Again, the slow shield recharge will not allow you to tank enemy AV. You'll have to use the shield booster twice times to recharge your shields from even 50% to full.

edit: I wouldn't start over if you put points into shield. Eventually (if you're going all tank) you'll probably want to have the option of going shield tank too. You can't have spent too many points on shield tanks alone because armor tanks use shields too. I'm 100% shield tank atm, but once I finish my shield tank I'm getting my armor tanking skills up.

I think I'm the loudest proponent of specialization on these forums lol. I see tanking as a specialization in itself. Turrets are one of the most important things to a tank, and fortunately blaster and railguns are both hybrid and require the same skills to level up. The amount of points you spend on shields or armor can easily be done in a few weeks at most. If you started with the arbiter class it's much easier to go from shield tank to armor than it is to go from armor to shield. Armor skills don't have the expensive prerequisites that the shields do. It's just one more reason why the arbiter class is pretty much the best class for almost every role.

There is no point choosing a new class or bloodline. It has no effect other then starting skills and since you're 2-3 weeks in, you'll just be farther behind. There is a saying in EVE that "no skill goes wasted" to mean as things change with patches what is best will change. One day it's shields, next day it's armour.

You are better off just skilling into the stuff you need now rather then restarting since you'll have skills now that can still be useful rather then have to get them again. You also have to remember there is no limit on the SP your character can have. So eventually you could get everything. (But new content usually prevents that as there is always something new to skill into :D)