Mavado V Noriega
SyNergy Gaming
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Posted - 2013.03.02 16:44:00 -
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Phoenix Archer 128 wrote:Piercing Serenity wrote:Shield tanks have a lower maximum EHP than armor tanks. Shield tanking allows you to fit more damage mods to your tank while increasing its EHP. This allows you to build 'Sniper Tanks' - tanks with very high Alpha damage that can break other vehicles very quickly. However, they are softer than armor tanks, and will be brought down by AV weapons faster.
Armor tanks have a much higher EHP, and benefit from repairing modules that restore armor much faster than their shield variants. These tanks are very durable, but they are slow, and easy pickings for a shield tank fitting. Hope this helps,
PS Interesting...my tanking corpmates have pretty much said the opposite in terms of overall effectiveness...that Armor Tanks rip apart Shield Tanks, but Shield Tanks are better against AV (need flux [EM] to take them out).What I wish we had were the resistances and damage types listed...they make a world of difference in how effective certain builds are. Example: if armor is weak to explosive damage, AV being mostly explosive damage, but shields resist explosives...We need this data IMO
Ur corpmates are wrong.
yes the majority of tanks u meet in pubs u will wreck with an armor blaster fit tank and most ppl fit blasters on both tanks and a shield tank will never beat a proper fitted armor tank in a blaster brawl....even a sagaris can and will prob go down to a madrugar (ive beaten a sagaris before in a blaster brawl with just my maddy and barely lost any armor)
anyone that can fit a tank knows Rails are the ultimate AV and do more DPS than u can rep
combine the fact that shield tanks can fit dmg mods while also buffin their main defense (shields) u have a tank that has far more dmg output than an armor tank could.
Now that isnt to say an armor tank cant out DPS a shield but to do so the armor tank has to give up slots which are useful for its main defense (armor stuff)
Ur corp mates prob think shields are better against AV because ur prob using AV nades and lolSwarms on them and not flux and Forge guns. Shield reps also dont rep as much or last as long as armor reps so staying in a hotzone for long is dangerous for shield tanks hence they have higher mobility to get in an out of hotzones quick
There is a reason Suryas w/ Marauder skill get a bonus to blasters, its meant for anti-infantry and gettin in hotzones and soaking up punishment supporting infantry. Shields are better at hit an run tactics and being TDs (Tank Destroyers) |