The armor hardeners make it easy as pie to survive 9 Ex-0 AV grenades. Have put a full clip of the proto forge + 3 Ex-0 AV into madrugars rocking their resist and only dropped half their life.

as an armor tanker i can tell u this is rubbish but ur welcome to keep tellin the good folks this story and watch as we lol when they QQ that they went down so fast

That is the stupidest post i have ever seen. You do realize that Slap and 0 are considered two of the best shield tanks in the game? A shield tank will never be good at AI unless you fit for reps. And then you will lose to armor tanks allday. Hence why shield tanks are just full passive fit and can only **** other tanks. And even then only 1 at a time and have to then wait for shields to go up unless the other tank was terrible.

You'll lose all your suryas like the rest of them. Mavado even stopped calling them in against us.

BOZ, he's good trust me.

Slap's fingers have grown around the "steering wheel" of his tank. I can promise any amount of ISK you want to bet that Slap would drain you of your ISK before you killed him.

So am I. It honestly wouldn't matter what he used though. You could pick his tank for him and he'd win.

Well you can put 20 mil sp into your armor tank and a rail will still slap you (see what I did there :O). You cant out dps a shield rail with armor and you cant stack plates because you don't have passive reps. So yea why would you "talk about blasters" they're just pub stomping tanks. For me the CBs are all that matter and if you try to run blaster in a cb against slap, well hes going to have a lot of fun that game

We are talking about blasters.

No offence but I've seen you play and your average... Don't let pub stomping get to your head man.

Tank v Tank Corp battle? LET'S DO THIS.

Actually Armor tanks can eat more armor targeted AV then a shield tank can armor targeted AV. Packed AV grenades actually drop shield tanks faster then you can drop a armor tank with them. So yes armor does have a big advantage over shield on handling AV. When armor targeted AV that is weak against shield ends up killing shield tanks faster then armor tanks something is wrong.

Is armor too strong no. Shields just have been nerfed down to horrible stats. Shields proto rep only repairs around 1750 shields on a cycle. The proto armor puts out 6700 per cycle. Plus armor hardeners last for 60 seconds and are only off for 15 while shields last 10 seconds and is off for 30 seconds. Armor plates give a extra 1200 HP about. Running a armor tank with kb/m allows a player to run at the same speeds as shield tanks.

Armor are way ahead of shield tanks. Problem is Mav you are so milfed about rails that you think shields just need there active hardeners tweaked. Shields need more then that. CCP needs to do a rebalance on modules Also shields need alot better passive regen. A sagaris should be running 100 for passive regen. not the 30 that they give us. Armor is where I think tanks should be standardized around. Why because really they are on lvl with the lvl of AV that is thrown at them. And currently armor tanks are far above shield. A good armor tank can beat a shield tank in a rail battle. I have beat proto rail sagaris with my mad already.

Going 1v1 with blasters face to face proves nothing tanking involves tactics. also an armor tank will always win a blaster fight in that situation.

I have come across BOZ MR and is not half as good as he is making out I would go as far as saying most people in this thread will kill him with ease.

I have to agree that armor tanking is EZ mode I would also agree that armor is AI and shield is AV. There is definitely an imbalance between the two variants and when they bring out the new turrets the imbalance will only increase.