Don't forget the hardener differences. Armor 30 seconds only 10 s cool down.


Shield 20 seconds (?) With 30 s cool down.

Armor gets more hp over shield but suffer being slower and having more anti armor weaponry than anti shield.

A general rule is armor is for being a slow bruiser soaking up damage in the middle of the fight
Shields are for hit and run or longer ranged fights

Learn tanks strengths and play to them

Armor gets more hp over shield but suffer being slower and having more anti armor weaponry than anti shield.

A general rule is armor is for being a slow bruiser soaking up damage in the middle of the fight
Shields are for hit and run or longer ranged fights

Learn tanks strengths and play to them

Armor gets more hp over shield but suffer being slower and having more anti armor weaponry than anti shield.

A general rule is armor is for being a slow bruiser soaking up damage in the middle of the fight
Shields are for hit and run or longer ranged fights

Learn tanks strengths and play to them

Can someone please tell me why the shield booster has a pulse interval of 1sec, but in actually reps every 3sec. The armor repair has 3sec, but reps every one second.

Armor Tanks
1. heals faster
2.heals more
3.higher hp
4.moves faster
5.higher pg can increase by 5%
6.lower cpu, but can increase it by 30%

You obviously never Tanked, your argument is invalid. Also....Reading/Comprehension Fails are abundant in your Post. You must be "That Guy" who sees a Thread Title, immediately clicks Reply with no intention of reading the contents 1st, then commence "Textual Diarrhea" with assumed preconceptions of something for the sake of getting it out of your head (Not Brain....as Empty Space allows things to fall out with greater ease). And if you did Read.......you did not Comprehend, and/or you are utterly rubbish @ Math & throw caution to the wind screaming "F**K LOGIC!!!!!". Please leave the premises, door is thataway, there may be Cake & Punch on the other side :P

I only tank, literally all my sp is in tanks and i cant read a word of that wall, minimelest text please i dont have all day. I was simply stating how tanks are fine if you play to there strengths

One thing people fail to realise is your basing all this off generic T1 tanks, the strengths mainly come from specialised tanks like marauders and enforcers. Changes to shields would greatly effect the strength of the 2 enforcers mainly due to (wait for it) the RANGE the shield tank has over the armor tank. Dont forget specilised tanks in your 'calculations'

Tank speed, its really simple. Armor plates lower the speed of the armor tank. If you dont have armor plates then your doing it wrong. Shield tanks also have there lows for passive speed mods which you can use to help get a greater advantage over armor tanks. Dont just look at the base speed and say 'this is faster'

EDIT- Forgot to mention acceleration which also plays a great factor in tanks moving in the battlefield.

Plasma cannon is hybrid, same as the forge gun
Armor - Swarm, AV nade
Shield - Flux
Both - Forge, Plasma

My final point is
Its all fine the way it is. Your just not educated well enough in there mechanics.

I only tank, literally all my sp is in tanks and i cant read a word of that wall, minimelest text please i dont have all day. I was simply stating how tanks are fine if you play to there strengths

One thing people fail to realise is your basing all this off generic T1 tanks, the strengths mainly come from specialised tanks like marauders and enforcers. Changes to shields would greatly effect the strength of the 2 enforcers mainly due to (wait for it) the RANGE the shield tank has over the armor tank. Dont forget specilised tanks in your 'calculations'

Tank speed, its really simple. Armor plates lower the speed of the armor tank. If you dont have armor plates then your doing it wrong. Shield tanks also have there lows for passive speed mods which you can use to help get a greater advantage over armor tanks. Dont just look at the base speed and say 'this is faster'

EDIT- Forgot to mention acceleration which also plays a great factor in tanks moving in the battlefield.

Plasma cannon is hybrid, same as the forge gun
Armor - Swarm, AV nade
Shield - Flux, Plasma
Both - Forge
My final point is
Its all fine the way it is. Your just not educated well enough in there mechanics.

armor tanks r faster i have one. if u don't use nitrous ur doing it wrong.

armor plate does not reduce speed its reduce acceleration which armor tanks have more to start with and after adding a plate they still have more then shield HAVs so armor are still faster.

Thats hardly the fault of the tank its the fitting. Nothing stopping a shield tank using it.



Perhaps with a light plate. With a heavy plate i get less acceleration than the shield. a 25% reduction in acceleration is a huge amount.
You also rarly drive at full speed, Its mainly all in the acceleration to make fast moves to avoid the damage. The mass of the plate also makes you turn slower at speed.

Thats hardly the fault of the tank its the fitting. Nothing stopping a shield tank using it.



Perhaps with a light plate. With a heavy plate i get less acceleration than the shield. a 25% reduction in acceleration is a huge amount.
You also rarly drive at full speed, Its mainly all in the acceleration to make fast moves to avoid the damage. The mass of the plate also makes you turn slower at speed.

I only tank, literally all my sp is in tanks and i cant read a word of that wall, minimelest text please i dont have all day. I was simply stating how tanks are fine if you play to there strengths

One thing people fail to realise is your basing all this off generic T1 tanks, the strengths mainly come from specialised tanks like marauders and enforcers. Changes to shields would greatly effect the strength of the 2 enforcers mainly due to (wait for it) the RANGE the shield tank has over the armor tank. Dont forget specilised tanks in your 'calculations'

Tank speed, its really simple. Armor plates lower the speed of the armor tank. If you dont have armor plates then your doing it wrong. Shield tanks also have there lows for passive speed mods which you can use to help get a greater advantage over armor tanks. Dont just look at the base speed and say 'this is faster'

EDIT- Forgot to mention acceleration which also plays a great factor in tanks moving in the battlefield.

Plasma cannon is hybrid, same as the forge gun
Armor - Swarm, AV nade, Missile launcher Turret
Shield - Flux
Both - Forge, Plasma, Railgun Turret, Blaster Turret

Second EDIT- Tank damage, some 1 mentioned that armor have more DPS over shield tanks. This simply isnt true. For tanks damage mods go on the LOW slots which armor use for tank

My final point is
Its all fine the way it is. Your just not educated well enough in there mechanics.

I only tank, literally all my sp is in tanks and i cant read a word of that wall, minimelest text please i dont have all day. I was simply stating how tanks are fine if you play to there strengths

One thing people fail to realise is your basing all this off generic T1 tanks, the strengths mainly come from specialised tanks like marauders and enforcers. Changes to shields would greatly effect the strength of the 2 enforcers mainly due to (wait for it) the RANGE the shield tank has over the armor tank. Dont forget specilised tanks in your 'calculations'

Tank speed, its really simple. Armor plates lower the speed of the armor tank. If you dont have armor plates then your doing it wrong. Shield tanks also have there lows for passive speed mods which you can use to help get a greater advantage over armor tanks. Dont just look at the base speed and say 'this is faster'

EDIT- Forgot to mention acceleration which also plays a great factor in tanks moving in the battlefield.

Plasma cannon is hybrid, same as the forge gun
Armor - Swarm, AV nade, Missile launcher Turret
Shield - Flux
Both - Forge, Plasma, Railgun Turret, Blaster Turret

Second EDIT- Tank damage, some 1 mentioned that armor have more DPS over shield tanks. This simply isnt true. For tanks damage mods go on the LOW slots which armor use for tank

My final point is
Its all fine the way it is. Your just not educated well enough in there mechanics.

during the pulse is when the boost/repair so shields boost 1 every 3secs and armor repairs for 3 times in 3 seconds(pulse time) with a 1second gap between pulses. effectively give 3time the hp at 3time the speed.

Armor - Swarm, AV nade, Missile launcher Turret
Shield - Flux, Plasma,Blaster Turret
Both - Forge, Railgun Turret

Second EDIT- Tank damage, some 1 mentioned that armor have more DPS over shield tanks. This simply isnt true. For tanks damage mods go on the LOW slots which armor use for tank

My final point is
Its all fine the way it is. Your just not educated well enough in there mechanics.

Thanks for the comment, but i dont think that how it actually works. Armor should be giving 414hp(ex) every 3sec 5 times but are giving 414hp every 1sec instead.

nope that 414 is per sec of the pulse which last 3 seconds.

Ummmm.....who are you??? Oh.....right, a Scrublet who didn't learn to Read. Hi, I'm Ninjanomyx, Tester since Replication & IMP. Nice to meet you Mr. Noobody :P Now that the formalities are out of the way.....:

You are just horrible @ DUST Gameplay, Balancing, & Forum PvP. Any Vet Tanker (Not unlike myself) would come in here, read your Post, & commence the throwing of the ***** @ you, FACT. GOML Scrublet, know your place, L2P KthxBAI :P

10 mil isk he just graduated from the acadamy and has a soma with 180 mm plates on with light rep. and a pg upgrade with 1 resist plate. along with a milita shield extender and small booster.

My fit if you must know
Soma -
L - 180 poly plate
L - Light rep
L - Resist plate
L - Resist plate
H - CRU
H - Overdrive
LT - Milita blaster
LT - Milita blaster
T - Prototype missle turret

Why a soma, because its pub matches and i simply dont need to drop a falcon

Man, that is a crappy fit.

I have nothing to contribute other than shield reps kick in as soon as you turn them on, rather than armor reps that take a 3 sec cycle before you get your first rep. That's pretty neat. But yeah, current balance, shield tanks are trash.

I don't know about the claims that armor reps heal once per sec for 3 secs, that doesn't seem right at all, but I haven't watched the numbers with a stopwatch lately. My inclination is to believe someone is pulling that out of their butt.

I'm all for the reps being something new they broke this build, I'm just going off of how they used to work in the past. I haven't paid much attention to their cycles in Uprising, I just kick it on and either live or die, I have more important things to do than watch numbers while I need my rep on usually. Will have to pay attention next time.