In order for this to happen, shields need to have drawbacks. In EVE, shields increase your scan signature and make it easier for other ships to lock onto you faster. Translating this to Dust would probably mean the former while significantly increasing your hit box until your shields are depleted, in which case will revert back to your suit's respective frame size. Armor is at a severe disadvantage compared to shields also. Not only do they add a movement penalty, but they affect turn speed, jump height, and also rumored to affect fall damage. Buffing shields in your suggested format will only widen the gap between shield and armor to the point that armor tanking will be more of a novelty than it was in Chromosome.

There's nothing wrong with your suggestions, mind you, but some significant changes to shield tanking and armor tanking at their cores need to be addressed for such changes to take place.

I don't think you noticed that I was talking about vehicles. Perhaps I should put a clear statement

I might have simply misread, but it does apply to vehicles as well.

I might have simply misread, but it does apply to vehicles as well.

Passive shield regen is also a big thing for shield tanks which doesn't work effectively in Dust at the moment.

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The increased sig radius of shield extenders is minimal and offset by the added mass from armor plates which reduces top speed and turning slightly.

Armor IS more stable and in Eve a common Armor fit will have 1 rep running at all times with a second for "burst" repping if it's needed. Shield tanks only use 1 booster which reps more per cycle and much quicker. This is offset with the massive capacitor usage from shield boosters so it is not sustainable but very effective to deal with massive amounts of damage for a short time.

Passive shield tanking has NO booster at all and relies on resistance with passive shield regen. The passive shield regen system in Dust is not the same as Eve. Details on this in the above link.

The entire vehicle and AV system needs an overhaul. Getting flux'd in a gunnlogi then taken out by a group of TacAR's is a little weird. Yes I sat there and let it happen cause I wanted to see how effective their plan was. It was shockingly effective and went through 1250 armor HP in a matter of seconds...Neat.

Acctually in this build shield tanks are slower than armour tanks and have a much slower acceleration so we already have quite a few draw backs infact more draw backs than bonuses tbh. Im sticking with the shield tanks hopeing that they really do fix them properly.

Your first mistake was expecting ccp to properly fix anything. Your second mistake was expecting them to properly fix anything. Your third mistake was expecting ccp to do anything in under a month.

Note: this is for vehicles

Surge Shield Reinforcement has an active duration of 10s and cooldown of 30s.
Carapace Armor Hardener has an active duration of 60s and cooldown of 15s.

Shield gives 30% resist while armor gives 25%.

Analyzing the nature of these two modules suggests that shield should be capable of burst tanking (act of recovering massive amounts of HP quickly in a short time, but with pauses between cycles, or bursts), while armor suggests that it should be slower but steadier and more constant than shields.

In EVE, shields are extremely capable of burst tanking, which is one of its benefits for PvP. The recent addition of ancillary boosters only reinforces this ideology of burst tanking, while armor got a reactive armor hardener which changes resistances over time. Again, the ideology for armor of steady armor tanking is reinforced as well.

But DUST is the exact opposite. Shield boosters are weaker than armor reps (shield boosters in EVE provide more HP/s than armor reps, at the cost of more capacitor use) and it appears like they are slower, but can someone confirm or deny that for me? Note: I've already read multiple times now that armor reps provide about 4000 more hp and that they pulse every second for 15 seconds, so armor reps are clearly better. (And my suspicions are confirmed after seeing armor tanks with low armor and then they are back up to full armor in a matter of seconds)

I suggest to increase the amount of shield restored for boosters and/or reduce their pulse intervals. I know it says that they have 1s pulse intervals, but in reality it's three seconds. Instead, make shield boosters pulse every second for 5 seconds and increase the cooldown accordingly.

Edit: I suggest that in order to be more in line with what shields rep compared to armor, I'd like to suggest a pulse every second for 10 seconds. It's extremely stupid that an armor rep can rep three times as much as a shield booster.

An increase to shield boost amount and making them pulse every second would definitely make shields capable of burst tanking and will bring more balance between armor and shield tanking.

Another suggestion I'd like to add is to double the repair amount on armor reps, but also double the amount of time between each rep, but also adjust cooldown accordingly.

In order for this to happen, shields need to have drawbacks. In EVE, shields increase your scan signature and make it easier for other ships to lock onto you faster. Translating this to Dust would probably mean the former while significantly increasing your hit box until your shields are depleted, in which case will revert back to your suit's respective frame size. Armor is at a severe disadvantage compared to shields also. Not only do they add a movement penalty, but they affect turn speed, jump height, and also rumored to affect fall damage. Buffing shields in your suggested format will only widen the gap between shield and armor to the point that armor tanking will be more of a novelty than it was in Chromosome.

There's nothing wrong with your suggestions, mind you, but some significant changes to shield tanking and armor tanking at their cores need to be addressed for such changes to take place.

If the skill related to the shield boosters increased their efficiency I.e. gave an increase In hp provided by each shied booster 5% per levle then burst tanking would be effective without making shield tanks too op.

ok so just so its clear the amount restored listed is per second of the pulse and the interval listed is the length of the pulse. the time between pulse are as such 3second for shield and 1 second for armor. shields pulse last 1 second and then cycle off for 3 second before the next one second pulse while armor pulse is 3 seconds long with a 1 second cycle timer between pulses. so with this the light armor repairer restores a similar amount of HP as a heavy booster for the similar rate(less burst).

I agree with this, but is extremely odd and imbalanced. Shield boosters in EVE pulse much faster than armor reps do, so I think it should be reversed. Make shields pulse for 3 seconds with a 1 second interval and make armor pulse for one second with a three second interval. See if that fixes the imbalance, and then tweak shield boosters more if need be.

yea it is odd when you do bout 550~ dps with rails and armor repairs at 477 per second, that's factoring damage mods and armor hardeners(2x) and skills.
and people say that armor has no survivability when rail tanking, right I forgot they remove they all replace them for 5 damage mods

My caldari glass cannon eats most madrugers I come across . That being said if I don't get the drop on them and get the first shot then im running for cover or trying to find a way to flank thm . Granted this has been harder than previous builds because they nerfed shield tanks acceleration.