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Xender17
Murderz for hire
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Posted - 2013.05.31 19:50:00 -
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The supposed speed difference is hardly noticeable... The regeneration doesn't even matter unless you want to wait the whole match for you shields to go up on their own. Also if your shield tank starts to burn there is NOTHING you can do unless your a healer... So the difference between the shield and armor tanks is very noticeable... That being that shield tanks don't stand a chance against- suppose to be their equal- armor tanks.
I just want the difference to be more positive, equal and noticeable (unique) between them. |
Pokey Dravon
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
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Posted - 2013.05.31 20:08:00 -
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Gallente tanks are faster than Caldari tanks, that's just the racial difference between the two. Armor tanking lowers speed which helps even out the difference, though armor is still generally faster than shield.
This is namely because armor tanking is is for being up close and personal, taking a beating from enemy vehicles and dishing out massive damage at close range. Shields are better suited for hit and run tactics from a distance, using cover and passive recharge to sustain their defenses.
The biggest difference and probably the most important is damage types. Shields are highly resistant to almost all forms of AV weapons making them significantly harder to kill than armor tanks when facing enemy infantry. Armor tank however have more HP and repair rate, making them suited for Tank vs Tank warfare, but they also are very weak to most AV weapons in the game.
With that said they each fill very different roles, you can't judge them based off just speed because that's only one variable in the equation. |
Harpyja
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.06.01 02:27:00 -
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Pokey Dravon wrote:The biggest difference and probably the most important is damage types. Shields are highly resistant to almost all forms of AV weapons making them significantly harder to kill than armor tanks when facing enemy infantry. Armor tank however have more HP and repair rate, making them suited for Tank vs Tank warfare, but they also are very weak to most AV weapons in the game.
Resistances are barely any different. Missiles get a 30% bonus to armor while hybrids get 10% bonus to shields. Such a critical difference.
What is a critical difference is their ability to tank damage. Everyone knows that a properly fit armor tank can get much stronger reps than a properly fit shield tank can ever dream of.
Shields should be capable of burst tanking while armor should be capable of taking sustained damage. However, shields fail at burst tanking and an armor rep allows burst tanking as well. I lost a Falchion earlier today because not only was its acceleration so slow that it couldn't get back to cover which was only 30m behind me, but the shield rep wasn't strong enough to give me a burst tank that should've been capable of shrugging off 2 CRB7 Swarm Launchers (or whatever they are called) had CCP made shields capable of burst tanking.
My thread on fixing shield tanking: Fix Shield Tanking |
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