Yes because you have the OPTION of going big on armor and getting a speed penalty, or you forsake that speed penalty and get about the same health. You have the option of getting regen with your armor as well, taking two slots instead of 1.

Shield regen is delayed, armor is instant. Shield regen doesnt have repair tools to help it, Armor does.

Honestly, you guys have no idea what you are talking about if you think these look UP. They seem absolutely amazing and open up a world of possibilities for my builds I never had before because I didnt want to sacrifice speed. Keep in mind they are also LOW slots, not high. What modules are competiting for your low slots? Shield extenders have to compete with damage mods.

Come on, use your heads here. If you could stack armor mods with no penalty over shield you would because then you could fit damage mods too. Armor regen is different, and perhaps a bit worse, but it does have some advantages over shield regen.

Any more loud, wrong opinions you guys want to yell at me?

Perhaps Armor isn't meant to be tanked, it's basically the Dust equivalent of red bar health from other games. Or maybe it's not meant to be tanked yet. For all we know Gallente Assualt and Heavy suits might get racial bonues that add to armor module efficiency by say lowering the speed reduction, raising the HP given, or adding a passive damage reduction. At this point we don't have all the suits or even all the weapons. I understand people might want to Armor Tank, and say that now it's not balanced to Shield Tanking, however we don't have all the pieces, so you can't say it's not balanced until we do.

A little late to the party, but this is the kind of transparency we needed before. Instead people have to dissect trailers and go into WMG mode.

Indeed. Like I said, it's not the best way to disseminate information and I promise you we're trying really really hard to keep things like this from happening and get you information on changes and additions the game out in a timely and appropriate manner (definitely for real this time, honest!)

A little late to the party, but this is the kind of transparency we needed before. Instead people have to dissect trailers and go into WMG mode.

We are working on getting dev blogs out about all the new stuff we'll be releasing in our next patch

A little late to the party, but this is the kind of transparency we needed before. Instead people have to dissect trailers and go into WMG mode.