At the most, you can rep 20 HP a second by stacking complex repair... Shield gets that out of the box.

Seriously, can people stop telling armor tanked players how to armor tank already? It can't be done in a fashion that doesn't require a whole other person or a repair hive.

I will not be trolled in this fashion...

So question.
Armor needs to fill its slots with armor reps to get 25hp/s. That's including the skill
Shields get 25hp/s without any mods. That's not including the skill.
That means shields get the same rep while having probably 4 times the HP.
How is that fair?
There is no combination of armor and repairers that makes it work, shields always come out on top.
You have obviously either never armor tanked or you are a shield tanker who uses a basic armor rep to fix the bad part of your suit that you don't want.

Then youre not armor tanking... Youre dual tanking.

Armor tank = no shields.. Just armor

Tell me dear, how am I supposed to fit all of this on my suit?
Complex armor reps really strech my suit out.
And its not like I'm a shield tanker who can use CPU/PG upgrades.

Also, that's called dual tanking, anyone can do that.
We're talking about pure armor tanking, like pure shield tanking.

So question.
Where do I need the recharge more?
On my shields having 150 hp with maxed skills?
Or my armor having 262 hp with maxed skills?
What do you think am I supposed to use?
The slot layout is clearly design for armor, heck Militia Gallente don't have medium slots AT ALL.

Go troll elsewhere, or just stop pretending you even understand how armor works.
Go away.

I can see from the portrait you're a minmatar.
You obviously don't understand.
You fit extenders on your suit and put armor reps on the low slots and call it a day.
Problem is, we can't do that, our suits are not designed for shields, unlike Minmatar and Caldari ones.

Then you have no idea of the meaning of balance.
I'm done arguing, you don't see the problem of armor having the same regen with at best 1/4th of the HP.
If armor tries to have the SAME hp, the regen is painfully slow.

Armour is traditionally stronger on buffer than it is on burst tanking. I'm completely certain that it's intended to be that way in dust. Look at the plates, for example. They're terrible, but they still have significantly higher HP than shield extenders.
Similarly, look at the reps. They're not as effective as shield recharge, despite the active under fire properties.

If armour is intended to duck into cover to recover instead of shield, then why does shield have a shield recharge delay? Why does armour have a movement penalty preventing it from ducking into cover?

Shield regeneration is much much faster than armour repairs, even when you have 500 shield HP because you fitted no rechargers and only extenders and when the armour tanker only has 300 HP because they fitted nearly all repairers.

I care because for me the 20hp/sec recharge counts for only ~1/3rd or less of my total HP and requires complex mods rather than being built into the suit. If it meant giving up shield recharge to get decent performance out of the defense layer where I actually have my concentration of base HP and slots to support I'd gladly do it.

It also matters because I'm giving up buffer to do it and am as a result less likely to live long enough for that regen to matter.

I care because for me the 20hp/sec recharge counts for only ~1/3rd or less of my total HP and requires complex mods rather than being built into the suit. If it meant giving up shield recharge to get decent performance out of the defense layer where I actually have my concentration of base HP and slots to support I'd gladly do it.

It also matters because I'm giving up buffer to do it and am as a result less likely to live long enough for that regen to matter.