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.

Sadder that the new guy thinks he has more brains than the vet when he actually doesn't.

Dual tanking is when you are specifically trying to increase the tank on both shield and armour through fitting modules. Not when you have some of both on the base stats of the suit.

Of course, you'll bluster and call me an idiot as well and it'll all be very cute but unfortunately it won't change the fact that you don't understand what you're talking about.

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.

the militia gallente suits still have 20 hp/s recharge, just like everyone else. you don't need a high slot to get it.

why do you care where your hp/s is coming from? when you're near dead and your suit is repping at over 40hp/s, you wouldn't say "no thanks, I'm an armor tank, just give me the armor reps please". i don't see any shield tank is saying their armor HP doesn't count because it's in "gross ew" armor.

oh, and why don't you drop the "trolling" pretense and focus on the topic?

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.

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.

huh? the recharge is definitely built into your suit. seriously, guys, just try it. i am not making it up. if you put on an armor suit, your shields recharge just like shield suits.

HEAVY SIGH YES I AGREE ARMOR HP BUFFER IS BROKEN.

Oh my god, this thread is why the game sucks. New players giving input based on their limit experience in high level play.