Been reading on other threads. Will doubling the current armor bonuses balance things out?

Currently I'm ******* done with this.

I want to make am AmarrI RP toon, the one I made and spent money on was something I was proud of walked out of academy with less than 750 SP unspent with a KDR of 11 damn proud of that.

Joined the big boys only to find im goddamn not even able to compete due to lack of SP, Armour is gimped as hell, its not even possible to play armour all that well with its slow movement speed that means I'm being run down by every type of shield user in town.

Explosive weapons with no draw back to being used, while anti shield guns continue to sit with numerous repercussions for continued use including potential to kill oneself....

It's all just getting to me. After that my 11KDR went down to 3....then to 2.5, then to 2 and now its dropped below two because I don't have the SP, don't have any bonues for using armour tanked toons..... no wonder Im AFKING through this 3x SP even even if I did get 4 mill SP at the end of it (my current 2.5+ the 1.5) It wont fix the ******* glaring issues CCP is cocking around with and not fixing.

******* do something CCP

Put reactive and ferroscale in low slots, could that help?

They are in the low slots? If you mean high slots, thats a bad idea because the more armor we stack the faster we die from explosives and it makes no difference in EHP. Also it would make shield suits the best armor tanks due to their 4-5 high slots.

You need to cap out with boosters during this event. And take this time to start a new toon and cap it out with boosters too so you can try the alternative play style. As for Amarr, well eventually you'll get less heat build up. Until then I would get up to scrambler rifle 4 and use the assault scrambler rifle. buy a couple aurum ones to check it out. it's awesome, and it optimal range was just increased from 30 to 45. Use it to get shields down then flaylock for armor if you're in range. Forget about your KDR for now. Just learn. Join a corp that has guys that you can squad up with and learn from. You're slow yes so stay with others if you can and use cover. if a scout comes at you take his shields down with 2-3 SR shots and then flaylock his face off.

Currently I'm ******* done with this.

I want to make am AmarrI RP toon, the one I made and spent money on was something I was proud of walked out of academy with less than 750 SP unspent with a KDR of 11 damn proud of that.

Joined the big boys only to find im goddamn not even able to compete due to lack of SP, Armour is gimped as hell, its not even possible to play armour all that well with its slow movement speed that means I'm being run down by every type of shield user in town.

Explosive weapons with no draw back to being used, while anti shield guns continue to sit with numerous repercussions for continued use including potential to kill oneself....

It's all just getting to me. After that my 11KDR went down to 3....then to 2.5, then to 2 and now its dropped below two because I don't have the SP, don't have any bonues for using armour tanked toons..... no wonder Im AFKING through this 3x SP even even if I did get 4 mill SP at the end of it (my current 2.5+ the 1.5) It wont fix the ******* glaring issues CCP is cocking around with and not fixing.

******* do something CCP

CCP does not understand that what makes a good tactical game is giving everything small advantages against other things, not huge obvious advantages. Look at explosives they do 135% damage vs armor, this is huge specially since there is not that hurts shield like this, and there never will be according to their roadmap for future weapons.

In all fairness CCP thinks explosive weapons do 120% damage armor.

They still shouldn't blast through my 202 shield and kill my 436 armor.

They still shouldn't blast through my 202 shield and kill my 436 armor.

Is it just me or when a grenade goes off and gets through your shield it then applies the grenades full damage to your armour rather than what is left over? It certainly feels that way to me at times.

Hmmm... thats a good question.

In all fairness that grenade doesn't discriminate and kills any suit dead, i dont think i have seen anyone survive one of those, my corp mates chuck em all the time.

461.5 damage against shields.
Not nearly the same as armor.
Armor gets more than double the hit.

Shields aren't as OP as most think.. I run with flux grenades ever game now, takes out Cal Logis like nothing.

I haven't done any in game testing so i guess i cant comment but ive seen that grenade blow up the ass of many a merc who had more shield than that upon explosion, im assuming there is less damage the further out in the blast radius?

No, they just do extreme damage so it feels like that.
Core locus grenade kills 923.07 armor.

That's more then 120% like 78% more. Wait. Math is hard.

CCP says its 120% but they don't know their own game I guess, its more like 70%/135. Take a grenade on a very heavily shielded suit, blow it up in your hands then subtract HP damaged - HP, take that number and divide it by the normal damage of the grenade, and there you have the % multiplier on shields. The same could be done with an armor suit but that requires you carefully dropping your shields and not repairing armor.

About to risk my 150K suit to test it for you :(

EDIT:
326 shields, took my HP down to 46. That is 280 Damage, 280/400 = 0.7, or 70% damage against shields.

46 shields 526 armor to 88 HP. If I sum that up, which equals 572, divide it by 400, I get 1.43, or 143% damage, but because the 46 HP is affected by a 70% penalty the 143% is slightly lower, but not low enough to be 120%, its not even low enough to be 130%.

Exploding a grenade in my hand is like taking a direct hit from a grenade, so it provides the most accurate damage since at a distance the damage might be lower depending on how CCP calculates explosive damage with radius.

Money sent.

Shields aren't as OP as most think.. I run with flux grenades ever game now, takes out Cal Logis like nothing.