That's because you're still trying to use armor plates to get max EHP. That's the shield niche. Use reps and then check the numbers again.

And correction - shield tanks sacrifice damage mods for speed OR endurance OR stealth (lol) OR hack speed (again, lol). In reality, they usually fit none of those.

Your theory is true assuming two people meet up face to face and stand still, holding down their triggers until one person falls down. That's pretty much brawling and the type of combat Caldari shields are for. If you like that playstyle, you'll find Caldari better suited to it. That's okay, different races are suited to different things. If all the races were the same, it'd be pointless to have four different races.

Because like many people other people, for whatever reason, you disregard the fact that armor suits get almost the same base regen as a "shield" suit (0 during combat, 20-25 out of combat). My armor reps are on top of shield regen that all other suits have. Shield suits don't have little to no armor regen.

In combat - armor suits are continuously repping, shield suits aren't. Out of combat, shield suits are regenning your EHP, but armor suits are regenning AND repping, mitigating combat damage twice as fast.

Yes, you mitigate about 0.12 seconds of DPS over 1 second, assuming two people standing in front of each other with no cover unloading their weapons. If it was significantly higher than that, everyone would run out of ammo before anyone died. Your math assumes you're going to stand in the line of fire against an ck.0, holding down the trigger until someone drops. I'm not claiming reps will allow you to stand in front of a AR and just eat it.

When I say skirmish style combat, I mean that you're not staying in the line of fire. You take shots when you're on their flank and you cover or reposition when they're sending bullets your way. You recover faster between encounters, because you have shield regen as well as armor regen, whereas a shield user only has shield regen. A shield user can absorb more lead upfront, but over a sustained period of time, you can stay in the action more.

In my experience, gallente has plenty of mobility - all you need to do is to duck into cover before you die. Only minmatar goes faster. There aren't a lot of things that can one-shot even a base medium frame (mostly headshots and high level sniper rifles).

Can we please stop with the crying? I am an armor tanker and I have never ONCE thought that a single dropsuit had too much shield for me to handle. Slow movement speed...wah wah wah. Cry me a river. All I care about is being able to jump over one of those stupid yellow railings.

Oh no...he strafes faster than me. Sounds like an excuse that you can't aim...If your movement is slow, then call in a LAV for TRANSPORT instead of using it to run people over. There is a thought!

Because local reps don't require multiple players to coordinate, and don't cause your team to lose a gun off the field, and in general is a lot easier to make work (in my opinion).

Yes, I'm saying reps work better in low DPS scenarios. The purpose of playing a skirmish style is to minimize incoming DPS by taking cover frequently and dragging out the combat window.

The key here is that shield users DON'T have better regen. You're forgetting again that armor dropsuits have a significant shield system as a baseline. Shield suits have slightly better regen if you only look at the shield system, but looking at the overall dropsuit, armor suits configured for reps have better overall regen. This means a shield suit can try to play the skirmish style, but they will be outlasted. It's not a hard counter by any means, but the advantage is definitely on the side of the suit that can rep up twice as fast.

Minmatar assault are shields, but logi is armor. Amarr suits are pretty evenly balanced between both systems. Minmatar's speed works well as a shield skirmish, but they don't have the EHP of the Caldari that everyone is comparing against. That's why people choose Caldari over Minmatar for stand-up brawling. Minmatar has less base HP than a Gallente suit. In my opinion, Minmatar and Gallente work the same way, fast and

You're absolutely right about mobility and the Cardiac Regulator (I hope you're not talking about the Kincat, I don't think that mod is useful for anyone except knifers). I am constantly running out of stam on my Gallente. Although, I think I should just train up for em and sacrifice that last repper - it's always a ***** to fit anyways. I think I still have a point, but it does put a dent in my numbers.

You know what? I'm not here to argue that Gallente is OP or UP compared to Caldari or anything else. I certainly have no problem if you buff the hell out of Gallente or armor. I only came here to say that I felt Gallente currently played much better if you treated it as a skirmishy armor rep rather than an slow as balls EHP mini tank, and I'd rather any balance to reflect this difference in playstyle. Anything else I've said, I apologize and please allow me to retract.