\o/ more wild numbers and changes. Anything close to doubling numbers would bring the letters O and P together!

Example from above...

enhanced armour plat + complex rep = 174hp + 10ar/s -5% speeeed

Dat there be crazy talk! your effectivly strapping a scout to your chest

Having different plates in different slots is inconsistent and feels wrong. Anyway shield tankers should be able to use armor modules just as armor tankers can use shield modules.

In a recent dev blog the damage bonuses against armor and shield were shown. (I think the dev blog was released around July 8 roughly give or take 7 days.)

All explosives were shown to do 120% damage to armor and projectile weapons did roughly 110% damage to armor etc. Nothing did more than 120% damage to armor. ARs did roughly 90% damage to armor if I remember correctly.

The basic reactive plates need there repping speed increased by 1 hp/sec

The advanced reactive plates need there repping speed increased by 2 hp/sec

The proto version needs the repping speed increased by 1 hp/sec

I don't seem to have problems with the other plates states. However the ferroscale and reactive plates should also be available in the high slots as well as low slots.

If I remember correctly the complex ferroscale plates take less CPU but a bit more PG than a complex shield extender and give a bit less armor. To me they seem balanced. Except that you cant have ferroscale plates taking way more CPU and PG and giving way more armor compared to complex shield extenders currently.(that's my only problem).

The plates are better if combined with normal armor plates or reactive plates. Though others might think otherwise.

The actual benefit of ferroscale plates is that they cost less to use (CPU/PG wise) and give you roughly the same amount of HP compared to shield extenders while not slowing you down. Thus as a result usually you will not need CPU and PG enhancer modules. That's if you use basic modules with basic suits and adv modules with adv suits etc and assuming you have level 5 passive skills that boost CPU and PG along with the weapons you equip with level 5 skills reducing there CPU/PG cost. This may have been CCPs line of thinking.

Basic armor plates may slow you down slightly, however I do think the speed penalty does escalate too fast as the modules go from basic to proto.

shields have a slight delay before reping, but once they do, they recover at enormus rates 20+ hp/s.

if i have 400 shields and they are depleted after my 3-4 second own time, and my hp heals at 20 per second in 24 seconds my shields are full

if i have 400 armor and i am at 0 armor (and still alive), with two 4 complex armor repairers i heal at 20 hp/s, so i get to 400 in 20 seconds.


may look balanced but there are several things to keep in mind:

1. 20 hp/s for sheilds is a basic level and can be increased, (with shield enegizers you can heal shield at almost 50 hp/s)
2. this is assuming i have complex level amor repairers. even with proficiency it doesn't equal the sheids superiority in this matter
3. when shields are gone you have armor, when armor is gone your dead.
4. due to high dps of most guns under direct fire this will not impact longevity.

this is my point^^. than in the most extreme case (using a proto amarr heavy, or proto galente) you can baerly break even with shields on a militia suit.


basically if it takes max skills for armor reping to get even with militia level base shield repairing (when unaltered) then there is a serious problem.