How do you not see a problem? Currently all armour modules are in the low slots, and both reactive and ferroscale plates are outmatched easily by basic armour plates or complex reppers. Complex ferroscale sound nice but their PG/CPU usage is way too high to make them an option over two sets of basic plates.

The new modules should be put into high slots and tweaked a little, so they're actually a viable solution.

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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.

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How? We have the same equivalent for shields with the regulators and rechargers in lows. Move plates or reppers to highs and it's fixed.

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.

Why Increase reps? I'm just interested why you would say that.

Let's face it ccp can't fix **** and dust is going to be caned might as well play good games like battlefield.

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.

Okay then leave...

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.

no its damage is still 425 because of the bonus 10% give all weapons.

Your maths are a little wonky which is why it looks balanced. Please tell me how you can fit 4 complex reppers and have 400hp? I have all armour skills to 5 and I use two basic plates. I get 405 armour with skills included. 4 complex reppers would give you 20hp/s repair rate (plus the 25% from the skill required to use them) BUT your HP would be terribad. Shields CAN do this though, and have more than 400hp WITH 20hp/s regen.