The thing that I think you really nailed was the new plates. The deminishing returns for speed penalty really makes tanking the Gallente a breeze, if you know the secret.

Do tell.
I agree with your general sentiment though - I'm enjoying this build!

The presence of ferroscales are factored into the diminishing returns on the vanilla plate's speed penalty.

As it's a bug that benefits armour expect a hotfix within the week. Meanwhile the bug causing shield regen timer not to reset is probably going to be left languishing for a good half-year.

Damn the FiOS!!! By the beard of Zeus, I need to get back on ASAP!

Do tell.
I agree with your general sentiment though - I'm enjoying this build!

First, I am REALLY enjoying this update so far. The new ranges really feel good. I only have LV1 commando but it is looking good so far.

The thing that I think you really nailed was the new plates. The deminishing returns for speed penalty really makes tanking the Gallente a breeze, if you know the secret.

I've seen a good deal of QQ about the energizers/Caldari, didn't pay much attention to it though. I think that what people arn't catching on to is that it is not nessesary to skill into them to be able to use them. People are seeing this as a plus for the Cal, but in reality it is really a plus for every race. I use one complex on my Gal pro logi. It really helps helps out alot. 0 PG and boy do I need the PG.

I thought that today i was going to have to come on here and write really angry posts at you guys, but, to my surprise, everything seems to be looking really good so far. Great job CCP.

I would like to know also.

What are you enjoying? I turned of my PS3 after I saw the plates.

To much to explain and i am feeling lazy today. Play with it. Look at the numbers.

Try this on a Gal pro logi:

2x basic ferroscale
2x basic reactive
1x compelex venilla

You could do a lot more with it than that but I run a lot of high end equipment.

That's pretty AV..... You lose a huge amount of EHP to get what 2% armour regen, half the speed loss, and then the normal boost.....
when you could have

3x Complex Reppers
2x Complex or advanvced Plates.... More EHP and more Regen

To much to explain and i am feeling lazy today. Play with it. Look at the numbers.

Try this on a Gal pro logi:

2x basic ferroscale
2x basic reactive
1x compelex venilla

You could do a lot more with it than that but I run a lot of high end equipment.

The reason this works well is because of the way the stacking penalty is being applied, the first 2 modules act like stacking 2 modules with a penalty thus reducing the 2% penalty from the reactives and negating the 10% from the Complex. Once CCP realizes this they will obliterate this exploit, although I gotta say it isn't bad at all and I will toy around with it to try and make a build better than this. Unfortunately this only works on a Gallente Logistics, so it only makes it slightly better for us not for the other armor tankers.

The reason this works well is because of the way the stacking penalty is being applied, the first 2 modules act like stacking 2 modules with a penalty thus reducing the 2% penalty from the reactives and negating the 10% from the Complex. Once CCP realizes this they will obliterate this exploit, although I gotta say it isn't bad at all and I will toy around with it to try and make a build better than this. Unfortunately this only works on a Gallente Logistics (Because of our 5HP/s), so it only makes it slightly better for us not for the other armor tankers.

Ferroscale plates have an accidental redeeming factor? Maybe we'll find out reactive plates HP is a multiplier not a a straight HP heal.
If anyone is interested we're talking about all this over in feedback.
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=87752

Interesting.
This doesn't help the fact that the HP on those plates is awful, though.

Here, I'll give you another tidbit of info to try to help you guys out with your efforts over there.

The deminishing returns work by taking into acount the lowest percentage first. My guess is that this is because the speed penalty is a negative effect, where as, something like a damage mod would work the opposit way: taking into account the module with highest percentage first, resulting in a higher return. For instance:

Ferroscale plate 1: 100% of 0.0%
Ferroscale plate 2: 87% of 0.0%
Reactive plate 1: 57.1% of 2.0%
Reactive plate 2: 28.3% of 2.0%
Vanilla plate 1: 10.6% of 10.0%

This is how it is currently working. This seems very well balanced.