Originally by: Rogue Lilly

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Edited by: Rogue Lilly on 30/03/2009 17:57:41
Edited by: Rogue Lilly on 30/03/2009 17:56:25
Edited by: Rogue Lilly on 30/03/2009 17:55:32
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yes this is a wordy post, ideas are better conveyed in sentences rather than "ME is good, 3L2P-R CC L33T biotch" language. yes this is a whine, i am unhappy, the reasoning is valid, therefore irritation is a natural result.



I've trained all of my shield tanking skills to 4 or 5. And now I'm irritated that they are pretty useless. On top of the fact that it takes twice as many skills and twice as long to learn shield tanking as it does to armor tanking.

I've tried and tried to find a ship to shield tank in the minmatari line and always come up with the same conclusion; any given shield tanked ship can be outperformed in all regards by a ship of equal class armor tanked.

It comes down to the fact that in a given class there are multiple ships of varying "tiers." not T1/T2, but the tiers in regard to having skill cruiser 2 or cruiser 3 for example. In a class the ships should be different, not better or worse. It should be a give and take without one clearly being superior in every way to the other. This way you have choices instead of "I can fly this one with cruiser 2 or wait 3 hours until i get cruiser 3 and fly another ship that is all around better in every possible aspect."

For example in the mini cruiser line you have the stabber and the rupture. The stabber is supposedly the shield version but in every single aspect is outperformed by the rupture except in speed due to the ship bonus. Oh but wait even the stabber can tank better with armor than if it was fit with shields because after the MWD/WD you are left with 1 mid and 3 low slots....sounds like an armor tank option to me.

Then there are the battlecruisers. The cyclone is the shield tank and the hurricane the armor obviously. But in every single aspect the hurricane outdoes the cyclone because it's a "teir 2" battlecruiser. I have battleship 3 but from everything i've read and the numbers I've looked at the ships lay out about the same there too with the shield tanks being all together inferior.

So basically if you choose to shield tank you are relegated to picking the inferior ship instead of a ship that is on equal footing while only being designed to fly and fit differently.

I have 4 times the sp in shield skills as I do in armor skills and I can still tank incredibly better with armor than shields.

As a warning to any players newer than myself, don't bother training shields unless you are caldari, even though in all the text it says "minmitar ships shield or armor tank."
It's bull and all you will do is waste your time until CCP realized that 90% of their ships aren't flown because they're made completely inferior instead of just "different"


*edited my title to better relay my annoyance*

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