ASB made ALL other forms of tank obsolete for solo.
It definitely needs a nerf.

Still waiting for the armour equivalent to the ASB. The reactive armour hardner is a joke.

Heh yeah it's a bit like they said "here you go, shield tankers, have one of the greatest tanking modules we've created" and then turned to armor and said "here, have a boiled sweet".

Sure it's quick to train for shields if you don't have em but AAB would be interesting too :)

So I guess having an ASB on your solo ship made it better than your opponent who had an ASB on his ship?

Seems the logic is missing on this one.

To be fair the reactive armour one is fanastic for any lengthy PvP activity. By the time everything has switched you get like +30% resists to both the type of damage that the NPCs are doing, plus the % from the DCU plus any hardeners/EANM you have.

Problems are:

1) Very cap intensive
2) Skilling up the related skill makes it more unuseable
3) No good for PvP as fights are over way too fast.

So a bit off topic here, but does the reactive hardener stack with EANM without penalty?

To be fair the reactive armour one is fanastic for any lengthy PvP activity. By the time everything has switched you get like +30% resists to both the type of damage that the NPCs are doing, plus the % from the DCU plus any hardeners/EANM you have.

Problems are:

1) Very cap intensive
2) Skilling up the related skill makes it more unuseable
3) No good for PvP as fights are over way too fast.

As usual solo pvp isn't considered important by CCP so they are nerfing the biggest solo pvp buff in the history of EVE: The ASB. It will now have half clip capacity so you can't use two of them for a good solo tank.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=155474

I know that shield tankers, solo players, and the caldari aren't allowed to have good stuff CCP but seriously? Just remove the option for solo pvp.

The cycle time increase on the X-L version was so obvious that anyone who didn't see it coming is living in la-la land.

Not sure whether clip reduction is a good strategy here, though I have to admit it is the first logical thing to try. Making the module a "one per ship" type of deal would only solve half of the problems (dual ASB setups) without touching on the setups that only use one, like the Vagabond.

One X-L ASB is worth three T2 large shield extenders with max skills and two shield extender rigs. It's really a no-brainer to adapt setups to use them on almost every shield-capable ship out there. These things definitely needed a nerf, and I'm saying that as someone who really, really likes the modules.

The one thing I don't like about the capacity nerf is how it's going to affect the smaller sizes more than the larger ones. They should equalize the cycle times on all of them, and adjust boost amounts to compensate.

As usual solo pvp isn't considered important by CCP so they are nerfing the biggest solo pvp buff in the history of EVE: The ASB. It will now have half clip capacity so you can't use two of them for a good solo tank.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=155474

I know that shield tankers, solo players, and the caldari aren't allowed to have good stuff CCP but seriously? Just remove the option for solo pvp.

solo pcp.

You should never do that stuff alone. Might need someone to hold you down with a stick in your mouth so you don't bite off your tongue.

You should never do that stuff alone. Might need someone to hold you down with a stick in your mouth so you don't bite off your tongue.

What's sad is that there's been a lot of feedback in the ASB thread and the developers haven't posted there for a while. There's been quite a few decent suggestions there for proper fixes.

ASB introduction was one of the biggest nerfs to solo and small-scale PvP. The thing solo needs has never been tank, it's damage. ASB rendered damage even less potent. Nowadays everyone has to chew through craploads of HP - how exactly this crap helps to solo?

I find it utterly sad how idiots aren't ashamed to openly express their delusions that they should be able to tank the entire enemy DPS by their OP mods alone rather than by their skills, tactics and maneuvering.

Newcomers of EVE, please listen to this man, he speaks the truth from actual experience.