I agree. I like the mechanics behind AAR. But unlike ASB it does not solve the issue with armor tanking.

ASB solved 2 issues: It gives nice burst tanking capability. It decoupled active tanking from capacitor use. It granted shield tanked ships neuting immunity (together with capless guns), It has slighly lower fiting requirements than T1 variant.

AAR tend to solve just single issue: Give armour repairs burst tanking capability.

No other issues people have are being addressed. The high PG requirements of medium and large repair fits (as you need dual rep at lest to be able to fight). Quite large capacitor usage on medium and large armour repair modules. And relatively weak amount repaired per second eve on bonused ships.

If you take the Brutix and throw one tech one MAR on it you get 363 reps per cycle overheated. Add three armor nano pumps and that goes to 478 overheated. So 478 * 2.25 * 9 cycles = 9680 repaired? Still sounds nice to me.

Putting one on a non bonused ship nets 7047 hp.

I think its 10% penalty base and 5% with armor rigging at 5. Could have screwed up the math ofc.

PVE circumstances have to be 2nd tier priority. In PVP rigging skills at 5 are still a luxury, but level 4 is near mandatory. But its still a god damn tough hit on grid.

Burst tanking is key for most PVP active tank scenarios while sustained tanking is more common for PVE. We wanted to carry that aspect over to armor tanking

Any change that prevents the standard and absolutely necessary dual lar fit for missioning is going to create a massive outcry of rage not heard since the Jita riots.

No its not.

Get a 3% pg implant they are very cheap.

SARs are fine. Buff the repair rate of MARs and LARs so that they are similarly effective. Maybe modify them to take cap boosters as an optional fuel; that would free up the mid slot taken up by the nearly mandatory Capacitor Booster, but still fill the cargohold with cap boosters.

But then you literally make them into armor ASB. And we don't want armor and shield tank to be same... for whatever reason, but everyone keeps saying we don't want that.

The Incursus is already not sane when dual reped.

That said, it would seem you simply reduced it to the standard 7.5% bonus instead of actually doing the math of what you would need to reduce it by to keep it as powerful.

This is a huge nerf to the one of the few ships new players could use for pvp and still have a chance of winning a fight.

There you go, a simple change that actually makes things better, with no new modules or skills. This way lie good things.

[This could be something to dig. And also because sooner than latter you'll need 12 slots for active tanking + some dmg mods

Seriously the only major problem with armor is speed. Just make rigs give you %mass and not %speed reduction, so the penalty to propulsion speed will be slightly reduced for buffer tanks and considerably lower for active tanks that dont fit heavy plates. If you really think armor reps should get boost dont make a new module, especially not one so poorly designed, just boost reppers across the board and raise pg.

blasters don't really need the web after they had the tracking bumped

Short: Burst tanking will break the balance unless repair bonuses are either nerfed into the ground or replaced with something else .. case in point: ASB .. those damn things find their way, even after being nerfed, onto everything with three mids or more, it is an abomination!

So add a damage bonus to armour repairers, explain it with: "Excess energy from nano.manufacturering within repairer is shunted to weapons systems