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KIAEddZ
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Posted - 2005.07.19 09:14:00 -
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Okies.
I am a lvl 5 Cal Pilot, and a lvl 5 Gallente Pilot.
The Shield tanking vs Armour tanking argument, I know has been totally "done" before.
But I now fly an Armour tanked Raven, because you have VERY little choice if you want to tank a Raven but to do so.
The simple fact is, the Shield Boost penalty of CPRs is ridiclous.
On my Mega, I can run constant a FULL tank (1 x Large Tech 2 1 x Med tech 2 & 3 Hardeners) and still have room for MWD and Warp Scramble.
Running 3 hardeners on a Raven, is impossible, as you will be capless VERY quickly.
Large Armour Rep 2s do 800 repair for 400 energy, WAY more than the best named Tech 1 Reps.
The XL Shield Booster 2 does EXACTLY the same repair as the best named tech 1, for a Meagre cap saving.
The Raven USED to be able to counter its tanks inneffectiveness using its Offensive Power, but the nerf has seen to that.
I worry for the Ravens place in PvP warfare, and that in itself is a great shame.
I would like to see the Shield Boost penalty of CPRs dropped a little, so they become a viable option once again, and RAven pilots can use a sustainable Tank in combat.
ps. The Shield Compensation skill is way underpowered aswell if that was supposed to be the answer to this problem, 2%???? Pointless.
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Kyle Caldrel
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Posted - 2005.07.19 09:23:00 -
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How about you learn to lay off the shield boosting when you dont need it mmkay?
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KIAEddZ
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Posted - 2005.07.19 09:38:00 -
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Wow cleverness!!!
How about you go get in a Raven, and use it to scan for a clue.
Thx.
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CptEagle
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Posted - 2005.07.19 09:40:00 -
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But you're forgetting the Raven can always have a decent tank on while other armor tanked ships cannot because they need dmg mods, Raven can do both pretty decent. Offcourse since patch the Raven can now tank less good...
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KIAEddZ
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Posted - 2005.07.19 09:53:00 -
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As I said, b4 the patch the RAven could counter its less effective Tank, with its Cap less Offensive power, but since the patch, it really is in trouble.
The MAIN problem is the natural damage resistance that the 2 Tanking methods have.
Shield Tanking is Em and Thermal Deffiecient.
Armour Tanking is Explosive and Kinetic Deffiecient.
There are 4 Main weapons in the game
Hybrids do Thermal And Kin
Lasers do Em and Therm
Projectiles do all 3, but still are biased towards Thermal and Kin.
Explosive Damage is rare unless facing a missile boat that is carrying explosive torps (which a lot do not, as the Cargo bay is too small to carry a decent number of every selection of Damage Types and of course FoFs, another point is that Missile size needs to be reduced)
So a Apoc/Mega with 3 Hardeners and 2 reps, vs a Raven with 3 Hardeners and XL booster. (Range setup is even worse as Cruise vs Tachs or 425s is a little silly, Torps vs Balsters and Megabeams is closer, but still no cigar) There is only 1 winner.
Ho hum, easy win for mega or apoc.
I cannot speak for Tempests, as have very little experience with those.
If I am wayyyy of the track here, someone put me right. But i am just speaking from experience since the patch with both forms of ships.
(ps I am running a 2 Large Rep tech 2 and 3 hardener setup on My raven, but cruise launchers suck the willy)
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thebold
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Posted - 2005.07.19 09:53:00 -
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Eddz, back when i used to fight soul cartel people as long time ago i flew a raven, with 5x PDU's and 2x NOS, I could engage 2v1 odd's happily, i lasted just over a minuet as i picked the wrong target to shoot down :p, but the raven with 5x PDU2's is very powerful i find with good engineering skills you just need to be in scramble range to kill or they run before our second volley hits.
I am also a level 5 gal pilot, and I donÆt armour tank a thron unless its a blaster thron, I find it is pointless armour tanking a rail thron for 2 reasons, 1 425's need to do damage quick before your target starts moving closer to you unless you got painters of tracking computers on, and the fact s a full armour tank is pretty much as good as a partial tank, after all its not a apoc and the cap on the thron is crap :].
but back to the raven thing, the 400 cap useage i think should stay but maybe the boost should be increased on the named shield boosters by another 100 or so or maybe i think there was some new shield boost skill bought into game to help.
I stopped flying ravens long ago but i do remember them as monster tankers, back in the old days we used to warp 4 bs over to engage a raven he would of been invulnerable for about 30 seconds ooo bring back the old days :[
But if you really want to debate this subject you really should post in the development forums down below, dev's read posts down there..
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pcgamereve
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:00:00 -
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try useing this setup in the lows
4 PDUs 2 Cap Flux Coil
that should make your cap good for a shield tank.
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KIAEddZ
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:01:00 -
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My normal setup is 5 PDU2s
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pcgamereve
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:05:00 -
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with 5 PDUs your cap recharge is still to slow for a good tank try the 2 Cap Flux Coil then whatever you can fit in the other slots.
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thebold
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:10:00 -
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hahahaha
*cough*
yea lets all fill our lows with cap flux coils.
PVPing > Activate XL Booster > ERROR: Cap Booster I Requires 400 Cap to Activate.
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P1rate Dave
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:11:00 -
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 Originally by: KIAEddZ
So a Apoc/Mega with 3 Hardeners and 2 reps, vs a Raven with 3 Hardeners and XL booster. (Range setup is even worse as Cruise vs Tachs or 425s is a little silly, Torps vs Balsters and Megabeams is closer, but still no cigar) There is only 1 winner.
Ho hum, easy win for mega or apoc.
thats just completely wrong... mega/apoc setup for range combat with the same number of slots dedicated to armor tanking as the raven will not win if you fit your ship correctly, i fought a mega at 70km, in his optimal with 425s broke his tank and put him into structure using cruise missiles before he got my cap below 40% or my shields below 50% - mega pilot has excellent gunnery skills too, much better than my missile skills
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Altai Saker
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:17:00 -
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Edited by: Altai Saker on 19/07/2005 10:18:07
Originally by: P1rate Dave
Originally by: KIAEddZ
So a Apoc/Mega with 3 Hardeners and 2 reps, vs a Raven with 3 Hardeners and XL booster. (Range setup is even worse as Cruise vs Tachs or 425s is a little silly, Torps vs Balsters and Megabeams is closer, but still no cigar) There is only 1 winner.
Ho hum, easy win for mega or apoc.
thats just completely wrong... mega/apoc setup for range combat with the same number of slots dedicated to armor tanking as the raven will not win if you fit your ship correctly, i fought a mega at 70km, in his optimal with 425s broke his tank and put him into structure using cruise missiles before he got my cap below 40% or my shields below 50% - mega pilot has excellent gunnery skills too, much better than my missile skills
I dont disagree that the raven can pull off amazing feats in the hands of an able pilot, but I would like to see a tank that can last a lil longer... as far as the dont shield boost when you dont need to, with the current trend in ship fittings.... most ships can outdamage your XLSB's repair ammount just by themselves.
Yes they have no tank, but with that much put toward ganking the dmg they do is incredible... Ravens dont even compare...
That being said, raven > *(even if it has a not so awesome tank and piddly dmg output)
So, in conclusion, unerf the CPR's. Armor tanking is popular enough now...
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pcgamereve
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:20:00 -
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Quote:
hahahaha
*cough*
yea lets all fill our lows with cap flux coils.
PVPing > Activate XL Booster > ERROR: Cap Booster I Requires 400 Cap to Activate.
*cough*
go try them out befor jokeing about them, i know for a fact they work.
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P1rate Dave
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:25:00 -
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Edited by: P1rate Dave on 19/07/2005 10:27:17
Originally by: Altai Saker
Edited by: Altai Saker on 19/07/2005 10:18:07
I dont disagree that the raven can pull off amazing feats in the hands of an able pilot, but I would like to see a tank that can last a lil longer... as far as the dont shield boost when you dont need to, with the current trend in ship fittings.... most ships can outdamage your XLSB's repair ammount just by themselves.
Yes they have no tank, but with that much put toward ganking the dmg they do is incredible... Ravens dont even compare...
That being said, raven > *(even if it has a not so awesome tank and piddly dmg output)
So, in conclusion, unerf the CPR's. Armor tanking is popular enough now...
ok ... im testing this as i type and the mega i fought was fitted with 2 large rep and 3 hardeners (kin therm and explosive) my raven had 1 xl booster 3 hardeners (therm kin em) and 1 large siheld extender.
Turret ships cant fit for max damage and tank its not possible the raven however can, so any long range ship i meet better be setup for extreme damage to overwhelm my tank and destroy me before i take him out - theres not many ships/pilots that can do this
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Phenom
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:31:00 -
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Shield Compensation
Improved skill for regulating energy flow to
shields. 2% less capacitor need for shield
boosters per skill level.
helps the raven to tank in a better way :)
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KIAEddZ
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:34:00 -
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Pirate Dave
Bring your Raven, tanked in ANYWAY you like to 0.0 system, meet me there.
I will dispatch you in my Mega faster than you can say stop.... stop.... pease dont.... in local.
You simply DO not know what your talking about. I can't put it any plainer than that.
A dual rep Mega, with 6 blasters, will take down a 6 Siege and XL booster Raven. No problems what so ever.
You Cannot break my tank I will smash yours.
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P1rate Dave
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:39:00 -
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Originally by: KIAEddZ
Pirate Dave
Bring your Raven, tanked in ANYWAY you like to 0.0 system, meet me there.
I will dispatch you in my Mega faster than you can say stop.... stop.... pease dont.... in local.
You simply DO not know what your talking about. I can't put it any plainer than that.
A dual rep Mega, with 6 blasters, will take down a 6 Siege and XL booster Raven. No problems what so ever.
You Cannot break my tank I will smash yours.
now now dont get angry, im just showing you facts i proved what you said about long range combat and the raven being useless is wrong and suddenly you've jumped on to close range setups ??
im guessing you have a few million more sp invested into gunnery than i have in missiles so i dont doubt you would win and im not willing to test it with oyu becuase well i dont want to loose my expensive ship
i will however test it with a corp mate and post my findings
(btw see edit to other post for my skills)
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KIAEddZ
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:46:00 -
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Ok lets go range.
My tech 2 Mega vs your cruise Raven?/
Are you serious?
My tech 2 mega would decimate your shields, your cruise I would simply laugh at.
I have 6 million in missiels, and 8 million in gunnery, i am a 25 million SP player.
I HAVE tested with corp mates, who have just as high skill sets as me, the raven loses (assume your scrambled) at range and close.
If you managed to take a Mega pilot, in a tanked ship to structure with cruise, then he MUST be a noob.
Ps my raven is running Arablest Cruise or Arablest Siege depending on the steup, and i have all new skills to lvl 4, and will be running Tech 2 launchers as soon as I find some.
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Altai Saker
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:52:00 -
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Edited by: Altai Saker on 19/07/2005 10:54:13
See the thing is, the raven is awesome at long range where other ships have to fit crap ammo.... but if your at mid to short range you will feel the pain.
Eddz look closely at what he says and figure out how he kits his raven... think Geddon.
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P1rate Dave
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Posted - 2005.07.19 10:55:00 -
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i told you exactly the setup and skill used, its fair to say the mega pilot has good gunnery not great mind you but compared to my ok/crap missile skills they are much better.
look at the setups you tell me if they are noob setups.
MY raven vs your tech 2 mega probably would loose as it should but like i said i have crap skills some1 with tech 2 cruise and the new missile skills trained to the extent your gunnery skills are trained would do a lot better
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P1rate Dave
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:00:00 -
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have to wait till after dt to try blasterthron vs torp raven
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W0lverine
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:17:00 -
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just fit 6xDm mods and 7modal neutrons(dont think you can fit techII cuz of CPU), and 1heavy diminishing(vs frigs)
AB, web distoruber and cap rech? in meds and 1 med rep II, his setup will *****any raven(if you start max 20km away
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Boonaki
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:20:00 -
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Torp raven, all missile skills at 4, 5 BCU II's (when they come out) 6 tech 2 siege launchers (when they come out) at 30ish k.
The advantage now is gunships are using tech 2 large guns where as ravens are not. We don't get the tech 2 damage bonus. You also have tech 2 gun damage mods and you wonder why ravens get owned on 1vs1 encounters?
Try spitting out 700+ damage torps (not including hardners) x6 every 10 seconds
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W0lverine
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:23:00 -
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Originally by: Boonaki
Torp raven, all missile skills at 4, 5 BCU II's (when they come out) 6 tech 2 siege launchers (when they come out) at 30ish k.
The advantage now is gunships are using tech 2 large guns where as ravens are not. We don't get the tech 2 damage bonus. You also have tech 2 gun damage mods and you wonder why ravens get owned on 1vs1 encounters?
Try spitting out 700+ damage torps (not including hardners) x6 every 10 seconds
thats 420DPS, tanked blasterthron with top skills do more
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P1rate Dave
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:27:00 -
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Originally by: W0lverine
just fit 6xDm mods and 7modal neutrons(dont think you can fit techII cuz of CPU), and 1heavy diminishing(vs frigs)
AB, web distoruber and cap rech? in meds and 1 med rep II, his setup will *****any raven(if you start max 20km away
that setup will **** just about any ship in the game so theres nothing proved there
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Boonaki
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:35:00 -
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Originally by: W0lverine
Originally by: Boonaki
Torp raven, all missile skills at 4, 5 BCU II's (when they come out) 6 tech 2 siege launchers (when they come out) at 30ish k.
The advantage now is gunships are using tech 2 large guns where as ravens are not. We don't get the tech 2 damage bonus. You also have tech 2 gun damage mods and you wonder why ravens get owned on 1vs1 encounters?
Try spitting out 700+ damage torps (not including hardners) x6 every 10 seconds
thats 420DPS, tanked blasterthron with top skills do more
And will go through cap way faster then the raven, specificly if it has to MWD to get ontop of the raven.
PVP is very setup vs situation. If you know what your fighting and setup for that, good chance your going to win.
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MOS DEF
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:36:00 -
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I don`t dobt your experience with the raven at all but Relays on a raven?
PDU II`s worked quite well for me considering you get a lot more shield boost PLUS the shield regen. With 5 PDU 2`s the regen is not pointless anymore.
With the new shield boost skill at 4 or 5 it still should be tankable.
Then again i wouldn`t wanna fly a raven in PvP as it is either. 
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Dracolich
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:37:00 -
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I have some trouble seeing what ur problem is, KIAEddz. If you have found a viable way to use ur 6 med slots for other than tanking, and find armor tanking better why complain? If you furthermore find cruiser missiles useless, then why use your raven at all? Why not use your uber t2 mega? You cant have the cake and eat it at the same time. Either u should let someone else fit the scramblers and any other nontank things, and fit 2 amps instead, or continue to armor tank the raven just to have the FOF possiblilty, or whatever your reason for raven instead of ur uber mega. Boonakis points are true as well. Other than this thanks for last time we fought alongside each other in Obe.
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Kaeten
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:47:00 -
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Originally by: KIAEddZ
The simple fact is, the Shield Boost penalty of CPRs is ridiclous.
Total bs. If the penalty was taken away there would be ravens shield tanking all day and we all know shield tanking repairs shields faster than an armor tank. So you want ravens to go around with 5 CPR and a full shield tank? Ok... Thats jsut stupid.
The problem is also the pricing. Cap recharger 2's and cap power relays cost ah hellof alot diffrent form each other.
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Kaeten
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:50:00 -
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Originally by: KIAEddZ
On my Mega, I can run constant a FULL tank (1 x Large Tech 2 1 x Med tech 2 & 3 Hardeners) and still have room for MWD and Warp Scramble.
I bet your either running cap 800's or a nos setup cause running all that will drain your cap.
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KIAEddZ
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Posted - 2005.07.19 11:53:00 -
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Originally by: Kaeten
Originally by: KIAEddZ
The simple fact is, the Shield Boost penalty of CPRs is ridiclous.
Total bs. If the penalty was taken away there would be ravens shield tanking all day and we all know shield tanking repairs shields faster than an armor tank. So you want ravens to go around with 5 CPR and a full shield tank? Ok... Thats jsut stupid.
The problem is also the pricing. Cap recharger 2's and cap power relays cost ah hellof alot diffrent form each other.
if you actually spent time reading, you will see I am not advocating the total removal of the penalty,. just its size.
Not being able to fit ANY cprs (megas apocs can all fit 1 or 2 Tech 2 Cap Rechargers with no penalty) makes the tanking of a Raven unbalanced with other tier 2 BS.
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Selak Zorander
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Posted - 2005.07.19 12:48:00 -
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As for the comment of the Raven can repair more hp way faster than any armor tank, the difference is a whole 4 HP a second between a Apoc with 2 large tech 2 reps (which with tech two mods it can run forever even with 5 nos on the apoc) while the Raven (caldari so it is supposed to be a shield tanker) lasts all of 30 seconds to a minute before its cap is dry and it cant tank anymore (thats with PDU 2 in lows and 1 or 2 cap recharge 2 in mids).
Both "top of the line" set-ups had 3 hardeners. The apoc had 2 large repairers, and the raven had one Xlarge booster and 1 Boost amp.
Yes I can see the reason for the CPR nerf being there (shield tanked apoc with 4 invulnerability fields anyone). The problem with it is that you can make a decent armor tank on a raven (one almost as good as the Apoc's (just that the cap dies if it has more than 1 heavy nos on it)) that far outshines the ravens ability to shield tank when it comes to sustainability.
As for the new shield compensation skill, at lvl 5 it reduces cap need on the booster by 10%. Concidering that a raven with 2 heavy nos, 5 PDU 2, and any remaining mid slots devoted to Cap Recharger 2 after the tank is fit only has a max cap recharge of about 60% of the cap needed by its tank, that 10% does not do much of anything at all.
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Kaeten
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Posted - 2005.07.19 13:06:00 -
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Edited by: Kaeten on 19/07/2005 13:08:36
Originally by: KIAEddZ
Originally by: Kaeten
Originally by: KIAEddZ
The simple fact is, the Shield Boost penalty of CPRs is ridiclous.
Total bs. If the penalty was taken away there would be ravens shield tanking all day and we all know shield tanking repairs shields faster than an armor tank. So you want ravens to go around with 5 CPR and a full shield tank? Ok... Thats jsut stupid.
The problem is also the pricing. Cap recharger 2's and cap power relays cost ah hellof alot diffrent form each other.
if you actually spent time reading, you will see I am not advocating the total removal of the penalty,. just its size.
Not being able to fit ANY cprs (megas apocs can all fit 1 or 2 Tech 2 Cap Rechargers with no penalty) makes the tanking of a Raven unbalanced with other tier 2 BS.
Power diagnostics are good enough, they jsut boost the shields. Also ravens pilots can fit a tank and damage mods ( I know some that use that kinda setup), is that fair? Also can megas hit up to 250km with rails and can hit up to what was it 80km with short range guns? If you take one thing into accoutn you have to take everything into account.
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Andrew Redburn
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Posted - 2005.07.19 14:46:00 -
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Originally by: P1rate Dave
Originally by: KIAEddZ
So a Apoc/Mega with 3 Hardeners and 2 reps, vs a Raven with 3 Hardeners and XL booster. (Range setup is even worse as Cruise vs Tachs or 425s is a little silly, Torps vs Balsters and Megabeams is closer, but still no cigar) There is only 1 winner.
Ho hum, easy win for mega or apoc.
thats just completely wrong... mega/apoc setup for range combat with the same number of slots dedicated to armor tanking as the raven will not win if you fit your ship correctly, i fought a mega at 70km, in his optimal with 425s broke his tank and put him into structure using cruise missiles before he got my cap below 40% or my shields below 50% - mega pilot has excellent gunnery skills too, much better than my missile skills
I play Raven since a long long time and got all relevant skills maxed. From my experience the only tank that is nearly infinite usable is a Large Tech II with using 4 PDUIIs and one heavy nos.
Everything else will run out of cap quickly (as i said, i got all relevant cap / shield / fitting skills maxed).
Since this patch, an average to well tanked armor tanker will tank more dps than a Raven and still do way more damage at his optimal range. There are special situations were a Raven will always win (close combat against 425/1400) but dmg output of turrets is way more and also tanking possibilities are way more. The only advantage of Ravens is being able to do both average to good, while on all ships but Apocs u need to choose if you want to do best dmg or best tanking, a mix between is usually not liked much (but possible!).
Armor tanking is better than shield in overall, just not for Ravens (slot layout, powergrid, cap)
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Andrew Redburn
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Posted - 2005.07.19 14:49:00 -
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Originally by: Kaeten
Power diagnostics are good enough, they jsut boost the shields. Also ravens pilots can fit a tank and damage mods ( I know some that use that kinda setup), is that fair? Also can megas hit up to 250km with rails and can hit up to what was it 80km with short range guns? If you take one thing into accoutn you have to take everything into account.
Shield tanking means med slots, med slots used means not targeting range for doing anything you mentioned with a Raven. U need a full set of PDU IIs to sustain an average tank on Ravens (or Heavy Nos which will then require PDUs for powergrid) and have no chance of improving the damage.
On turret ships you can use meds to boost locking range, range and tracking, cap recharge plus use low slots for tanking AND Cap recharge. In fact you can hit at 200km and have a decent tank at the same time, while Shield Users cannot. Prepatch we had the constant and good damage, now we have none.
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Dionysus Davinci
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Posted - 2005.07.19 14:55:00 -
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Edited by: Dionysus Davinci on 19/07/2005 14:59:35
Originally by: Andrew Redburn
In fact you can hit at 200km and have a decent tank at the same time,
U == 
You can get 120kms maybe and have a decent tank. But you load rubber bullets and requires lots of SP investment and a Cruise missle raven is going to out range, out damage and out tank you still.
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El Principe
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Posted - 2005.07.19 15:26:00 -
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Eddz, i most certainly repsect your point.
TII armor repping is way better/more cap efficent/ better slot layout than TII shield repping.
its simple math. armor tanking is just plain better. i do like the new Shield Compensation skill its nice, but just not enough.
As for the comparison of a Neut Mega with an armor tank VS a full tank raven, is like comparing apples and oranges. no self respecting raven pilot is gonna bring a full load of PDU's into combat. its just plain stupid with the direction Pvp has gone in eve.
I garuantee your tank wont hold agaisnt a PvP raven.. or at least mine. 6 torps with an 8 sec rof. good luck tanking that... I pop apoc's before they even know what hit them.
This still doesnt change the fact that raven is still a pretty missplaced ship in EVE combat.
As for the Armor tanked Raven. i love it. it is teh pwnzor. too bad there's no such thing as Med slot dmg mods for missles. or it would be the only setup i'd ever use.
and as for the moron who says that raven is a "long range ship", learn to do simple math. even with Maxed skills and ship bonuses, it takes over 15 secs for a cruise missle to hit something at 100km. and even then the damage is crap, and if the ship was moving towards you (turrets get o trav velocity, but have a speed to reduce missle dmg) you wont be doing crap for dmg.. how many volleys would a turret ship have gotten off by the time the missles even start to hit? 4, 5? do you realize most combats in eve are almost over after that long?
in anyu case. this is a shield vs armor tanking thread. and Eddz has proven his point. TII Armor tanking beats shield tanking any day of the week. period.
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Elfaen Ethenwe
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Posted - 2005.07.19 15:43:00 -
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im a raven pilot and i fly my tank setup of
2 seige 4 cruise 2 hvy nos
c5 xl shield booster, 3 hardners, shield boost amp, tech large shield extendor.
5 pdu2
i play with the high slots and put 2 tech 2 extendors in the moids instead of the boost amp
12k to 15k shields in gang is reasonable.
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j0sephine
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Posted - 2005.07.19 15:50:00 -
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Anyone else finds it odd that in discussion about shield vs armour tanking the main argument revolves around not-tanked Raven at long distance with the lows full of BCU?
Yes, this clearly show shield and armour tanking is balanced with each other when the general advice regarding shield tanking is "just don't because ganking from long range works better"... :s
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El Principe
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Posted - 2005.07.19 16:54:00 -
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Originally by: j0sephine
Anyone else finds it odd that in discussion about shield vs armour tanking the main argument revolves around not-tanked Raven at long distance with the lows full of BCU?
Yes, this clearly show shield and armour tanking is balanced with each other when the general advice regarding shield tanking is "just don't because ganking from long range works better"... :s
where did you pull that out of? Eddz's whole argument centered around the use of a 5 PDU II raven setup. i remotly mentioned a gank style raven to prove the point that his combat functionality comparison was moot, since it is unlikely you wouls see such a raven piloted by a half decent pvp'er.
but the heart of the argument still revoloves around the basic retence that armor tanking is fundamentally better than shield tanking.
the current preception of shield tanking is slightly warped. since a Raven is considered the premier ship for it. the only problem. Shield tanking is good on a raven, not because of shield tanking being so good. it works becuase a raven has virtually ALL the features needed to make it work.with most other ships, shield tanking's depravities REALLY start to show.
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Pottsey
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Posted - 2005.07.19 17:59:00 -
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ôbut the heart of the argument still revoloves around the basic retence that armor tanking is fundamentally better than shield tanking.ö
ThatÆs true but the passive shield recharge more then makes up for less resistance. Decent skills with a bunch of PDUÆs is still a reasonable amount of passive regen to add on top of the active shield booster.
That and amour repairers are not more cap effecting then all forms of shield tanking.
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Selim
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Posted - 2005.07.19 18:51:00 -
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Shield tanking sux on anything that isnt a Raven/Eagle/Gisti ship.
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Zaintiraris
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Posted - 2005.07.19 18:54:00 -
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Originally by: Selim
Shield tanking sux on anything that isnt a Raven/Eagle/Gisti ship.
Yeah that sounds about right.
However... there are some ships that you don't really need to tank. I need to test my cerberus going 700m/s with an afterburner 140km from someone. I don't know if they'd be able to hit me or catch me. I can outrun most of my friends' assault frigates and shoot down their interceptors. 
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This game was so much better back before people knew math.
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Hiram
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Posted - 2005.07.20 07:41:00 -
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Originally by: CptEagle
But you're forgetting the Raven can always have a decent tank on while other armor tanked ships cannot because they need dmg mods, Raven can do both pretty decent. Offcourse since patch the Raven can now tank less good...
That would almost be funny! Damage mods since the patch seem only to affect the RoF and not damage so in effect they are useless, plus the crippling requirements on launchers now means you cant fit a top row of siege and have a ballistic mod in place.
If fact it means you cant have a top row of siege and decent shield tank set up at all, you do not have the grid/ cpu to be able to fit a large shield booster and shield extender!!
That dont seemed very ballanced to me?
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Elfaen Ethenwe
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Posted - 2005.07.20 08:52:00 -
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the ferox also tanks well
4 pdu2's 1 L Shield Boost + 3 Hardners + Large extendor II
6500 shields with 60%+ res isnt to be sneezed at
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Shadowsword
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Posted - 2005.07.20 09:13:00 -
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Edited by: Shadowsword on 20/07/2005 09:18:05
Originally by: KIAEddZ
Okies.
I am a lvl 5 Cal Pilot, and a lvl 5 Gallente Pilot.
The Shield tanking vs Armour tanking argument, I know has been totally "done" before.
But I now fly an Armour tanked Raven, because you have VERY little choice if you want to tank a Raven but to do so.
The simple fact is, the Shield Boost penalty of CPRs is ridiclous.
Without that penalty, CPRs become again THE no-brainer module. Do you remember shield tanked apocs with 8 CPR in lows? I don't want to see again battleships with a capacitor recharging in 115 secondes.
Originally by: KIAEddZ
On my Mega, I can run constant a FULL tank (1 x Large Tech 2 1 x Med tech 2 & 3 Hardeners) and still have room for MWD and Warp Scramble.
Running 3 hardeners on a Raven, is impossible, as you will be capless VERY quickly.
How weird,I tested it and my conclusion is the contrary. Maybe it was because I used 2 large repairers II on my mega. your test is irrelevant, because the level of HP repaired per second in both cases is simply not in the same league.
Originally by: KIAEddZ
Large Armour Rep 2s do 800 repair for 400 energy, WAY more than the best named Tech 1 Reps.
The XL Shield Booster 2 does EXACTLY the same repair as the best named tech 1, for a Meagre cap saving.
That, is only because named XL shield boosters are overpowered.
A large Acco repairer repair 20% more than a normal armor repairer.
Large armor repairer II is 33% better than large armor repairer I.
A XL C5-L not only boost 20% more, but also cycle 20% faster, which mean that it is 44% more efficient than a vanilla XL SB.
XL SB II is 50% better than the T1 version
Originally by: KIAEddZ
The Raven USED to be able to counter its tanks inneffectiveness using its Offensive Power, but the nerf has seen to that.
That wasn't a nerf, it was a fix. I bet you never tried to tackle a pre-patch Raven ,did you?
Raven users whined that their ship wasn't good in fleet battles, and that the target had time to warp out before the torps hit him. Missiles are now much faster, so be happy.
Originally by: KIAEddZ
I worry for the Ravens place in PvP warfare, and that in itself is a great shame.
Before the patch a great many ships were sitting ducks when confronted to a Raven. Assault frigs, interceptors, frigs, cruisers, even a lot of HAC. Even with 75% resistance to damage, taking 6 torps in the face, each of them doing 600+ base damage, was way more than what a med armor repairer II can absorb.
Originally by: KIAEddZ
I would like to see the Shield Boost penalty of CPRs dropped a little, so they become a viable option once again, and RAven pilots can use a sustainable Tank in combat.
ps. The Shield Compensation skill is way underpowered aswell if that was supposed to be the answer to this problem, 2%???? Pointless.
You, Sir, are utterly clueless. Here's one:
Armor repairer II: 2 HP repaired per cap.
XL SB II+AMP: 1.95 HP boosted per cap.
With shield compensation even trained simply to lv2, shield tanking become MORE cap efficient than armor tanking.
PS: sorry for the flaming, but that was one whine too much.
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Posted - 2005.07.20 09:15:00 -
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just like to point out smth:
XL Shield Booster II uses 400 cap every 5 sec for a 600 boost = 120 HP/sec
Large Armor Repper II uses 400 cap every 15 sec (11.25 w/skills) for a 800 boost = 71.11 HP/sec
The shield booster can do TWO cycles every Armor Reppers ONE..
Shield booster is meant to be high cap consuming with high HP/sec, while Armor Repper is meant to be cap-efficient and low HP/Sec.
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Posted - 2005.07.20 10:02:00 -
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Edited by: Andrew Redburn on 20/07/2005 10:06:43
Originally by: Pottsey
That’s true but the passive shield recharge more then makes up for less resistance. Decent skills with a bunch of PDU’s is still a reasonable amount of passive regen to add on top of the active shield booster.
That and amour repairers are not more cap effecting then all forms of shield tanking.
I don't know how you could ever say that because with 4 PDU IIs in lows and maxed shield skills, I get a passive recharge of 7/s in average. That's way not enought to help at all.
The main problem is that to make a shield tank work, you have to sacrifice so much damage, that you cant break a decent armor tank, while the decent armour tank can still break your tank.
Long range and missles is a nono:
1.) you can only lock that far if you fit loads of mods in meds and YES, shield tanking mods are meds as well!!! doh!
2.) If you fit enough mods to lock 120km + your cruise missles at MAX SKILLS will need 11s to hit the target at 120km, but don't do nowhere enough dmg.
If you use torps to do enough dmg it will still take 35s to hit the ship (1st volley, btw).
Quote:
Before the patch a great many ships were sitting ducks when confronted to a Raven. Assault frigs, interceptors, frigs, cruisers, even a lot of HAC. Even with 75% resistance to damage, taking 6 torps in the face, each of them doing 600+ base damage, was way more than what a med armor repairer II can absorb.
with Torps lv5 and one dmg mod in lows, I did 574dmg to structure. 600dmg plus means you had no tanking (since cap is not available) and it means you had no pg to fit mods in your 7/8 slot. So that was a setup I would have NEVER recommended for anything but GANKING.
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Sun Ra
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Posted - 2005.07.20 10:09:00 -
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Well the thing with shield tank is u can soak up a much larger ammount of dmg than armour tank but for a shorter time. So you stack your lows with as many damage mods and have to have a cap inject in the the mids and 2 vamps
Shield tanking means you can gank AND tank at the same time, tho its a very short time
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Posted - 2005.07.20 10:13:00 -
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Originally by: FraXy
just like to point out smth:
XL Shield Booster II uses 400 cap every 5 sec for a 600 boost = 120 HP/sec
Large Armor Repper II uses 400 cap every 15 sec (11.25 w/skills) for a 800 boost = 71.11 HP/sec
The shield booster can do TWO cycles every Armor Reppers ONE..
Shield booster is meant to be high cap consuming with high HP/sec, while Armor Repper is meant to be cap-efficient and low HP/Sec.
See it this way:
2 large tech II need 800 cap each 11.25s => 71,1cap/s.
1 xlarge II needs already 80 cap/s.
It its true that you need cap for guns, but you got loads of med and lows for cap recharge, while shield tank cant use good lows (CPR) and has no slots for med cap recharge as well.
1 large II and one med II repair more than 1 XL II but use way less cap as well.
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Posted - 2005.07.20 10:16:00 -
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Originally by: Sun Ra
Edited by: Sun Ra on 20/07/2005 10:12:33
Well the thing with shield tank is u can soak up a much larger ammount of dmg than armour tank but for a shorter time. So you stack your lows with as many damage mods and have to have a cap inject in the the mids and 2 vamps
Shield tanking means you can gank AND tank at the same time, tho its a very short time
ALSO
XL sb is too heavy on cpu 
basicly right, but how long can u run your tank? 1Min? A big part of that time is already needed for torps to reach their target. Not to mention how long you will need postpatch to kill a nontanked moving BS.
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Nomispanco
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Posted - 2005.07.20 10:35:00 -
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OMG are u whiners all noobs?
Ever thought about a Cap Booster?
A well tanked Tempest 6x800mmT2 and a well tanked Raven (6xSiege) are almost equal in dmg and tanking. livetime > 4min
And yes the Raven does still decent dmg on a BS!
so long 
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Sun Ra
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Posted - 2005.07.20 10:40:00 -
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Originally by: Andrew Redburn
Originally by: Sun Ra
Edited by: Sun Ra on 20/07/2005 10:12:33
Well the thing with shield tank is u can soak up a much larger ammount of dmg than armour tank but for a shorter time. So you stack your lows with as many damage mods and have to have a cap inject in the the mids and 2 vamps
Shield tanking means you can gank AND tank at the same time, tho its a very short time
ALSO
XL sb is too heavy on cpu
basicly right, but how long can u run your tank? 1Min? A big part of that time is already needed for torps to reach their target. Not to mention how long you will need postpatch to kill a nontanked moving BS.
Well i dont fly a raven anymore, i shield tank my ac tempest sometimes, which can outdamage a 2xlarge rep ship tank.
But yes i have a simlair prob that i need to get into AC range also.
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Antic
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Posted - 2005.07.20 10:58:00 -
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CPR has a penality to boosting. So even suggesting that those are a good alternative for shield tanking for low slots is quite uninformed.
Also missile ships like the cerebus and the Raven has limited cargospace for ammo as it is (i laugh at the people who keeps saying that missiles strenght is its ability to change damage types, well missile ammo takes 3 times the cargospace turret ammo does so you cant bring all damagetypes or even enough ammo of one damagetype alone) And now people claim that ravens and cerbs should stuff their hold with cap boost charges too to be able to tank? :P You guys using cargo expanders or something? 
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Posted - 2005.07.20 12:54:00 -
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Edited by: Fred0 on 20/07/2005 12:55:58
Originally by: Selim
Shield tanking sux on anything that isnt a Raven/Eagle/Gisti ship.
That's not true. shield tanking owns for anything that requires max damage output. Especially if it has more spare cpu than pg.
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Posted - 2005.07.20 13:45:00 -
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Edited by: DrunkenOne on 20/07/2005 13:46:20
Originally by: Selim
Shield tanking sux on anything that isnt a Raven/Eagle/Gisti ship.
Shield tanked gankvaga? Shield tanked ACGankPest? Shield tanked GankDom?
Shield tanking is utterly superior in PVP to armor tanking, and disagreeing means you are wrong. The problem is that far less ships can shield tank than armor tank. But those that can, own. If I can fit a tank and lows full of damage mods, while my opponent simply fits lows full of damage mods, who wins?
Armor tanking is better for NPCing because of the lower cap use. But who cares about NPCing imbalances.
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Posted - 2005.07.20 14:30:00 -
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100% agreed to author.
A shiel tanked raven in any way will go boom to a ganka-temp-gedon-thron before the raven have the ship locked and first missile hit.
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Selim
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Posted - 2005.07.20 14:36:00 -
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Originally by: DrunkenOne
Edited by: DrunkenOne on 20/07/2005 13:46:20
Originally by: Selim
Shield tanking sux on anything that isnt a Raven/Eagle/Gisti ship.
Shield tanked gankvaga? Shield tanked ACGankPest? Shield tanked GankDom?
Shield tanking is utterly superior in PVP to armor tanking, and disagreeing means you are wrong. The problem is that far less ships can shield tank than armor tank. But those that can, own. If I can fit a tank and lows full of damage mods, while my opponent simply fits lows full of damage mods, who wins?
Armor tanking is better for NPCing because of the lower cap use. But who cares about NPCing imbalances.
So you can shield tank and fit damage mods. So what? It means less meds for web/warp scrambler, both of which are more important than damage mods in almost anything besides lame gank fleets. Armor tanking doesnt just use less cap, it also repairs more per second because of that repair systems skill. If shield tanking actually repaired more per second than armor but burned more cap (like now) everything would be fine.
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DrunkenOne
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Posted - 2005.07.20 14:44:00 -
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Originally by: Selim
So you can shield tank and fit damage mods. So what? It means less meds for web/warp scrambler, both of which are more important than damage mods in almost anything besides lame gank fleets. Armor tanking doesnt just use less cap, it also repairs more per second because of that repair systems skill. If shield tanking actually repaired more per second than armor but burned more cap (like now) everything would be fine.
Have you seen a shield tanked gankdom in action?
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Sun Ra
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Posted - 2005.07.20 14:49:00 -
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btw anyone have that new shield skill? is it worth training?
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Fred0
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Posted - 2005.07.20 14:50:00 -
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IMHO, a tank is not something you want to be able to run forever. What would be the purpose of that? You guys fight in neverending battles?
If you are stupid enough to fit a tank in pvp. Atleast look at burst repair and make sure the cycle is not too great. And for that Shield boosters are much superior. I always laff at the uber armour tanks who fail to go a cycle before the poor sod is down scratching his head.
In short. I disagree with you eddz mate in so many ways you old fart. So I'll stop hijacking yer thread now mate ;)
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Selim
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Posted - 2005.07.20 14:58:00 -
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Edited by: Selim on 20/07/2005 14:59:49
DrunkenOne:
No, I havent, and I'm sure it owns, but thats a dominix, its got more med/lows than any other ship besides the scorp. The thing is, you need to fit an oversized booster before you exceed the amount of boost per second that armor tanks get (well you can fit an amp but we all know that they are a waste of slot on anything besides a Raven). I'd be all for increasing the amount of shield a shield booster boosts if the cap use was increased a bit too, so fitting a same-size booster is finally not crap vs a same size armor repairer. That way we'd get some difference between them, shield would be better for short term and armor for long term. Right now armor is better for both if you know what you are doing, this isnt taking into account the lack of damage mods though.
Also the cap relay nerf is stupid. It only really affects npcing though.
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Sun Ra
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Posted - 2005.07.20 15:00:00 -
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Originally by: KIAEddZ
Pirate Dave
Bring your Raven, tanked in ANYWAY you like to 0.0 system, meet me there.
I will dispatch you in my Mega faster than you can say stop.... stop.... pease dont.... in local.
You simply DO not know what your talking about. I can't put it any plainer than that.
A dual rep Mega, with 6 blasters, will take down a 6 Siege and XL booster Raven. No problems what so ever.
You Cannot break my tank I will smash yours.
My shield tanked Tempest would break your tank beofre you could break mine 
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Sun Ra
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Posted - 2005.07.20 15:02:00 -
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Originally by: Fred0
IMHO, a tank is not something you want to be able to run forever. What would be the purpose of that? You guys fight in neverending battles?
If you are stupid enough to fit a tank in pvp. Atleast look at burst repair and make sure the cycle is not too great. And for that Shield boosters are much superior. I always laff at the uber armour tanks who fail to go a cycle before the poor sod is down scratching his head.
In short. I disagree with you eddz mate in so many ways you old fart. So I'll stop hijacking yer thread now mate ;)
Tanking is useful for small scale still
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Lord Morkoth
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Posted - 2005.07.20 15:59:00 -
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I feel like shield tanking is great these days. But about 7 months back when everybody used armor tank it kinda sucked. Now when a battle is solely about dishing out max dmg in as short time as possible i feel that shield tanking is great. Ive gone like 15times solo up vs a geddon in my raven and only lost 2 times . 5pdu's t2+ xl sb t2+ amp+ 4 hards+ 2 hvy nos 4tw. (tackler sold seperatly ). While hp/cap is worse than armor tanking the hp/sec is greater. A t2 xl sb t2 takes 20% less cap than xl c5l. It boosts more but over a longer period of time , for the same cap. That + 10% (new ,great, skill at 5) = 30% less cap than a few weeks ago.
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Posted - 2005.07.20 16:15:00 -
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Edited by: DrunkenOne on 20/07/2005 16:16:08
Originally by: Selim
Edited by: Selim on 20/07/2005 15:03:53
DrunkenOne:
No, I havent, and I'm sure it owns, but thats a dominix, its got more med/lows than any other ship besides the scorp. The thing is, you need to fit an oversized booster before you exceed the amount of boost per second that armor tanks get (well you can fit an amp but we all know that they are a waste of slot on anything besides a Raven). I'd be all for increasing the amount of shield a shield booster boosts if the cap use was increased a bit too, so fitting a same-size booster is finally not crap vs a same size armor repairer. That way we'd get some difference between them, shield would be better for short term and armor for long term. Right now armor is better for both if you know what you are doing, this isnt taking into account the lack of damage mods though.
I disagree. A shield tanked tempest with full gyro IIs will beat a armor tanked tempest. A shield tanked vaga with full gyro IIs will beat an armor tanked vaga.
But I do agree with the same-sze arguement. Also, theres a huge imbalance in fitting reqs on plates compared to extenders, dont know if youve looked at that.
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striider
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Posted - 2005.07.20 19:11:00 -
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Originally by: KIAEddZ
Ok lets go range.
My tech 2 mega would decimate your shields, your cruise I would simply laugh at.
blah blah blah ...
Dude, meet me by the merry-go-round on the playground after school and I'll ....
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Pottsey
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Posted - 2005.07.20 20:39:00 -
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ôI don't know how you could ever say that because with 4 PDU IIs in lows and maxed shield skills, I get a passive recharge of 7/s in average. That's way not enought to help at all.ö
I bet you like most people are working out the passive recharge wrong. Are you doing shield cap / shield recharge = xxx? If you are thats wrong.
Most ravens with PDU T2 modules have a good 20 to 30 passive recharge to add ontop of the shield booster. 20 solo 30 with gang skills.
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Posted - 2005.07.20 21:11:00 -
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Originally by: thebold
hahahaha
*cough*
yea lets all fill our lows with cap flux coils.
PVPing > Activate XL Booster > ERROR: Cap Booster I Requires 400 Cap to Activate.
Actually, flux coils have a definate usage for a shield tank.
Just as 8 stabs have a use for getting your Apoc through a frigate fleet, Bold, unless you log first.
Back in the ancient days of the crumbling Xetic nation I used to run a Raven for hunting Angels down there. 2 PDU IIs, 1 Cap Flux (named) kept my cap up quite nicely so long as I paid attention to my booster. I used 2 boost amps in mid to balance out the huge cap hit per cycle with the shields replaced.
Shield boosting has that major flaw: insane cap hit, forcing a pilot to pay close attention to their cap in a fight, whereas most armour tankers just turn on the repairer(s) and ride out the fight without a second glance. Even Amarr, using cap hungry lasers, can pretty much ignore their repper.
Generally I use smaller armour repairers T2 rather than typical for the ship size (small for cruiser, 2x medium for BS), and except for situations of complete and utter blobbage those suffice nicely.
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Pottsey
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Posted - 2005.07.21 05:17:00 -
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ôActually, flux coils have a definate usage for a shield tank.ö
Now they donÆt, assuming you mean cap flux modules donÆt you end up with less total cap and less cap regen after fitting a flux. Look at you ship specs with no modules then fit 2 or 3 flux modules and watch the cap regen and total cap drop to below the level of having no modules fitted.
With flux modules being worse ten having no module then fitting cap relays or PDS modules are better then flux.
I have yet to find a case where flux modules where usefull.
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Posted - 2005.07.21 08:34:00 -
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Originally by: Pottsey
“I don't know how you could ever say that because with 4 PDU IIs in lows and maxed shield skills, I get a passive recharge of 7/s in average. That's way not enought to help at all.”
I bet you like most people are working out the passive recharge wrong. Are you doing shield cap / shield recharge = xxx? If you are thats wrong.
Most ravens with PDU T2 modules have a good 20 to 30 passive recharge to add ontop of the shield booster. 20 solo 30 with gang skills.
Of course I do, cause similar to cap recharge the shield/recharge * 3 is only reached at around 30-40%. getting a hard hit means falling below and being above means as well having lots less. And personally I prefer having shields up all the time instead of keeping them at 30-40% (u never not what jumps in next and also it drops the morale of the attacker :))
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Fred0
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Posted - 2005.07.21 09:49:00 -
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Originally by: Sun Ra
Tanking is useful for small scale still
Not that much imho. Some for baiting yes, some for buying time to get out. But it's more worthwile to go all out on damage. Anyone not going all out on damage is most of the time betraying his partners for his own survival. imho
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Pottsey
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Posted - 2005.07.21 17:37:00 -
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Edited by: Pottsey on 21/07/2005 17:41:12
ôOf course I do, cause similar to cap recharge the shield/recharge * 3 is only reached at around 30-40%. getting a hard hit means falling below and being above means as well having lots less. And personally I prefer having shields up all the time instead of keeping them at 30-40% (u never not what jumps in next and also it drops the morale of the attacker :))ö
ItÆs more like an average of x2.2 over a battle and you get a large boost from 10 to 80%. ItÆs only the lower 10% and upper 90% value that are slow. My main point was the reason shields have less resistance then amour is due to the regen and 30 extra regen on top of a booster can be enough to keep you alive.
1 hard hit does not have a large impact on shield regen. I did extensive testing. Shields spend a lot more time at or near peak recharge them most people realise. But anyway I will try not to post much more about passive regen in this thread. I just wanted to say it sort of makes up for the 10% less resistance over amour tanking.
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Posted - 2005.07.21 21:57:00 -
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A point was made about wanting to maintain a shield tank at maximum, to break your enemies morale, and cause you don't know what's going to jump you next.... If your not willing to ride the low road and let your natural regen work for you then you really can't say your shield tanking to the potential. Like pottsey pointed out, that extra bit of natural regen DOES make a difference, not huge, but every bit counts.
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