Strill
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Posted - 2007.04.10 04:03:00 -
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You have a very comprehensive thread, however, you don't seem to understand how percentages and inverses work. You say that "Shield Operation: 5% faster regen û not as good as Shield Management, but close!" That's not true. At level 5 of this skill, your recharge rate looks like the following:
(max capacitor) / [(time to regen) * .75]
1/.75 is 1.333... which means that your regeneration rate is being increased by 33% at level 5.
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Disadvantages of Active Shield Tanking û You pay a price for your regen-on-demand. Active Shield Tanking is inherently less damage-efficient than Armor Tanking, as the total base resistance on Shields is 120% - 0% Electro Magnetic, 60% Explosive, 40% Kinetic, 20% Thermal. Armor Tanking, in contrast, has a base value of 140% - 60% EM, 10% Exp, 35% Kinetic, 35% Thermal. Active Shield Tanking uses a great deal more capacitor energy than Armor Tanking, as well û Armor is repaired at least a 2 armor to 1 capacitor ratio or better, often as high as 3-to-1. Since Passive Shield Tanking uses no capacitor at all, it is vastly superior in this regard.
You also make some incorrect statements about resistance percentages by assuming that the benefit they give is directly related to the percentage listed. The benefit that resistances give is exponential. (technically it's proportional to the function 1/(1-x) where 0<x<1, but those of you who don't like math can think of it as exponential) For example, 50% resistance means you can take 2x the damage you could before. Now consider that 60% resistance means you can take 2.5x the damage you could before. That additional 10% is worth half as much as the 50% before it.
So, converting the base resistances into multipliers, shields have:
2.5x more hp vs Explosive
1.666x more hp vs kinetic
1.25x more hp vs thermal
And armor has:
2.5x more hp vs EM
1.11x more hp vs explosive
1.53x more hp vs thermal
1.53x more hp vs kinetic
Although you were correct that the overall base resistances of armor are better than shield, you were incorrect in your reasoning.
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