Trinkets friend
Sudden Buggery
Dead On Arrival Alliance
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Posted - 2011.11.30 00:41:00 -
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Shield fleets are used because, guess what, quite a lot of people make the mistake of being Caldari. Its just a fact.
Nano drakes are as good as it gets for shield fleets, with good mobility, naturally regenerating passive buffer tank, long range DPS. Its like an AHAC gang rolled into one ship, for a quarter the price.
Shield tanking buffer fits (eg, nanocanes, drakes with BC's instead of carebear fits, buffer Cyclones) provide superior DPS to AHACs, for a fraction of the cost and training time.
Don't get me wrong, you will not find an effective shield HAC gang composed of Vagas, Cerbs, Eagles Munnins and shield Zealots backed by logi, which has the same brawling endurance as a AHAC AB fleet. You simply cannot get enough resists cheap enough to cover the EM hole, provide buffer, and point and MWD. There's a lot of stuff you need to pack in and not that many midslots, which is why AHACs wirk well. Plus the sig radius is a downside, as well.
The other thing to point out is that, right now, it is easier to beef up a Guardian pair or group to 100K EHP with faction gear than it is to try that with Basi's (the equivalent shield logi). This is because, for instance, faction invuls are 400M and faction EANM's 40-60M; armour resists in T2 ships are higher, base and more uniform. Viable faction shield RR modules are nonexistant and the CPU drain is ridonkulous. Couple this with sig bloom when you do shield tank your Basi and your tank is inherently weaker, meaning your logi chain is weaker than a Guardian chain.
This is why you don't see faction fitted shield logis and why shield logi pairs fold a lot faster than Guardians. hence, a shield HAC gang is better done as Drake blob, or arty cane blob, backed by scimis.
I'm not complaining, mind you, about the state of play of shield vs armour logi. Properly deployed and managed, a shield logi can really tip the balance.
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