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Posted - 2012.04.19 10:44:00 -
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Suran Tarj wrote:Hello out there.
Im still new in this game, and I wonder: How do I tell, what ship is suited for active and passive tanking. What ship-parameteres tells me "This is suited for active tanking" or "this is a passive tanker"?
I can see fx Maelstrom got bonus to shield boosting, wich obviously tells me its a active tank - but what about the rest of the ships? How do I recon active from passive?
/Suran
1. Look at whether a vessel has a bonus to tanking (this will be either or)... though this is not set in stone either. Specifically the usual passive tanking bonus (resists amount) is always equally useful for active tanking but the usual active tanking bonus does nothing for you passive tank.
2. Look at the proposed uses of the vessel. If it's cap is too weak (in combnation with the weapon system and utility highslot usage such as the neutraliser) then passive might be a better option
3. In pvp smaller vessels as a rule of thumb are better fitted passive because theu can hardly power the weapons and tackling and propulsion mods and they are prone to face oversized neuts. Conversely larger vessels have a lot more cap and oversized injectors and dont have to look out for capital neutralisers (dunno why ask CCP)
4. In pvp solo vessels active tank if doing low dps (or else they are deadmeat) and switch to passive tanks better when they do a lot of dps keeping fights sweet and sort
5. In pvp Vessels relying to RR are usually passive resist tanked (with a minimum of buffer to allow the cavalry to arrive) whereas solo passive tankers simply go for highest ehp which often is buffer other than resists
6. In pve all armor tankers are active. Shield can work either way
7. Heavily neut infested pve environments force solo vessels to passive tank. Neut infested pvp environments are more friendly to active tanks due to the (usually) shorter fight duration and the cargohold 800 cap booster charge capacities
8. Slot layout helps as suggested before... but in mysterious ways. For example a vessel with many lowslots and 2-3 mid slots is likely to armor passive tank whereas a vessel with many lowslots and 4 mids, if armor tanking, will be equally likely to active tank as passive tank. This is because of the holly small gang/solo pvp number 4. In midslots it signifies proulsion mod, web, scram, injector
9. Real men and Gallente boss frigates hull tank which is alwaysTM passive (or the capsuleer is lunatic) and good for you som
10. I could go on all day but I ll give it a rest here. If you are really good at reading between the lines you will have seen there is a noticeable preference to passive tanks on all vessels in pvp and active tanks in all armor and most shield vessels in pve. The exception is usually those vessels with active tank bonuses not because they are actually better in active tank configurations (for pvp) but rather because one feels that if not using them liek that one should be flying a different vessel..
tl;dr situational. all vessels can do both passive and active. try passive first for pvp active first for pve. |