Thanks for posting your build. I see you went with 5D HRPs. I am not sure they are worth it, due to their extra weight. I would remove Corrosive from the large MC in favour of Autoloader.
>3000 shields on a Corvette?
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I might have made a mistake on the shipyard, I'm pretty sure I have the lightest variants of the HRPs.
I considered putting autoloader on the large, but if I did, I would change one of the mediums for corrosive, you NEED two MCs with corrosive on the vette, one up, one down (that's why I chose the large), for maximising uptime of the debuff when the enemy is above or below your nose and when reloading etc.
I prefer PAs and railguns to be honest, this is just my CZ mashup loadout, as you can see in the vid, against ships with no chaff it's quite literally ridiculous.
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Not at all, soloing wing missions or high intensity CZ I manage just fine, engineering Bi weave for resists with fast charge experimental, and cap engineered for regen.
If I were to take the bi weave to near breaking point, the cap recharge rate ensures the sys bank will never deplete so passive regen is always in effect. I can regen near empty shields on 2 pips and it barely drops. Were I to get to the point I thought my shield might let go, g5 dirty drives and flying FA off, I have np staying out of heavier fire allowing the shields to recover in short order. I cannot remember the last time my shields broke.
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There's no regen at all when under fire though. You have to have no drain on the shield for 5 seconds for it to start charging. edit: it suddenly occurs to me that I've never verified this, so I'm prpared to be wrong, it's something I've seen stated many times.
I totally agree though, a wing assassination can be soloed with a biweave and no boosters, easily. Dude should see my vid above, build is posted too.
I have a G5 Reinforced 7A Shield generator plus 6 x g5 Heavy Duty shield boosters + 2 x G5 Thermal Resistance ones giving me 5037mj shields. I am not interested in jump range it is a Corvette if I wanted jump range I would have stayed in an Anaconda. https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/fed...A5gG2SEBGCQoA&bn=Penny Royal Present Loadout
I like PA and RGs, too, but ammo constraints prevent me from using them in HAZ RES. I put on corrosive MC on the side. The tracing arc up and below the ship is sufficient for me.
Like, how?
I've started engineering my shields on the corvette and am running thermal resist (g5 I think!) with 3 x resistance augmented (g5) and 1 heavy duty (g2). I've the resistances in the high 50s and 60s percentage-wise but the shield strength is only 1471. How the heck do you see figures in the 3000s?? Will the heavy duty G5 make that much of a difference? The problem is finding all the materials, even with trading is a right pain
Mind you saying that - I am taking a heck of a lot of a beating in fights now, so clearly something is working
I'm pretty sure you've crossed the diminishing returns line with that third resistance augmented (g5) booster. Since 3.0, I've switched both my Anaconda and Corvette to 3 Hvy and 2 Resist, fully maxed G5. With a G5 Reinforced Bi-weave, both have shields around 2300. Previously, they were 1200 and 1400 respectively - which was plenty for PVE. With the upgrades, I'm definitely fine in PVE.
You can go higher, but unless you're doing PVP, I don't see why you should bother.
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Yep, i'm running 7A reinforced with only 6 boosters and I'm over 4K. I can sit in a haz res all day. Personally bi-weaves or thermal resistance on a vette is a bad choice in my opinion. Seems most of the NPC's I fight are slinging plasma.
Resistances?
I agree. There is more to increasing bulk shield strength rather bumping resistances than just plasma fire: Ramming have highest dps of all weapons.
On topic. 7-8A shield + 6-8 b00sters + RNGneers = abomination. It should dine in hell.
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Like, how?
I've started engineering my shields on the corvette and am running thermal resist (g5 I think!) with 3 x resistance augmented (g5) and 1 heavy duty (g2). I've the resistances in the high 50s and 60s percentage-wise but the shield strength is only 1471. How the heck do you see figures in the 3000s?? Will the heavy duty G5 make that much of a difference? The problem is finding all the materials, even with trading is a right pain
Mind you saying that - I am taking a heck of a lot of a beating in fights now, so clearly something is working
Plug your build into a ship builder and look at your effective shielding, it's likely as high as anything else. Shield Cells further increase your effective shielding.
Yeah I saw your vid and you had to use a few Shield cell banks-I use none with my build
Yeh I used 4,but that was just cos I could, I didn't need to, I like to demoralize the NPCs by restoring my shield before engaging, and I like the heat sink timing mini game, too. Lol.
You chaff or kite? Cos there's no way you're taking less than 2k shield damage in that encounter without kiting or chaffing.
As for epeen, nah, my ship isn't top anyway, it's just the best I could afford, I am proud of the engineering in it though, given the constraints I had.
The shield config is as good as anyone's for pve and the armor is a really good guide for people to balance resistances and have some utility. Will update when i get reactive bulks.
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Nope,not going to
To me CQC & PP are the devil
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