Ship Builds & Load Outs Just got shiny new prismatics! Recommended Engineering?

[Bigmaec]

Your build seem to mainly focus on PvP. While I'm mainly PvE.

In fact, out of my entire fleet I only have two ships that are focused to PvP. A Viper Mk IV packing dual Cytoscramblers and Double Shot Frags and
a Dolphin with Dual long range rail-guns both of which are running Bi-Weaves.

You started the torpedo and CZ argument
For PvE I nearly always use a bi-weave build...

 

[Northpin]

As the title say, I finally got those coveted prismatic shields, I'm wondering on how to engineer them. I'm hardcore into bi-weaves, and I go for thermal resist on the shields. But I'm wondering on what works best for them. I'm weighing on whether to go for resists, or all in on raw MJ. I bought two of each (or more) so I can try out both methodologies, but I'd like to know what is ideal before I commit a bunch of engineering resources?

Just another vote for reinforced with high cap.
Prismatics are heavy and power hungry and are used for the Raw MJ values they provide... Why killing their only advantage with lesser MJ builds?

Also, prismatics are absolutely (redacted very mild and very British expletive - the filter is awful)* for PVE. If you pve, stick with bi-weaves (thargoid combat ignored here)

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[Sir Ganksalot]

The class 5 priamatic in my Fer-de-lance is modded for Thermal resist with double bracing.

The thermal resist does two things. It helps counter the shields weakness towards thermal damage and it increases the modules integrity. Which is further increased by the double bracing.

This increases the modules integrity from 115 stock to 185. Which means that it will now take 5 reverb cascade torpedoes to kill the shield generator instead of 3.

Thermal resist on a prismo is a waste of MJ's. For any combat role you should always be running reinforced with hi cap with one thermal/super cap booster and one res aug/super cap booster and then as many HD/super cap boosters as your build allows.

 

[Sir Ganksalot]

@WhiteWeasel
Here's some prismo build examples.
This is a solid pve Vette the absolutely dominates CZ or anything else you can throw at it

Coriolis EDCD Edition

A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous

s.orbis.zone

Here's the meta PvP FDL.

Coriolis EDCD Edition

A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous

s.orbis.zone

As you can see, the meta build for prismatics is a reinforced/hi cap shield with one thermal resist/super cap booster, one res aug/super cap booster and as many HD/super cap boosters as your build allows.

 

[baudelier]

Thermal resist on a prismo is a waste of MJ's. For any combat role you should always be running reinforced with hi cap with one thermal/super cap booster and one res aug/super cap booster and then as many HD/super cap boosters as your build allows.

Well Faschnauts...

Ran your build through EDSY and its just 262Mj weaker in thermal capacity than my Pangolin build.
Looks like I've got some re-engineering to do, since while my FDL is open capable its, not purpose built for PvP.
And, something I completely lost sight of in the engineering of my shields, outside of PvP you don't tend to run
into much in the way of Reverb Cascade Torpedoes.