Are you listening to the fact I have had people tell me their shield strength and when compared to the sheer damage potential of plasma it didn't add up why the volleys didn't do greater damage. Like I said, one ship had around 400mj shield. Yes, pips increases this, yet multiple volleys from 5 plasma didn't do the expected damage to drop this shield. I already admitted this topic is probably baseless, since I don't know the exact math behind pips and absolute damage from plasma, so it doesn't really matter so long as they're no broken.
Are Bi-weaves stronger than they ought to be? Are they broken?
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Are you listening to the fact I have had people tell me their shield strength and when compared to the sheer damage potential of plasma it didn't add up why the volleys didn't do greater damage. Like I said, one ship had around 400mj shield. Yes, pips increases this, yet multiple volleys from 5 plasma didn't do the expected damage to drop this shield. I already admitted this topic is probably baseless, since I don't know the exact math behind pips and absolute damage from plasma, so it doesn't really matter so long as they're no broken.
4 pips in SYS reduce all damage to shields by (last time I checked) 58%, then the resistances of the shield are applied to the 20/20 thermal and kinetic of the PA.
A C4 SRB PA would do 220ish raw damage, but only 90ish against a target with 4 pips to SYS and the +50% resistances on most biweave builds. This doesn't account for dropoff either.
Basically, cut your listed damage by at least 65% when shooting PAs at players with engineered biweaves.
A C4 SRB PA would do 220ish raw damage, but only 90ish against a target with 4 pips to SYS and the +50% resistances on most biweave builds. This doesn't account for dropoff either.
Basically, cut your listed damage by at least 65% when shooting PAs at players with engineered biweaves.