Engineers Engineering Prismatic Shields

Pops Ravendish

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Exigeous said:
After paying my dues over the last month I've finally unlocked and purchased the Prismatic shields. I went ahead and bought class 2-7, as I have no plans to ever own a Cutter and even if I did I wouldn't use it for combat. I currently have Lei Cheung unlocked and have engineered several shields to grade 5 so those are actually quite a bit more powerful than the Prismatics I just bought.

Obviously I'm going to correct that soon and head to Lei to get my new ones done up right. So my question is this, I had a bit of a hard time understanding what the best shield engineering choice is. Currently the ones I own are all done as just Reinforced Shields as that seemed to be the best overall. I then have 2 thermal, 2 kinetic, 2 resistance and 2 reinforced grade 2 boosters (haven't unlocked grade 5). I figured for the boosters I'd do a selection so I could mix and match whatever I like. I generally do combat in either an FDL, Gunship or my newly acquired Anaconda (as of today). I don't know that I'll keep the 'Conda long as I just really don't like the big ships in VR (I like the small, fighter feel with the Courier being far away my favorite interior).

Okay so back to the Prismatics - should I go for reinforced like before? I may do a couple low power in say 2 and 3 for my Sidey, Eagle and Courier just for fun, keeping them light and fast.

I look forward to any input you guys have....

~X
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So you need Prismatic Shields to protect your combat ship? Here is a quick and easy grind to achieve that goal.


After you have been aligned with Aisling Duval for a minute of 4 weeks....


On a Wednesday I flew my longest ranged ship to Wababa System, Roelofs Station. I had my Type 9 with 752 Tons of Cargo space ( around $2 M Cr from where it was at) delivered to Roelofs. When it arrives go to the Power Contact and buy 750 T of Media Materials. It is an expensive grind. You can only buy the Materials in 10 T lots, each costing $100,000, and it takes time. Buy 10 hit okay, select buy, buy 10 and repeat, 75 times at $100,000 per revolution equals $7,500,000 Cr.


Then fly to HIP 1572, about 18.54 Ly. Proceed to Cannon Station, about 88 Ls. (both stations have large pads so there are no issues there). Go to the Power Contact and sell/donate the 750 T of Media Materials. Then return to Roelofs Station. I picked up 752 T of leather, so I wouldn't be deadheading (Trader at heart) and made around $400 K Cr for my trouble.


I parked for the night. When you log back in the following day (Thursday after 0700 Game time,) you will find that you have been promoted to Rating 3 which unlocks the Prismatic Shield.


Go to outfitting, trade one of your 8E cargo racks for an 8A prismatic shield, your balance will be another $237,782, 735 lighter, but you will be good to go.


I hope this will help.
 

Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
Pops Ravendish said:
So you need Prismatic Shields to protect your combat ship? Here is a quick and easy grind to achieve that goal.


After you have been aligned with Aisling Duval for a minute of 4 weeks....


On a Wednesday I flew my longest ranged ship to Wababa System, Roelofs Station. I had my Type 9 with 752 Tons of Cargo space ( around $2 M Cr from where it was at) delivered to Roelofs. When it arrives go to the Power Contact and buy 750 T of Media Materials. It is an expensive grind. You can only buy the Materials in 10 T lots, each costing $100,000, and it takes time. Buy 10 hit okay, select buy, buy 10 and repeat, 75 times at $100,000 per revolution equals $7,500,000 Cr.


Then fly to HIP 1572, about 18.54 Ly. Proceed to Cannon Station, about 88 Ls. (both stations have large pads so there are no issues there). Go to the Power Contact and sell/donate the 750 T of Media Materials. Then return to Roelofs Station. I picked up 752 T of leather, so I wouldn't be deadheading (Trader at heart) and made around $400 K Cr for my trouble.


I parked for the night. When you log back in the following day (Thursday after 0700 Game time,) you will find that you have been promoted to Rating 3 which unlocks the Prismatic Shield.


Go to outfitting, trade one of your 8E cargo racks for an 8A prismatic shield, your balance will be another $237,782, 735 lighter, but you will be good to go.


I hope this will help.
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I suspect Exigeous has got them by now.
 

KG_Jedi

KG_Jedi
Reinforced is only way to go with Prismatic shields. Only.

As for Shield engineering, it is quite simple:

- Reinforced gives more raw shield MJ at cost of making it recharge and regenerate slower.

- Thermal/Kinetic does what they say - increase resistance to said damage type significantly. Useful for PvE, and with some shield boosters you can even out your shield resistances at 50%.

- Enhanced Low Power does what it says - reduces powere usage and mass in exchange for shield capacity.

And since prismatics already have more capacity than normal shields at cost of recharging and regenerating slower, it makes sense to use Reinforced to further improve it's pretty damn impressive capacity to truly ridiculous levels. Corvette can reasonably have 7.1k shield while Cutter I think can reach almost 10k. So, Reinforced + Hi-Cap is a go to way for Prismatics (don't bother with other special effects, this one is the best).
 

Trollymctrollerson

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Reinforced plus high cap maximizes the advantages of the prismatic. Because Engineering mods are Percent based, cranking up the MJ gives the greatest overall benefit. If you use coriolis and compare a reinforced+high cap to a reinforced+thermo block, you see that the high cap actually gives GREATER effective mj to thermal damage than the thermo block experimental.
ELP mod isn't great either because you would be better off just applying reinforced mod to a regular A rated shield in terms of power, weight and strength.
Thernal resistance mod gives only slightly more effective MJ to thermal damage than the reinforced high cap mod but that comes at a massive drop in effective kinetic MJ.
In Summary, reinforced + high cap is kind of the meta right now so long as you have enough power to run it.
 

CMDR EDGEL0RD

CMDR EDGEL0RD
Exigeous said:
After paying my dues over the last month I've finally unlocked and purchased the Prismatic shields. I went ahead and bought class 2-7, as I have no plans to ever own a Cutter and even if I did I wouldn't use it for combat. I currently have Lei Cheung unlocked and have engineered several shields to grade 5 so those are actually quite a bit more powerful than the Prismatics I just bought.

Obviously I'm going to correct that soon and head to Lei to get my new ones done up right. So my question is this, I had a bit of a hard time understanding what the best shield engineering choice is. Currently the ones I own are all done as just Reinforced Shields as that seemed to be the best overall. I then have 2 thermal, 2 kinetic, 2 resistance and 2 reinforced grade 2 boosters (haven't unlocked grade 5). I figured for the boosters I'd do a selection so I could mix and match whatever I like. I generally do combat in either an FDL, Gunship or my newly acquired Anaconda (as of today). I don't know that I'll keep the 'Conda long as I just really don't like the big ships in VR (I like the small, fighter feel with the Courier being far away my favorite interior).

Okay so back to the Prismatics - should I go for reinforced like before? I may do a couple low power in say 2 and 3 for my Sidey, Eagle and Courier just for fun, keeping them light and fast.

I look forward to any input you guys have....

~X
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Prismatics are good when you have to kill one thing and outlive it. They are good for pvp only atm. They are heavier and regen only on reboot and docking in station pretty much.
For sustained ratting, I usually go biwave for regen and less mass.

For mods - it depends.
If you have SCB's - go thermal resist with kinetic block. You will get more out of cells.
If you don't - go reinforced with thermo block. You will get more shield ehp overall, but your SCB's will be like 15% worse.

For former, booster formula is 2 resistant+force, rest heavy duty. For latter, 2 thermal+thermal, one resistant+thermal, rest heavy duty.

Soz, necro T_T
 
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Ytterium

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CMDR EDGEL0RD said:
Prismatics are good when you have to kill one thing and outlive it. They are good for pvp only atm. They are heavier and regen only on reboot and docking in station pretty much.
For sustained ratting, I usually go biwave for regen and less mass.

For mods - it depends.
If you have SCB's - go thermal resist with kinetic block. You will get more out of cells.
If you don't - go reinforced with thermo block. You will get more shield ehp overall, but your SCB's will be like 15% worse.

For former, booster formula is 2 resistant+force, rest heavy duty. For latter, 2 thermal+thermal, one resistant+thermal, rest heavy duty.

Soz, necro T_T
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Definitely NOT how I would run a prismo, but you do you I guess.
 
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