They are effective but occupy module slots rather that utility slots. Use a lot of energy and slow down shield regeneration quite a bit. Unfortunately you cannot turn these modules off.
I use them in a few combat builds where shield tanking. Apart from Guardian FSD boosters, they are possibly the only useful guardian tech.
I use them in a few combat builds where shield tanking. Apart from Guardian FSD boosters, they are possibly the only useful guardian tech.
Much like the FSD booster, they are great in turning bad to mediocre. Of course they can also be used to make the awesome slightly more awesome, again much like FSD booster is used in exploration ships. I mostly use them to get hybrid bi-weave shields and on those otherwise pretty useless small slots for my cargo ships with undersized shields.
They add a fixed amount of extra MJ depending on the boosters size. Most effective on smaller ships or ships with weak shields.
For example my sidewinder has double the MJs with one fitted. https://is.gd/wo4i5W
For example my sidewinder has double the MJs with one fitted. https://is.gd/wo4i5W
Yeah, Ceekay put it well there. Here is an example of this with two clippers. The first one is pretty traditional clipper shielding.
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1100+ shield absolute strength, 1600 to 2800 after resistances. Regen is 4,4/s
Here is a clipper with some guardian shield reinforcements with focus on getting a fast charging resistance build.
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About the same 1100+ absolute shield strength, 2600+ to 3700+ after resistances. Regen is 5,1/s
The second one creates a lot better basis for a PvE combat ship.
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Here is a clipper with some guardian shield reinforcements with focus on getting a fast charging resistance build.
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The second one creates a lot better basis for a PvE combat ship.
Guardian shield boosters are the 2nd best general purpose guardian module (after the FSD booster), and open up the possibility for some particularly interesting builds. The guardian shield boosters add a flat MJ increase to your ship's shields, so they are best used on ships that have poor shields, but lots of module space and power to spare. To give a few examples:
- An iEagle with over 400 MJ of bi-weave shields https://s.orbis.zone/4uje
- A FAS with over 950 MJ of bi-weave shields and 2 free utility mounts https://s.orbis.zone/5a-0
- My PvE Krait II with over 1000 MJ of bi-weave shields, a SCB, and double fighter bay https://s.orbis.zone/5a-2
- My meme-build Eagle with over 400 MJ of bi-weave shields https://s.orbis.zone/5a-3
Very intersting thread, so big ships like the Corvette are a no-go for the Guardian Shield Booster..
My Corvettes (Anacondas, T10s and Cutter) all use bi-weave resistance builds, essentially that comprises a bi weave shield 2 x thermal resist boosters, 1 x kinetic and 1 x resistance augmented and some guardian shield packages to get the required strength.
PVE Corvette https://s.orbis.zone/5av3
In my experience each class of bi-weave shield has strength "sweetspot" e.g. a class 7's optimum strength is around 1200 - 1400 MJ much higher than 1400 MJ and you lose the fast rebuild/regen properties of this shield type and moving to a high capacity/heavy duty shielding solution would be more appropriate.
Neither approach is wrong you just use what fits your combat style, here's an in depth analysis on shielding
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DMWz8IeEE&t=432s
PVE Corvette https://s.orbis.zone/5av3
In my experience each class of bi-weave shield has strength "sweetspot" e.g. a class 7's optimum strength is around 1200 - 1400 MJ much higher than 1400 MJ and you lose the fast rebuild/regen properties of this shield type and moving to a high capacity/heavy duty shielding solution would be more appropriate.
Neither approach is wrong you just use what fits your combat style, here's an in depth analysis on shielding
My PvE big ships aim to around 2,5-3k absolute with biweaves with very heavy focus on resistances. With a setup like that the need for SCB usage is rather low. I took a look into Ceekay's ship there and converted it (fast) to my PvE philosophy touching only a few components (to not make a totally different ship) for comparison:
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A wingmate currently uses a Vette build between mine and yours with SCBs, at around 1500 - 1600 MJ firing off a 7B shield cell fills up the shields significantly, he used to run 7A prismatics and HD boosters with SCBs but eventually had to go back to a station to recharge!
As I mentioned earlier as long as the shield installation is fairly sensible in the first place there's no right or wrong setup just what suits each individual.
For example this is what I use for pirate threat zones https://s.orbis.zone/63au I typically lose a ring and a half before killing the engineered Anaconda target, using a smaller faster ship with decent DPS can be just as effective as the Corvette.
As I mentioned earlier as long as the shield installation is fairly sensible in the first place there's no right or wrong setup just what suits each individual.
For example this is what I use for pirate threat zones https://s.orbis.zone/63au I typically lose a ring and a half before killing the engineered Anaconda target, using a smaller faster ship with decent DPS can be just as effective as the Corvette.