You said you do PVE, but what do you use the shield for specifically? If it's a long session in a res site/combat zone, then you want bi-weave. If it's a ship for single missions or encounters, then a standard shield.
Looking for shield advice.
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You said you do PVE, but what do you use the shield for specifically? If it's a long session in a res site/combat zone, then you want bi-weave. If it's a ship for single missions or encounters, then a standard shield.
Ya, for my more hull tank Chief that doesn't use GSRP I go with 6 bi-weaves for that purpose as well as to free up the 5 for an HRP, and raw shield value is then low enough that size 4 SCB will do the trick if I bother with them.
This, the only time its not, is when you are building for thargoid hunting.
Sure they do Absolute damage mostly (and Caustic) and bypass all resistances easily,that's why most of the AX builds are shieldless
For engineering, I spent far too much time running the numbers on a spreadsheet and there are an awful lot of combinations. People talk about Bi-Weaves and Prismatics, but I only ran the numbers on standard shields.
Anyway, for general purpose shields, I chose the following:
Shields with thermal reinforcement, then shld bstrs engineered in the following order: HD, RA, RA, HD, RA, HD, RA etc.
oh, and you can see shld strength on Coriolis by selecting the defence option at the lower half of the web page
Anyway, for general purpose shields, I chose the following:
Shields with thermal reinforcement, then shld bstrs engineered in the following order: HD, RA, RA, HD, RA, HD, RA etc.
oh, and you can see shld strength on Coriolis by selecting the defence option at the lower half of the web page
Hi. Yes it's high res and conflict zones.
Hi Cmdrs, thank you all for your suggestions. I engineered a 5C Bi-Weave with G5 thermal resist/fast charge and the both shield boosters are G5 Resistance augmented/reinforced and I must say the results are more than I had hoped. Had a test run in a Haz Rez zone and my shields only went down once even with multiple ships attacking but didn't stay down for long, result!! So once again cheers all. Stay safe and o7 Cmdrs.
Depends on usage.
If you are going for one off high threat assassination missions or perhaps PvP then Prismatic.
If you want some hang time in Haz Res etc then Bi-Weave*.
*But you can always reset your Prismatics to 50% with a reboot if you are clear of combat. So having a Prismatic build shouldn't spoil your fun popping pirates!
If you are going for one off high threat assassination missions or perhaps PvP then Prismatic.
If you want some hang time in Haz Res etc then Bi-Weave*.
*But you can always reset your Prismatics to 50% with a reboot if you are clear of combat. So having a Prismatic build shouldn't spoil your fun popping pirates!
I'm sick of bi-weaves so I'm going for prismatics. Everyone says bi-weaves are so great and for 1v1 they are. But for harder content where you're in sustained combat with multiple engineered enemies, they can't hold up. How fast they recharge is irrelevant when they are under constant fire anyway.
Another issue is you have to juggle pips around to get the most out of bi-weaves where with Prismatics you can just start the fight with a huge pool of HP.
Another issue is you have to juggle pips around to get the most out of bi-weaves where with Prismatics you can just start the fight with a huge pool of HP.
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Engineer it and crank it up to 11. It's no rocket science. Just grindwork.