If you are planning on upgrading your bulkheads with Engineers, the most balanced would be to equip the Military Composite for PvE. The Engineer upgrades will help you to further skew the various damage type resistances Particularly since the 2.2 upgrade when the enhanced the NPC's combat AI, NPC ships have been a bit more versatile in their hardpoint selections. However, that versatility seems to begin and end with NPC ships either equipped with a combination of Thermal and Kinetic or equipped with Explosive. If you are flying a ship that has very high shield protection, then equipping the Military Grade Composites are a nice boost and backup to the shields if they go down. The ship I own with the least amount of shields, save the smaller ships, is the Gunship. It has 583MJ of Shields. I equipped the ship with Hull Reinforcement Modules and Military Composite Bulkheads, and then upgraded the Reinforcement kits with Heavy Duty and the Bulkheads with Lightweight, and pushed out close to 2300 integrity (hull), with one of the slots being used for a Module Reinforcement Kit, which i will shortly replace with another Hull Reinforcement kit pushing the integrity to over 2500. When my shields go down, which they will often go down particularly in a Hazardous RES, I have rarely dropped below 90% hull in the entire time I have remained at the instance, which can be hours. Based upon the Coriolis 2.0, it would take between 4 and 5.5 minutes for a well armed small to a medium sized ship to take down my hull with constant firing. You should remember that the hulls are generally pretty thermal resistant, it is explosive and kinetic that they are less resistant against. That being said, the Military Composite offers a nice balance between defending against both types.
So far, the Military Composites have never done me wrong in PvE. A little love from the engineers can also go a long way towards making your hull resilient towards kinetic.
So far, the Military Composites have never done me wrong in PvE. A little love from the engineers can also go a long way towards making your hull resilient towards kinetic.
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