Bob Lighthouse
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Screening shell - what, exactly, does it do?
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Bob Lighthouse
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I put screening on any remaining ones after I have corrosive and drag applied.
I did not mean to imply that screening is poorly fit for PVP as I use screening there too, based on input from people vastly more experienced than myself.
I must be doing something wrong then lol because I can't even get close to dropping the shields on a PvP fdl before i run out of ammo. I can take out any NPC ship very quickly though
Bob Lighthouse
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Sounds to me like you're running into high kinetic resistance, ie reinforced prismatics, in which case the incendiary ought to help since they probably have a thermal weakness.
Torps are easily avoided, save your ammo for DPS
If you are using screen shell frags to primarily shoot down torps (or missiles), you are objectively doing it wrong.
Depends. Most players have shields engineered to have equal-ish levels of resists. PvE, shields are so weak you still hit them like a truck.
If they've stuck G5 thermal resist on their shield, if anything they'll often end up with slightly weaker kinetic resistance than thermal.
The clue is in the name 'screening' shell. It provides a screen from ordnance. Not sure what to tell you, except that if you are using this mod in pvp and not to shoot down seekers or torps, you have wasted a special, the reload is of very limited value, as I've explained. Corrosive and Incendiary are far more valuable in the current meta. Ask anyone who pvps.
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Most players do not have balanced shield resistances, typically thermal is 10-15% lower. In pve the difference is even more marked.
Bob Lighthouse
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Corrosive and drag don't stack so it's no sense adding more of those, and it's easy enough not to fire if you don't want to.
You can also often fire just your screening frags and still have time for them all to sync again immediately afterwards.
I think of it as "better to have and not need it..."
I based that choice on the advice of some very experienced PVP folks, ftr.
So the implication that there is some wide consensus to the contrary is false.
You can also often fire just your screening frags and still have time for them all to sync again immediately afterwards.
I think of it as "better to have and not need it..."
I based that choice on the advice of some very experienced PVP folks, ftr.
So the implication that there is some wide consensus to the contrary is false.
Never once made a comment on the relative value vs other mods, but thanks for the deflection.
Bob Lighthouse
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If you put "screening" in a search query at the GCI discord, you will see lots of positive feedback, and it's generally DPS/reload time related.
Yup. OC frags with screening shell are the epitome of, "If brute force isn't working you aren't using enough."
OP, what kind of ship are you using? I'm running four OC frags (three screening shell and one drag drive) plus an efficient PA in the huge slot on my FDL. Loving it. Time the PA shot to land just as you're in optimal range with the frags. You can do three times (I think?) before having to recharge the distributor. Run 2-4-0 or 3-3-0 then pip up SYS if you want land a ram in there too.
EDIT: Three frag volleys and two PA shots until distro need recharge.
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It also depends on the platform you're mounting them on. If you're in a jouster like the Mamba then reload time isn't as important and you've got enough hardpoints, especially those smalls, to happily put utility effects like corrosive and drag on without seriously impacting your DPS (or burst damage, which is probably the more important metric here). As RELSPI pointed out, something like a vulture with the agility and speed to just sit on someone's tail and unload into them benefits pretty well from SS, and loses more to utility effects than most ships do since it doesn't have any small hardpoints to sacrifice.
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