Shield boosters and recharge time
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Indeed. If my shields drop, I turn off all boosters till the shields come back up. Them I reactivate them
digitalscream
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This. If I'm in a PvP fight and my shields drop, I usually disable the boosters on the fly. I re-enable them when the shield's back up - they're resistance boosters, so even though they won't be useful as extra shield capacity for the duration of the fight, they still add value.
Absolutely agree. Although my big issue is that I tend to forget to turn them back on again and end up in a combat zone with surprisingly pathetic shields!
Oooohhh. Interesting, much appreciated!
If your shields are low but not gone, they will recharge at the same rate with or without shield boosters.
It's always a constant rate of 1 MJ/s. For example, if you have a 500 MJ shield boosted to 600 MJ, but it drops to 100 in a fight, then a minute later you'll have 160, regardless of whether booster are on or off.
The difference is that the shield rings will look more full if you turn the boosters off, because 160/500 is a bigger percent than 160/600.
Once your shields completely drop, they still recharge at the same rate with or without boosters. But they have to reach a set percent of full before they come back on. So it is good to turn off boosters in this situation to reduce the maximum and thus also reduce the wait until you reach that magic percent.
For example, (I can't remember the exact percent) if you need 20% shields before they turn back on, then with booster you'd need to wait 120 sec (20% of 600) but with boosters off you'd wait 100 sec (20% of 500).
It's always a constant rate of 1 MJ/s. For example, if you have a 500 MJ shield boosted to 600 MJ, but it drops to 100 in a fight, then a minute later you'll have 160, regardless of whether booster are on or off.
The difference is that the shield rings will look more full if you turn the boosters off, because 160/500 is a bigger percent than 160/600.
Once your shields completely drop, they still recharge at the same rate with or without boosters. But they have to reach a set percent of full before they come back on. So it is good to turn off boosters in this situation to reduce the maximum and thus also reduce the wait until you reach that magic percent.
For example, (I can't remember the exact percent) if you need 20% shields before they turn back on, then with booster you'd need to wait 120 sec (20% of 600) but with boosters off you'd wait 100 sec (20% of 500).
Now we'd all love to hear more about this...
Thanks everyone. Just tried it out. Even though my heavy duty shields then need extra time for re-charging once I re-activate them...
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Completely correct answer. Turning of shield boosters is only useful when your shields are down, as they have a lower target number of charge to switch on again when boosters are off. (If you then turn the boosters on again, it will -look- like they lost charge, but that's also what was described, that the current charge now is displayed as portion of a bigger maximum shield than without the Boosters. )
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Thank you guys, that makes complete sense. It is, however, somewhat reassuring to see your shield rings turn blue a bit more quickly, even if the total strength is lower...
You guys are wrong about disabling boosters when shields go down. Watch this:
https://youtu.be/zFZoLmnbWig
https://youtu.be/zFZoLmnbWig
Much appreciated. One of the reasons I switched to bi-weave is to make the recharge slightly more bearable.
Well, i pretty much depence on the situation.. if you need some sort of protection ASAP, just to get the hell out. You better turn the Shield Boosters off.
If you are idle waiting for enough shields to go back in the the fight, you better leave them on.