What engineer Mod do you use for the Prismatic Sheilds??

Apos

Apos
Thermal Resist for all generators for me. Just roll and roll until you also get a mass/strength modifier side effect and you're golden.

Reason is that it has no realistic downsides and makes up for the main weakness of shields, making your defenses robust across the board.
 

XanderVekk

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Apos said:
Thermal Resist for all generators for me. Just roll and roll until you also get a mass/strength modifier side effect and you're golden.

Reason is that it has no realistic downsides and makes up for the main weakness of shields, making your defenses robust across the board.
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This. You can alway make up for shield strength with one HD booster.

Thermal is a pain in the backside to make up for, and a good roll will get you what, almost 40%? (-20% to about 20%).
 

EvE4evah

EvE4evah
Unless you're fighting Bugs. It's said that those ignore resistances so maybe Reinforced is the way to go, plus lots of HD SBs.

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Achibot

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It's a shame there is no way to show objective evidence that you guys are wrong.... Oh, wait:

Cutter w/ Reinforced
Cutter w/ Thermal Resist

Reinforced is objectively better on Prismatics *unless* you aren't able to balance Resistances using the SBs, which would be unusual. Reinforced favours the high alpha Prismatics more than Thermal because of the way Effective shielding is calculated, so this wouldn't be the case on Ordinary or Prismatic shields.
 
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Aashenfox

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XanderVekk said:
This. You can alway make up for shield strength with one HD booster.

Thermal is a pain in the backside to make up for, and a good roll will get you what, almost 40%? (-20% to about 20%).
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60%. Minus 20 to plus 40. That's basically why you thermal the shield and not the booster, cos one mod gives you so much.
 

the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
Achibot said:
Check the Defence Tab, which lists Absolute & Effective Shield numbers.....
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Which seems to show that the reinforced shield will last a couple of minutes less than the thermal at all engagement ranges and take longer to recover (not that you're going to want to sit and let your shield recharge for 20 odd minutes anyway.)

Or have I missed something?
 

Apos

Apos
RidingTheFlow said:
What this supposed to show? Bigger number in "shield capacity"? This is not everything has to be considered in full build, you know.
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It's funny, because his own set ups show that thermal is better, as long as you go to the defence tab.

His reinforced set up would hold for 27:13 minutes, his thermal set up for 29:21.

And this set up will hold for 29:59.

The one and only scenario his set up is better would be against a full Plasma Accelerator load out. Even then probably not, since it's not 100% true damage.

Relying too much on pure MJ also diminishes the value of your Shield Cell Banks. Resistances dip into every MJ that you recover, pure raw strength does not.
 
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Achibot

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Winter Jasra said:
Yeah, and if I click that, it tells me the thermal resist shields will hold for 2 minutes longer than the reinforced ones.
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Against a stock Eagle, sure they will, it only has 2 lasers.... Have none of you guys used this functionality before or something?

Edit: you guys I am dismayed here. This functionality is very simple....

Second Edit: Obviously I should explain, you can put any ship you have saved in instead of the stock Eagle. Try that and come back to me...
 
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Apos

Apos
Achibot said:
Against a stock Eagle, sure they will, it only has 2 lasers.... Have none of you guys used this functionality before or something?

Edit: you guys I am dismayed here. This functionality is very simple....

Second Edit: Obviously I should explain, you can put any ship you have saved in instead of the stock Eagle. Try that and come back to me...
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Add an SCB to each set up and take a look again.
 
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