Feedback

Tag cloud

what's your question? be descriptive.

By: Asked

What is up with the EFT passive shield vs active armor tank?

I am very perplexed as a result of a recent hair up my arse which compelled me to start building passive and active tanks on Gallente and Amarr ships in EFT.

I have always been lead to believe that both of these races like armor tanking, and that passive tanking would only be a novelty fit on any of there ships, always inferior to a good armor tank on the same ship.

I am getting very confused here, because EFT is showing several of their ships can have not just equivalent, but immensely better tanks with a passive rather than active tank. I know there is a difference between what EFT advertises, and what one will experience in game, but how does one explain that a loadout with an EFT defense rating of 300, is, in game, not as good as one with an EFT defense rating of 200? Its just such a huge difference on paper; are there really in game factors that will turn that kind of ratio on its head?

Add comment viewed 594 times Latest activity about 1 year ago

NN comments
or Cancel

2 answers

  • 2

xkaraxis [ Editor ]

Passive shield tanks respond much better to throwing additional slots at them than other tank methods. Traditionally armor tanked ships tend to have lots of low slots where you can stick shield power relays to boost your shield recharge through the roof (shield recharge is not stacking penalized). This also results in really crappy cap recharge, but if you have good cap skills and controlled bursts trained, you can usually run a rack of lasers or hybrids.

The drawback to this is that usually, you want your ship to do more than just tank which it won't do well if you devote almost every slot on your ship to tanking.

Most armor ships will give you a better passive shield tank than active armor tank according to EFT (with the exception of ships that have ridiculous armor resists or rep bonuses possibly) but they aren't very useful in practice.

NN comments
redmage
-

Or Projectiles!

or Cancel
  • 0

aragaer [ Editor ]

With active tank you should always ccheck both peak tank and sustained tank. First one is how much you can you can tank if you are going to ahve your cap drained. Second one tells how much you can tank indefinitely assuming you cycle your repairer only when you have cap.

NN comments
daddy worbucks
-

familiar with how to read the defense rating. passive is winning out either way. I haven’t been equipping vampires, would that make all the difference?

aragaer
-

Tried adding cap rechargers? How long does your cap last?

or Cancel

Question's Contributors

Related Questions