Missions & Complexes

I can remember time before the Inferno when the armour fleets managed to run the whole constellation and close the mom themselves. Now it is nothing more than vanguards. What happened ffs? Is there any future for armour fleets?

Shields are just faster. Period.

Come to the Shield side, we have cookies.

I just started running some armor incursions. Tons of fun. So that's +1 armor pilot.

To fit a decent tank, you need at least 4 slots. To contribute decent DPS, you need at least 3 damage mods. So to armour tank you need at least 7 low slots, whereas for shield tanking you need 3 lows and 4 mids. Therefore a much wider range of ships can shield tank, even those that are traditionally armour tankers. If you run an armour tanking fleet then you are either restricting members to just a few ship types, or going in with much reduced DPS, as people drop damage mods to fit tank.

Yes and no, armor ships can use tracking/utility midslots that shield ships cannot. I'd expect to have armor roughly equal to shields dmg wise

What happened to armor however was shield having more FC's and implementing a 'official' FC training plan (least CID/TVP did). As old armor FC's burned out/moved on, most ppl were left with no FC/armor fleets up on one side, and several FC's drafting people for shield fleets on the other side...

And that was what happened to armor, basically.

tht was back in the days of the legion blitz fleets. only one community came up with a plan to contest them and succeeded. Inferno ended the blitz fleets. After all the nerfing to incusions and rebalancing many pilots gave up on them and left for other things within the game, rage quite for a few months, or got caught up in real life.

Since then many pilots fell into the comfort zone of VGs not wanting to go beyond that cause the pilots do not trust in one another and that the TDF council has pissed on the community when they were called on when ISN was created within the community. more drama. but we will nto go finger pointiing at the true source within TVP.

Armor can answer the call that many are voicing here. if they only get their heads out of their collective.....you get the idea. But with everything going on the drama involved many armor pilots gave up and went to other parts of the game after all was said and done.

Oh on another note....Just the other day I saw 2 armor fleets running about doing Assaults. Fun watching TDF try and contest us even when the Born Ara Mob was a training fleet. Thank you TDF for your help in training the new assault FC in how to win a contest. The senior FC was very informative and even helped us regular fleet folks into how to win a contest. WOOHOOOO!!!!

Knowledge is power...and knowing is half the battle

So you can fit 3 damage mods and a few tracking ones on your armor tanker? impressive.

BarroghHabalu...your wrong. People fly the ships they are trained for. there is no ABsolute set up for any one ship. It is how you set it up.

Yes its true armor tank style ships set up for shield tanking is kinda fragile as is shield tanked ships. I would love to see ships that are truely intended for shield tanking get a hit in the armor depeartment and the same with armor ships get a hit in shield department. Make the ship truely what it's intended for.

but then again it all comes down to skill.

oh...one otherthing.....Armor trusting in their DPS

I try not to say much on these silly forum things. but dude. seriously several of us know why Armour is having such a hard problem. Its called adapting. Seriously i think you need your balls reattached.

you are seriously wrong thinking Armor cannot run the sites just as affectively as shield but our fitting styles will be slightly diffrent set up but we can do it and i will be proving it this weekend. I beleive we will be testing it first ont the test server then going live with it.