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Navy Issue Dominix - Shield or Armor tank?
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I544CJON35 Aldent
Incursion Omega
Cosmos Origins
#1 - 2011-11-21 18:10:18 UTC
I've seen what appears to be an even split between players on whether to go with a shield tank or an armor tank on the Navy Dominix. Currently I've got an armor tank, 1 rep and 4 hardeners.

Which is better and why? (I'm sure there are pro's and con's with both, but I'd like to hear anyway)
Tamiya Sarossa
Resistance is Character Forming
#2 - 2011-11-21 18:16:53 UTC
Shield tank - more room for magstabs, bit harder to shoehorn on an effective tank and still have enough omnidirectional tracking links for your sentries without pimping the tank mods a bit.

Armor, more afk-friendly, more tank in general, less DPS, can be vanilla t2 without much trouble.

Both of these are assuming that you're going for the max dps sentry/sentry damage rig/425 rails fits, if you're going for heavy tank without the rails then it's pretty much personal preference.
I544CJON35 Aldent
Incursion Omega
Cosmos Origins
#3 - 2011-11-21 19:12:34 UTC  |  Edited by: I544CJON35 Aldent
I'm going to stick with armor, only because I've just bought a bunch of faction hardeners, propulsion, and a rep. :)
Glarrion
Minner Alliance
#4 - 2011-11-21 20:11:00 UTC
domi - armor tank for pve also some shield tankers - for sniper PVP

and yes armor tank is AFK / agrro graber friendly ;p
Cambarus
The Baros Syndicate
#5 - 2011-11-21 20:15:04 UTC
If you're looking for the best performance (and in missions the only real way to measure this is isk/hour) then you want a shield tank.

If you want to run missions more easily/semi afk, armor tank.