Player Features and Ideas Discussion

maybe it would even be nice to make a passive version of it, one that uses no cap but has a smaller effect in resistance shifting

The proposed change would be a ridiculously strong buff to the RAH. Matching the 10% cycle reduction with a 10% cap reduction would mean the skill delivers pure benefit with no downside. While there are a number of other 'no downside' skills in the game, they typically max out at 5% benefit per level, with many offering lower percentages (eg. 3% per level for Surgical Strike, or 2% for your T2 turret skills). If CCP were to alter this skill into a no downside version, I doubt they would stick with the 10% cycle reduction, they'd likely cut it to 5% and keep the cap reduction to 5%.

But I don't think CCP will do that, because the RAH is already well-adapted to its niche: trading cap and armour buffer for fitting flexibility (eg. replacing a second set of active hardeners, and thus freeing up a low slot for more damage mods, or balancing out an omni tank with just a single module, etc).

As it stands, the skill enables pilots to simply shift the balance of tradeoffs - a RAH that moves to the optimal distribution of resists twice as fast consumes less armour buffer to get to that point, at the cost of increased cap consumption. So maybe you can fit one fewer Trimark and fit a damage rig instead, etc, or keep a big buffer and spend less cap on your Armor Repairer.

Granted, it is a little unusual that you can't really go back on the choice once you've made it, but I don't know that a huge buff is the solution (the module could probably do with a buff anyway, but that's a separate discussion). A better approach might be to eliminate the bonuses currently attached to the skill - or reduce them from 10%/5% to, say, 2%/1% - and introduce a T2 variant that unlocks at Armor Resistance Phasing V, that exhibits the same stats you see today on the RAH with that skill at V. This would resolve the choice issue without having such an impact on balance.

I'd also like to max a skill without said skill penalizing me for doing so. I shouldn't be less able to run a mod having a skill to V as compared to keeping it at 1 (I got it at one to strap it to cruisers <.<)

Agreed and this ties with my proposition The skill would then shorten then cycle time to either get you to max resists faster (at the same cap cost but in less time) or you could pulse the module to manage your cap.

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love the proposition of keeping the cap use the same! love the module as it has replaced many an EANM on my bc/bs fits. if resists persisted when the module was off, that would be great.

Yes, it's also the case with the Gunnery skill, increasing your RoF, meaning your guns use more cap. The main difference though is that both guns and repairers come in different sizes so the capacitor consumption scales with the size of the ship. That's not the case for the RAH, meaning the impact of the skill is much stronger on a frigate than a battleship.

That is why I never put them on frigates. Just like EANM and active resists modules, they are none of them friendly with frigates because of their large CPU needs. There are plenty of other defense modules and weapon upgrade modules that do not scale, making them very tough to fit to frigates. That is one of the reasons why frigates are not a noob friendly ship, I see them as much more of an advanced player ship.

RAH works fine on cruisers, especially AHACs like the Sacrilege and Deimos where cap isn't really an issue. But I agree that having small, medium ,and large versions, or at least a micro-RAH for frigates, would be very beneficial. I've got an armor Ares that has survived fights on its active tank, but doesn't fit any other active modules other than the small armor repper.

Amen Brother +1

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