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DCU will be mandatory for T2/ T3 cruisers ships that need resist maxed out.
Battle Cruisers, Cruisers and smaller ships will get free bonus and a lowslot and 30 CPU.
T2 800mm plate need less CPU than a DCU and will provide bigger buff to armor EHP the same apply to all smaller ships and plates.


Fleet battleships will have possibility to fit 3 racial hardeners and ENAM.
CPU not power grid is issue on armor ships.
Megathron

Base stats :
powergrid Output
15500 MW
CPU Output
600 tf

Considering 3% implant for Power Grid:
15500 *3% = 465MW

3% implant for CPU:
600 *3% = 18tf


By dropping DCU and preserving 33% base structure resist you can easily fit an additional 1600mm armor plate using 3% implant and 800mm plate using 1% or even no implant.

3% CPU implant is still worthless as 18CPU allow to upgrade 1 module.
Now take into consideration that this stats are before considering skills.

I like this buff very much.
This is huge buff to all armor ships:
- they gain 33% resist on hull that makes DCU obsolete and provide important buffer
- 30CPU extra allow them to easily fit additional hardener or plate that will provide immense boost to armor EHP.
* 400mm for cruisers
* 800mm for battlecruisers
* 1600mm for battleships

When you have 20 logi ships resist are important for small ships (T2/T3 cruisers) and effective buffer for battleships.

At lvl 5 single Tungsten plate give this ship 5k additional armor.
From armor buffer perspective this ( 5000 armor points before resists ) will give you more than 15% flat bonus from DCU.

If you have enough logistic ships bigger buffer is more important than final resist to rep amount ratio.
Remote armor reps boost your armor after the logistic ships lock you and module cycles.
You need to survive long enough to get them.

ProTip: When you have enough logi 33% structure buffer and extra 5000 armor on battleship before resist will keep you alive longer than DCU. If enemy is using alpha doctrine your chances are even bigger.

Don't know how tight your fit was in case of power grid.
How this numbers will look like if you put there 1600mm plate instead of another resist, if you lack grid what implant you need to use.

On a battleship 3% power grid implant give enough grid for a 1600 plate, but 3% implant to CPU offer around 20 CPU - not enough to fit any thing.
1600mm plate provide 5k of raw armor before considering resist.
From what i checked buff is huge, as 33% structure resist combined with 5000 of additional armor points give very big bonus to EHP.
Big part of this EHP boost is moved from structure to armor, and thank to this is affected by armor resists.

DCU shield resist for armor battleships is not important after first shoots.

You still have that 40% bonus to structure resists. Buffer fits I honestly cant see giving up the DCU. Active tank I could see going with something else but the DCU is still a very powerful mod on nearly all of my fits.

DCU don't suffer from stacking penalties

This is pretty important. The actual strenght of a DCU really change a lot depending on how much of your raw HP are in structure. Once you add extenders and plates to a ship, the ratio tend to get very biased toward the usual racial tanking buffer layer and away from structure.

You are also neglecting the armour skills in your maths which push those resist modules higher for armour.
But as long as DCU gives armour & shield resist bonuses that don't stack you are quite right that it will remain a virtually compulsory module in nearly every fit.

Whisky Tango Foxtrot?

Freighters and Jump Freighters are not low on hull HP. The vast bulk of the HP for those ships is in hull.

Was this kind of completely untrue statement made in jest or was somebody using some powerful mind altering substances?

Thorax: 31.7% of EHP is hull
Caracal: 25.3% of EHP is hull
Revelation: 29.1% of EHP is hull
Thanatos: 31.7% of EHP is hull

Obelisk: 58.3% of EHP is hull.
Charon: 45.9% of EHP is hull.
Fenrir: 39.7% of EHP is hull.
Providence: 55% of EHP is hull.

So, I can only conclude the CCP Fozzie is...well lying.

There are several Cruisers sized ships that get more EHP along with better resists by not fitting a DCU. Not to mention that most Active Tank Armor ships benefit from more resists over a DCU (assuming you want at least 1 or 2 DPS mods)

Here is a Legion I through together.

239K EHP , If you drop the DCU for a EM hardener you get 244K. This gap gets bigger when you add fleet boosts , Slaves, Overheating and Pimp.

[Legion, Test]
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Armor Thermal Hardener II
Damage Control II
1600mm Steel Plates II
1600mm Steel Plates II

Medium Trimark Armor Pump II
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II

Legion Defensive - Augmented Plating
Legion Electronics - Tactical Targeting Network
Legion Engineering - Power Core Multiplier
Legion Offensive - Liquid Crystal Magnifiers
Legion Propulsion - Fuel Catalyst


This fit has 284K EHP with Heat, 258K with a DCU and one EM hardener removed.

[Impel, Test]
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor Thermal Hardener II
Armor Thermal Hardener II
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Armor Explosive Hardener II
800mm Steel Plates II


Medium Trimark Armor Pump II
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II

This fit has 97K EHP with a EM hardener and 98k with a DCU (DCU2 is 1% better) , but you gain 7K EHP if you are overheating over a DCU2. Not to mention you resists are way better for Logi. Once you add pimp and slaves the EM hardener is better in every way.

[Sacrilege, Test]
Damage Control II
Armor Thermal Hardener II
1600mm Steel Plates II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II

Medium Trimark Armor Pump II
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II

Okay, so I just started reading this today, so these changes haven't had time to sink in for me, but why do freighters need this?

My first thought is that many other ships that CAN use a DC will loose less for not using one but not be any (or at least much) better off with one come 9 March, but since freighters CANNOT even use a DC, they are getting an unneeded buff to their structure. Correct me if I'm wrong, and if I'm not, why are we doing that to freighters?

I'm a freighter owner myself, more likely to be a victim of ganking sooner than be a ganker, and even I'm calling this a slap in gankers' faces. I know they buffed wreck hp, but this isn't quite an even trade. I must have missed something.