EVE New Citizens Q&A

It depends on what you want to use the tank for. If you need to be able to tank mission rats indefinitely, then you want to have high shield regeneration (HP/s). If you regenerate more hitpoints than the rats can take away, then you will never die to them, even if you just have 700hp overall.

If you need to be able to take an initial beating with high DPS, say, you warp into a site and the rats do 1000DPS, then you will most likely not be able to match that with passive shield regeneration. So, you will lose HP over time. In that case, you may want to have more overall hitpoints, so you can at least stay there for a while and thin out their ranks until you can actually tank the incoming damage.

In the end, though, with the way how passive shield regeneration and stacking penalty works, you will always have a mix anyway. The shield has a certain number of hitpoints, and these hitpoints regenerate over a certain period of time. So, if you increase the number of hitpoints, you will also increase the number of hitpoints regenerated over time, and therefore HP/s. If you on the other hand shorten the regeneration time, then the same amount of hitpoints will generate, but in less time. Again, HP/s rises. Just slapping on Shield extenders is admittedly less effective in terms of HP/s than adding shield power relays, however since stacking multiple modules that give the same boni (like shield power relays and shield rechargers) makes each one of them less effective, you will end up wanting to do both anyway.

Except for the numbers that are being displayed, the mechanic hasn't changed by the way, so the same modules that worked before still work exactly the same.

Generally if you increase HP is can help increase the passive resharge as the recharge is a % of the HP's

Ok, youre doing something wrong with your drake, this is my pvp fit that is focused on passive shield recharge that gets me about 443 hp/s recharge at 318 DPS

[Drake, PvP Gen 3]
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II
Shield Power Relay II

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Large Shield Extender II
Large Shield Extender II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
Warp Scrambler II

Prototype 'Arbalest' Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Assault Missile
Prototype 'Arbalest' Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Assault Missile
Prototype 'Arbalest' Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Assault Missile
Prototype 'Arbalest' Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Assault Missile
Prototype 'Arbalest' Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Assault Missile
Prototype 'Arbalest' Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Assault Missile
Medium Infectious Scoped Energy Neutralizer

Medium Core Defense Field Purger I
Medium Core Defense Field Purger I
Medium Core Defense Field Purger I

Hobgoblin II x5


Then if you switch out 3 SPR's with 3 BCS's then it drops the shield recharge to 187hp/s and ups the DPS to 462

Hard to say where the discrepancy lies for sure, but at a guess:

-Are you measuring raw HP/s, or EHP/s? (EHP, or "Effective Hitpoints", is after resists - for example, if you had 50% resists, your EHP would be double your raw HP. The game reports raw HP/s at peak recharge; EHP/s is what you're usually really concerned about. Given that Drake average resists with one invul will be around 60%, I suspect they may be thinking about EHP/s when you're looking at raw HP/s - that'd about account for the difference.)

-Are you adding in the drones? That kind of differential, in addition to skills, sounds like potentially forgetting to load in the flight of light drones, or not having skills to fly them. Alternately, are you sure you loaded in kinetic (Scourge) missiles? The Drake's damage bonus applies only to kinetic damage.

Ok...last question, how do you calculate your EHP/s?

The only thing that has changed is the way the information is displayed and it should be easy to adapt to this change. Here is a quick example using a simple make believe ship.

The old way, the displays would tell us we had
1,000 hp in shields.
10 seconds for a full recharge.
1,000 hp / 10 second recharge = 100 hp per second repaired.

The new way the displays give us
1,000 hit point in shields
100 hp per second repaired
1000 hp / 100 hp per second = 10 seconds for a full recharge

In the case of your Drake and your Rokh as well as all of your other ships noting has changed except the way the information is displayed and your ships will perform the same as they have in the past.