Ships & Modules

The fail in this thread hurts me.

Small shield boosters are the equivalent of micro cap boosters; for most PvP purposes and all purposes they're useless with a few rare exceptions. Medium shield boosters are frig mods, larges are cruiser/battlecruiser, and XL are BS. No one puts a medium booster on a cyclone or a large on a maelstrom.

The comparison has to be pre-ASB and then you notice how bad active shield tanking was as a DG LSB cyclone with HG crystals got the same tank and dps as a triple rep myrm, but only had 1 cap booster and no web. The myrm has a 5 slot tank and the cyclone has 2. Of course shield boosters are stronger by themselves than a single MAR.

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To the original post:

MARs themselves are underpowered as you can see in eft they only rep twice as much per second as small reps with huge cap costs. But active armor ships are meant to have multiple reps because they have so many more slots for tank than shield ones. Also, unbonused shield boosters are terrible.