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Tactical Shield Manipulation: Modify it?
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Amberlin Kanenald
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#21 - 2014-06-25 18:50:24 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
If there is something like bleed thru the shield to the armor, than there should be bleed thru the armor to the hull also. And if there is bleed thru armor, there should be thru shield also.


no because you are comparing apples with oranges and complaining that they do not taste the same!


shield is a force-field and that can fail (aka bleeding) that's where the skill we now discussing comes in, armor is a piece of material that takes damage as it is hit and BELOW the armor is structure so by definition you need to penetrate armor fully to be able to damage the hull which in shields is totally different this is exactly why people should not compare 2 different things and start to compare
Kaerakh
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#22 - 2014-06-25 19:43:50 UTC
Amberlin Kanenald wrote:
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
If there is something like bleed thru the shield to the armor, than there should be bleed thru the armor to the hull also. And if there is bleed thru armor, there should be thru shield also.


no because you are comparing apples with oranges and complaining that they do not taste the same!


shield is a force-field and that can fail (aka bleeding) that's where the skill we now discussing comes in, armor is a piece of material that takes damage as it is hit and BELOW the armor is structure so by definition you need to penetrate armor fully to be able to damage the hull which in shields is totally different this is exactly why people should not compare 2 different things and start to compare

By that same argument the armor % can still be well above 0% if I focus fire on single point, but at the same time allow for complete application of damage onto one's hull.
Bleedthrough for either system is a bad idea. Armor tanking is already as I have stated in this thread the predominant tanking system for groupings of players larger than 20 by a large margin. All your doing is further removing shield tanking as a viable option for large scale fleets. (Let me spell this out for you, it already isn't so you're ensuring that it never will be)Roll

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