Shields on capital ship

[Antonio]

Capital shields are much stronger now compared to pre-5.0. The capacity and shield batteries in particular got the biggest buffs. That does indeed result in “feeling” like the shield takes forever to charge to 100%, but it’s free stats. Imagine if the extra capacity wasn’t there. The feeling of it regening would be noticeably faster, while in reality you have a flat out weaker shield. The batteries are extra too, giving you two get-out-of-jail-free cards when, for example, you get out of position in a fleet fight.

It’s the same deal with powercores. Cap guns’ dps and power consumption went up, powercore capacity went up, powercore regen stayed the same. That means the feeling of your core taking forever to charge is the extra free capacity you got. If it got removed, you’d feel your core regening faster and it would be more pleasant to play with, yet you’d be straight up weaker. Ironically, shields being stronger means cores feel weaker, since you’re spending more core to deshield people. Cores are a bit different than shields however, because guns do more damage and take more core to shoot, so core management is more important than ever before. In reality it promotes loadout versatility and introduces more skill to cap combat.

Remember how easy your shield would get nuked pre-5.0? One bomber could deshield a BC in a few seconds, almost deshield a battleship. Here’s proof in a video from last patch, at exactly 7:00 minutes a cruiser’s shield gets nuked in what, less than a second?:

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