Shields

I am just wanting to make sure I understand how the shields work. When your shield is down during the recharge delay period if you take damage does it restart the delay? I am just curious if the charger shield will have you take less damage the entire time your shield is down or only if it is actively charging. If it is only while charging it seems pretty useless as every time you get hit you stop charging.

9 years ago

Ok well its a shield i will prbably hang onto then until i can find a really good purple that i like.

9 years ago

It should have but your Tachyon is a "special" shield since it's from a story mission or a faction vendor. I guess every Tachyon you'll pick up along the way now won't have a higher capcity than your Rhino.

9 years ago

Isn't the Rhino suppose to have a higher capacity than tachyon? They are both reloader II D with the rhino being a little higher ego  but its like thier capacities are backwards. I am not complaining i love the tachyon I am just curious about it.

9 years ago

Your Tachyon is a non-tradeable shield, so I guess it's a mission reward? Or from a vendor. I think mission rewards or faction items got a bonus to them (for shields, that would be capacity). The bonus seems quite high but other than your Tachony being non-tradeable, I can't see anything out of the ordinary.

9 years ago

The Chimera Claw is an Ironclad Booster. I will add it tomorrow :)

Booster is 10% more HP, I think there is nothing special about it though other than the name and it being a Booster.

9 years ago

What about the chimera claw? How does that compare to a rhino and ironclad? 

9 years ago

Ok not sure how to get a screen shot on here so i used the link to the forum post i made but could you tell me is it just me or is there something wrong with one of these shields.

http://forums.defiance.com/showthread.php?191423-Question-about-my-shield.....

9 years ago

Do the numbers that show up behind the name sometimes mean anything? I just got a purple Huricane III D and it had terrible Capacity, way less than the blue Rebel III D i got at the same time. I also got a blue Rhino III that had less capacity than the lower EGO green Tachyon i had. Does the higher the number mean a worse model of shield?

9 years ago

Couple quick question on the chart above. Is the Hurricane shield suppose to have average for capacity or should it be poor? The VBI shields should their capacity be average not poor? I ask because i got a green Hurricane with a higher ego and it had less capacity than the white VBI shield.

9 years ago

After a (rather limited) personal study, I'm theorizing that there are only three "curves" of shield capacity increase with EGO progresion, each shared by a pair of shield types: Resparks and Hurricanes have the lowest one, Rebels and Tachyons have the middle capacity, and Ironclads and Rhinos have the most. Also, it seems that at low EGO (<1000) the capacity increase asociated to rarity aproaches 2%.

10 years ago

Apart from the Grenadier EX one, the rest of them in () don't exist, pretty sure of that. Especially the ones such as (x.5)

White rarity shields also come with one armor plate. The rest of your armor plate data for each rarity is correct however.

10 years ago

Etaew PC-EU - Site Admin

Yeah this page isn't hooked up to the moderator system so you can't edit it, and some values in () I expect are correct, and some I expect aren't. I confirmed a handful the other day, it's tricky to know what is and what isn't :p

10 years ago

Hey Etaew,

It's not letting me edit the page but

The values you have in parentheses for shield bonuses don't exist. I think they were just guesses on JxSiN's old shield guide expect for Grenadier EX, which is correct, it is 10%.

10 years ago

Etaew PC-EU - Site Admin

Updated with a shield capacity calculator for Respark and Hurricane shields thanks to the formula from KodiakDuck on our reddit thread.

11 years ago

Etaew PC-EU - Site Admin

My WIP collection document for Respark shields shows a progression of values, need more data especially sub 1k ego. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvD9KUp9DqxadGw0a2NDYTgxZTFOV3o3dnVVYy05UUE#gid=0.

11 years ago

so far as best i can understand shields also have bonuses on them like weapons do only they are hidden so we can only guess to what the scope of there effects are , the reason for this conclusion is i had 2 shields of the same type and rarity with different ego ratings but the lower of the 2 ego rating shields had a slightly higher capacity (there was onyl about 20 ego rating differance) , also ive got 2 respark shields , one is a

respark III (blue) 2141 rating

and the other is a

respark reloader III D (purple) 2594 rating

the blue one which is inferior to the epic in all ways has a faster recharge delay by 5% of its base value than the epic

so im guessing the following bonuses can be found on shields just we cant see them

• Capacity +5%/+10%/+15%
• Recharge/Sec +5%/+10%/+15%
• Recharge Delay -5%/-10%/-15%
• Damage resistance (allthough this we can see)

not sure if its coincidence or not but all my D shields have resistances

11 years ago

Etaew PC-EU - Site Admin

Thank you, have added this info to the list.

11 years ago

Respark stats:

• Capacity: 1083
• Recharge/sec: 40%
• Recharge Delay: 3

11 years ago

Etaew PC-EU - Site Admin

Thanks and yeah I did hide it recently.

11 years ago

Ok, added it myself. Took me a while to find the form.

11 years ago

Rhino III stats:

• Capacity: 1842
• Recharge/sec: 40%
• Recharge Delay: 9.6

11 years ago

Etaew PC-EU - Site Admin

Thanks, have added it.

11 years ago

Missing shield type: Respark

11 years ago

I guess it was a typo - but we will see ;)

11 years ago

Etaew PC-EU - Site Admin

Looking at item trade forums I saw an item with Guardian X with 6%, that might be a new tier, not sure yet, will need more.

11 years ago

Etaew PC-EU - Site Admin

My new task for today, compiling a list of the bonuses for each of the shields.

For example a shield with the name Hurricane Blastproof III DX, will use the bonus Blastproof DX.

Let me know any bonus types I have missed, and if you can fill in any of the gaps. ( ) are guessed values.

11 years ago