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CommTampers

Tue Jun 14, 2005 1:32 pm

Well, being that many people reduce their armor, I favor my second gun to be an Ion cannon. Because of that, I use some Mark II armor on my Greivous fighter to buffer the pvp ion cannons. It buys me atiny bittime to hit cap to shield shunt.

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CorenLanra

Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:15 pm

#15

I loaded out my Grevious with the following, 870mass 10300 power reactor, 28k mass 2555/2555 15regen lvl 8 Shield, 1.2k 36/968 capacitor, 12k 102.6 spd Mark IV engine, 14k lvl 7 weapon, Lvl 8 RE Reward Weapon. I think that left approx 4k mass left, and I then crafted a 600+/2400 mass rear mark II armor (reinforced) and a mass reduced 330/1500 mass mark II armor. That left me with a whopping 13 mass free

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tokeway

Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:17 pm

#16

better to have it and not need it than the opposite.

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EdOWar

Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:47 pm

#17

If I have room, I include some armor, even if it's low-level armor. But when I don't have room, armor is obviously the first to go. I have to say, armor has saved my bacon a couple of times in PvE. I haven't really PvP'd yet, so don't know how effective it would be there.

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Physkoris

Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:58 pm

#18

I can't see flying against a gunboat or multiple TIE agressors without it. Without the armor they'll be hitting components straight up, even when shields are still up. I'd rather have armor in there to protect my components if nothing else. I also do not have the CTSS droid command yet so take that into consideration.

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Zanholo

Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:10 pm

#19

Cap to shield shunt is game changing, get it.

I load armor any time I can with what mass is left and it saved me countless times as well. Feel semi-nekkid without it.

I prefer to load the front heaviest and back secondary. For PvE, I generally take the most hits coming in on a strafing run on a gunboat/vette, where I need to stay relatively on target/in-line, whereas I tend to take far fewer hits as I pass since I can now use all three axis at will to evade fire and not worry about hitting a target. PvP too, most times I receive opponent fire it's coming from the front; I've got a thing about keeping people off ofmy 6.

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Sylia

Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:35 pm

#20

I can't stand not having the slot filled.

...I dunno ... just can't stand it.

That said here's what I use.

My PoB's all have the highest armor I can make/find ... but that goes without saying, armor only needs mass, and a PoB can't run out of available mass with current available equip.

My Opressor has light wieght armor with about 500 points front and back.

My Firespray has about 1200 armor front and back (more if I have extra mass, depends on what components I'm favoring lately. And if I ever need the mass, armor will be sacrificed.

I think pretty much everything else I fly I equip with the lightest armor I have .. usually about 500 mass and like 120 to 200 armor points.

For me armor is just a slot I like to have filled, but not a necessary component.

PoB ships with 3k armor front and back might be able to take a few hits after the shields are down, but anything light enough to equip in a fighter isn't going to give you enough protection to justify the use of mass.

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Raptor2k1

Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:04 pm

#21

I personally recomend having at least some armor there. It can make the difference between life and death, even with some of the very low mass Tier 1 stuff.\

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sememon

Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:56 am

#22

I only strap armour onto my fighter if i'm planning to take on stuff like a vette or tier 5 gunships. even then its only low level shields just to buy me some time to hit cap-to-shield-shunt.

In terms of weapons i enjoy using a solid pair of Advanced Ion/Disrupters at only 14k mass a piece. leave plenty of room in my JSF for some nice missiles or protons.

JSF and grevious dont have enough mass imo for realy high level weapons like some RE'ed level 8's, i use those type of weapons in my KSE

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