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** Tactical Shield Manipulation's usefulness is disputed, but level IV is required to use the very useful T2 active shield hardeners, so most people train it to IV and then forget about it

* Like the armor compensation skills, there are four 'X shield compensation' skills (not to be confused with [[Skills:Engineering#Shield_Compensation|Shield Compensation]] ''per se''!): [[Skills:Engineering#EM_Shield_Compensation|EM]], [[Skills:Engineering#Explosive_Shield_Compensation|Explosive]], [[Skills:Engineering#Kinetic_Shield_Compensation|Kinetic]] and [[Skills:Engineering#Thermic_Shield_Compensation|Thermal]].

** Like the armor compensation skills these grant a 5% bonus to the resistance increase to one damage type that you get from passive shield hardeners per level; as with the armor compensation skills the bonuses they give to active shield hardeners only apply when the active hardeners are turned off and are therefore irrelevant most of the time, but are again useful if you're being heavily neuted. With the skills at 5, an inactive Invulnerability field still provides half the resists that an active T2 one normally would.

** Like the armor compensation skills these grant a 5% bonus to the resistance increase to one damage type that you get from passive shield hardeners per level; as with the armor compensation skills the bonuses they give to active shield hardeners only apply when the active hardeners are turned off and are therefore irrelevant most of the time, but are again useful if you're being heavily neuted. With the skills at 5, an inactive Adaptive Invulnerability field still provides half the resists that an active T2 one normally would.

** However, unlike armor tankers, shield tankers have the option of an active omni-resist module, the [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Invulnerability_Field_I I-Field], and so passive shield hardeners are very rarely used

** Consequently you can probably get away with ignoring these or only training a few levels in each one

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 ** Tactical Shield Manipulation's usefulness is disputed, but level IV is required to use the very useful T2 active shield hardeners, so most people train it to IV and then forget about it
 * Like the armor compensation skills, there are four 'X shield compensation' skills (not to be confused with [[Skills:Engineering#Shield_Compensation|Shield Compensation]] ''per se''!): [[Skills:Engineering#EM_Shield_Compensation|EM]], [[Skills:Engineering#Explosive_Shield_Compensation|Explosive]], [[Skills:Engineering#Kinetic_Shield_Compensation|Kinetic]] and [[Skills:Engineering#Thermic_Shield_Compensation|Thermal]].
-** Like the armor compensation skills these grant a 5% bonus to the resistance increase to one damage type that you get from passive shield hardeners per level; as with the armor compensation skills the bonuses they give to active shield hardeners only apply when the active hardeners are turned off and are therefore irrelevant most of the time, but are again useful if you're being heavily neuted. With the skills at 5, an inactive Invulnerability field still provides half the resists that an active T2 one normally would.
+** Like the armor compensation skills these grant a 5% bonus to the resistance increase to one damage type that you get from passive shield hardeners per level; as with the armor compensation skills the bonuses they give to active shield hardeners only apply when the active hardeners are turned off and are therefore irrelevant most of the time, but are again useful if you're being heavily neuted. With the skills at 5, an inactive Adaptive Invulnerability field still provides half the resists that an active T2 one normally would.
 ** However, unlike armor tankers, shield tankers have the option of an active omni-resist module, the [http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Invulnerability_Field_I I-Field], and so passive shield hardeners are very rarely used
 ** Consequently you can probably get away with ignoring these or only training a few levels in each one