Passive shield tanking: Difference between revisions

|{{co|wheat|Power Diagnostic System}} || low || style="text-align: center;" | low || Recharge Rate<br> Capacity || small benefit

|{{co|wheat|Shield Flux Coil}} || low || style="text-align: center;" | -  || Recharge Rate || lowers capacity

|{{co|wheat|Damage Control}} || low || style="text-align: center;" | small || Resistances || limit of one per ship

|{{co|wheat|Shield Resistance Amplifier}} || mid || style="text-align: center;" | small  || Resistances || stacking penalty

|{{co|wheat|Shield Hardener}} || mid || style="text-align: center;" | small || Resistances || stacking penalty

|{{co|wheat|Screen Reinforcer}} || rig || style="text-align: center;" | -  || Resistances || increases Signature Radius, stacking penalty

Shield Extenders increase the capacity of the shield, and, because recharge ''time'' is a constant, this in turn increases the recharge rate. These modules have a Signature Radius penalty associated with them, and they impact on the power grid, but they have no stacking penalties, and their benefits outweigh these costs. In addition, it is often possible to "upsize" Shield Extenders ... putting Large Shield Extenders on a Cruiser, for example, or Medium Extenders on a Frigate. The increased buffer will also allow the ship to survive for a while even if incoming dps is higher than the recharge. This way the pilot can kill the dps enough to survive further.

Finally, Defense Field Purger rigs are almost always more effective than Defense Field Extender rigs in a passive shield fit. The extender increases the capacity of the shield, which does have the effect of also increasing its recharge rate. However, the Purger directly increases the recharge rate by enough to make a difference. The Purger does, however, have a larger impact on Signature Radius.

* Base peak regen rate = 2.5 x 3.0 = 7.5 hp/s