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spy8446
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i keep running into this problem with the romulan ships.
i have a romulan fed character, and im trying to stay true to the romulan ships, but every ship i have, its shields are destroyed in just a few shots, the interface keeps telling me the shields are 100% even if they are gone, and my recharge is pathetic.
is there some kind of a bug or something with the romulan ships and shields, or is this related to my character?
i have a romulan fed character, and im trying to stay true to the romulan ships, but every ship i have, its shields are destroyed in just a few shots, the interface keeps telling me the shields are 100% even if they are gone, and my recharge is pathetic.
is there some kind of a bug or something with the romulan ships and shields, or is this related to my character?
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It's been happening for the last couple weeks on both my Romulans.
roms got this console what restores shields based off damage done.
roms do superior damage.
shields fully restored about every 30 seconds... all you need are a couple of officer skills to handle a few hits between.
as others said, are you sure this is damage and not shield drains, which take off 250% of your shields every second for an hour after being hit with it? Borg and feds (and mirror feds) etc use ths a lot. A few other enemy do it now and then too. The console heals that pretty fast but there is only so much you can do when you get 100% shields off followed by a torp spread rank 7 buffed by alpha strike or whatever the npcs do with torps.
this "bug" happens in any space combat, i can fight domin attack ships, the card Hideki Class can take out my shields before my romulan Ha'feh Assault Warbird can take out their shields.
my main fed character would have eaten them alive
That's the problem. Go buy an Aegis shield, raise it to Mk XIV and you'll notice a big difference. You can also get the free Krenim console from the Butterfly mission, that add some shield + nice buffs and you can buy the R&D sci console that also add some shields and nice buffs.
Those mission reward shields won't cut it.
Every other shield in game is better than this.
Replay the episode that rewards the Kobali space set pieces. You will last much longer.
The Romulan and Reman Shields are Covariant type of shields. They have more shield points than Regenerative and Resilient Shields but in general, suck in everything else. If you're playing endgame content on advanced / elite, Rom/Reman Shields are pretty terrible and drop quickly. Part of the problem is that they have no useful resists. This is even worse if you're not using the set bonus to get more shield points/capacity, and even then, that's RNG.
If you're on a budget, I'd recommend buying cheap-o, Resilient Shield Mk XII Very Rare off the exchange with the resists you want that cater to the content you're doing. Firstly, Resilient Shields don't have the capacity of Covariant Shields but they allow 5% of damage bleedthrough compared to 10% of Regenerative & Covariant Shields. It may not seem like much but if you're doing your job and doing a lot of damage, you should be getting lots of aggro, especially if you PUG. If you're doing a lot of Iconian War content, you want shields with [AP] resists because Heralds do Antiproton. Same thing with Undine content, they're AP users. Fighting Klingons & Romulan Star Empire ships? You need [Dis] for Disruptor resists. Fighting Starfleet & Terran Empire ships? You need [Pha] resists. Etc. Again, you can get budget shields to prop yourself up until you open up better options.
Some of those better shield options?
Elite Fleet Resilient Shields (some will prefer Covariant) - Energy Weapon Attacks against them build a stack of resists for a max of 20%. This means they hold up against any energy weapon damage type. In addition, a key feature is they have options for [ResA] or [ResB] modifiers. They are groups of resists that are inherent to the shields and not requiring a build up. it's always there.
Sol Defense - Rewards from Iconian War "Midnight" mission. The shields by themselves are pretty decent. It has a moderate, built in, general energy resists to them and shield heals on them are better. There's better out there. Of interest however is the very hefty 2-piece set bonus granting resists without you sacrificing a console slot. The key thing to note is that this set is FREE. You just need to run the mission.
Just 2 quick examples. Reputation Shields contain some great examples. But if you're new it will take some time to unlock the shields and/or full sets, rep mastery.
Iconian Rep Shields - My current favorite. It has good resists and a nice "Hot Restart" function should something happen to shut shields down.
Nukara Rep Shields - An old one but still a decent performer.
Just to get you going. What I recommend?
Do Iconian War "Midnight" and get the Sol Shields at least. If you haven't worked up to that point, get cheap, Resilient Shield Mk XII off the exchange with the resists you want, appropriate to the content. They're cheap. Reputation Shields need unlocking of the Reps to access, so if you're new, that may be an issue so that can be a longer term goal.
my gear could be part of the problem, but how do you explain that the interface is telling me my shields are full, when around my ship it could be red or gone.
yep, and this bug was reported months ago, and for now no fix. thx cryptic, for this waste of resources. anyway, this game is more and more a waste of time
another good reason to not obsess with upgrading everything :P