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Starship Shield Emitters Skill

inkrunnerinkrunner Member Posts: 407 Arc User
edited August 2013 in The Academy
Does it improve innate shield repair (not caused by abilities)?

If not, is there another skill that does?
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  • kaiserkactokaiserkacto Member Posts: 482 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    Are you asking about shield regeneration rate?
    I think is affected by shield power and [Shield Emitter Amplifier] consoles, and some passives from the rep system

    The "Shield Emitters" Skill improves abilities, and the"Starship Shield Systems" skill improves the hit points
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  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    inkrunner wrote: »
    Does it improve innate shield repair (not caused by abilities)?

    If not, is there another skill that does?

    Shield Emitters Skill is about as important as anything you can get if you have any care for your shields. Shield Emitters affects repairs to abilities that "heal" shields.

    There are also sci consoles to improve Shield Regeneration rates, but IMO, that benefit is negligible. Relying on regen rates to heal shields isn't ideal because the regen rates aren't that good to begin with.
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  • inkrunnerinkrunner Member Posts: 407 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    kaiserkacto wrote: »
    Are you asking about shield regeneration rate?
    I think is affected by shield power and [Shield Emitter Amplifier] consoles, and some passives from the rep system

    The "Shield Emitters" Skill improves abilities, and the"Starship Shield Systems" skill improves the hit points

    Yes, that was my question.

    The Shield Emitters skill and the Hull Repair skill are very similar (but apply to different types of healing), just as the Shield Systems skill is similar to the Structural Integrity skill. I thought that, since the Hull Repair skill does affect passive hull regeneration, the Shield Emitters skill, which is effectively the shield version of the Hull Repair skill, might affect passive shield regeneration. There is no text in the skill info that specifies whether or not this is the case, so I asked the question here.

    My understanding now is that it does not affect passive shield regeneration, correct?
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  • taschenbillard12taschenbillard12 Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    i think not -but that skill is worth all 9 points
  • codewarrior316codewarrior316 Member Posts: 53 Arc User
    edited August 2013
    For the skill points, sure just stick them in. But I think he is asking if additional consoles or equipment are better/worse than this/that (min/max to some people) and the best way to do that is to test first hand or find a trusted source who has instead of someone else replying I think this/that with no testing or basis for reality whatsoever.
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