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Emitter Array or Shield Emitter Amplifier?
thfinalnightmare
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Looking to keep my shields up, but which is the better science console choice a Emitter Array or a Shield Emitter Amplifier?
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Shield Emitter will help most if you carry many shield heal powers. EP2S, ST, TSS, etc.
Shield Emitter also helps you heal others, not just yourself.
It could be worth increasing the capacity, which brings the exotic particle field exciter into play, or (possibly) fleet spire consoles if you have fleet access.
Emitter Array - bigger shield heals - more staying power over longer engagements; faster shield replenishment
Shield Emitter Amplifier - more shield regen - mediocre regeneration bonus; don't use it unless you're super-tanking with high shield power and a lot of defense. Emitter Arrays will still be more useful 99% of the time.
Overall, it depends on what you're flying. Escorts are usually better off with Field Gens to compensate for their weaker overall shields - their fights are usually short and bloody, so capacity is more useful than replenishment. Cruisers will generally want to run a mix of the two. Science ships don't really need extra capacity because of their high natural shield modifier(it's very easy to end up with more shields than you can quickly replenish).
You may want to keep an eye on the Exchange then, because the faulty bugging is allowing all sorts of weird combinations of modifiers. I've made a few shields with [Turn] and it shows up on other items too. Similarly, although pricey, you might want to look out for an exotic particle field exciter or conductive rcs accelerator.
But on your specific question, I'd go for a field generator or emitter array.
As an escort/destroyer running strafing or hit n' run tactics you'll be going in fast and hot and then speeding off to set up for the next run. So you'll have time to sort out shield heals/regen whilst you are out of range. You don't want to get into long drawn out fight so use your speed to get out of range to recover if you get too much attention.
You've got a low shield mod so don't expect a huge capacity to keep you safe like a cruiser or science ship.
Field gens are good as they will give more capacity to your shields so you could get a resilient shield with fairly high cap by adding a field gen to the build.
One other thing that gets forgotten quite often:
As an escort you should aim to move fast, therefore your defense value is going to be real high making you a nightmare to hit. Combine fast movement with the specializations on the pilot spec tree and you can be practically impossible to hit/kill, at least in PVE. You can get some serious bonuses from that spec tree so having a high shield cap is not even that important once you max out your points.
(Your turn rate is also affected in a similar way.)
It's not that easy to work out exactly how it's all affected though, there's a sort of "cap" on defense once you get impulse speed over 25-ish I think but you'll end up with it higher through various other skills, equipment bonuses etc. Mine is about 90% at top speed (not full impulse).
So the Impulse skill does indirectly affect your defense as it makes it easier to go fast in your ship.
A low impulse skill means you'll need other ways to make the ship fly faster (better engines etc)
High impulse skill + fast engines (e.g. Nukara) = ship moving faster = higher defense bonus.
I wouldn't mind cartoonist levels of avoidance, but I think I'll still keep my resilient shield with layered armor to make sure that one lucky shot doesn't put me down (again).
Thanks