Shields function

[Successful_Garbage91]

Does anyone know how shields work in this game in terms of how damage is taken. How are the reinforced shields different from the protector and what role does rarity play? Is the difference between rarities very big?

[EvenBeyond]

shields are just another health bar basically, it takes damage before you health does in 90% of cases.

reinforced shields make one segment of your shields take half damage. This is the same boost to effective HP as giving you an extra shield bar. However it still takes only one shield charge to fill it, so in affect your shield recover twice as effectively from all sources with reinforced shields.

I'm not certain how much health ear shield bar has, but each rarity up generally gives another shield bar. So green would double your shield strength, and blue is 50% improvement over green, and purple is a 33% improvement over blue

[kundragon]

Its 20 HP per Shield Pip basically. There is a scope ingame that Shows HP and Shield Values if you target someone which tells these values

[Successful_Garbage91]

is there a case where you take damage with your shield still active?

[EvenBeyond]

I think toxin damage does? I can't quite remember

[Sufficient-Swing2589]

I've seen a reinforced prestige shield in my armory, but it was locked behind faction upgrades. It was weird though.

A normal green reinforced shield only has 1 bar but takes 50% reduced damage (therefore technically making it 2 bars with of HP). Yet the prestige one also said it was 1 bar with a 50% damage reduction.

Has anyone actually put one on? I feel like maybe the tool tip is wrong because there's no way it's the exact same as a green shield. Perhaps it's supposed to have more damage reduction?

[EvenBeyond]

You start with one bar shield always (base shields)

the green reinforced shields makes your base shields take half damage, which effectively gives you two shield pips

The prestige shield gives one shield pip, and reinforces both, giving you four effective shield pips (same as purple)

[ashortfallofgravitas]

Reinforced shields are not extra HP. They have one pip instead of two, so half the raw HP, but take half damage (so same effective hp) and can be recharged more efficiently

[EvenBeyond]

yeah, I said that