Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

Between reformatting and getting sucked in to Wildlands and Origins I have not been on the game for more than an hour over the last month or so. So I am curious about changes, if any, to shields. Also would love some tips.

I defected to the Empire (bleh) in order to be where I am at now, at the cusp of installing a prismatic shield. Now on my cutter I am only doing a 5A as it is a trade cutter. Really not going to lose cargo space going up higher, may scrap the idea all together. But as the title implies, the real help is for The Paladin. I have a feeling I am going to have to rework my boosters and may have to rethink even the mod to new shields as well. I would appreciate any help you guys can give me to ease me back in to the game lol.

Now my current build, a strictly PvE Vette is sitting with 4 0A Grade 5 Heavy Duty boosters and a 7A Grade 5 Re-enforced gen, numbers will be below. My shields never drop even in high CZs and I rarely get down to 1 ring using 2 (not at once) 7A SCBs. What if anything would you guys recommend for a prismatic build? Thank you in advance for at least reading this and any help you can provide for a returning commander.

Prismatics are shit for PVE.

Go bi-weave.

TorTorden wrote:Prismatics are shit for PVE.

Go bi-weave.

He's been telling me that for ages but I still stick with mine............

Everyone has their opinion, that's what I'm asking for.

Go light weight hull (and indeed everything. Over 50% of my module slots are not used in CZ) and see how she 'dances'!

*Al* wrote:

TorTorden wrote:Prismatics are shit for PVE.

Go bi-weave.

He's been telling me that for ages but I still stick with mine............

That's because you are a stubborn bastard.......

Cmdr Kharma wrote:

*Al* wrote:

TorTorden wrote:Prismatics are shit for PVE.

Go bi-weave.

He's been telling me that for ages but I still stick with mine............

That's because you are a stubborn bastard.......

Old too! And that's Mr Bastard to you Kharma!

Ok my reasons for bi-weave are as following.

Significant less power, so more headroom for GUNS !
Significantly less weight, more manoeuvrability, more time on target, higher effective DPS.

Recharge over buffer and MJ hardness, in other words resists.
With prismatics, sure the shields soaked a lot of damage but the regen is so absolute crap I found myself running with at least two class 7 SCB banks, and several heatsinks just so the banks won't kill me.

With bi-weaves and resists up, thermal on generator, and mix of thermal,kin on the boosters and a few boosters for straight up boost mod.
You get at least 1500mj.
A class 7 SCB has about 800MJ in it so you still wouldn't waste one, and if you deploy an scb at 1\3 shield strenght it boosts you straight up to 100% almost.

But with bi-weaves your regen is so fast that you often get back the 50% of shields you loose in a decent fight while finding the next one.
I went from running the heavy prisms, with no kw scanner cause I need the HS's, to only needing one heatsink and one scb for emergencies, and I have gained so much confidence in my shields I have dropped the mil spec armour.

Only need the scb now if I end up pissing off three wings of three or something or get a full CZ of reds on me is when I need the scb's now.

A dead npc can't shoot your shields no matter what and in the short of it, with the room a lighter, less power hungry build get you is more speed so you kill faster and have room for more power hungry guns so you hit harder.
In fact running prisms on a ship pre req's the grade 5 power mod on the reactor and it's still tight.

He's right you know.. I'll do it tomorrow.

She dances now, any lighter and be doing backflips

Try it and see......Nowt to lose.....

I run Bi-Weaves on the Python......First thing I put on.......Mr Old Stubborn Bastard.....