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    [Suggestion] Nerf Ballistic Shield in PVE

    Ballistic Assault Shield is OP in PVE

    VIdeo

    Sure I used the Tactical Link... but I don't think I should be able to face tank 5 Elites and a heavy with only about 50% damage to my shield. I'd like the shield strength to be nerfed a bit and some of the damage should get past the shield and hit the player directly. This is how shooting from cover works, even blind shooting... why should the Ballistic Shield be any different?

    /ducks
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    Are you serious? No way is the shield OP

    It's the d3fnc set that is OP you do way too much damage as you can still crit with it and that should not be the case

    A nerf to the shield health will have a detrimental effect in PvP where the shield health is NOT great
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    Oatiecrumble's Avatar Senior Member
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    You used your Tactical Link and you are solo, hence why your shield only went down to 50% and they died fast, hardly OP
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    My vote still goes to there is some kind of math problem...again.

    Dunnow exactly what numbers I had but mostly it was something like700k health ballistic shield with 10% dmg resist (so no modded at all) vs mobile cover with 560k heal and 20% dmg resist. The NPCs dont attack the mobile cover really, so they just hit it sometimes when they try to hit you behind cover, still that thing went down much faster than the shield. When doing Lex solo, both heavy gunners at larae are not abled to even down the shield to 2/3rd, with me needing to wait for larae to actually move up to the balcony. It feels like it RECEIVES 10% damage instead of having 10% resistance. I just hope I am not correct and they simple *fix* this without upping the shield health a lot. Because then it would be totally useless again, and I actually like playing with it.
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    Yup, let's nerf another set/build/skill and push even more people towards the AB meta. The Defence set and BS are fine as they are, they just need to fix the crit chance loopholes people have discovered and it'll be golden. I don't use it, but it's a good set and a fine alternative to other FOTM builds.
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    I love the D3 set... the shield isn't OP in the least. It can and does get destroyed with 4-5 elites in WT5 all focused on you... even with resillience mods and a shield health mod 700-750k health.

    TTK is longer than my AB set, running double AR's. Not exactly OP by any stretch. You could solo stuff in 1.3/1.4, nothing different in 1.5 except the gear set.
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    Originally Posted by LA_WHOPURS Go to original post
    Ballistic Assault Shield is OP in PVE

    Sure I used the Tactical Link...
    So basically you defeated your own argument. GG.
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    So you want make ballistic shield more useless when it's already pretty useless without D3-FNC set bonust?

    Why not just tell dev to remove D3-FNC set and make ballistic shield useless again?
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    Lol OP, you lost half your shield. Try taking your build into clear sky and tell us how OP it is
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    Originally Posted by Infidel.Castro Go to original post
    Lol OP, you lost half your shield. Try taking your build into clear sky and tell us how OP it is
    Gonna be funny when he bumps into 6 x turret throwers and 5 x LMB's in the UG solo........then come back and say OP
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