Flukey*Lukey
Destrier
Posts: 69
Karma: 20
Pilot name: Flukey*Lukey
Platform: iOS
Clan: Myself
League: Silver
Server Region: Europe
Favorite robot: Galahad
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Post by Flukey*Lukey on May 7, 2017 8:05:32 GMT -5
I'm never shore if I should block mid and long range weapons with my Galahads shield or wether to keep that for close range as I have trouble taking on PDB griffins repeatedly as my shield breaks.
*I will do another for short range*
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Post by snk on May 7, 2017 9:16:56 GMT -5
Block everything except splash damage, which your should run or dodge if possible. Your hp is more valuable than the shield hp.
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Post by Golden Sabre on May 7, 2017 9:24:48 GMT -5
I use it to head straight for the campers running long range plasma/lightning. Zues/carnages and treb/natties are my favorite victims.
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Post by amidf on May 7, 2017 9:55:43 GMT -5
Block everything except splash damage, which your should run or dodge if possible. Your hp is more valuable than the shield hp. Yes. I don't understand the trade-off implied by OP's question. Avoid the fire, if you can. Block it with your shield if you can't avoid. When would it ever be an advantage to spare your shield and take the hit to HP instead? -Amid |
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Post by Thunderkiss on May 7, 2017 10:08:17 GMT -5
Block everything except splash damage, which your should run or dodge if possible. Your hp is more valuable than the shield hp. Yes. I don't understand the trade-off implied by OP's question. Avoid the fire, if you can. Block it with your shield if you can't avoid. When would it ever be an advantage to spare your shield and take the hit to HP instead? -Amid Can't think of a single instance. That's what the shield is for, an extra 120k hp. |
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Flukey*Lukey
Destrier
Posts: 69
Karma: 20
Pilot name: Flukey*Lukey
Platform: iOS
Clan: Myself
League: Silver
Server Region: Europe
Favorite robot: Galahad
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Post by Flukey*Lukey on May 7, 2017 11:05:13 GMT -5
Sorry, my dilemma is that on bigger maps I'm not sure whether to take long range fire, which is usually nashorn and Kang dae, on my bot or shield health. This is because my Galahad is only level 7, just upgraded from 6, and my shield will not last that long at close range and after that my bot dies very quickly. What I wanted to know was, should I take the damage from gekkos etc that are usually 10-15k max on my bot health to preserve the shield health or am I just using the shield too much?
Hope that helps
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Post by amidf on May 7, 2017 11:19:00 GMT -5
Sorry, my dilemma is that on bigger maps I'm not sure whether to take long range fire, which is usually nashorn and Kang dae, on my bot or shield health. This is because my Galahad is only level 7, just upgraded from 6, and my shield will not last that long at close range and after that my bot dies very quickly. What I wanted to know was, should I take the damage from gekkos etc that are usually 10-15k max on my bot health to preserve the shield health or am I just using the shield too much? Hope that helps If you can, always sacrifice shield health first. Think about it this way. You die when your HP goes to zero, regardless of how much HP is in your shield. If your shield gets broken, when you die it will have consumed the entirety of your potential HP. If you die with an unbroken shield, you had the potential to block more damage but didn't. How are you served by preserving shield health at the expense of HP? Those plasma bots don't have any harder of a time bringing you down. -Amid |
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Post by fιяєfℓαмє on May 7, 2017 19:20:42 GMT -5
Vote for trebuchet.
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Post by 0ppressor on May 7, 2017 21:41:03 GMT -5
Trebuchet, Molot (yes, it can add up quickly), Zeus, Kang Dae, Nashorn.
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Post by snk on May 7, 2017 23:11:48 GMT -5
Sorry, my dilemma is that on bigger maps I'm not sure whether to take long range fire, which is usually nashorn and Kang dae, on my bot or shield health. This is because my Galahad is only level 7, just upgraded from 6, and my shield will not last that long at close range and after that my bot dies very quickly. What I wanted to know was, should I take the damage from gekkos etc that are usually 10-15k max on my bot health to preserve the shield health or am I just using the shield too much? Hope that helps If you can, always sacrifice shield health first. Think about it this way. You die when your HP goes to zero, regardless of how much HP is in your shield. If your shield gets broken, when you die it will have consumed the entirety of your potential HP. If you die with an unbroken shield, you had the potential to block more damage but didn't. How are you served by preserving shield health at the expense of HP? Those plasma bots don't have any harder of a time bringing you down. -Amid As Amid said, the purpose of your shield is to protect your Galahad hp. Your blue team mate can't pick up your undamaged shield if your Galahad die. |
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Post by gr3ygh05t on May 8, 2017 12:41:26 GMT -5
Block everything but whenever possible use cover. It's that simple. The only time to lower the shield when in combat is when you are backpedaling orkans.
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Post by drake1588 on May 10, 2017 10:00:53 GMT -5
Block everything except splash damage, which your should run or dodge if possible. Your hp is more valuable than the shield hp. Yes. I don't understand the trade-off implied by OP's question. Avoid the fire, if you can. Block it with your shield if you can't avoid. When would it ever be an advantage to spare your shield and take the hit to HP instead? -Amid Advantage is appearing to be a wounded duck - a full shield and half health can be a trap for the other team. Whereas the other way around, its a trap for you. Relatively minor advantage, but it can be useful when engaging carnages and other plasmabots who think you are low already. 99% of the time I agree on preserving health at the expense of shield though. |
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Post by ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 on May 10, 2017 11:55:30 GMT -5
Block everything but whenever possible use cover. It's that simple. The only time to lower the shield when in combat is when you are backpedaling orkans. Summed up perfectly. The shield is precisely for getting the beacons on open maps and not getting damage from snipes... as well as the short range weapons on short maps. Preferably, though, I use the Gary on the open maps and use speed to get from cover to cover with the shield as the lil' helper to get me from cover to cover safely. |
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