Hardened Shields

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Hardened Shields

Design type

Common

Base value

10,000¢

Short description

Reduces damage taken by shields.

OP costs

Frigate

5

Destroyer

10

Cruiser

15

Capital

25

UI tags

Shields

Game data

ID

hardenedshieldemitter

Tier

3

Tags

shields, defensive, merc, standard

Unlocked

No

Hidden

No

Hidden everywhere

No

	Reduces the amount of damage taken by shields by 20%. Also reduces the chance that shields will be pierced by EMP arcs from weapons like the Ion Beam.
–Codex description

Overview

Hardened Shields is a hullmod that can be installed on any ship that has shields.

Notes

• Like most percentage reductions, the shield damage reduction is multiplicative with other modifiers like those from Field Modulation (e.g., taking both Hardened Shields and Field Modulation will result in 1 * (1 - 0.2) * (1 - 0.15) = 0.68 times the original shield efficiency).

Tips and strategies

The following section contains user-submitted suggestions, these may be inaccurate or outdated.

• Note that, from perspective of effective shield HP, Hardened Shields is usually not as efficient as simply putting OP into flux capacitors. However, it starts being more OP efficient than the equivalent in flux capacitors when the ship has more than 4000/8000/12000/20000 flux capacity (based on ship size).
• Generally useful for High Tech ships, which often rely on shield for damage mitigation and already have high base flux capacity (thus requiring fewer capacitors before Hardened Shield becomes an efficient use of OP for shield health purposes).