Gear lube and rudder are garbage

If it was possible to equip that perk:
Epic T4 big shield with no perks = impossible epic T4 rudder with 10 epic perks

Real epic T4 rudder = half of epic lvl 31 standard shield

 

That’s still a lot of health Worth it?

 

I don't think it is that much, considering that if you can equip 4 epic perks on your rudder, you can also use them on your lvl 31 standard shield and have 1412 health points...
I think standard shield would still have bigger usage than rudder and we still would have players with no HP perks on their rudders. We'd just have a healthy variety all around the bay.

 

Just put perks/skills that increase ship speed and/or acceleration with lube and rudder

 

We could consider my previous idea to make a non nerf “nerf” to overused blue items. This will allow more people to run rudder or gear lube

https://forum.battlebay.net/threads/ship-perks-idea.17976/#post-115836