Return of common tesla shield

tl;dr you have to wait for it to drop anyway. it'll absorb the full blow and just stun for 4 seconds. It's a waste of a shot even if you break it.

 

Well, I'm one of those spammers @Crashedup mentioned. So... Come at me.

Just don't bring your flaregun, ok?

 

You have made me want to play the enforcer.

 

It's a fun ship. Just heavily underpowered if you don't have a tesla shield that can tank hits before breaking

 

Ok. Perfect thread to talk about the lesser rarity Tesla shield. Tesla shields are basically useless in Nightmare league if you have a Rare or worst. don't use it even if you think that 1200 HP Rare max Tesla shield is decent cover, it's not (I have Dr Buzzkill maxed). Weapons at Nightmare are far beyond this damage range which includes: railgun, explosive cannon, sniper cannon(crit), blast cannon, missiles. Basically almost every developed weapon that is fired at you, will be left self-stunned, which is worst than nothing at all. As a speeder or enforcer, in danger situations you want to pretty much over boost or nitro out of there as quick as possible. Getting stunned for 4 secs after your shield gets omitted doesn't allow you to do that, and 4 secs is a long time in the danger zone.

Getting back to the Tesla Shield, it's one of the odd items that is severely gimped at lower rarities. Let me demonstrate:



Here is the chart from BattleBayItems(thanks ckim), as you can see a rare Tesla shield is about half the HP as the legendary. An uncommon is about 25% and common barely 10%. the graph doesn't resembles other items, here's another yellow item Nitro:

Such a huge contrast. Not sure why Rovio designed it like this, it's completely wacky. Maybe it's another bug, and it shows completely imbalance of item and fairness. Imagine every item scaled like the Tesla Shield. So you wonder why players like Orpheus and Bunta circle around foes in Nightmare and survive, here's the answer.

So what I'm trying to say us what my post started with. Don't use the lower rarity Tesla shield it sucks compared to epics and legendaries and it's a fraction of what those are capable of.

 

Ah, I see. But what should I do if I get a red, 2 slot point, legendary item?

 

Change ships

 

True, was just using it because I had no other high lvl T shield. Switched to defender until I can get a nice level one

 

Wont work now that you told almost the entire community this

 

Look he has a Tesla up let’s get close so we can fire through the shield and kill him, I prefer Tesla shield ship, bun only we hen it doesn’t have 2

 

Lmfao. Back on defender anyways

 

I like how you just jump into the thread with charts and graphs.
My takeaway is to never use Tesla Shield unless I can already reach Nightmare without one.

 

for god sake i got a rare tesla shield and it was barely 150 hp, what use is thid against people with mortars that can score 4 times as much

 

using t2 epic ts on nightmare league. Im doing fine

 

Ah... ahhhhh. Ahhhh... AH-Choo!