Railjack Shield: high regen and low shield bonus to make the most of shield gate's invuln?

[(PSN)Unstar]

In Railjack, shields seem to melt, which is unsurprising since they don't benefit from damage resistance.  I've been waiting to get a Zetki MK-3 shield with good stats, when I had an idea that might turn my plans on their head...

I don't trust that even with a +900 shields they would last long, so alternatively, what if I focus on having a very high regeneration rate and a very low bonus to shields?  When a Railjack's shields are fully depleted, it gets 3 seconds of invulnerability, and this ability can't be triggered again until the shields have been maxed out.  So with a low total shield value and a high regeneration rate, theoretically it might be possible to use this shield invulnerability more often.  Bonus: the Zetki bonus of +25% bonus damage while shields are depleted would apply more often.

But in practice, would this work?  I'm curious if anyone has tried it, or if there might be a hole in this plan that would make me better off waiting for a more shields than less shields.

[Shalath]

3 hours ago, (PS4)Unstar said:

In Railjack, shields seem to melt, which is unsurprising since they don't benefit from damage resistance.  I've been waiting to get a Zetki MK-3 shield with good stats, when I had an idea that might turn my plans on their head...

I don't trust that even with a +900 shields they would last long, so alternatively, what if I focus on having a very high regeneration rate and a very low bonus to shields?  When a Railjack's shields are fully depleted, it gets 3 seconds of invulnerability, and this ability can't be triggered again until the shields have been maxed out.  So with a low total shield value and a high regeneration rate, theoretically it might be possible to use this shield invulnerability more often.  Bonus: the Zetki bonus of +25% bonus damage while shields are depleted would apply more often.

But in practice, would this work?  I'm curious if anyone has tried it, or if there might be a hole in this plan that would make me better off waiting for a more shields than less shields.

When I switched from max shield to higher regen/lower regen delay it certainly feels like the shield is doing a better job to me. I'm a solo player though so I'm not actually on my RJ or paying attention to it's health and shields a lot of the time and haven't tried too many different shield arrays.

[(PSN)l-p4p-I]

Personally I like Zetki Shield, mine has +453 capacity, 1.2s regeneration delay & 4.7%/s recharge w/ RJ dmg increased when shields depleted, even with that low shield capacity my rj is regenarating shields almost instantly and it feels really good, shields are always up. And if I am under heavy fire I get that sweet dmg bonus.

So I'd say zetki shields are pretty recommended.