What are Prismatic Shields and Are They Worth It?

I don't feel like prismatics are worth the costs if you're running SCBs. Cell banks restore the same MJ regardless of your shield power, so you're only gaining a little shield at the cost of weight and drain and a lot of regeneration. On cargo ships (especially delivery missions where you can collect bounties on npc pirates) a prismatic with more cargo instead of cells / reinforcement will carry you through a couple encounters and then refresh at the destination

runs prismatics on cutter
Accidentally turns on silent running

To get a little bit more power out of your combat ships shut off your cargo hatch and set your interdictor to Priority 5. If you're running an armored power plant and still want to have access to multiple Shield cell Banks run with the bank turned off that you can't afford to power. Once you've used your final Bank shut it down and turn the next one on. Also any event your power plant becomes damaged it's a good idea to have your weapons set on priority 2, life support on 3 Shield cell banks on 4 in the event you accidentally turn on two banks at once and overload your power plant. Also when your Shields drop in combat you can speed up the recovery time of The Shield by shutting down Shield boosters. Primarily your heavy-duty boosters. If you have a strong Shield and you shutdown your heavy-duty boosters the recovery time for your Shield will be a lot faster.

On your Corvettes and cutters engineer your prismatics high capacity reinforced. The idea is to never let your Shields drop.

why 11565 MJ? its 11350

i dont know how to get these, nope they not in shinatra dezra, ive pledged to a beautiful looking woman forget her name did this 2 months ago still not got em

how do you use shield cell banks without cooking yourself?

Not worth it. W... Weight!

Can you stay pledged to a power for as long as you want? And can I still buy the shields after being pledged for like 7 weeks?

Whats with power play push every video, can't I just play the game without kneeling to some space thot?

>Kind of hot
What do you mean by "kind of"?

Prismatic’s loose less shields comparatively when downsizing, than any other shield type. I run class 6 prismatics on my cutter with about as much shield strength as class 8 bi-weaves.

When testing both, I found that you can’t really take full advantage of bi-weave 8’s enhanced recharge rate for very long with lower sized distributor(cutter only has class 7), so it was well worth the switch. Also free’d up power, weight, and a big slot for scb8 which was a much better gain in a real fight.

My Mamba only has 2307MJ of shields. (5A G5 Reinforced + Multliweave. 4x shield boosters G5 to 73.9% each)
Never lost my shields in any battle including going to High conflict zones taking out 20 odd NPC's one after the other.
Never bothered with a cell bank, as by the time I've used up my ammo and collector limpets, I've headed back to a station to restock.

Also to note, if you loose shields, turn off the boosters, so your main shield gen gets back online faster, then enable the shield boosters one at a time.

Would prismatics be the best option in cases where you are doing assassination missions - you attack and kill ONE target, and then go collect your reward?

I'm still confused on this Power Play stuff. Its very confusing. I grinded out my Duke with Empire for the Cutter but now I'm fearful to change allegiances.

wait whaat?
it takes 40+ minutes to get the shields back on anaconda?
wtf?

Great video, very helpful for anyone just starting the engineering trek. Thank you!

Kinda hot??? Feel like you're not giving her the credit she is due. Lol

Bought:
2 8A
3 7A
4 6A
6 5A
5 4A
5 3A
6 2A
6 1A

Number of ships I have: 3
Number of ships I use prismatics on: 0

Hmm, might have went overboard, but I still feel like I don't have enough.

Kinda hot? Who are you kidding dude?

As a trader, explorer and rat, I don't think I will have use for the pp weapons? I might can fit a prismatic onto my trader, but that's the only module I might need

kinda hot...yeah ok

glanced at...you mean stared longingly at while on a 300jump round-trip...

How do they respond to Concordant Sequence? This might also be a good option. Great vid thanks Exi

For exploration, i use enhanced low power prismatic shields, that way i can survive a gank and still have a fairly lightweight generator

"I have prismatics now so that makes me immortal! :>"

Laughs in Flechette

Is it really worth running a lower class prismatic for a higher bank on an FDL? Without the boost from pips is it even really more total MJ in the end?

my prismatic won't use sys charge. is that changed?

Prismatic shields on 2 ships with concordant sequence that they basically shield cell bank each others.....that makes them impossible to bring down

I just subscribed because you explain really well. Great work, thank you very much sir.

Diagnostic repair makes bi-weave shields mostly obsolete

So, I've tested this multiple times but for some reason my Shields regenerate faster when there are less pips or 0 pips with capacitor charge. They take less damage at 4 pips but the Regen is slower. I figured this was because of lowering the shield cap. Prismatic with a balanced mix of capacity and resistance augmentation. I tend to empty my pips until the capacitor is drained and then recharge it. It makes a very noticable difference. Are you saying this is not supposed to be the case?

Best tutorials I ever watched - would like to see more, especially for odyssey

Prismatics are technically the best, but at a Regen rate of 1.1 per second with a meta setup, it'll take about an hour and a half to recharge real time, bi-weaves regenerate 5 times that fast, so if you can win with bi-weaves, they'll give you more shielding over many frequent engagements while weighing your ship down less giving slightly better handling.

Prismatics are only necessary in pvp and the hardest PvE hunts.

For the algorithm!

Did they change the shield colours? I have bi-weave and haven't noticed any green. Perhaps it still looks blue on the little diagram showing where you're being hit?

Useful, instructive and inspiring video.. I just haven't had the patience to run the Aisling Duval power play

well disigned video, concise, explicative, good montage, pleasant, informative, down the thinking into the nutshell, what we need on youtibe, thx bro

"The young, kinda hot, blue headed chick in the powerplay menu" Best description I've heard yet

i did not know sys pips made shields stronger

They are expensive too, so you want to go to Jameson Memorial to buy them at 10% discount

I just now unlocked these since i didnt cate to stop what i was doing to go to any specific galactic powers reguon n do their missions...i put a 7A prismatic on a anaconda and engineered it to grade 3 w reinforced modification...tell me how ya'll are getting 4 5 and 19k shields when i have just over 2k...and i have a 7A its not like i put a 4a or a 5a or a 6a i have the biggest alotted slot for shields and still am thousands of MJ under what you reported on shield syrength...is 2 engineering levels gonna give me double the shields ? Am i missing that much by not having grade 5 unlocked, it cant be 2k shields for grade 3 and 6k shields for grade 5 is it? How do i get absurd numbers of shields like the examples you provided...

I don't think anybody really addresses this in the video, having more pips in shields effectively raises your defense, slowing the drain of your shields.

"The young, kinda hot, blue headed chick....." I love this game LOL

i cant get 11.000 mj out of my shield on the cutter, that is your setup

where can we find that imperial cutter 11k build?

Bro she's like more than a century old 😭😭😭💀💀💀

Whilst I can see the benefits of Powerplay modules, what are the implications of pledging to a power? Presumably they don't just give away modules, but expect something in return?