Shields

[Etaew]

That Fortifier I posted was an OJ shield. But who knows if it was upgraded or not, you know?
It wasn't mine.

Even more depressing, so if you upgrade the rarity of a shield, it keeps the lower rarity bonus?

[Lucent]

I doubt it was an epic. I think it was always a legendary, but I can ask him.

And yes when you upgrade, everything stays the same EXCEPT armor plays and the few things that change a little (like recharge delay on Resparks/Rebels and Recharge rate on Tachyon, etc)

[Lucent]

Oh, I see the confusion going on.

You need to change the Append names getting associated with the rarity.
Rarity affects armor plates.
Resistance or not affects what the delay/recharge will be (as far as I know. ie. Respark V with no resist delay is 2.25, but UPGRADED Respark IV with no delay is ALSO 2.25, being treated like a V when upgraded although keeping its name).

Almost Legendaries can be IV or V and can have DX and EX, as far as I know.

Like here is from my shop that were NOT upgraded (nothing on my shop is):

#03
Rhino Contender IV EX** (15% ONLY BECAUSE EX)
EGO: 5000
15% Melee after shield recharges
Resist: Bio
Cap: 14460
Recharge/Sec: 40%
Recharge Delay: 9.6
75k

#04
Tachyon Berserker IV DX (IF THIS WAS EX, IT WOULD HAVE HAD 10% FIRE RATE)
EGO: 5500
5% Fire Rate on shield break
Resist: Syphon
Cap: 16179
Recharge/Sec: 90%
Recharge Delay: 9.6
75k

[drackiller]

Well that's strange, so they are both orange EX and orange ARK?

You have Legendary shields classified as ARK, but they have several denominations, hell you can have same shields with diferent denomination.
I`ll try to take some pictures if you want.

[drackiller]

Just for the sake of it:

[maverick07]

Oh, I see the confusion going on.

You need to change the Append names getting associated with the rarity.
Rarity affects armor plates.
Resistance or not affects what the delay/recharge will be (as far as I know. ie. Respark V with no resist delay is 2.25, but UPGRADED Respark IV with no delay is ALSO 2.25, being treated like a V when upgraded although keeping its name).

Almost Legendaries can be IV or V and can have DX and EX, as far as I know.

Yep. I tried saying this on the PTS forum, they should have fixed the Roman Numerals to show properly, because it is just going to cause a bunch confusion and maybe other bugs down the road.

And for the second part. Basically the highest a IV shield can go is EX for the bonus, highest a three can go is DX, and so on. But a IV shield can have an EX, DX, or D quality of bonus (depending on what your bonus is, not all types of bonuses appear on D and DX shields, and some bonuses are only ARK shield bonuses). Of course a V shield can have any of them, ARK, EX, DX, or D.

[drackiller]

My point wast that being Legendary is not the same as to be a Legendary ARK.