LF4 or Shield?

Whats would be best to upgrade to lv 16 20 Shields or 20 LF4?
Battle circumstances: 1 vs 1
what would be best for a 1 vs 1 lets say u use all shields in both configurations.
20 on 1
15 on 2
which one would be better 20 lf4 or 20 shields (the best shields of course)
please answer asap
(only FE, for obvious reasons)

 

Look at your damage with just the 20 LF4 on and add an extra 6% onto your damage.
Look at your shields with 20 B02 on and add an extra 15% onto your shield.
Decide which one you would like better, a permanent 15% shield boost or the permanent 6% damage boost.

Everyone has their preferences, personally I like big shields over high firepower in a fight so would do the B02 first.

 

I would go with more firepower at first. The faster you can kill NPCs the faster you make more uridium and credits, the faster you can finish gates, etc.

 

I would go B02's first. Survivability is a nice thing to have.

 

Well I think im going for the B02's for now at least 15 or 20 and then go for the lf4's thanks for yalls opinions.

 

6% really is that even worth it. i hit 45 k x4 no upgrades on lf4s i would be better of buying damage boosters than upgrading LF4s

 

Lf-4 because :
lf-4[1lv]=200 lf-4 [16 lv] = 212
bo-2 [1lv]=10 000 bo-2 [16lv] =11 500

Bo-2 give you more shield than damage to lf-4

 

It is worth it if the rest of your ship is UFE and you don't want to die to another UFE ship just because you are missing out on the extra damage.

If you have 45 LF4 and go hunting with double damage, sep etc and then get all LF4 to lv16 then you can see a sizable difference in your damage compared to before they were all lv16.
However if the person doesn't really hit high to begin with, they won't see a difference at all.

 

First Shilds

 

Do both to the highest level you can afford.Grind the rest out to level 16.You should see some pretty good results along the way

 

Star Trek says, "Sheilds Up!"

 

Seems I'm outnumbered regarding my advice. I say do firepower first, the faster you kill stuff the more exp and uridium u recieve to purchase logdisks. You also gain more exp, uri, etc in groups when you go cubing, etc. Shields will lead to excessive running and less fighting which leads to poor pilot skills in confrontations. Yes, build shields up to a certain extent but make firepower your main priority. When I first started out i thought shields were the way to go as well. Now that I've been building up my firepower I see the error of my previous strategy. Now I'm making uri faster which I can now put into my shields. Yes, in football a good defense will always beat a good offense but in DO, it's the opposite.

 

The only issue with this is unless you are doing NPC with x4 hitting 60k + in the first place then the damage increase will be very small, not to mention he would only be doing 20 LF4 anyway.

If he does NPC or x1 or x2 the damage increase would be so small I don't think it would even make a change to how much uridium he is making.