Get rank 2 in impulse expertise if need more defense
Commander
Hull plating
Rank 1 just about equal to one neutronium alloy armor mk xi. Think of this as an extra armor slot
Shield Regeneration
Over powered keep an eye on this. It is my opinion it might get nerfed
A percentage of your total buffed shield HP as regeneration. Independent of shield power and base regeneration. Extremely useful on all builds especially high shield HP builds
Not related to bleed-through (10% normal shields, 5% resilient)
Kinetic shield damage is always reduced to 25% before shield hardness applies
Independent of power level
Shield hardness stacks as a product of the damage multipliers
Capped at 75%
Example with 100 shield power 20%, 3 ranks shield hardness 20%, emergency power to shields III 30%, Transfer shield strength 15%, Rotate shield frequency 34% ⇒ 1-(0.8*0.8*0.7*0.85*0.66)=74.9% shield hardness
1 rank would be battle equivalent to extra 10% shield regeneration and 10% shield HP after buffs (cat 2)
Recommend 3 ranks for all builds
Weapon Amplification
Increases the Crit serverity by 10%. If your build can do 20% crit chance put 1 rank in this. Otherwise pass.