Skill: Shield Hardness

Overview


 Shield Hardness is a Commander Science skill that is available to all Commanders. There are three total skills in this chain, each costing 1 Space Point to purchase.

This skill does not affect damage that bleeds through your shields and reaches your hull.

Abilities Affected
Ship Shields

Console

 * Console - Universal - Metaphasic Solar Capacitor Reduces Damage to Shields by 5%
 * Console - Universal - Resonant Dissipation Matrix Reduces Damage to Shields by 50% for 15 sec
 * Console_-_Universal_-_Assault_Mode_Relays_icon.png Console – Universal – Assault Mode Relays - When Equipped on a Manasa Reduces Damage to Shields by 56.2% while Active
 * Console - Engineering - Conductive RCS Accelerator 10% Shield Resistance for 15 sec
 * Console - Universal - Fleet Support Platform Reduces Damage to Shields by 15%
 * Console - Universal - Tachyon Pulse Platform Reduces Damage to Shields by 2.5%
 * Console - Universal - Polaric Chromoelectric Modulator icon.png Console – Universal – Polaric Chromoelectric Modulator 2% Shield Resistance
 * Console - Universal - Ablative Hazard Shielding
 * Console - Universal - Singularity Inverter 30% Shield Resistance
 * Console - Universal - Secondary Shield Projector 5% Shield Resistance

Traits

 * Frontal Assault icon.png 16.5% Shield Resistance
 * Subsystem Redundancies icon.png 25% Shield Resistance for 10 sec
 * Exotic Absorption icon.png 20% Shield Resistance for 10 sec
 * Nanoprobe Field Generator icon.png
 * Pattern Recognition icon.png

Note
The direct counter to shield hardening is Skill: Shield Weakening or weapon Procs such as those found on Vaadwaur Polaron Weapons