Skill: Shield Hardness

Shield Hardness

Commander

This skill increases the amount of incoming damage negated by your shields.

By default, each point of Shields Subsystem Power negates 0.2% the damage that your shields take. Every point of Shield Hardness skill will negate an additional 0.2% regardless of your current Shields Subsystem Power.

+50 Shield Hardness

Total Additional Shield Damage Negation = +10%

Improved Shield Hardness

+35 Shield Hardness

Total Skill Bonus = +85

Total Additional Shield Damage Negation = +17%

Advanced Shield Hardness

+15 Shield Hardness

Total Skill Bonus = +100

Total Additional Shield Damage Negation = +20%

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

Modifiers

Console

• [Console - Engineering - Conductive RCS Accelerator]: 10% Shield Resistance for 15 sec
• [Console - Universal - Ablative Hazard Shielding]: 5% Shield Resistance
• [Console - Universal - Assault Mode Relays]: When Equipped on a Vaadwaur Manasa Assault Escort, Reduces Damage to Shields by 56.2% while Active
• [Console - Universal - Dominion Defense Screen]: When active, Reduces Damage to Shields by 95%
• [Console - Universal - Enhanced Manheim Device]: +5% Shield Resistance
• [Console - Universal - Fleet Support Platform]: Reduces Damage to Shields by 15%
• [Console - Universal - Hyper-focusing Trinary Arrays]: +47.5 Shield Hardness
• [Console - Universal - Metaphasic Solar Capacitor]: Reduces Damage to Shields by 5%, and reduces Damage to Shields by 50% when active
• [Console - Universal - Peripheral Refraction Array]: +10% Shield Resistance
• [Console - Universal - Phased-Space Membrane]: +5% Shield Resistance
• [Console - Universal - Polaric Chromoelectric Modulator]: Reduces Damage to Shields by 2%
• [Console - Universal - Resonant Dissipation Matrix]: Reduces Damage to Shields by 50% for 15 sec when active
• [Console - Universal - Singularity Inverter]: 30% Shield Resistance for 30s when active
• [Console - Universal - Secondary Shield Projector]: 5% Shield Resistance
• [Console - Universal - Tachyon Pulse Platform]: Reduces Damage to Shields by 2.5% (Scales with Shield Restoration)
• [Console - Universal - Voth Power Subcore]: +30% Shield Resistance

Traits

• Frontal Assault: Reduces damage to shields by __% (Scales with Shield Restoration)
• Subsystem Redundancies: Reduces Damage to Shields by 25% When using Beam: Overload or Javelin Abilities
• Exotic Absorption: +20% Shield Resistance for 10 sec when hit by Exotic Damage (60s cooldown)
• Nanoprobe Field Generator +5-6.3% per stack, stacks 5 times, chance to gain stacking shield resistance when damaged for 15 sec
• Pattern Recognition +1.5-6% Shield Hardness based on time in combat
• Strengthened Shielding: +10-12.5% Shield Resistance
• Interlaced Emitters: When Activating a Shield Heal, gain +20% Shield Hardness for 6s
• Turtle: When at or below 25% Throttle, gain +3% Shield Hardness (stacks 10 times)
• Evasion Specialist: When activating Emergency Power to Engines or any Pilot Bridge Officer ability, gain 20% Shield Hardness
• Shield Overload: When Activating Emergency Power to Shields, gain 75% Shield Hardness, diminishes over 30s
• Majority - Minority: Based on number of enemies, if in the Majority, gain 20% Shield Hardness
• Empathic Adaptation: 20% chance for 5-6.3% Shield Resistance when receiving damage

Other

Set Bonuses / Abilities

• Shield Frequency Modulation Reduces Damage to Shields by 10% for self and allies within 5km
• Dyson Joint Command Technologies (4/4) - Reactive Shielding: 50% Shield Resistance when Shields below 50% (60 second cooldown)
• Enhanced Engineering Systems Set (3/3) - Reinforced Shielding: Reduces Damage to Shields by 5%
• Enhanced Maneuvering Systems Set (3/3) - Reinforced Shielding: Reduces Damage to Shields by 5%
• Quantum Phase Applications (2/3) - Shield Frequency Cycling: Reduces Damage to Shields by 7.5%
• Terran Task Force Starship Technologies (4/4) - Disruptor Shell: Reduces Damage to Shields by 90% for 7 sec
• Tzenkethi Resolve Set (2/3) - Motivational Measures: +15% Shield Resistance

Notes

• The direct counter to shield hardening is Skill: Shield Weakening or weapon Procs such as those found on Vaadwaur Polaron Weapons
• Shield Hardness and Shield Resistance are similar statistics but have different effects. Shield Resistance applies a nonlinear regressive damage resistance to the shields itself, which has diminishing returns of about 75%. Shield Hardness applies a linear buff of resistance to the shields which has no diminishing returns. As a result of this, the two should be made into independent categories. The concept that the two are identical skills is a myth.