| “ | The Skirmish Resistor increases resistance to Energy and Explosive weapons. | ” |
| — In-Game Description |
| !THIS RESISTOR IS A REUSABLE ITEM MEANING YOU HAVE A LIMITED AMOUNT! | |||||||||
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| !THIS WEAPON CAN ONLY BE EQUIPPED ON THE PUNISHER/GUARDIAN CRUISER! | |||||||||
| Skirmish Resistor | I | II | III | ||||||
| Mass | 3% ship mass | 4% ship mass | 5% ship mass | ||||||
| Energy Resist | 15% | 20% | 25% | ||||||
| Explosive Resist | 15% | 20% | 25% | ||||||
| Obtaining (Reusable Credit) | |||||||||
| Previously Available in | Alien Mobilization (Store), Alien Decimation (Store) | ||||||||
| Build | |||||||||
| Time | 14h 24m | 19h 12m | 1d | ||||||
| Helium-3 | 1,685,115 | 2,948,951 | 4,212,787 | ||||||
| Antimatter | 187,235 | 327,661 | 468,087 | ||||||
General
The Skirmish Resistor is a Ship resistor that grants the ship equipped to it the ability to resist a certain percentage of damage from Energy and Explosive weapons.They were available in Alien Mobilization. Its name is deprived from the Skirmish Armor who has the ability to resist the same damage types.
The Skirmish resistor is a hybrid resistor and an reuseable item making it in limited quantities.
Strategy and Setup
Advantages:
The Skirmish Resistor grants protection against both Energy and Explosive weapons, thus reducing damage from weapons such as the Nova Ray, Reverb Ray, Disintegrator Cannon, Vector Torpedo and Manifold Missiles making it useful in PvP.
The amount of protection granted is decent, higher than the resistance provided by the Skirmish Armor at Lv III, and thus, ships equipped with this resistor are able to last much longer in battle as compared to those without it.
Like all resistors they have no repair time and actually save the hull repair as the added protection gives the player added armor with no repair whatsoever. This makes resistors incredibly efficient when in PvP or PvE as it allows hulls to survive much longer but adding no repair time.
Disadvantages:
However, like the other Hybrid Resistors, they can only be equipped on the Punisher Cruiser, and thus, usage of them is very limited in use. This means if you do not have the Punisher it is pretty worthless to the player.
They also don't protect the player from the deadly Infernal Wave Driver, Ranger Swarms, and Storm Driver making it less useful than the Hardened Resistor.
They also take up a decent amount of ship mass on the Punisher Cruiser (due to its high mass), and thus mass that could be used for armor and weapons are sacrificed in favor of equipping this resistor. Which the Punisher has a hard time doing with all its added weight of new tech.
Resistors only give resistance to health, not to shields, hence they are not effective on hulls with low health. Resistors are only mathematically worth their weight if the ship has roughly more than 5,000 health. This means extra armor should be equipped with a resistor to utilize its full potential.
To add insult to injury, they are limited in number. Unlike blueprints, players cannot equip them limitless on their ships, the number they can equip depends on the amount of Skirmish Resistor items they have.They are also incredibly hard to get as the Hive fleets are rather hard on higher levels and still do massive damage on lower level fleets with the wrong setup or strategy. Unlike credits, they can be re-used but require a refit time.
Trivia
- The Skirmish Resistor probably got its name from Skirmish Armor, considering both resist energy and explosive weapons.
- This along with the Hardened Resistor and Anodized Resistor are the first hybrid resistors in the game.
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