I like how this comes from RG whom are part of the alliance who utilised shields the most.
Both before this event and during it.

Shields are impressive when used correctly but in large fights can be over-powered. The issue is that for each 2 people using shields you need about a 4 man team to take them down. Meaning 25 people with this shield setup is basically unstoppable. I hope the issue with micro-managing shields can be resolved to make them good tanks but not the best.

I think shield itself is not the problem. The possibilities you have with shield are the problem.

And BTW Alexander you should know that your old corp was the first to introduce large fleet of shielded Gropho in Battles long time ago. Seems you showed Novastrov how to do this.

They need to reintroduce the armor tanking again, right now it frankly stinks !

Purge - i wonder which type of compacts you shot at the kain, after you said yesterday you didn't use smites. The Kain was eventually ERP fitted.

Active Armor tanking works with only one faction: blue, because they have repair bonus
Shield tanking works only with one faction: green, because they got shield or recharge bonus
Resist tanking works only with one faction: yellow, because they got the bonus for it.

btw, did you notice how much micromanagement the Chaos team had to do? They accidentally transfered energy to Lemon a few times, they also had not much weapons fitted for some reasons...

There was probably another deciding factor to: Those Chaos agents are 100% specialized in that setup, since preorder. Neither Lemons nor Mortes team had that advantage, since their equipment-layout was a "reaction" and depended on availiable agents.

The only change i would make to shield in short terms without changing any game mechanic: let us see the shield integrity (accumulator) if someone fields a shield and fix the combat log entry ASAP.

Blue is the kinda half *** faction tanking wise.

This is incorrect, 25 people shield tanked would just need enough people on the other side to burn one of them down quickly and that isn't very hard to do after the shield hardener nerf. The reason the tyranno's were so effective was because of their recharge and the inability to field enough dps to break that recharge and alpha quick enough.

8 gropho's would 2 volley that tyrannos, 4 mesmers would likely 1 1/2 volley them.

Doesn't matter if you have 25 of them, 30 or 50 you can kite and pop all day without issue once you have the dps to break them. This setup would be worthless in most large scale fights as it's too slow and has very small range.

The fact is you need a larger group to take down shields. Cost of 8 Grophos vs 4 Tyrannos.

the problem is not the shield. the problem is the cycle and the fast reactivation.

just give the shield a 10 sec timer to reactivate independent from the cycle and things like this will never happen again.

I agree with hunter, erp definitely needs nerf.

+1 nerf the *** out of it.

How Many Modules You Need To Tank Like A Beast In A Shield Tank.. Hardeners, Shield And Injector.(3 Modules)
How Many Modules You Need To Tank Like A Beast In Armor Tank... Repair, Hardeners, Plated, Tunnings And Injector (5 Modules)

Shield Need A Big Change Or Armor Need One. But Right Now They Are Not Even Close To Be Equal

I am not talking about DPS... yes you can do more DPS but the shield take all the damage as 1 kind of damage that's the big problem. if a blue or yellow or green shoot a shield is the same you have no paper, Scissors, Rock. the shield have no weakness to a specific damage.