Shielding
Need help about this. Some time ago a friend told me that portal can have more defensa than 95 points. Something that we can see on mod screen. Burn didn’t know how to explain what happen if this “limit” is overpassed like portals with 4 aegis shield in theory’s that portal would have 280 points in defense but the limit isn’t 95. So passing 95 shield are meaningless or what?
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Those "points" are damage mitigation, or reduction.
A common shield has a mitigation value of 30: it reduces the damage taken by the portal, when hit by a weapon, by 30%
Multiple shields (and links) can add up, to give more mitigation, but only up to 95 -- that is, if I fire a burster that would do 1000 damage to an unlinked, unshielded portal, it will still do 50 damage on your max-mitigation portal.
So what's the point defending a portal beyond 95? Well... shields fall off. Links get broken. 1 Aegis shield and 2 or 3 links gets a portal over 95 mitigation, so if I have 4 Aegis shields on there, 3 of them aren't adding any additional mitigation.... but it will take you a lot more weapons to remove all 4 and get the mitigation down to a more reasonable number.
I wouldn’t call it meaningless. There is also damage mitigation from links. There is also shield stickiness factor, which was nerfed by Niantic for “reasons.” Shield stickiness factor refers to the overall experienced difficulty in knocking a shield off.
Shields/having high portal damage mitigation grants a few benefits:
@jkg5150 did laugh at
"but it will take you a lot more weapons to remove all 4 and get the mitigation down to a more reasonable number"
I know thats true but does feel like ive been hacking chocloate Aegis recently, the kind where an x1 goes off and barely touches it it melts away, the joys of RNG lol
@Theisman I am right there with you on that. Although, not helped by the fact I've only really deployed them on anomaly sites, where a few more people are firing than in day to day play 😂