Metaphase Shield

Metaphase Shield

Metaphase Field

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“	The Metaphase Shield is a shield for ships that provides equal protection against Energy, Kinetic and Explosive weapon types.	”
	— In-Game Description

Stats

Metaphase Shield	I	II	III
SPECIFICATIONS
Mass	64 t	384 t	1,152 t
Energy	160	960	2,880
Defense	90%
Resists	50%
Hull XP	115 XP	152 XP	187 XP
BLUEPRINT
Farming Tier	VEGA Tier II/III	VEGA Tier III/IV	VEGA Tier IV/V
Fragments	4	5	6
Tech Lab Required	V	VII	IX
EQUIP
Time	1m 30s	14m 30s	2h 01m
Helium-3	3,180	532,863	2,939,858
Antimatter	0	59,207	979,953
REPAIR
Time	2m 40s	16m 00s	48m 00s

General

The Metaphase Shield is an advanced ship shield that resists all three traditional weapon types - Energy, Explosive, Kinetic, taking half damage from them.

Strategy and Setup

Advantages

Metaphase Shields provide lots of protection - second only to the Spectral Shield. They resist many of the damage types used in combat, and are therefore the best shield to use in most situations.

They also give much lower XP than the Spectral Shield and other basic shields, protecting you from high-level fleets.

Disadvantages

Metaphase Shields have poor mass efficiency compared to the basic shields, but this is usually made up by their superior resistance stats.

They are relatively weak against Alien Event Targets and player hulls of Xeno Division and above which can use weapons of other damage types such as Alien Damage, Plasma Damage, Blight Damage and Void Damage.

Trivia

• Ships that have active Metaphase Shields glow red-orange, and are difficult to distinguish from those with Shockwave Shields.
• This is the first shield slot event prize in VEGA Conflict.
• Originally, the Metaphase Shield only had 80% defense.

Gallery

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  Difference between Metaphase Field (top) and Ship Metaphase Shield (bottom)

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  Old Metaphase Shield I blueprint

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  Old Metaphase Shield II blueprint

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  Old Metaphase Shield III blueprint

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