Talk:Redirection/@comment-250300-20180409232523/@comment-24515081-20180410181744

simply put: shields aren't very good in warframe. They can be bypassed by slash and poison damage and don't have the damage reduction that health has with armour. It isn't that stats don't matter it is just that some stats matter more than others, in this case it is the health and armour values. While there are methods of "shield tanking" most of them are simply not as effective as just using vitality