Talk:Quick Thinking/@comment-93.33.56.183-20160325133815/@comment-27787024-20160411071622

That completely depends on the warframe you are talking about, let's take Valkyr and Frost as our examples to see how effective a Steel Fiber alone vs a Maxed Redirection can be.

Frost with maxed Redirection goes up to 1110 Shields from 450 base (at level 30)

Valkyr with maxed Steel fiber goes up to 1260 Armor from 600 base (at level 30)

Since armor gives you damage reduction vs shields which just gives you a flat buffer (excluding elemental weaknesses) you gain a huge amount more EHP, meaning you can take a lot more damage. at 1260 armor you will take ~20% of all incoming damage. That's a damage mitigation of around 80%! That is massive.

To see this in effect you can go to the simulacrum and spawn in an enemy with high amounts of shields (ie corpus) and see how quickly they die compared to an enemy with high amounts of armor (ie heavy gunner) of the same level. The high armor enemies take much longer to kill due to this damage mitigation, this is why 4 times corrosive projection teams are so popular for endurance runs.

Yes maxed redirection can be more useful, but only on certain frames that have a high base shield amount and low base armor amount. But don't count steel fiber out, on the right warframes it can make them extremely tanky, way beyond what a redirection could provide.