Talk:Turbulence/@comment-72.84.231.41-20150617183026/@comment-26490853-20150623223206

The Wiki is a little confusing there. The outer shield redirects hit-scan fire from outside the shield's range as if the enemy is firing from the shield-fire impact point. So if you have a 25-meter shield and an Arid Lancer fires from 40 meters away, the fire will be deflected as if the Arid Lancer is firing with reduced accuracy from 25 meters away where the fire hits the shield. This effect appears to be visually bugged. When fired from outside the outer shield range, muzzle flash from a hit-scan gun will appear at the shield-fire impact point rather than the muzzle of the gun.

A shorter outer shield range will generally mean fewer hit-scan shots from outside the outer shield will miss, due to them being deflected nearer your warframe, so no, you do not want to spec for as short a range as possible.