Shield Parts Guide

Manufacturer	Accessory	Battery Body Capacitor	Capacity	Recharge Delay	Recharge Rate	Special
Anshin			+5	−7	−8	+2
Bandit			+1	−2	+8	−6
Dahl			−2	+7	−1	−1
Hyperion			−4	+8	−2	+3
Maliwan			−5	0	+1	+8
Pangolin			+8	−8	−7	−3
Tediore			−4	+4	+4	+1
Torgue			+3	−2	+2	−5
Vladof			−1	−1	+3	0
Accessories provide no bonuses, these stats only apply to the other parts.

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Shields are made out of 4 main visible parts.

Accessory

Battery

Body

Capacitor

Internally the Accessory and Body were swapped at some point, leading to the misleading names.

Each manufacturer has one non-unique part for each slot. As luck would have it, the bonuses these parts provide have enough of a pattern that they can be summarised in the above table. No non-unique Accessories provide bonuses, and within each manufacturer the non-unique Batteries, Bodies, and Capacitors all share the exact same bonuses.

Materials

The material parts have no model, instead defining the actual textures applied on top of all the other models.

There are 36 non-unique materials, one for each rarity-manufacturer combination. Most of these follow the same pattern.

Hyperion materials instead use the following bonuses.

Tediore materials instead use the following bonuses.

Inventory Balances

The Inventory Balance defines what parts a certain item can have. Balances themselves do not affect stats, but are they very important for the actual generation of items.

Shield Definitions

Like the name might suggest, the definition essentially defines all the unique properties of each shield type. These are what create all the different special effects. There is one definition per shield type.

Definitions are very important if you’re trying to calculate exact stats, but otherwise can be mostly ignored.