Talk:Shield Upgrade/@comment-104.186.108.142-20180223020228/@comment-29680667-20180223025431

If you ever have a way to regenerate shields (like Gonk), then the shield upgrade is the better choice (this is a general statement, obviously here you would need the shield upgrade if you wanted to use Gonk since you have none otherwise).

If you are worried about the effect of crits then think about shield upgrade.

In the specific case of the quadjumper, I think I would go hull upgrade. The savings of the point is nice. I don't want my ship to become too spendy. Even if you had the shield upgrade, the shield would likely be taken out by the hits first, so it doesn't actually offer the crit protection that you want.

So for this case I would say hull upgrade over shield. Personally, I would not use either, and put the points into something else, but if you are, I don't think Gonk + Shield Upgrade is worth the points or actions. To me, this means hull is probably a little better way to spend the points.