I’ve been wondering which one would be better to have, Lazuli fixer or Aerlan fixer.

I’m neither right now, but I’m going to change to one or the other eventually and would like to know what the tradeoff would be from those who have experience.

If you go lazuli you will get a lot of hull. If your a player with lots of defense the aerlen is really nice but when it comes to defending against pvp people can always debuff your ship.

Does a Lazuli fixer give 20% hull for the base ability? Or just the 10% any fixer or Lazuli would?

Basically it comes down to how much defense and hull you have, make a decision based on that.

20%

No its only 10. You don't count the lazuli part for the base buff.

Really? Being Lazuli and a Fixer doesnt stack effect when you do Auxiliary Fortification?

I not either of those races / profession's either but i had this discussion with lone.lycann before they left the forum

anyrate, as anarelen fixer you get +30% defense and +30% hull --> ~ +47% defense with Velox / ~ +66%defense when attacked if you have trinity , and ~ +41% hull with kalviums. upside you get a good hull boost and your defense gets pretty nice as well, downside is, as stated people / NPC's can debuff you.

Flipside, as a Lazuli fixer you get +50% from race and +30% from fixer + another 10% with kalviums, and since the math is cumulative, and not linear you end up with something larger than you think:

1 + 50% = 1.5 --> Lazuli
1.5 + 30% [ 1.5 * .3 + 1.5 ] = 1.95 --> fixer
1.95 + 5% [ 1.95 * .05 + 1.95 ] = 2.0475 --> Kalvium 1
2.0475 + 5% = 2.149875 --> Kalvium 2
2.15 - 1 (initial 100% hull) = ~ 1.15 or 115%

it equates into how much of an energy sink you want to be and how big your crew is really.

And he's over my shoulder right now saying how you've totally missed the question being asked (bugging me to no end until I agreed to tell you that. OUCH!! *rubs shoulder*)

At least one part of his retirement plan is working out....

how so did I miss the question? they were asking which was better, theres no real definative on it yet, at least noone has pointed one out, only to say that while Aerlen gives you the defense buff, you can get debuffed. However with a good arti production you can easily make up the helmsman for the defense.

If I would have to say which one is better - and its not from experience, but from reading / planning / and math, I would have to say Lazuli fixer, since theres nothing that flat out debuffs hull.......yet.