# EVE Online Guide: Armour and Hull Tanking

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-guide-armour-and-hull-tanking/301861>\
**Category:** My EVE\
**Created:** [March 23, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-guide-armour-and-hull-tanking/301861 "2021-03-23T12:57:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cade102](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cade102/32/462300_2.png) [@Cade102](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cade102)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-guide-armour-and-hull-tanking/301861/1 "2021-03-23T12:57:42Z")

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A deep dive into Armour and Hull tanking, as well as the Resistance and Stacking Penalty game mechanics!  
How do you pick which ships to Armour Tank?  
Buffer or Active?  
How many Reps?  
All of these questions and more answered right here

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/4X/a/7/b/a7b6f75978a1bb3c60b4589324e62d5c52c2c443.jpeg "EVE Online Guide: Armour and Hull Tanking") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfE9kxv-UW0)

00:00 Intro  
00:19 What is tanking?  
02:53 Deciding when to Armour tank  
06:17 Armour Buffer  
08:06 Armour Plates  
11:37 Armour Resistance Modules  
14:41 Reactive Armour Hardeners  
16:21 Armour Resist Rigs  
16:39 Resistance Game Mechanics  
18:31 Stacking Penalty Mechanics  
22:09 Tech 2 Ship Resistances  
22:44 Assault Damage Controls  
24:30 Stacking Penalty Free Modules  
25:22 Active Armour Tanking  
28:53 Mixing Buffer and Active?  
30:16 Tank vs DPS  
30:55 Dual Repping  
31:43 Ancillary Repairers  
33:15 Hull Tanking  
38:43 Outro

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**Author:** ![MB\_ThePhotographer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mb_thephotographer/32/373722_2.png) [@MB\_ThePhotographer](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MB_ThePhotographer)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-guide-armour-and-hull-tanking/301861/2 "2021-03-24T00:09:09Z")

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Just to plant the seed of an idea. Can something like this be done for the NPE? A set of tutorials that could be minimized to run along with it. As someone else put it, handholding them while adding what the tutorial misses?

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**Author:** ![Cade102](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cade102/32/462300_2.png) [@Cade102](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cade102)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-guide-armour-and-hull-tanking/301861/3 "2021-03-24T21:10:00Z")

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We **did** actually have a quite decent set of in-game video tutorials made by CCP themselves.  
Sadly, they were not signposted nor given clickable links on the tutorial missions then they were suddenly removed for some reason.  
Go figure.  
 ![you get nowt](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/f/4f47e5a88a6a2d9561a4a83dd6f5c750cbd9ed93.gif)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-online-guide-armour-and-hull-tanking/301861/4 "2021-06-22T21:10:05Z")

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