From some previous posts it seems that nomad weapons are neutral to all 3 shield classes. I use the CL10 positron myself. When using Nomad weaponry it does not seem to make any damage difference whether attacking Eagles, Sabres, or Titans.

In answer to your question... AS BIG AS YOU CAN GET.

However, dont bother going until you are level 34. You wont get any dropped Nomad weapons until then (I guess thats the main reason you are going?).

Secondly, I dont know if others found this, but since SP finished the Nomads have got a good deal more deadly. I could fly about in my Anubis with its Level 6 shield for quite a while dogfighting. Sure the Nomads were annoying, and a little dangerous, buts that all. Now I am in my Sabre with Level 10 shields, they seem to carve me up good and proper. I find I have to Turbo/Break/Turbo/Break the entire time just to survive.

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and manuver like crazy if you want those shields to stay UP

I have noticed something...That no one else appears to have...

The Nomad ships in SP...have different designations then the ones around the Unknown Jump Hole....They are the main stream fighters around the jump hole.

I didn't think to scan them, or make not of the ID Tags when you have one targets...but I DO know they are different. That could be why they seem to be tougher then the campain versions.


The ones in SP seem to be mostly scouts.


-Arg

-Narf

So far the best shield that I have noticed against the Nomads are the Level 9 moleculars for some reason they always work for me not even the Level 8 gravitron or level 10 Positron can stand 4-5 shots without failing with the Moleculars it takes about 6-7 shots.

I think that no matter the shield type or class the Nomads in MP do 2k damage per hit. What they drop is not what is hitting you. You are being hammered by the Nomad Laser, ouch. Hoik!

They are the only npcs in the game that attack you with level 10 weapons, thats why they rock your shields so hard. Don't worry, you can kill them in one pass if you have some decent weapons. They have no shields and drop easy.

The nomads are easy. How could they not be in dodgy pink/purple flying dildos.

Be better if they were just plain black, with black lasers, and black lights that flash at you in black. Then they'd be scarier and handing out cans oh whoopass left and right.

That and you'd never be able to see the buggers if it wasn't for the targetting system and the occasional silhouette against a nebula or planet.

"I do so relish these times of peril"

I agree with what someone said earlier: those nomads look pretty much like someone grabbed some Nephilem ship designs and reskinned with translucent blue.

"Too bad" the nomad ships don't combine up to whoop your behind with combined blasts that would do like 6-8k damage. That nomad ship in the original Freelancer intro looked very much like the Nephilem planetbuster.

(the Nephilem are the 'mysterious' new bug enemies from Wing Commander Prophecy)