Ya balancing shields and weapons is a problem. Right now My old ship has over 8,000,000 points worth of shields. This is a ship that I had to cram every spar corner I could fined with shields just to get it to 800,000. Now I cant cram enough weapons on it to brake the shields of my original design let alone my new one witch is sitting at 2,000,000 shields.
I do like the new weapon set up, although I think smaller AMC setups should fire faster than big ones, but I can work with what we were given. I am finding however that it might be better to have specialty ships. This of curse works better for a team of players rather than the loan wolf, but it dose seam like the best way to bring down the impenetrable shields we now face.