Onin Ra
Absinthe Brothers Consortium
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Posted - 2009.10.20 20:57:00 -
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Originally by: Ulstan Edited by: Ulstan on 20/10/2009 15:01:36 Crystal and blue pill Maelstroms and Nightmares are good at shield tanking. (And Sleipnirs)
Exile dual rep hyperions and myrmidons are decent at armor tanking in very small fights.
That's about it.
I agree that active tanking is generally a poor choice compared to buffer tanking. And it's not even (always) that it is a poorer choice in terms of damage mitigated in your typical fight - it's that fitting one is often impossible, especially when you consider the huge cap demands necessitate a cap injector.
This tends to make active tanks much hungrier in terms of slots and fittings than buffer tanks.
I *do* like that the active tanks don't carry any penalty (increased sig size, or additional mass) while the buffer set ups do. That at least gives some small advantage to the active set up. I think branko already mentioned this, but I feel the active tanking rigs should similarly not be giving you a sig radius/speed penalty.
Rather than trying to increase the power of active tanking (which could quickly get too strong such that no active tanked ships could break each others tank in a one on one setting) I'd rather just see the fitting/cap costs reduced somewhat. There are times I've thought "I think this is going to be a small fight, I'd like to try an active tank set up!" but been unable to fit one without what I considered excessive fitting sacrifices elsewhere.
I'm way less interested in rather small disparities between armor and shield buffer tanks (armor buffer tanks have the slave set, better resists, EANMs, shield buffer tanks regen slowly on their own) than I am in the very wide gulf between buffer and active tanking. Both varities of active tanking, IMO, need boosting.
And it wouldn't hurt to add in active armor rep implants like we have for crystals.
Oh and chield transporters need to not take 1/4 of a ships CPU to fit :D
The problem i see with reducing fitting on active tanks is that you might get plated + active tanked ships, then its will encourage blobbing even more. --- First pvp expirience in eve is alot like having first sex, you have absolutely no idea what you are doing, but it is exciting and one way or another its over way too fast.
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