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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2009.03.25 20:28:00 -
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Nerf ****ing ECM drones. A load of ECM drones should not be an automatic "get out of jail free" card in a 1v1. Currently, you can launch them and you're almost guaranteed to get a jam before you die. At least with Falcons, you know that your opponent had to spend a pilot on a dedicated ECM ship (which is paper-thin and brings nothing else to the fight), but any random ship with a drone bay can carry ECM drones for an automatic escape option.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2009.03.26 02:23:00 -
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 Originally by: KingDiomedes
you must be smoking crack coz last time i used ecm drones it took 5 mins before they jammed so unless you are using new super ecm drones then i think you should try using them. i think what may of happened is that you suck in pvp and u got ur botty whopped and now your emo crying :)
Hint: you're an idiot. I made this post in response to a good 1v1, Phantasm vs. Hurricane, which was ruined when my target simply dropped ECM drones and warped off as soon as his tank failed (and it didn't matter that it took him a full minute to realize that my point had turned off, since his light ECM drones perma-jammed my cruiser until he finally warped off), so I'd hardly call it "getting my botty whopped". And even though that was what motivated this specific post, I've abused ECM drones myself plenty of times in the past, and they're stupidly overpowered. I've perma-jammed BCs and HACs, and jammed plenty of targets long enough to ensure the fight goes my way.
And it's not just me saying this, just look around the forums. How many times have people recommended the Thorax as the best PvP cruiser, just because it has a 50m3 drone bay and can use a full set of ECM drones? How many people have made similar comments about the Harbinger?
And here's another hint: nobody is saying the same things about the other ewar drones. This should just maybe suggest that ECM drones are a little out of balance.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2009.03.26 06:41:00 -
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Originally by: King Rothgar
ECM drones are effective not because they permajam, but because they break lock for a brief period (5 seconds I think). This combined with relocking time makes them a near sure fire ass saving device against a single target that is ill-prepared for ECM, even if it's much larger than the drones were intended for as they only need one successful cycle to save you from destruction.
Worse, they jam for the full 20 seconds. And that's exactly the problem, it's like the old pre-nerf WCS, as long as you bring your ECM drones, you've got a very good chance of simply warping out of any fight you're about to lose.
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Merin Ryskin
Peregrine Industries
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Posted - 2009.03.26 08:12:00 -
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Being required to fit ECCM is just stupid. It's bad enough when you have to fit it to counter Falcons, but to win every random 1v1? Now we need MWD, web, scram, ECCM, guess we just ruled out all those classic 3-mid PvP ships and all of the shield tankers...
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