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Posted - 2009.10.24 00:40:00 -
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 Originally by: Seven Six
Edited by: Seven Six on 23/10/2009 22:06:12
Edited by: Seven Six on 23/10/2009 22:05:08
Ok first off - people making comments about strategic cruisers and commands ships stfu we are talking about a tech one battleCRUISER here.
Second - yes he got alot of stupid posts trying to defend it so ignore alot of his "need 10 BS - u need 1 good bs maybe 2 tops...
Now what I really want to say:
I think that for a BC it is over powered - when then tier 2 BC's were introduced there were 2 that were overpowered. One had a good tank and had the DPS of a Battleships (the myrm) and it got nerfed so that it was in NO way as good as a battleship.
The second overpowered tier 2 BC was(and is) the drake. It tanks BETTER than most battleships. Sure at this point its dps isnt too impressive, but its not terrible either. And lets not forget that this fit needs NO cap?!? So the truth of it is that it IS definately overpowered, in terms of its tank. Now will this lead to a nerf? probably not as caldari need something to carebear mission in. I think its tanking capabilities should be dropped slightly to bring it mroe in line with the ship type it is, but reality is that this is how the ship is now so learn to deal with it.
Your post is fairly accurate, while it has been lost in all the lulz at the op for failing to kill a lolDrake with 10 HACs. The Myrm was nerfed, and harshly, because everyone cried about it fielding BS damage in 5 heavy/sentry drones (and not being a HAC like the Ishtar). Meanwhile the extreme Drake tanking option has been ignored. The problem is not so much the Drake, as it is that all BCs have an out of balance shield regen stat. If you look at BSs their shield regen is 2500 sec. The average BS base shield hp are between 5469-8500. Cruisers have a regen of 1250 sec. The average cruiser base shield is somewhere in the range of 860-1875 hp.
Now compare the above to BC base shield hp which ranges 3419-5469. This is a almost a BS sized shield, and in the case of the Drake it equals the shield of a BS (yes a BS meant to armor tank but a BS nonetheless), because it has the same shield hp as an Armageddon. However, all BCs also have an almost cruiser sized shield regen stat - 1400 sec. This is what leads to the "unkillable" shield regen lol Drake. If one was to see BCs as an intermediary between BSs and Cruisers, and ignore the fact that the shields are already skewed toward the the BS size in the range between, one would expect an 1875 sec regen.
So, you see it is not really the Drake per se that is out of balance. The fact that it receives the resist bonus and has the highest base shield hp only highlights the BC shield regen imbalance. I myself use a lol regen Drake for some Angel missions, particularly against angel frig swarms in buzzkill. I would not want to see the passive shield option disappear.
However, imo the shield regen time should be increased to some degree (I don't know how much exactly, maybe somewhere in the range of 1500-1650) so that we don't have this tanking imbalance in ratters and missionining, and Drake pilots are forced to pvp with buffer and HAM(dps) setups just as everyone else is in a BC (also which are quite powerful in relation to other pvp BCs, but that's another story). Also, this would eliminate the stupidity of finding better shield tanks on BCs, particularly the Myrm, that have ship bonuses and slot layouts suggesting they were meant to armor tank.
Now, you and I can await the flames of all those mad that we have spoken outloud about the emperor having no clothes.
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