Lili Lu
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Posted - 2009.12.23 01:26:00 -
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 Originally by: Xavier Maroquin
I like this, they seem underused and underpowered, some kind of buff would be nice...Never seen a PVP fit with Rails...
If I am not catching the sarcasm then I apologise. Anyway, plenty of Megas (with rails) vying for top of killmails with Amarr ships in 0.0 fleet fights. Minmatar bringing up the rear, but now has alpha so meh. Things are more or less balanced. It's not so much the weapons that account for differences atm as it is the individual ship bonuses.
Imo if anything needs to be done it would be to review/rearrange ship bonuses. Amarr got addressed recently with Apoc bonus changes and the base armor resist adjustment (over adjustment imo). As far as Caldari tier 2, the Raven, well any change to it would create many cries from PVEers. So change maybe the Tempest and maybe the Mega's bonuses or stats, and/or increase the base armor em resist on all ships to 55%. Actually, a change to base armor em resist might be enough. This would bring the Amarr ships down a little on killmails and the other two up. Some might whine at this but frankly it would be preferrable to some misguided renerf on lasers.
Caldari has the Rokh sitting out there with the best gun range. It is a tier 3 BS and thus did not suffer the neglect of the older tier 2 Minmatar and Gallente ships. Problem with the Rokh's easy integration into current fleets is that most fleet fights involve armor rr, because by the time the request for help is broadcasted and the friendlies lock and start repping a shield tank that tank might already be gone (especially with the larger fleet fights). Conversely the armor tank has the benefit of a shield to soak some of the damage before the remote-repping kicks in. That and shield extenders bloating already bloated sig radii doesn't help Maels, Rokhs, and Ravens with bomb squads becoming fotm.
Wings of rr shield tankers could still be suffering underutilization though. Forming fleets can be hectic sometimes. Decreeing that the fleet shall be armor rr BS, and dispensing with a shield wing led by a vulture is an easy solution to overloaded FC's. Sad that we don't see more shield rr wings, they are possible, just not as easy, and the fitting reqs do not rule them out despite the popular complaints.
Anyway, atm the gun balance is about as good as it's gonna get. Rails have good dps due to rof. And they might regularly own or share top damage dealer spot again with a little (5%) re-adjustment to base armor em resist.
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