SFX Bladerunner
Minmatar
Aperture Science inc.
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Posted - 2010.03.28 15:24:00 -
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 Originally by: Taua Roqa
His point about EHP is irrefutable however, armour tanks are the mainstay of fleet buffers, and they dominate, utterly, in the capital class - thanks to everyone being in a dread these days if they want and implants/implant sets.
The two tanking styles should be different (within reason), but equally usable, not different because one is absolutely sub-par.
CCP do however realise this, as the growth in cap usage (and dps in general) spurred on a significant HP buff many years back, from the days of active tanking caps, to buffer tanking caps.
My solution would be to give crystal sets the same effect as slaves to ships in the capital class only, as the difference between shield and armour tanks in the subcap area does work and provides a lot of versatility, unlike in the (super)capital arena where balance is clearly waaaay off kilter..
This man speaks truth.
The way you have to look at it is this:
-armor tanking has the ability to use a slave set and get sick armor HP bonusses
-shield tanking has the ability to use a crystal set and get sick shieldrep bonusses
Now for small/solo PVP shield tanking clearly owns, as you can baffle your opponents 'sure and easy gank' by putting up more tank than they can break before you kill them.
However, once we go the capital route, there comes ONE big problem with the distribution of 'tank' implant sets.
Namely that the slave set still works for cap pilots, but the crystal set doesn't.
Add to this the fact that shield capitals have more tank / less buffer to begin with, and you end up with on the one side armor caps with TONNS of hps but little tank and on the other side shield caps with not-so-much hps but a better tank... but because of no crystal set the tank isn't nearly enough to offset the huge advantage that a buffer has on a ship that needs to be pounded for several minutes by a 100+man fleet.
erebus and avatar are insanely superior to the ragnarok and leviathan in means of survivability, and seeing as all a titan does is 'survive', this makes it unbalanced.
I for one though will not stop training for a ragnarok, as I am sure CCP will EVENTUALLY fix this horrible mistake by either making crystal set work for caps too and/or boosting shield hps
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