Like I said, some plans have changed in the past few months. The Navitas will be in the last set of frigates we reveal, but it's no longer planned as a drone damage frigate.

This Tristan look nice ; though I thought the navitas should be a drone boat ; which role will the navitas have ? Drone brawler ?

Is the bonus of the Kestrel for all missiles ? Or only for kinetic ones ?

Then I'm sorry CCP Fozzie. I'm going to have to "unlike" this purely for the Tristen having no synergy with it's T2 counterpart. I don't know what the final plan is for the Tristan and the Navitas but I do really like the idea of the Kestrel and Breecher being so different but the same.

WTB Drone Navitas and Missile Tristan if possible

Tristan - combi drone, blaster brawler (hybrid tracking and drone HP); up close & personal gallente style

CCP Fozzie

What about the Inquisitor?

All missiles. It's a break from the usual Caldari bonuses but in this case we felt it was appropriate.




We didn't like giving Gallente a missile bonused t1 frigate and then leaving them with a stealth bomber (for which skills in rockets and light missiles actually have 0 impact) as the only possible upgrade.

I saw this tristan as a drone kiter infact : drone brawlers have bonuses to drone damage and hybrid damage ; this one won't have enough damage to brawl whereas the tracking allow to use big railguns.

Perhaps the tracking bonus is supposed to help the Tristan kill enemy drones that attack it when it keeps range and enemy ships can't reach it with their turrets. Small Blasters track very well already, so they should have no trouble hitting drones with this bonus.

I know someone who will be very upset about the changes to the Kestrel, but i like it, as well as the Breacher. ASBs will work great on that ship....

It's getting a new role, to be unveiled along with the last set of frigs.

Dear CCP Fozzie, check capacitor amount for Tristan again, it already contains 350 (so no +80) and it's speed is 306 (so +14, not +24)

Recheck the statistics please.

CCP Fozzie, can you guys also please look at other frigates for winter? (i'm thinking the interceptors as I feel the other t2 frigs seem fairly balanced at the moment, sb being weak against other frigs, and good chance of being popped fast by a bc or cruiser, and assault frigs being quite nice at the moment where they can even take on battlecruisers and win)

So yes... please look at the interceptors? I am saying this because it would suck if that took an additional half year after all other frigs had been balanced

Don't think ceptors will be able to make it into Winter, but we'll get a look at them as soon as we can.

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Kestrel:
Frigate skill bonuses:
5% Bonus to Missile damage per level
10% Bonus to Missile velocity per level
Slot layout: 4 H, 4 M (+1), 2 L, 4 launchers
Fittings: 45 PWG (+15), 180 CPU (+30)
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 500(+109) / 350(+37) / 350 (+84)
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 330 (+80)/ 165s (-22.5s)/ 2 (+0.667)
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 320 (+24) / 3.27(-0.6) / 1163000 / 3.56s (-0.65)
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 0 / 0
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 50km (+10) / 620 (+155) / 5 (+2)
Sensor strength: 11 Gravimetric
Signature radius: 38 (-9)
Cargo capacity: 160 (-145)

[...]

Tristan:
Frigate skill bonuses:
7.5% Bonus to Hybrid Turret tracking speed per level
10% Bonus to Drone tracking speed and hitpoints per level
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 25 (+20) / 40 (+35)

I'm happy to see tristan like this but 3 med+2 light drones or one sentry in frigate class? It can kill any T1 cruiser or tier-3 BC. If you want to see powerful drone platform just change turret bonus to something useful like drone HP or stasis webifier range or armor resistances. I prefer 0 turrents and long webifier