Fuze Rogue
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Posted - 2005.01.28 22:42:00 -
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 Originally by: Tar om
Now I'm sure not everyone will agree with this to the last detail, but since the propulsion changes PvP from my perspective has been reduced massively in its depth and flexibility.
Where cruisers used to have a role with oversize AB or AB/MWD setups, they are now pretty much useless. Battlecruisers are also pretty much unused in PvP with the exception of the odd Ferox having a good go.
You see a few HAC but they are rare and expensive and theat pretty much leaves BS (which are definitely back in fashion) and frigates/tech2 frigates to act as tacklers.
Not a lot inbetween, at least in the 0.0 big alliance battles that we've been seeing (oh such fun ;) ) recently. Was this really CCPs intent when they removed oversize ABs and nerfed the FAST PACED PvP that we used to be able to have?
BS are boring as watching grass grow in slowmotion. They pretty much always end up in the blobbing game, and frigates on their own are fun to fly but really don't mean a lot in the bigger picture of warfare. Can CCP really be happy that they've created all these wonderful looking ships and modules which are just going to waste?
I've got about 18m skill points now, and I'm going to be flying a damn rifter in combat because I don't want to fly a Tempest anymore and pretty much every other ship I can fly is either too weak or too slow to stand up to a BS. Would it be possible to give Battlecruisers and more useful role by letting them either tank or gun to BS standards? OR let them go fast enough to avoid most BS damage output?
How about cruisers? They have no role now, apart from attacking frigs - but they are too slow now to do it properly. Give them a speed boost to give them a change to escape BS guns. Destroyers and Assault ships are all very well, but hell - they're frigs at the end of the day.
Well, thats my take on it atm. I hope I'm wrong and people will suggest good ships with good roles....
I agree with everything said in this post except for the bit about battlecruisers. They were always meant to be cheaper expendable BS. as a brutix pilot i can tell ya that with 3hardeners and a med armor repairer II they can take quite a bit of a beating, and the fact that they are not worth/damaging/strong they rarely end up being primary targets if battleships are around.
then again if you lose one, its 10mill worth of insurance that you lose, hardly a disaster.
IMO battlecruisers = mission accomplished CCP
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