Trinkets friend
Sudden Buggery
Swift Angels Alliance
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Posted - 2012.09.24 03:05:00 -
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The reason you don't see as many Legions out of w-space is that you are not forced into ball-touchingly close PVP in k-space. In k-space mobility is king. In w-space, EHP and DPS are key. For instance, I have rarely if ever seen Cynabals in w-space, never been killed by one because it can't tank a Cyclone at zero, and can't chase me through a wormhole from 20km as it's kiting me and gnawing on my buffer. At least, not before I jump back.
The Legion / Proteus are popular in w-space because they bring the buffer you need in low-mass hulls, with EWAR and neuting bonuses. For webs, armour Loki or a Vigilant.
Tengus are the ultimate PVE chariots for w-space. With armour RR and guardians the way it is, RR Tengu still works in the mid-sized gang space. But you'll find it hard to justify leeroying shield fleets through a wormhole because you can't make your logi as survivable as the ironclad or other pimped Guardians, and that's the end of it. Find me a 80K EHP Basi fit and I'll find you a 1.5Bn invul to make it happen. (arguably, this is because of the popularity of the Drake/Tengu for PVE driving the prices of shield pimp up relative to armour pimp; nerf the HML and it might change in time).
The issue with the proposed changed to TD's and missiles, as Nosirevbus says, will come with AHAC/armour T3's and sig tankers bringing, eg, a single Pilgrim loaded with massively bonused TD's to trash a whole gang of Drake/Tengus into impotence. In w-space this won't be a giant change, because when you are for reals, you're using these ships anyway.
In nullsec, I really doubt that TDs will scuttle Drakeblob. In large fleet battles TD will behave just like SD's. Theoretically if you have enough SD's you can lock-out the enemy from targeting you. In reality, you have to deploy far too many Lach/Arazu to actually achieve this due to the Drake having such a huge targeting range. Same with TD's. Meanwhile, your Drakes will give up a single midslot and chuck a Optimal scripted TC in their spare tank slot, and the Drakes you don't TD will have even greater missile range/velocity/explosion radius, etc. End result? Drakeblob will probably get better (just bring 20% more Drakes).
We may see interesting things, though. Twin-TC + TE HAM Drakes with ~35km HAMs, a revolution in damage projection which will scuttle the nerf of HMLs. Tracking linked Scimis buffing missile parameters while doing the logi they always did on the Drake blob.
I think it will be interesting to see how things pan out. I think that CCP will introduce more problems by spreading TD's and TE's to missiles. Especially the fact unguided missiles will be afffected - you'll be able to buff torp parameters so they will become ridiculous, but this may see more people doing BLOPs hotdrops with bomber gangs, so....
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