CCP abandon the daft idea that TD affecting missiles! Fix defenders or let it be! You nerf a whole weapon system and race because you are unable to bring DEFENDERS and TWO SINGLE ships in line! Good job CCP! You have an already existing option to destroy incoming missiles. Your problem if it causes lag or you are unable to do the right codings!

What's wrong with TEs and TCs affecting those stats?

Then just need to revamp missile mechanics to be in line with guns. That will solve everything.

Like I have said, I really don't care if they nerf the Drake. I don't care if they delete it from the game altogether -- I don't fly it. And the Tengu, well, that thing with the 100mn AB is downright ridiculous. But CCP needs to leave Caldari missile pilots something. If CCP decided to obliterate the Cane, I would be annoyed, but I have fifty other great ships I can fly. If they break the Drake missile pilots will have basically nothing. In my opinion that's a bad idea.

Imagine if instead of changing the Canes fitting, they just ramped up the fitting requirements of the projectiles across the board? Because that's analogous to this.

Out of curiosity what exactly are you guys hoping you'd see from a BC balance pass that would change your opinion of this missile proposal? The Drake has a fine set of bonuses so once heavy missiles are balanced I don't expect I'd want to change it very drastically.

We noticed. Caldari Missile boats don't have the low slots to make this matter. For mixed weapon ships like the Cyclone it will be insane, but for Caldari? Not so much.

Ok, being serious. If you do the -20% to heavy missile damage, all heavy missile boats will become unless. I mean look at the DPS on a drake, on my main I have heavy missiles to 5, heavy missile spec to 5, BC to 5, and perfect missile skills and I still get just 437.7 DPS, for a BC that is terrible, the Cerberus isn't much better, the Onyx is even worse, and even a well fitted Tengi isn't much over 700 DPS usually. So if you take away it's damage, which really there is no reason to, because HAMs do better DPS on any of those ships fitted with HAMs, then you will completely make heavy missiles and half of the Caldari ships worthless. Also taking away the range doesn't make a whole lot of since either. Heavy Missiles are the range missiles of medium missiles, hints why they shoot slower. So why take their range away? On the Drake it only goes 86Km, standard missiles in a Hawk fire out to 65Km, so you are going to make small missiles able to shoot out further than medium missiles, again that makes no sense. Tengu can shoot to around 117km, and they are T3s and I believe should be able to shoot further because they are T3s and cost an arm and leg to buy and make. I really hope you rethink the heavy missile nerf, or you will have a lot of upset EVE players, so many people have put so much in Tengus and other missiles boats. I personally don't believe any nerfs are needed anymore. Maybe just a bit of a faction frig bonus, and T3 frigs be cool to see haha.

I'm going to have to agree with this.