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Reaver Glitterstim
Dromedaworks inc Tribal Band
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Posted - 2013.04.03 00:19:00 -
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Gypsio III wrote:Iris Bravemount wrote: the issue isn't so much that active tanking ships are bad at active tanking (which they aren't), but that being bad at buffer and remote tanking disqualifies them from larger fleet fights. Plenty of non-resist bonused ships are used in fleet fights. I mean, look at the current Top 20. It's hilariously skewed by Rokhs atm, but that's not representative, it's just because it's the start of the month, and I can't find last months data. But the Maelstrom is right up there. Note the presence of the Hurricane and the absence of the Ferox. The Rupture, instead of the Moa or the Maller, the Fleet Tempest instead of the Navy Scorp... You're living in a fantasy world. You're completely missing why these ships are being flown. All it demonstrates is that flying a ship with only one bonus sometimes wins out, if it's the RIGHT bonus. For example, people fly Maelstroms for the artillery, not the shield boosting. They don't even fit a shield booster at all most of the time. They could fit those 1400mm arties to an Abaddon just as easily, but they consider the rate of fire bonus more important than the armor resist bonus. Or maybe they want artillery with a shield fleet, not with an armor fleet. If I were running an armor fleet, I would ask people to fit 1400mm arties to their Abaddons. Mittani, where have you gone to? I miss you :( |
Iris Bravemount
Fweddit I Whip My Slaves Back and Forth
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Posted - 2013.04.04 11:41:00 -
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Reaver Glitterstim wrote:Gypsio III wrote:Iris Bravemount wrote: the issue isn't so much that active tanking ships are bad at active tanking (which they aren't), but that being bad at buffer and remote tanking disqualifies them from larger fleet fights. Plenty of non-resist bonused ships are used in fleet fights. I mean, look at the current Top 20. It's hilariously skewed by Rokhs atm, but that's not representative, it's just because it's the start of the month, and I can't find last months data. But the Maelstrom is right up there. Note the presence of the Hurricane and the absence of the Ferox. The Rupture, instead of the Moa or the Maller, the Fleet Tempest instead of the Navy Scorp... You're living in a fantasy world. You're completely missing why these ships are being flown. All it demonstrates is that flying a ship with only one bonus sometimes wins out, if it's the RIGHT bonus. For example, people fly Maelstroms for the artillery, not the shield boosting. They don't even fit a shield booster at all most of the time. They could fit those 1400mm arties to an Abaddon just as easily, but they consider the rate of fire bonus more important than the armor resist bonus. Or maybe they want artillery with a shield fleet, not with an armor fleet. If I were running an armor fleet, I would ask people to fit 1400mm arties to their Abaddons.
BTW, are Arty Rokhs a thing? Why active tank bonuses are bad for you |
Reaver Glitterstim
Dromedaworks inc Tribal Band
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Posted - 2013.04.05 08:31:00 -
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Iris Bravemount wrote:BTW, are Arty Rokhs a thing? Rokhs and Hyperions can't do 1400mm artillery very well, because they cost too much powergrid. They could do 1200mm artillery, but you lose about half of the alpha. So they're mostly just low dps ships that could be firing railguns instead. Mittani, where have you gone to? I miss you :( |
Plyn
Dominatus Imperium
57
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Posted - 2013.04.05 20:34:00 -
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Modify bonus to armor repair effectiveness to include remote repairs.
Active and passive tank will never be balanced otherwise, and even with this change active tanked ships might actually become OP. Actual percentage of effectiveness increase would have to be taken into consideration during testing and balancing to find a number that gives a worthwhile bonus without being too powerful.
The design vision of the game is for there to be ships which are fundamentally different. In some cases the active vs passive tank concept is what that difference is. The crux of the problem arises when gangs become large enough for logis to be used. After a certain threshold of ships remote reps will always be more efficient and realistic than local tanks. Once you cross this threshold, which isn't actually all that high, the ships which have the active tank bonuses lose the usefulness of that bonus while the ships with the passive tank bonus continue to enjoy that bonus.
For this reason when you see 20+ man armor fleets you can bet there will be a ton more amarr than gallente ships in their comp. It's just the smarter choice. Hossenfeffer. |
Reaver Glitterstim
Dromedaworks inc Tribal Band
436
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Posted - 2013.04.05 20:46:00 -
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Plyn wrote:Modify bonus to armor repair effectiveness to include remote repairs. You mean incoming repairs, right? Mittani, where have you gone to? I miss you :( |
Plyn
Dominatus Imperium
57
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Posted - 2013.04.05 20:57:00 -
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Reaver Glitterstim wrote:Plyn wrote:Modify bonus to armor repair effectiveness to include remote repairs. You mean incoming repairs, right? Yes. The bonus would apply to your local reppers as well as the reps that were coming into you from another ship. Make them easier for logi to heal, not turn them into logi themselves lol. Hossenfeffer. |
Gypsio III
Questionable Ethics. Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
596
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Posted - 2013.04.05 23:03:00 -
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Reaver Glitterstim wrote:Gypsio III wrote:Iris Bravemount wrote: the issue isn't so much that active tanking ships are bad at active tanking (which they aren't), but that being bad at buffer and remote tanking disqualifies them from larger fleet fights. Plenty of non-resist bonused ships are used in fleet fights. I mean, look at the current Top 20. It's hilariously skewed by Rokhs atm, but that's not representative, it's just because it's the start of the month, and I can't find last months data. But the Maelstrom is right up there. Note the presence of the Hurricane and the absence of the Ferox. The Rupture, instead of the Moa or the Maller, the Fleet Tempest instead of the Navy Scorp... You're living in a fantasy world. You're completely missing why these ships are being flown. All it demonstrates is that flying a ship with only one bonus sometimes wins out, if it's the RIGHT bonus.
It's almost as if it's the balance of ships that matters, not the balance of bonuses.
BTW, Fozzie ruled out making the local rep bonus apply to RRs received, stating that there was enough RR around already.
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Plyn
Dominatus Imperium
57
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Posted - 2013.04.07 18:27:00 -
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Iris Bravemount wrote:Gypsio III wrote:Iris Bravemount wrote:Still no dev input for this? What kind of input are you expecting? The maths behind it isn't exactly rocket science. They already know this. Hmm, maybe an explanation as to why they keep it that way? Because ships need to be fundamentally different. The game would be boring if everything were completely identical. There's a small handful of ship-types that break this rule because certain roles create situations where an exception is necessary.
Also, while I'm sure devs read like all of these posts, dev feedback on this board is rare at best. Hossenfeffer. |
Johnny Aideron
Order of Rouvenor
30
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Posted - 2013.04.07 18:57:00 -
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Gypsio III wrote:
BTW, Fozzie ruled out making the local rep bonus apply to RRs received, stating that there was enough RR around already.
Which isn't a very satisfying response. Even if the hull repair bonus applied to incoming reps it would still be worse than a resist bonus, so ultimately it wouldn't change anything except make the difference between those hulls somewhat less staggering in large battles.
Hypothetical example: Imagine a 25 man gang (with 20 dps ships and 5 logi) vs an identical gang. Each dps ship does 400 dps while each logi reps about 300 armor points/s. The only difference between them is that one gang has a 37.5% bonus to recieved remote armor repairs while the other gang has a 25% bonus to armor resists.
Both gangs put out 8000 DPS (before resists are taken into account) and rep 1500 dps. How does the different hull bonuses affect each gang? Well firstly the gang with resist bonuses reduces incoming damage by 25%, so the other sides DPS is reduced by 2000dps. Whereas the other gang get a boost to it's remote reps so their incoming repairs are increased by 562.5 dps. Also, the resist-bonused ships are less vulnerable to being volleyed by artillery.
So even with a bonus to recieved reps the resistance bonused ships win out! With that in mind they could at least throw them a bone here. If the balance team are unhappy with how remote reps work then they should overhaul the system, not arbitrarily leave a bunch of ships out in the cold because there's "enough RR already". It's logical fallacy since everybody brings masses of logi to fleets fights anyway, and giving active-rep hulls a bonus to remote reps would simply increase the diversity of viable choices (although, as noted, they would still be worse).
I doubt anybody has ever said, "you know, I have 10 Guardians and a bunch of triage carriers available, but since only Abbadons and Rokhs have hull bonuses that benefit remote reps, unlike Hyperions and Maelstroms, I've somehow mysteriously decided to bring less logi to the field. I mean, there's enough RR already, right?" Does that make sense? |
Gypsio III
Questionable Ethics. Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
596
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Posted - 2013.04.07 19:57:00 -
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No, it doesn't. You're still missing the fundamental points that ships should be balanced, not bonuses, and that non-resist-bonused ships are well represented on the fleet scale. Stop this silly theorycrafting and deal with reality. The problem exists solely in your imagination. |
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Plyn
Dominatus Imperium
57
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Posted - 2013.04.07 21:45:00 -
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Gypsio III wrote:No, it doesn't. You're still missing the fundamental points that ships should be balanced, not bonuses, and that non-resist-bonused ships are well represented on the fleet scale. Stop this silly theorycrafting and deal with reality. The problem exists solely in your imagination. Saying that non resist bonused ships are represented is a bit of a red herring here. The argument isn't that resist bonuses are king and every ship that doesn't have them is trash. The argument is that resist and rep bonused ships fall into the same category of "Ships which are designed to be tankier than average". The roles these ships should be filling are supposed to be similar or the same, just differing in their racial "flavor". It is argued that one side of this category appears to be a lot better than the other. Hossenfeffer. |
SilentStryder
Aliastra Gallente Federation
2
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Posted - 2013.04.08 00:59:00 -
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Make Resist Bonuses only work with Resist Modules like armor/shield comp skill but it would work with active hardeners too and bam there would be some equality, or give ships with a Active Tank Bonus a passive regen bonus like shields only it would work with armor and stack with shield now and that could work too, the first idea would make me bitter because it would be nerfing my absolution, the second idea doesn't seem all that great |
StrongSmartSexy
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
5
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Posted - 2013.04.08 05:57:00 -
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With regards to the Tier 3 battleships, some people are offering the counter-argument that the ships need to be analysed as a whole package rather than comparing the superiority of resists over active tank bonuses. Yet no one backs up this claim with any kind of evidence that shows that the maelstrom or hyperion have significant buffs in other areas (that the abbadon and rokh do not) which offset their huge inflexibility to do buffer or remote rep fits.
These rests % vs active tank % comparisons are fair because they aren't based on different ship classes (e.g. maller cruiser vs hyperion battleship) but the racial ships of a single class of a single tier. Resist bonuses clearly trump active tank bonuses because of versatility. |
Gypsio III
Questionable Ethics. Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
596
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Posted - 2013.04.08 10:50:00 -
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Plyn wrote:Saying that non resist bonused ships are represented is a bit of a red herring here. The argument isn't that resist bonuses are king and every ship that doesn't have them is trash.
Actually, this is the argument. As per the OP: "..but the issue isn't so much that active tanking ships are bad at active tanking (which they aren't), but that being bad at buffer and remote tanking disqualifies them from larger fleet fights." Now it's obviously a silly argument that lacks any basis in reality, as shown by the abundances of Abaddons, Feroxes and Ruptures in fleets, relative to Maelstroms, Feroxes and Moas), but it's the OP's argument, not mine.
Plyn wrote:The argument is that resist and rep bonused ships fall into the same category of "Ships which are designed to be tankier than average". The roles these ships should be filling are supposed to be similar or the same, just differing in their racial "flavor". It is argued that one side of this category appears to be a lot better than the other.
So what? Balance ships, not tanks. |
androch
Chillwater Ltd
43
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Posted - 2013.04.08 11:40:00 -
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**** with my shield boost bonuses and i will hunt you down and make sure you are strung up by your mouse cord |
Plyn
Dominatus Imperium
57
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Posted - 2013.04.08 14:24:00 -
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Gypsio III wrote:... So what? Balance ships, not tanks. Balancing ships that are designed to fill the role of tank requires balancing tanks. A ship's ability to tank is pretty vital to its individual level of balance, so I'm not sure how discussing the tank shouldn't be part of the balancing discussion.
I think the reason this isn't being discussed on a per ship basis (aside from supporting examples) is because the perceived imbalance can be observed across many different ship types. For basically any Gallente or Minmatar ship with an active tank bonus you can point at a passive Amarr or Caldari ship with the same type and role, and say that you think the latter will always have the more versatile tank.
The OP has hyperbolized their argument somewhat, but the fact that active tank bonused ships show up in fleet fights doesn't discount the argument that the passive tank bonused ships have an advantage in that environment. I'd probably be fine with this if it were spottier and the difference less common, but the active vs passive tank philosophies are currently tied to racial flavors, showing up across the board.
The Gallente and Minmatar "tank" ships aren't completely painted into a corner, there are just common situations where they appear hobbled in comparison to their sisters in the same role. Hossenfeffer. |
Askulf Joringer
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
2
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Posted - 2013.04.08 16:20:00 -
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Gypsio III wrote:
So what? Balance ships, not tanks.
Well Gypsio, it seems as usual you don't know what you are talking about. Resistance bonus are being nerfed from 5% to 4% per level as an admittance that the bonus WAS overpowred. Get off your baddie highchair and stop spouting BS please.
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Gypsio III
Questionable Ethics. Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
597
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Posted - 2013.04.08 17:04:00 -
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Askulf Joringer wrote:Gypsio III wrote:
So what? Balance ships, not tanks.
Well Gypsio, it seems as usual you don't know what you are talking about. Resistance bonus are being nerfed from 5% to 4% per level as an admittance that the bonus WAS overpowred. Get off your baddie highchair and stop spouting BS please.
I never commented on the inherent balance of the 5% resist bonuses. Indeed, I would never do so, because this would violate the dictum of "balance ships, not bonuses". CCP's decision to maintain 5% resist bonuses on sub-BS classes supports this position.
In contrast, it is our dear OP who demanded that BS boost/rep bonuses be changed to resist bonuses with scant regard to ship balance, a foolish idea indeed. |
Askulf Joringer
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
6
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Posted - 2013.04.08 17:13:00 -
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Gypsio III wrote:Askulf Joringer wrote:Gypsio III wrote:
So what? Balance ships, not tanks.
Well Gypsio, it seems as usual you don't know what you are talking about. Resistance bonus are being nerfed from 5% to 4% per level as an admittance that the bonus WAS overpowred. Get off your baddie highchair and stop spouting BS please. I never commented on the inherent balance of the 5% resist bonuses. Indeed, I would never do so, because this would violate the dictum of "balance ships, not bonuses". CCP's decision to maintain 5% resist bonuses on sub-BS classes supports this position. In contrast, it is our dear OP who demanded that BS boost/rep bonuses be changed to resist bonuses with scant regard to ship balance, a foolish idea indeed.
It will be changed to 4% soon enough, mark my word.
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Lili Lu
725
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Posted - 2013.04.08 17:16:00 -
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Gypsio III wrote: CCP's decision to maintain 5% resist bonuses on sub-BS classes supports this position. We don't know this yet. There is supposedly a new thread on resist bonuses in general coming "soon." I suspect that at least BCs and any resist bonuses above BS size will be getting the 4% treatment. And, possibly the sub-BCs could be getting it too.
Regardless it won't change the imbalance between a cap warfare invulnerable awesome faster cycling boost at beginning of the cycle ASB v a cap warfare vulnerable milktoast slow ass boost at the end of the cycle AAR. So the Hyperion and both Gallente BCs will still suck ass. Active armor drawbacks and the further necessary loss of a mid to a grid hungry cap booster, let alone a second or third grid hungry repper, is not going to become anything worth using imo on anything beyond the frig size. |
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Iris Bravemount
Fweddit I Whip My Slaves Back and Forth
233
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Posted - 2013.04.08 17:20:00 -
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Lili Lu wrote:Gypsio III wrote: CCP's decision to maintain 5% resist bonuses on sub-BS classes supports this position. We don't know this yet. There is supposedly a new thread on resist bonuses in general coming "soon." I suspect that at least BCs and any resist bonuses above BS size will be getting the 4% treatment. And, possibly the sub-BCs could be getting it too. Regardless it won't change the imbalance between a cap warfare invulnerable awesome faster cycling boost at beginning of the cycle ASB v a cap warfare vulnerable milktoast slow ass boost at the end of the cycle AAR. So the Hyperion and both Gallente BCs will still suck ass. Active armor drawbacks and the further necessary loss of a mid to a grid hungry cap booster, let alone a second or third grid hungry repper, is not going to become anything worth using imo on anything beyond the frig size.
To be fair, Triple Rep Myrms and Hyperions including an AAR are beasts, because the two t2 reps can keep them alive while the nanite paste reloads. But overall, you are right. I am quite disappointed buy AAR outside of triple rep fits. Why active tank bonuses are bad for you |
Gypsio III
Questionable Ethics. Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
597
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Posted - 2013.04.08 17:35:00 -
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Lili Lu wrote:Gypsio III wrote: CCP's decision to maintain 5% resist bonuses on sub-BS classes supports this position. We don't know this yet. There is supposedly a new thread on resist bonuses in general coming "soon." I suspect that at least BCs and any resist bonuses above BS size will be getting the 4% treatment. And, possibly the sub-BCs could be getting it too.
Actually yes, after seeing the BS change I'd be entirely unsurprised to see BCs lose the 5% resist bonuses for 4% ones. And given the continued power of the Drake and the power of the new Prophecy, it's a reasonable proposal - but it may be rather harsh on the poor Ferox... But I would be surprised to see cruisers and lower follow suit - after all, it's a question of tanking slot availability (well actually one of final resists, but that's the main contributor).
ASBs and AARs - I've hated ASBs from day one because they're not really active-tanking modules! They're simply a "press button, receive buffer" module, where their high boost amount and the inability of an opponent to interfere with rep ability via cap warfare marks them as an unusual form of buffer tanking. And I agree that active armour is still lacklustre on many ships. |
Askulf Joringer
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
8
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Posted - 2013.04.08 18:10:00 -
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Gypsio III wrote:
ASBs and AARs - I've hated ASBs from day one because they're not really active-tanking modules! They're simply a "press button, receive buffer" module, where their high boost amount and the inability of an opponent to interfere with rep ability via cap warfare marks them as an unusual form of buffer tanking. And I agree that active armour is still lacklustre on many ships.
here here Gypsio, ASBs have been a massive mistake from day one. While they did "spice up fitting options" they did so in a way that essentially removed content via the introduction of simply better modules. It's extremely rare that you see people fitting Shield boosters of any form on any pvp ship other than ASBs. The end result was essentially the opposite of CCP's original intention of introducing a wider variety of viable setups.
In conclusion, ASBs should never, ever, never have been implemented and their introduction has marked a new era of CCP incompetence imo.
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Reaver Glitterstim
Dromedaworks inc Tribal Band
437
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Posted - 2013.04.10 03:45:00 -
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Askulf Joringer wrote:here here Gypsio, ASBs have been a massive mistake from day one. While they did "spice up fitting options" they did so in a way that essentially removed content via the introduction of simply better modules. It's extremely rare that you see people fitting Shield boosters of any form on any pvp ship other than ASBs. The end result was essentially the opposite of CCP's original intention of introducing a wider variety of viable setups.
In conclusion, ASBs should never, ever, never have been implemented and their introduction has marked a new era of CCP incompetence imo.
I beg to differ. Regular shield boosters and armor repairers are still widely used in their old roles, which are mostly PVE. The long load time on the ASB and the high cost of paste on the AAR make them both inefficient for mission-running, especially when you need a sustained tank.
AARs and ASBs allow rep-bonused ships to use their bonus in PVP in more situations, since the ancillary reppers are best for almost every PVP situation in which you choose to use an on-board repper. But for people who want sustained on-board repair, the old reppers are still king. Mittani, where have you gone to? I miss you :( |
Gizznitt Malikite
Agony Unleashed Agony Empire
2011
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Posted - 2013.04.12 18:50:00 -
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Bump... because the information in this thread is EXTREMELY relevant to the dev post about reducing resists bonuses from 5% to 4% |
Iris Bravemount
Fweddit I Whip My Slaves Back and Forth
236
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Posted - 2013.04.13 13:29:00 -
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Gizznitt Malikite wrote: Bump... because the information in this thread is EXTREMELY relevant to the dev post about reducing resists bonuses from 5% to 4%
The discussion continues here. Why active tank bonuses are bad for you |
Plyn
Dominatus Imperium
57
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Posted - 2013.04.14 22:39:00 -
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Crimeo Khamsi wrote:Iris Bravemount wrote:
Well, if you have 99% resistance, and are shot at by a gun dealing 200 damage, you take 2 points of damage. If you have 99,5% resistance, and are shot at by a gun dealing 200 damage, you take 1 point of damage.
You basically halve the amount of damage taken. I don't see this as a waste of a module.
Fair enough. But still... 1) A lot of missions run longer than 6 minutes (using the prophecy/myr example. +/- for other contrasts) 2) A lot of people return to stations in the middle of a mission, which instantly makes armor rep bonuses win, since they "break even" with resist bonuses in about 20 seconds when you are repping but nobody is shooting at you. So if nothing else, armor rep bonus ships are better for tanking missions than resist ones are.
Hate arguments like this. Almost any ship can tank appropriate PvE situations fine because you know the incoming damage types beforehand, and can therefore super resist those types in preparation. So, since both t1 cruisers can complete the same mission in the same amount of time, without returning to station because having a resist bonused ship doesn't mean you shouldn't still fit reppers, neither is really better at PvE, just have to be fit in slightly different ways.
Also, making huge swathes of ships from certain races inferior at large aspects of PvP because they are better at PvE (not really, see above paragraph) only paints players into corners about what parts of the game they are allowed to participate in. This is obviously not the real intention of the devs. Hossenfeffer. |
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