Roime
Shiva Furnace
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Posted - 2012.11.08 07:51:00 -
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Dear Ytterbium,
props for one of the biggest (contentwise) dev blogs we've ever read! General direction is absolutely awesome, and answer many of the issues we players have been discussing or a long time <3
Like many have mentioned, armor vs shield balancing needs to be done before this next stage of tiericide, especially active armor. What can be seen from the ASB boom is that their level of reps is viable and promotes solo active tanking shenanigans (which result in very, very good fights for both parties), even though they have seemed a bit OP.
Active armor tanking modules are far beyond shield rep amount for many times the fitting cost. Simple example, from a ship with 7.5% per level bonus to armor rep amount and higher base armor resists:
Myrmidon, one XLASB: 337.9 hp/s
Myrmidon, one XLSB II: 165.5 hp/s
Myrmidon, one LAR II: 144.9 hp/s - UNFITTABLE, uses 156% of pg -
So improving the rep amount of medium and large modules (small reppers are fine) would be the first step. The whole idea of armor is to tank more. Shield has to tank less, otherwise there is never balance- shield has more mobility and dps. Cap usage is next thing, currently active armor tank on anything larger than frig means you also use a midslot for a cap booster (or two), negating the slot layout niche of armor.
The next big thing is rig penalties. Shield rigs have no (meaningful) penalty, armor has. Yes, both sig and speed are factors in tracking formula, but with MWD on armor tanks have a blown up sig as well, which leaves only speed, and that affects many, many more things than just tracking on the battlefield.
Solution suggestion- change rig penalties to total CPU amount for shield rigs, and pg for armor, or make MWD sig bloom affect shield tank sig more.
WILDCARD- expand all active armor rep bonuses to effectiveness of received remote reps. Brutix and Myrm fleets are go?
Quote:Brutix: this ship role conflicts a bit with the Talos, mainly because the latter is more mobile and packs more punch. We want to explore options on how to turn the Brutix into a more reliable close-range brawler, while the Talos keeps a kiting advantage.
I think Brutix is a brawler with superior tracking, while Talos is a kiter (btw if you nerf it's sig and speed too much, it becomes useless as mobility is it's saving grace), and I think just adding the one slot to lows, speed buff along with med repper buff will fix the ship.
Quote:Myrmidon: this vessel is mainly fine, but it couldnGÇÖt hurt giving it a bit more drone bandwidth and bay to make it more of an improvement when compared to the Vexor.
I love you long time! Obviously 100, not 125mbit/s.
Quote:Megathron: just like the Thorax on the cruiser level, the Megathron role will be changed slightly to make it less resilient, but more mobile so to make proper use of blasters. Think of it as a ship closer to the Typhoon in terms of speed and agility. Next to a Talos, it will be more durable, more flexible, but still cumbersome to have in small gangs.
But Mega is fine as it is? Cheaper version of Proteus, with heavy neut and more range. It really needs the current level of EHP to be viable.
Quote:Dominix: still remains a popular ship. It is fairly good, except for the drone mechanics themselves, which are terribly outdated. While we are not certain when this can be tackled, it definitely has high priority on our to-do list.
Very nice to hear :) Domi is more than fairly good, it is amazing. From highest dps (ok Vindi still beats it) brawler to ECM-immune pos basher to PVE, it Dominates. It only needs a visual facelift!
Quote:Hyperion: the hull could be improved, but again most of the issues come from passive versus active tanking problems
If LARs were more cap efficient, Hype could manage with just one cap booster for dual reps, and then you could move one mid to low slot, making room for more tank or even just one dmg mod. Obviously it needs more drones, both bay and b/w. It would be more useful in PVE, if large rails would track better.
All in all I commend you for the direction ship balance is heading <3
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