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Alxea
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Bacon Fortress Gaming Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.10.06 12:46:00 -
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Tusko Hopkins wrote:First of all, I welcome the new dev blog by CCP Zulu. It's great and the promises to actively fix a lot of broken game mechanics and content are superb, I really hope CCP keeps up on its promise to deliver.
There was one bullet point in the planned changes for the winter expansion that raised my eyebrows a little and it was the one about assault ships.
I was wondering: do they really need to be changed? Alright, they are not the most potent ships in EVE but in their own class (frigs) they are doing kind of okay. The key problem with them is most people are flying larger ships assault frigs cannot easily kill... and maybe they are a bit slow. But I still think they are kinda okay, especially when compared to other completely neglected classes like the ew frigs, tier 1 battlecruisers or black ops.
They are missing a 4th bonus like every other T2 ship has but them. Pirate faction boats have 3 bonuses. AF's are not pirate faction but are T2. Makes no sense and this is what they are going to fix. Just debating on what bonuses to give them. I think they need a DPS or tank bonus because they are just too fragile compared with crusiers. 10k EHP is not a lot when a T1 crusier can get 30 to +100k ehp. Maller! AF's should assault things not insta pop to a arty BS.  |
Alxea
U-208
Bacon Fortress Gaming Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.10.06 12:54:00 -
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Silet'kaa wrote:Tallian Saotome wrote:AFs should essentially BE bumped up versions of T1 ships... Where the other T2 frigs are sooperspecial expert use systems(advanced tacklers, advanced ewar, advanced.. uh... bombing) AFs are supposed to fill the same generalist roles a T1 frigate does, but much better. Kinda hard to balance that without making the specialist ships obsolete  If they're supposed to be souped up generalist frigs, why not make their 4th bonus be them being T3 Frigs? I can't think of any other way to make them more generalist and souped up than that.
T3 frigates would have near 10 bonuses just like T3 crusiers depending on subs used. |
Alxea
U-208
Bacon Fortress Gaming Syndicate
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Posted - 2011.10.06 13:06:00 -
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Spurty wrote:4th bonus 20% speed increase per level to after burner
Across all afs
even noob ships have better slot layout
Oh and make fitting MSE unique to this frigate class
All others SSE at best
This role is Supposed to be in harms way. That is it's role!
Interceptors have speed and sig radius
Pirate faction are supposed to snub their noses at typical roles, so leeway here is fine.
I agree with this bonus. |
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