Tippia wrote:So that they can provide their services to brawles without having to go into brawl range themselves and without having to closely match the manoeuvring and darting about that the DPS ships will occasionally have to engage in.
It's a back-row unit; it needs to be able to reach not just the front row of the friendly units, but the front row of the enemy as well.
Wow Sherlock, no duh ... that's the way CCP create them. The question is, *why* CCP felt that was the best way to created them? Would there be more interesting ways to employ the 'healer' concept rather than a standoff uber ranged, uber tank?
Kahega Amielden wrote:How do you think that positioning would matter in the least if the logis had to be facehugging their targets?
Maybe your right. Maybe it wouldn't make a difference at all and everyone would just hug the logi and be stationary. I don't know.
I'm just trying to conceptionalize something I've noticed when logis are on the field in the fights I've been in, specifically, that everytime I'm in a fight and a logi or logi group shows up, the fight instantly becomes less interesting and degenerates to either a dull DPS vs rep equation or a rock/paper/scissors. All the interesting tatics go to dust and the fight becomes more boring.
Am I wrong? I'm not sure how to place my finger on it, but notice that even in the Alliance Tournament and New Eden Open the number of Logis on the field had to be limited by rule (1 per team) because if they weren't limited, and more logis were involved, the matches would be less interesting and more mudane. CCP knew that.
Also notice that almost all of the most interesting solo, or small gang videos out there are logi free engagements? When logi's are involved the fights are boring.
My own experience is that the uber rep, resist, and range these things get actually makes the fights dull instead of more interesting IMHO. Not sure if reducing range would make logi-supported engagements more dynamic... so that maneurverability was more of a factor, but maybe not, I'm not sure what would.
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