Quick question for you Mr Fozzy!

With the skill changes you have made it abundantly clear that your intention is to not force people to train a useless skill in order to fly a ship (ie bs5 for a carrier) which is awesome! This obvious time sink has always troubled me - but my question is this will the same thinking end up being applied to gunnery? For example I'm thinking of training a vargur pilot for plexing - great! But in order to get my nice shiny t2 repeating artilleries ill have to first train small and medium auto cannons to v plus their specialisations to iv - both of which are skills I would never use on said pilot. Will changes be made to this to put gunnery support skills in place of this wasted SP and training time?

Love n hugs

can you mail me or post your fit that sounds awesome.

Typical CCP lol...

New Brutix is out with it's revamped slots and new armour mods to compliment, yet this thread is still full of shield fits for it.

So many ships with a bonus nobody cares about! I guess when the Typhoon is fixed the redundant projectile bonus will be switched for energy turret cap use or something

I'm saying the new ancillary armor repairer would work fine if it could run a lot of cycles before reloading, and then reload quickly. That way, combined with the small size of nanite repair paste, the armor repper could be made to work its much smaller bonus for long periods of time. Then it would have its own niche without competing with the ancillary shield booster.

New Brutix is out with it's revamped slots and new armour mods to compliment, yet this thread is still full of shield fits for it.

The problem is i'm honestly not sure is an AAR/REP combo is better than having just 2 reps. The AAR isn't actually that much better, all this talk of 3 times better, then 2.25x better, it's not at all., becuase who is using standard t1 reps?!

I would rather have 2 standard t2 reps, with sustained repping for aslong as i have cap, over having a very slightly better tank for a very short amount of time that completely goes to **** when it needs to reload.

I've said it before and ill say it again. ACTIVE TANKS ARE FOR STAYING POWER! Not for burst tanks!! Thats what plates are for!

But Fozzie, 7.5% bonus to armor repair amount on both Gallente Battlecruisers?? But we all know how much active armor tanking sucks!! Whatever will you do about this dilemma.....

can you mail me or post your fit that sounds awesome.

Maybe you can graduate someday from the school of applied knowledge. Either that or post with your main.

I'm not happy with the BC rebalance. Frigates and Cruisers were fairly well done. Although still problems in those ship classes. But the BC rebalance is leaving a Drake domination in place. And the second place competitor will now be the Prophecy instead of the Hurricane. But at least I'm not posting with an npc corp alt and qq-ing about it.

I would gladly enter with my main in here but since we are now without any ships that makes any sence anymore we can't even ******* defend ourselfs either. hence the ALT.

Reason why i am posting witt A alt is that the previous 2 times i have been in here bitching about anything in regards of the game, we got WDed. WE are a all out industry corp and started to build a plan to enter into some PVP close to a year ago. All plans was comming nicely togeather up til just before x-mas. All what we now have done and planned for is out the window, and really no point of continuing on. So CCP have trown out a year of gaming for pretty much the entire corp and gotten them to the point that EVE isn't the sameanymore. Ppls are considering to leave the game forever. That **** ain't funny after all these years.
Trying to build a corp with the same guys for years and do longterm planning like we have is a pain and it is timeconsuming
in masses. When the game developers then comes in and stomp all of your work in a single sweep kind of pisses ppls of.
I would gladly enter with my main in here but since we are now without any ships that makes any sence anymore we can't even ******* defend ourselfs either. hence the ALT.
Sorry for anoying you with my alt but alt or not my opinion of the game is still the same and won't change.

And CCP, have fun on fanfest. You have lost 6 guys for this years event.

I don't see how the Harbinger rebalancing was a buff... I deal less dps now and have less armor with my harb.

I might just throw it in the trash bin now.

When you have less DPS than bevore the patch, then you must have a BC-Skill of 3 or below. With BC 4 you have exactly the same DPS as prepatch (8,4 Turrets) and with BC 5 your effective Turretnumber rises from 8,75 to 9,0, so you should make more Damage

Thanks for the tip Gosti, I was focused on gunnery skills so I missed that one.

But the strange thing is that the Battlecruisers skill does not say anything about improved damage or anything in its description and attributes. Isn't it only to be able to fly higher level BCs?

Its a shame CCP don't make the Tier 3 bc's(attack bc's) into a different category and then make some the combat bc's into attack bc's some them of them would really benefit from this like the brutix being active tank now the extra speed would be useful the drake would also benefit with a more dps much less tank orientation.... cyclone and harbinger also.

Regarding the brutix, you're talking like someone who never flies them. There are plenty of examples since the patch of just how poor they remain for armour tanking. As for the drake, it's still going to be top banana, so no, it doesn't need more dps. Cyclone and harby are still finding their feet but overall they fit the job description. Remember this wasn't a buff, it was a rebalancing. In my opinion it fell short in a number of ways, but you seem to want overall buffs, and that's not what was needed for the good of the game.

Assumptions are the mother of all ****ups.... i do have a shield brutix from before patch buts its shield tank now would be **** poor better to use a ferox or talos now.... so AAR's are its only chance of being useful and its still a bit fail at that atm.
But on the drake the dps would ofc be in exchange for its OP tank this would then make the ferox useful and not just its poor cousin.
It just doesn't seem right that the tier3's get the attack category as it leaves too many combat bc's all tanking the same way.

I 1v1'd with an alliance mate who expected the new AAR to be all whizzy when used on the new Brutix. He set up a dual AAR/T2 rep combo, ions in the highs and all the usual resist and damage control fittings to go with. He then took a standard exile. He rigged with 2 rigs for rep amount and one for rep speed.

I fitted a neutron Brutix with 2 mag stabs, 2 TEs, and a tank consisting of 2 LSE and rigs for anti-em, enti-therm, and extender and a damage control.

We started at about 5km range.

I used a flight of warrior IIs, he used a flight of hammerhead IIs.

I won at 90% structure remaining.


Armour repair is still a joke.

I hate to say it, but my opinion is sliding more and more towards upping the active rep bonus up to 10%, and either allowing multiple AAR's or increasing the rep amounts (or both).

Either that or allow something totally off the wall like some sort of synergy boost when using an AAR and the new adaptive hardener together (improving the capabilites of both when used together on the same ship)... which would be fairly unique and have the trade off of two low slots being spoken for if you choose to go this route.

Something...