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So if your first reaction to EWAR is to warp away... want do you do if you get scrambled AND EWARed?

By me warping on top of you after probing you out? :p Anyways, typically the fast high DPS ships need to get in close anyways to have their full effect. Won't always be guaranteed, but really, guerilla tactics are the specialty of fast ships either way. Kind of just gotta deal with it. The game isn't perfectly balanced, but the ships fill out their roles just fine for the most part. Can't really expect a battleship to keep up with a frigate for example. Some are just meant to be the fast ships that are near impossible to swat, but there are ways. And if they balanced for solo, it'd screw up the fleet balancing.

Why are you complaining that something isn't balanced for solo pvp in a mmo.....

Boggles the mind doesn't it

It doesn't need fixing.

Fit an MWD and shield tank your ****, speed issue resolved.

You are correct that a pilot who knows how to fly a shield/gank/speed fit is not going to be caught by a brick armor tanker. This is by design.

Each ship setup, whether shield or armor tank, has its own particular use in different kinds of fights. This is good because it gives us more variety and allows us to setup our ships for different situations. Afterall, why even have shield tanking and armor tanking if there isn't a difference between the two?

Your frustration is understandable but misplaced. Your making a common mistake that a lot of pilots make, which is using the wrong fit for the job and trying to force that fit work because you like it. Dont let yourself get into that mindset.

The solution is to either develop tactics so you can grab and hold that speedy bugger, or change your ship fitting so you are speedy as well.

Adapt and have fun doing it. Fly safe.

I dont fly amarr so am unable to comment about those specific ships. Unfortunately I am at work at the moment and cant really start looking at them in depth. Perhaps someone who does fly them can comment?

I can say that the cruiser rebalance has made many more cruisers useful in pvp. For instance, the caracal is a much better ship than it was before, is faster than the rupture, and puts out nearly the same dps with heavy assaults. The caracal is now a fine ship.

The credit I am given to the developers on the cruiser rebalance is deserved. Why? Much more pvp is occurring with them.

You realize that whatever drones an armor tanker can use a shield tanker can use as well right?

Your using the wrong tool for the job when trying to use armor / slow vs shield / speed. It is that simple. Each kind of tanking has its place in eve but not in all situations.

If you cant learn to accept that, you will continue to die, get mad(er), and eventually quit playing. You wont have anyone to blame but yourself for not adapting.

If you can learn to accept that, you will become a better pilot and have much more fun.

Then lets pretend that armor ships are just as fast as shield ships.

What would happen?

When it is said that one "uses right tool for right task" in EVE it doesn't mean that you play rock-paper-scissors with ship hulls while roaming low or NPC null. That is just one task that is typically solved by a single kind of tool which is about ability to pick fights, avoid being caught and picking on ships that most probably won't win. Sometimes it is done with slow ships that can cloak, but for most ships mobility is the only viable option. Tbh I don't see this changing until improbable appearance of arena fights in EVE (aside from AT and the like).

When you have other tasks at hand (like surviving massive fleet alpha from very long range; killing huge immobile object you'd rather kill and maybe take losses rather than flee and let it live, like capital or hub; controlling a wormhole aperture that isn't moving anywhere), then you have to pick another tool, which most probably will be a brick tank, big gun and wing coherence.

Take wormholers for example. When they fight on their (or their temporary neighbour's) turf, they brick tank everything and don't know any logi other than Guardian and Archon, and their composition for attempts on cap kills will be largely the same. However, for lowsec roams they will jump into shield 'canes, Taloses and the like, sometimes new nano'd cruisers like Stabber or Omen (yes). Maybe nano HACs as well, I don't know how good they fare these days. And that is picking right tool for the task.

, also who the **** kites in an armour SFI?

Yes I can't see any trouble or how it would be OP using 5 light web drones for a total 60% strength +1 web/scram fit on my ship.

Armor ships issues to pin faster stuff is not the web or whatever drones, it's the poorly designed badly implemented idea that ships with the shortest range weapon systems should also be the slower ones. For a silly choice it's a very silly one.

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