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Ranger Corp
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Posted - 2013.02.19 19:50:00 -
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Merouk Baas wrote:Liang Nuren wrote:Conceptualizing the AAR as a "counter" or "equivalent module" to the ASB seems completely fallacious to me. Even claiming that one tanking style is superior or inferior at this point is pure guesswork. Give it some time to let the meta develop and then start complaining. As it stands, you don't know whether 3 weeks from now we'll see every shield tanker in the game fitting T2 Rep + AAR and a **** ton of utility in the mids. Oh, come on, people can predict, based on available information about the module. We know; if the module remains unchanged for 3 weeks, they won't. Here's a question: were there complaint threads about the ASB when it was introduced?
There are many modules and ship that, when first introduced, were confidently condemned as useless by the average EvE citizen. In fact, the Drake was one of them... so I concur that time will tell the tale. People need a chance to get their meta on and figure out how to use this module to it best advantage, taking all of the other little tweaks to armor tanking that have just come down the pipe into consideration.
Interestingly ASB's were hailed as "god mode" when first introduced. Now, a few tweaks later, that impression still persists... and yet more often than not the 1 minute "dead time" where the module is completely useless allows ample opportunity for the ship to be destroyed (even in a dual ASB setup, there is a gap). In longer battles, the immense size of the cap boosters needed to power them becomes a limiting factor all it's own... and when you run out you are quite literally done.
AAR's don't provide the huge, fast boost of the ASB... but they do have (combined with the other changes) some noticeable advantages which become more pronounced the longer the battle goes on.
That being said, I wouldn't be surprised to see more tweaks to both AAR's and ASB's within the next few weeks.
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