Bountyavoiding Alt wrote:So I have a question.
I drive a Myrmidon. I've been playing for about 3 months and am moving towards a battleship before branching out into something in the manufacturing line.
Before the rebalance, I had 6 turrets and 75mbs drone bandwidth and could fit 15 medium drones in my bay. I used Hammerhead IIs.
After the rebalance I have 5 turrets and 100mbs drone bandwidth and can fit 20 medium drones in my bad.
As far as I can see, and I'm a new player here so please correct me if I'm wrong, the only benefits from the higher bandwidth and drone bay are that I can use 5 heavy drones if I wanted to whereas before I could only use 3 of them. And for this I lost 1/6th of my turrets.
I'm confused because I thought medium drones were best for taking out cruisers, battlecruisers and the odd frigates that I'm going to meet mission running. Heavy drones are more for battleships and large slow targets.
And as the Myrmdon is not really a pvp boat and even if it is it will not be taking on battleships and capital ships, how is deploying heavy drones going to be anything but a negative in terms of dps, ignoring the fact it will take a full month just to be able to use Ogre IIs (no point in Ogre Is as they are inferior to my Hammerhead IIs).
I feel as though I may as well just focus on getting the skills to fly a battleship and abandon the Myrmidon since all I see is nerf.
Can anyone tell me where my logic is wrong about the changes? Are heavy drones actually useful against small and medium targets?
Cheers
Ogres (Especially Ogre IIs) are great at taking out everything except for elite frigates if you fit the drone tracking and speed mods. You can also now deploy an additional sentry drone; sentries are battleship-sized deployable turrets which can also take out everything except for close-orbiting, unwebbed frigates and cruisers with the proper skills. Sentries are arguably superior to heavy drones for PvE, since they do not have to travel to the target, and can be instantly recalled on taking damage. In my experience, T2 medium drones are only useful in PvE while training for T2 heavy/sentry drones; light drones are superior at handling frigates and destroyers and sentries and heavies can handle everything else.
The Myrmidon has never relied on turrets for primary damage, either in PvP or PvE, since it does not get a damage bonus to weapons. This is why folk will often fit projectiles or utilities on it. Assuming good drone skills, the damage lost from the sixth turret slot will be more than offset by the additional drone bandwidth and drone space. Since the Myrmidon has been and remains a drone boat, one would assume that a pilot using the ship either has or plans to get high drone skills to take advantage of the new drone bandwidth.
Also, the EVE design philosophy requires that things occasionally get nerfed rather than buffed, in order to maintain game balance. Otherwise, the inevitable power creep would quickly destroy previous balancing work, and make any meaningful attempt at achieving even a semblance of balance counterproductive.