According to the CSM minutes CCP want to nerf T3 tank and speed.

Armor tanking T3s become far too sturdy with the addition of 1600s ( sometimes multiple).

There has been no official word besides they want to, however many of our best guess is that its the tank that you will see being reduces. Not as much shield rr tengus but the other 3. Armor tanking T3s become far too sturdy with the addition of 1600s ( sometimes multiple).

Regardless of what ccp does I would not consider it a waste of time as knowing CCP it will be quite a while before they get to it.

command ships are gonna be the new t3. you shall see. inb4 abso fleets

To further explain the vision between T1, T2, and T3, Ytterbium pulled up his Command Ship devblog.
Ytterbium pointed out that command ships would be very specialized and would get the best bonuses,
however they would be limited in their ability to fight and do other things. Ytterbium described that his
vision for T3s would let T3s fit more diverse gang links, while being able to do other things GÇô like fight, or
use ewar GÇô simultaneously.

I don't think they're going to be the DPS/Mainline boats you're expecting

we will see after T3 gets nerfed and isnt worth losing 1 bil and skill points.

and maybe you forgot this chart?
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/63522/1/Commandshipchanges2.jpg

:not arguing:

Command ships do great DPS currently, and I don't think they're going to lose much of that capability, especially with some of the changes on the horizon.

I just don't think CCP/Fozzie will re-balance the T3's in a way that make them a subpar DPS boat to a Command Ship, especially when it seems like CCP is trying to fix command ships and slot them back into the boosting role that was usurped by the T3's. Why would they go ahead and fix that problem, but in doing so create the inverse of that exact same situation? I don't see it happening that way, but I may be wrong.

Stuff

Tech 3's with huge tanks are the counter to this supposed "dread blapping"...

I just don't think CCP/Fozzie will re-balance the T3's in a way that make them a subpar DPS boat to a Command Ship

First off, what has this got to do with wormholes? Secondly it's all rumor at this point.

And TF is right, T3s are not balanced in k-space, where the working class zeroes, the 99% live.

Thus, while you may cry and twist your panties at the thought of a billion ISK strat cruiser being nerfed, the reality is that outside wormholes, the extreme gank and tank of a strat cruiser isn't vulnerable because it is actually harder to deploy dreads and carriers in k-space than in C5 brawls. So, while you complain or chortle about dread blapping and so on, the reality is it is such a nonevent problem that it is irrelevant to the game as a whole because less than 1% of people are ever going to be at risk of being Vindi/Vigi webbed and blapped by three Moros - it certainly never happens in k-space!

So, strategic cruisers will be balanced for k-space. This is good, and bad for w-space dwellers. On the one hand, the balance will be aimed at trimming back insane tanks (+120K EHP) to 'reasonable' levels as far as Fozzie sees it, and might result in more gankiness out of a wider variety of T3 cruisers, or maybe trimming back the 1000 DPS Proteii. it will certainly involve the long-needed nerfing of boosting T3's which aren't as much of a feature of w-space and hardly the pain in the balls they are for everyone in lowsec.

You will still have dread blapping. Your T3 might not survive the first volley as easily, so all you need to do is change tactics.

From a conversation I had on comms last night sometime in the past it was the intention that W-space dwellers wouldn't live out of PoSes but be nomadic with some kind of mothership that we all used as a mobile fortress station. (That's no moon!)

I've heard this rumor from other players too. I've also heard CCP saying that w-space was intended for nomadic existence, a couple of fanfests ago, I think. But I've never seen anything before that about a nomadic existence. And yet, how do you explain C6 -> C6, C5 -> C5, C4->C4 and all the variations between that lead to no where but more w-space requiring days in some cases to find a route out coupled with the resources requires to farm some of these systems plus escalations and w-space's utter dependence on k-space. I call bullsht!

That CCP has said it years after w-space's birth and that players continue to point to that CCP intention is highly disturbing. W-space was not and never will be, without radical changes, a nomadic existence.

It'd be one thing if the systems didn't require huge investments in resources and w-space was completely independent of k-space except to bring items to market. If I could get lost and exist in w-space and never have to see k-space, sure I'd buy it. But it's not. And so....bullsht!

That rumor needs to be put down at every opportunity!!!