Atomic Option
Taggart Transdimensional
Virtue of Selfishness
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Posted - 2013.03.21 20:13:00 -
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Hi CCP Rise! Good name choice.
I think the attack BCs are in a decent spot vs where balanced battleships would be. They sacrifice tank for BS level damage and some agility, which it doesn't make sense for any battleships to do.
Honestly most of the t1 battleships have a decent role somewhere in EVE. There are obvious exceptions like the Hyperion that can't fit even fit neutrons or the split damage Typhoon, and they're all less-stronger than the smaller ship classes since the balancing changes have started. I like the idea of having an BS e-war platform for each race, but I don't think that current ship roles need to be removed to accomplish that.
 Please consider adding ewar roles without removing other specialties.
This would leave at least one ship in each race with a dual role, prevent the destruction of existing useful roles and fit well with the idea of keeping battleships as the most general ship class (already having the most slots for variation).
Caldari have the only ewar BS the Scorpion. The other 3 common specialties of battleships, damage, tank and range are stuffed into two ships: Ravens for damage and Rokhs for both tank and range. These are mostly fine.
Minmatar are a little less diverse with all three having damage bonuses but the Tempest being the proto-vargur leads, the Mael arguably for tank (an active rep bonus that, but honestly I've never seen a fit taking advantage of it) and range with arties. I'd probably put the target painting bonus on the Typhoon since it's already partially a missile ship (and oh do torps/cruise need TP!), and needs to lose it's split dmg anyway.
Amarr are probably the most clearly separated into Damage/range/tank, but have no dual role ship.
The tracking disruption of Amarr could go on any of these, but probably makes more sense on the geddon that's in close enough for tracking to matter or the Apoc that wants to be outside optimal rather than the cap-dead Abaddon. I wouldn't remove the cap or optimal bonus from the apoc though as that would destroy it's status as the proto-paladin stepping stone.
Gallente are similar to Minmatar in that their roles aren't completely clear
For damps it makes the most sense to combine the range and ewar roll since half of the utility of damps is completely lost at close range. It's not clear which ship is the best choice for that combo. The Hyperion could be completely reworked. The mega's tracking bonus hints at a close range role, but it's often used with rails, and the Dominix already has complex choices with rails/shield/drone dmg or RR/cap/tank. |