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Posted - 2013.03.24 21:14:00 -
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Hi Rise. Congrats on your new post and best success on your projects.
To start, Don't Nerf the Talos. Yes it's a tiny bit OP up close. However, Up Close is where everyone else fears to tread and where no one else has to go to apply dps. Naga, Nado, and Oracle can sit at 40 k aligned and drop damage with a high level of immunity and GTFO if things get spooky. Talos doesn't really have that luxury. Leave it alone. LoL, it's about the only time i can remember anyone accusing Gal of having a single OP hull. The reward of dropping big DPS is the risk that you have to do it in someone's face. That's fair.
Overall the Tier 3 team deserves huge props. Each of the hulls has developed a reputation for excellence in one or more ways and have been enthusiastically adopted by every segment of EvE.
At the risk of being hated the only thing to balance them might be to loose a turret to tone down their dps a touch. ( if you do, remember to trim a bit of their build sheets m k  )
As to BS's.
Scorp : PITA. Everyone hates e-war when it's against you, loves it when it works for you. Being the only one is a bit lop sided but I'd rather see it nerfed than add an e-war boat to each race to even it out. If you want the tactical advantage of shutting someone down then put the isk on the line with a recon.
Rokh: A bit Op but not horribly so. Leave it alone.
Raven: Waaay to slow. Needs a big speed buff to even consider being viable up close with torps or being a useful small gang ship.
Amar: What ever you do Please don't make one another unbreakable brick. The Maller and Proph are silly atm. A BS sized version would just be to much.
Galente:
Lets start with the most overdue part. Good gawd they be Fugly. It's not just that the Domi looks like a space turd, but the color scheme has been atrocious since i started playing. At first it was mostly green which was meh, compared to the Gold, Blue, Bronze (Rust ). Over time it's morphed into the out of focus patchwork mess we have today. Supposedly Galente are French descendants. Use a Red, White, Blue scheme with a big emphasis on white as a base color with heavier Fire Engine Red accents in the T2 versions. Just a tiny bit of love here would be appreciated.
Dominix : Nothing wrong with it. The only thing i might be tempted to change is the drone bonus combo. ATM it's damage and hit points. I'm somewhat tempted to ask for it to be changed to damage and speed like the algos. PvE'ers can give some love to Drone Durability Rigs if they want more buffer, PvP'ers will loose a bit of safety margin but see DPS applied on target which overall seems like a fair trade.
Hype: Worst drone bay of all the Tier 3's  and it's Galente. I've often thought that the Hyperion would have been better off being a tier 1. The rep bonus was better for noobs and the domi needed alot more sp to be flown properly. Even though tiericide is meant to move away from this, that's the general direction I'd take. Nerf the Hype to a tier 1 level pg. Drop a high and balance it so that it can fit a rack of 325's or ion's and a large rep. Leave the mids as is for boosters or rechargers and voila, great new entry level BS for pve or pvp. People who paid big isk for the BPO will squawk for a bit, but not once they start selling x 10 of them. Give the Domi Tier 2 like Pg and everyone's happy.
Megathron : Overall it's fine. It would be better with +50m2 drone bay and a tiny bit of pg and cpu. It would be a viable and desirable ship in every fleet concept with a resist bonus. Idealy I think it would be most useful and popular as the top of the line Galente gunship. 8 high's all guns, Damage and Tracking bonus, +1 low to equal the babboon and a bit of speed and agility for when it's in brawler mode to get on target.
GL and looking forward to summer. |