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Xyris Rixx
Haruspex Industries
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Posted - 2013.03.27 09:11:00 -
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Is there a current trend to nerf shield tanking into the ground when compared to armor tanking? For years shield tanking was almost obsolete and irrelevent with megas and apocs being the ships of choice for fleet combat. Right now there is a solid choice to be made between the advantages and disadvantages of both, but it appears through direct buffs and indirect nerfs that shield tanking is going to be rendered obsolete again - is this a deliberate plan on behalf of ccp or just accidental? |
Xyris Rixx
Haruspex Industries
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Posted - 2013.03.27 10:08:00 -
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Grath Telkin wrote:Xyris Rixx wrote:Is there a current trend to nerf shield tanking into the ground when compared to armor tanking? For years shield tanking was almost obsolete and irrelevent with megas and apocs being the ships of choice for fleet combat. I dont know who told you this but its an outright lie. Dominion launched 4 years ago, the Maelstrom was one of the most common main line battleship across that 4 years. The welp cane, the tengu, the munin fleet. I'm not sure who told you that shield tanking was obsolete but you should be mad at them.
Sure , but 4 years is not a massive amount of time in comparison to the 10 years the game has been runing and in that time we have seen quite a shift away from BS's being the sole workhorse to include things like AHAC/tengu fleets. I remember being in massive sniper apoc/mega double-doomsday tanked BS fleets - this was before projectile weapons were buffed. For years armor tanking was the preferred option for large fleets, and if it appeared I was saying that shield tanking was currently obsolete then I have not explained myself.
My point was that we are seeing a trend to buff armor fleets - their main disadvantages were that reps at the end of the cycle were ****** under pre-tidi lag which has now been fixed and overall armor reps are more efficient. The agility buff has significantly reduced the agility advantage shield tanked BS's had, and the effective devaluing of free lowslots with this nerf starts to tip the scales in favor of armor taning as a mainline doctrine. Both CFC and HBC are switching to Techfleet/foxcats as a main fleet comp - both of which ar armor tanked.
So no - I'm not bitching about this nerf - as your previous posts showed, this is not a massive nerf and more of a refocusing, I was really just trying to get clarification on CCPs opinion of the shield/armor tanking choice atm - is it considered to be fair, is one over powered and is there an internal decision to pull one into line withthe other - especially since the uniquness between the two systems is starting to be blurred. |
Xyris Rixx
Haruspex Industries
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Posted - 2013.03.27 10:15:00 -
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Grath Telkin wrote:Xyris Rixx wrote:, I was really just trying to get clarification on CCPs opinion of the shield/armor tanking choice atm - is it considered to be fair, is one over powered and is there an internal decision to pull one into line withthe other - especially since the uniquness between the two systems is starting to be blurred. CCP have stated on several occasions that they believe that Shield tanking is a bit skewed and too strong at the moment and have been taking steps to bring armor tanking back in line.
Aww Grath - I was expecting an angry rant and now you have left me disapointed with your reasoned arguments :P
Cheers for clarifying though - I've missed any dev-things saying that. |
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