Ashina Sito
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.08 20:06:00 -
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CCP Rise wrote:Welcome to the Tech 1 Battleship rebalance, fasten your seatbelts!
Dominix:
With the Dominix we've abandoned the split weapon bonus (hybrids and drones) and moved it to a fully dedicated drone ship by adding a drone optimal and tracking bonus. We hope that this new bonus will provide a very strong Gallente fleet option in the Dominix, via sentry drones. It will of course also be stronger at short range using heavy drones. As a combat battleship, its received increased hitpoints across the board, increased mass (it got its mass lowered during the hybrid buff), increased cap pool, and increased sig.
We believe this is a very exciting direction for the Dominix, and hope you will too!
Gallente Battleship Skill Bonuses:
+10% Drone Damage and Drone hitpoints
+10% Drone optimal range and Drone tracking speed (replaces large hybrid turret damage)
Slot layout: 6H, 5M, 7L; 6 turrets , 0 launchers
Fittings: 9000 PWG, 600 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 7200(+1731) / 8000(+1789) / 8500(+1859)
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second) : 6000(+1000) / 1087s / 5.51
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 109 / .1254 / 100250000(+3150000) / 16.88s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 125 / 375
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 70km / 90 / 7
Sensor strength: 22 Magnetometric Sensor Strength
Signature radius: 465(+45)
/me cries
Well, looks like the Navy Vexor is not gonna change if your going this way with the Domi.
I always flew a Neut Domi so never used it's gun potential, that said removing the damage bonus for hybrids kinda sucks. Once again, just like the Navy Vexor, the key to the Domi was flexibility and the skill bonus change removes that flexibility and pigeon holes it into one role.
CCP Rise wrote:I also want to mention here that while the drone system overall needs looking at, we here on the balance team have some short term ideas for helping the usability of sentry drones GÇô no timeframe on them as of yet, but its something we have in mind.
Bad play. If drones need a revamp (and they do) then why not hold of the skill changes for the ship until that is done? I get to lose my Hybrid damage bonus (bye bye 1300 DPS gank Domi) and I get a bonus to Sentries which is insufficient to compensate for the loss. "Sometime" in the future drones will get looked at yet meanwhile I am stuck with a knowingly under-performing ship. \0/
Vexor = AWSOME!!
Navy Vexor = Blegh
Domi = Potato shaped Blegh |