Fronkfurter McSheebleton
The Graduates
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2013.04.08 23:29:00 -
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baltec1 wrote:
With these changes it [megathron] will be a great roaming BS yet also able to fill roles in larger fleets.
It will be far too squishy as a large fleet ship. Rokhs will beat it in damage projection and tank, Baddons beat it in damage projection and tank. Maelstroms will still dominate them because of alpha, despite not even using one of their bonuses. They have enough mids and natural buffer to fit a sufficient tank.
That leaves mobility-intensive roles as its only advantage. Even with its extra dps, landing it on top of another fleet would be suicide, as it doesn't have enough tank to hold up in a large fleet environment. You could fit railguns and hit people from out of range, but at that point...why not just fly nagas?
The hype, armor buffer fit, had about the same ehp as the mega before this, and will have significantly more without it, so despite the useless bonus, it's now the better armor fleet ship....but still worse than the rokh and baddon. Mega will likely struggle to break 90k ehp on a fleet fit. Theoretically you could shield tank it now, but there's really no reason to use it over a rokh for large fleet use. Armor buffer is pretty much a no-go too, as is active tanking, since it hasn't got a bonus and unbonused active fits are awful.
The fallacy here is that they're still trying to make the megathron the attack BS. The dominix's bonuses don't play nicely with large fleets, but the mega's do. Conversely, the domi works wonderfully for fighting on gates and stations, and other small scale combat...not so much for large, moving fleets. So keep the domi squishy, but add mobility to the ship as well as the drones, and up the hitpoints on the megathron to match the hyperion (plus some shield ehp), and we'll have a nice couple of ships. It would even be nice to see the domi's hitpoints and dps bonus get "and ewar effectiveness" tacked onto it, to conform a bit more to the role of the scorpion and new geddon.
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