Saul Hyperion
Palmetto Galactic
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Posted - 2013.04.08 19:40:00 -
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The other 3 races are very solid throughout, but a near complete swing and miss on Gallente.
The Hyperion completely whiffs. While it desperately needed a low, it did not need one at the expense of a mid. It is completely outclassed on the fleet front by the Rokh and Abaddon due to their resists bonuses, and outclassed by the Maelstrom due to the weapon system. Active armor tanking is still terrible, despite efforts to fix it. I bit my tongue on the BC changes with the promise of the AAR, but now that it's live I am disappointed in armor tanking once again. So I will say I am firmly opposed to active armor tanking bonuses on all hulls until it something DRASTIC changes with it.
At the very least, the Hyperion needs more hitpoints in armor to make up for this wasted bonus. It could also use some sort of range bonus to hybrids, either falloff or optimal, to give it some sort of direction. It's current bonus doesn't lend itself towards blasters or rails particularly well. A good falloff bonus would make it a beast with Null, a good optimal bonus would make it a rail platform. I'd lean towards the falloff because of the precedent of Gallente being a blaster platform and the fact that it's a travesty that the Rokh does blasters better than the current or proposed Hyperion.
The Megathron simultaneously addresses problems and creates problems. The Mega always needed a midslot to come into it's own, but it does not need one at the expense of a lowslot. Yet somehow the utility high slot still exists, despite being one of the least used slots in this game.
Drop the utility high, restore the low and the Megathron is heading down the right track.
As others have said in this post, the new Dominix bonus is pretty awesome, but it kills the utility that the Dominix currently has. I can live with this as split weapons are bad and hopefully drones get changed in the near future to fix their flaws. I maintain that drones are still to vulnerable to being killed/smartbombed and need a better HP bonus on all blaster ships.
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