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!

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.

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: 10000 PWG(+1000), 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)

All level 5 Dominix with 5 Garde IIs (no OTLs) still had a hard time hitting a double webbed Broadsword at 50km.

I was kinda disappointed, actually.

as a dedicated dominix pilot for last several years i have to say these changes are crap ... i am going to quit for good if you ruin my ship with this crap... the double damage bonus is great and the main reason i fly it and the only reason i trained up my drone skills, large railgun spec and gallente battleship to 5.

and none of these changes will help gallente battleships its making them all worse.

I sure do hope your offering a refund for gallente trained skills in conjunction with these changes or you can kiss my accounts goodbye.

if it isnt broke dont fix it ... if it is broke then fix it right.

The dominix isnt broken its just fine but this change will ruin it.

the mega and hype are subpar and useless in fleets and that will not change with these changes it will only magnify it .... so again what are you guys doing or thinking over there?

A 108 page threadnaught, and CCP Rise has not returned.

Can we have at least an acknowledgement from someone on Dev team that they are still thinking about Gallente BS? Or is it a done deal?

I really hope not. The new Sentrinix is awful

He has returned int he amarr thread. You cannot hope him to return to all 4 threads. You need to check each one always.

PERSONNALY I like the sentrynix. But i can agree that the bonuses are very pingeonholing it and that may make a lot of people unhappy.

Not a single Gallante BS that can fit a full rack of 8 anymore with the proposed changes. Bonus's aside, it was nice to have that as an option. In my opinion.

Would think ships would get roles, not an entire race. Dont like drones?......too bad..find another race to fly.

Because the Catalyst, Thorax, Brutix, Talos, Megathron etc. are so drone dependent.