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Why does the Maelstrom have the same powergrid as the abbadon and Apoc?
It seems its too allow for arties to fit but the amarr can't fit beams and can just about fit pulses seems a bit odd...
The Maelstroms role is to brawl as its ASB bonus suggests ... compare it to Hyperion who can't even fit neutrons.... balance anyone????

If you haven't noticed it's meant to be shield but it has much less pg than the other armor bs meant for durability.

Wow overall I will have to say these BS got the most love of any of the races in this patch. All great ships, that simply isn't the case for the other races proposed changes.

i would be very happy if CCP switches tempest and typhoon speed (or make them both 130 base speed) even at the expense of some HP, i like the slot layout of the tempest, ofc i would like an extra low or med but since the number of slot for every ship type is fixed i dont think its worth to give up a high, since CCP its going crazy with ship bonus i would give the tempest a +5% rof +7.5% damage maybe at the expense of some drone space make it 25mb 50m space, they would give the thing a 10% edge over other ships as an alpha platform and make the thing a real gankboat like every double damage bonused ships should be.

1) It'll never get the 7th turret slot the Machariel has, not without the removal of drones, and even if it did, that would completely invalidate most of your post as you'd be giving up that 2nd utility high.

2) It'll be significantly more agile than the typhoon, with a higher acceleration. In a shield fit, this could be further improved.

3) It's 6 mids, allowing you to feasibly stack which ever form of EWAR you have on a single target, you could trash the optimal range of a beam apoc to 10-20km using 2x tracking disruptors - whilst having 70km fall-off with 800mm AC's (barrage), or use 2 tracking computers to boost that fall off to +100km - imo it's borderline OP, but I suppose that's a hard fact for some to realise, especially those fixated on point blank DPS. Far from pigeon holing it into a shield fit, it FINALLY allows the tempest to DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL when fitted with armour, as apposed to a a poor mans *insert another 5 mid armour tanking battleship here*

4) And no, you could fit a smartbomb or lockbreaker in that 2nd high if you wanted to as well. But that doesn't allow you to come close to making up the utility of what you could get with an additional mid.

I still think 8% ROF and a 20% web range per level would give it a n unique role. Does not compete with rapier web range and make the tempest the gate camping BS role. Also its able to do soemthign the tornado cannot.

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A shield Tempest will not archive the tank of a Maelstrom or the speed of Tornado, that is true. However it will be able to take a lot more damage than a Tornado while staying a lot more mobile than a Maelstrom. Buffer is actually quite useful once you consider that you are in a hull that pushes out a quite a significant amount of DPS at medium range and you will be primary more often than you like.

As soon as you need to be more mobile than a Maelstrom(basically in any pvp scenario where people don't come to you but the other way around) and need more than a flimsy Tier 3 tank(like when other BS actually shoot back and you are down to 20-30km ranges) the shield Tempest easily becomes a viable option compared the Maelstrom and Tornado.

A combination of good speed(for a BS), ok dps, ok range and EHP is actually quite nice to have for many applications.

Wow you're a bad csm...

People are not "crying" they are raising a legitimate concern that the tempest, as is currently proposed, is lack luster... The reality is that these "Cries" as you claim, are 100% accurate. The current tempest is bad and will be bad. There is a plethora of suggestions here focused on making the ship better. You'd do best not to discredit this invaluable community feed back.