Updated OP to reflect changes we've made based on your feedback.

Attack Tempest is now online, and Typhoon has its launchers back - both of them have signature lowered.

Again, don't worry, if Tempest is clearly broken after Odyssey, we'll fix it.

I think 'broken' isn't very likely. The bigger problem, I think, is that Typhoon and Tempest are fighting for a very similar space in the meta because of both being fast, flexible battleships. Maelstrom will continue to be more popular in very large fights because of it's alpha and larger ehp as well as being more popular for pve because of it's strong tank. I'm not sure thats a big problem though. The Tempest is going to be extremely versatile, and will actually play a lot differently than the Typhoon, so I think they can happily co-exist.


Another small point - seems like a lot of people focused on the relationship between Tornado and Tempest. I'm playing around right now with standard shield AC fits for both and get the following stats:

Tornado: 22k ehp, 1580m/sec, 780dps

Tempest: 57k ehp, 1251m/sec, 860dps

The Tempest of course crushes the Tornado in a 1v1 (I know this isn't the most important way to compare them), and on top of that it has 2 high slot utility + some room to play with mid slots. There's a lot of factors at work (including price), and I know speed is probably the most important attribute to look at it, but there's still a very strong case here for the Tempest. On top of the way it competes directly within this fitting style, the Tempest can do all kinds of other things like armor tanking, remote repping, tackling, etc.

Anyway, the point is that we're watching it.

requires cap boosters

The writing was on the wall over 15 months ago. I have all my large weapon specializations to 4 and all my racial BS to 5. R.I.P. Tempest.

The question is are you guys willing to go back and make major changes to the ship, such as a slot layout change or hull bonus change, if that's what it would take to fix the ship?