What about Gleam and Aurora?

Here goes: Scorch needs a nerf.

60-80% Thermal

1st how the hell did you get 15000 likes?

80-99% Thermal looks much cooler since EM is the worst possible choice to use in PvE and PvP.

Gimme my Lux crystals!

Here goes: Scorch needs a nerf.

Balancing out the crystals should help some, but even with the tracking component of conflag removed, scorch will remain the high point of laser turrets. Pulse are currently used in situations where beams would make more sense, purely because scorch gives the necessary damage component. Currently, I believe scorch gives a 50% bonus to range; and when put on battleships leads to effective damage at 70km or more. I feel dropping the range bonus to 25-30% will still give impressive range,, and combined with the tracking buff to conflag, will make pulse more definitively a close range laser.

Then again, maybe it's part of the Amarr lasers to have a long range weapon, in which case I'd suggest conflags tracking remain the same, and instead reduce the range nerf to conflag.

Beam weapons I'm not so sure about, but the idea of splitting damage types is definitely interesting.

How about we buff other crystals to the level of Scorch, hm? You don't sound like someone who flies Amarr much, evidenced by your lack of certainty on Scorch range bonus...

Do your research, spend a month in an Amarr ship blowing up rats and players and then your opinion on the topic might be, if you try, seriously considered.

On to the topic at hand...

I'd switch damage distribution on some crystals compared to what you wrote (Radio should do EM primary, as well as Xray) but that's some minor stuff. I'd also stick no-range bonus lasers into perfect 50EM/50Ther split with one having heavy cap use bonus and the other having none in place of increased damage.

Gimme my Lux crystals!

The description doesn't quite match the posted statistics for those crystals.
After reading the description, I was actually expecting a beam laser crystal that would reduce ROF and thus grant you a higher alpha, which sounded awesome to me.
But explosive damage on lasers? No, thanks.

...and Gallente have traditionally been much more flexible on what type of damage they apply depending on who they are shooting.

....
Also I like the idea of a Higher Alpha Crystal of some kind. I would probably give it a 0 range bonus to put it between the long and short range crystal we have now. And keep Minmatar Arties unique flavor.

I wish this was true. In theory, drones have this purpose, but the truth is most of them suck for pvp.

On second thought..instant ammo switch would make those Alpha crystals ridiculously overpowered.
Its like a Mael that could swap its weapons instantly between 1400s and 800mm ACs.

EM is not the worst damage in PvE or PvP, if flying missions for the Amarr and fighting Sansha and Blood Raiders most of the time its pretty good.

It is the worst.

Here is just real examples:
If I fly in any space I use Mach/Minmatar ship and have 0 problems. I choose the damage I need and rock the juice.
If I fly Blaster ship I also have 0 problems because Kin/Thermal is a very good combo since rats never have high resists against them. Angels have Kin as the 2nd lowest resist, and 3rd is a Therm. Guristas have Kin and Thermal as the lowest, Serpentis, Mercs, Drones are the same - their lowest are Kin/Therm. So choosing Hybrids is a win - win combo.
If I fly Caldari ship I just choose the damage I need like on Minmatar ships.

All of those races have 0 problems in any space.

Now Amarr.
If I fly Laser ship I have problems with Angels, their highest resist is EM, then Therm; with Guristas - they have extremely high EM resist; Serpentis' have EM as 2nd highest resist, and 3rd is Therm.
This leaves only BR and Sansha as a viable target with low EM/Therm resists.

Basically you can't use Amarr ship in any space except their own, while any other race know nothing about those problems.

Moreover, in Amarr space you often get missions with Guristas. As I said before Guristas have the highest EM resist, you loose around 65% of damage against them.
So even within their space you have problems.

So please tell me, how EM is not the worst damage type?

It is the worst.

Here is just real examples:
If I fly in any space I use Mach/Minmatar ship and have 0 problems. I choose the damage I need and rock the juice.
If I fly Blaster ship I also have 0 problems because Kin/Thermal is a very good combo since rats never have high resists against them. Angels have Kin as the 2nd lowest resist, and 3rd is a Therm. Guristas have Kin and Thermal as the lowest, Serpentis, Mercs, Drones are the same - their lowest are Kin/Therm. So choosing Hybrids is a win - win combo.
If I fly Caldari ship I just choose the damage I need like on Minmatar ships.

All of those races have 0 problems in any space.

Now Amarr.
If I fly Laser ship I have problems with Angels, their highest resist is EM, then Therm; with Guristas - they have extremely high EM resist; Serpentis' have EM as 2nd highest resist, and 3rd is Therm.
This leaves only BR and Sansha as a viable target with low EM/Therm resists.

Basically you can't use Amarr ship in any space except their own, while any other race know nothing about those problems.

Moreover, in Amarr space you often get missions with Guristas. As I said before Guristas have the highest EM resist, you loose around 65% of damage against them.
So even within their space you have problems.

So please tell me, how EM is not the worst damage type?

1st how the hell did you get 15000 likes?

Also increase the time it takes to switch ammo on energy weapons. Remove the Tracking Penalty on Conflagration but increase its cap use.

Conflagration suffers from a tracking penalty on a weapons system that doesn't have great tracking anyway, on ships that have inherent poor range control due to both low speed and limited number of mid slots. I would suggest removing the tracking penalty and increasing the activation penalty in light of above changes.

If these changes seem to powerful, I would suggest having crystal damage happen faster, including on T1 crystals, with adjustments to build costs to compensate for actual usage of ammo. And or having the time it takes to change crystals be increased from 1 second to some where in the 2-5 second range. So you can't instantly switch damage types.

A proposal for Energy Weapon Crystal changes.

TLDR: Change up the ratios of EM and Thermal damage in the T1 Crystals, break them up into 4 range brackets. Make damage to the crystals including T1 happen faster and adjust build costs to compensate. Also increase the time it takes to switch ammo on energy weapons. Remove the Tracking Penalty on Conflagration but increase its cap use.


Multifrequecy 60-80% EM 20-40% Thermal, -50% range

Gamma 20-40% EM / 60-80% Thermal, -50% range

Ultraviolet 60-80% EM 20-40% Thermal, -20% range, -30% activation

Xray 20-40% EM / 60-80% Thermal, -20% range, -30% activation

Standard 60-80% EM 20-40% Thermal, +20% range, -35% activation, (come up with a different name)

Infrared 20-40% EM / 60-80% Thermal, +20% range, -35% activation

Microwave 60-80% EM 20-40% Thermal, +50% range, -15% activation

Radio 20-40% EM / 60-80% Thermal, +50% range, -15% activation

Damage on the longer ranges ones need to be adjusted up to create meaningful choices when compared with Scorch and Aurora especially for the faction versions of the crystals.

Conflagration suffers from a tracking penalty on a weapons system that doesn't have great tracking anyway, on ships that have inherent poor range control due to both low speed and limited number of mid slots. I would suggest removing the tracking penalty and increasing the activation penalty in light of above changes.

If these changes seem to powerful, I would suggest having crystal damage happen faster, including on T1 crystals, with adjustments to build costs to compensate for actual usage of ammo. And or having the time it takes to change crystals be increased from 1 second to some where in the 2-5 second range. So you can't instantly switch damage types.

1. Nerf scorch
2. Make gamma the best all around ammo type because blue lazors are pretty.