Well if I'm paying 40+ mil for a hull on a frigate I'd like to have 125m3 / 50MBit for the drones, but that's just how I feel about it.

A full flight of medium drones...
+50% to drone damage & HP...

Hell no... that's simply broken & OP.

Much more reasonable:
25 mb bandwidth & 25% bonus to drone damage & HP.

Read above mate please, i states damage and hp bonus would only apply to lights....
Unbonused Hammerheads would be 195DPS, Bonused would be 292.5 DPS.

"i think the ships drone damage bonus should only affect lights as you can see the dps on Hammerheads is a bit extreme with the bonus."

So therefore when fighting a cruiser you will still have slightly more dps with mediums than lights.

I definitely support the Worm getting more CPU; it's very tight on it. I also agree that it doesn't really shine compared to any of the AFs anymore despite it's much greater cost.

I don't however accept the idea of launching bigger drones from the Worm; a team of five very heavily bonused light drones should definitely happen, but no mediums or sentries. Keep the 50 m^3 bandwidth by default, and switch the Gallente frigate bonus to a 25% increase to drone damage and HP, with Caldari remaining the shield resist bonus.

I would also consider boosting it's base shields slightly more, as well as increasing it's shipboard DPS (Two launchers, but perhaps with new special abilities being a 75-100% bonus to rocket and light missile damage in addition to flight time perhaps). It's a pirate frigate, and as such should be both expensive, but very worth it. If not the missile based damage increase, I'd definitely advocate the addition of a fifth med slot and more CPU still, exact numbers pending.

Frigate

It needs to be able to fit blasters.

Blaster Worms are the best.

i think the problem with the worm is that you drank it.........

its a tequila reference

This is because of how easy it is to rip another frigate apart with drones.

I like my Worm. It was the first pirate frigate I ever bought. It used to make a damn good exploration frigate, before I got into a hawk.

If you really feel that the worm needs 'fixing', then iI suggest you re-evalute your reaons why you feel it's broken. Is it the hull thats the problem, or is it another reason? (Drones are screwed, especially now with the AI changes. That is probably a much bigger problem.)

The problem you have here is your trying to compare a frigate to a cruiser and a battleship. You should be comparing it to other frigates. (Maybe destroyers at a push.)

The ishkur and the merlin are the realistic combination in this circumstance. The worm recieves the 5%, (soon to be 4%,) shield resist bonus from the merlin, as well as its slot layout. It also recieves the 25mb bandwidth of the ishkur, (the same as the tristan,) and it recieves the +5m3 drone bay that the ishkur does.

The OP would give the Worm the same sort drone capacity as a curse/pilgrim. I see no logical reason to give a pirate frigate the same level of drone potential as a T2 cruiser. NO frigate recieves a damage bonus to it's drones. This is because of how easy it is to rip another frigate apart with drones.

I like my Worm. It was the first pirate frigate I ever bought. It used to make a damn good exploration frigate, before I got into a hawk.

If you really feel that the worm needs 'fixing', then iI suggest you re-evalute your reaons why you feel it's broken. Is it the hull thats the problem, or is it another reason? (Drones are screwed, especially now with the AI changes. That is probably a much bigger problem.)

i just think a bit more fitting capability and the 125m3 / 50Mbit will bring it into its worth. Being able to take on some cruisers and most frigates.

EDIT:
If I were to buy a Worm now this is probably how I would fit it with its current layout.
-High-
x2 Rocket Launcher II
x1 free slot
-Medium-
x1 1MN Afterburner II
x1 Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
x1 Adaptive Invulnerablity Field II
x1 Medium Shield Extender II
-Low-
x1 Damage Control II
x1 Drone Damage Amplifier II
x1 Nanofiber internal Structure II
-Drones-
x5 Hobgoblin II
x5 Warrior II
-Implants-
x1 Genolution Core Augmentation CA-1
x1 Genolution Core Augmentation CA-2
x1 Inherent Implants 'Squire' Engineering EG-603
-12.9K EHP, 56.1% Stable, 1063m/sec, 45DPS Rockets (Rage) / 122 DPS Drones (Hobs)-

Now if you gave it the fitting capability and drone changes I suggested you would be able to do the following.
-High-
x2 Rocket Launcher II
x1 Small Unsable Power Fluctuator I
-Medium-
x1 1MN Afterburner II
x1 Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
x1 Adaptive Invulnerablity Field II
x1 Medium Shield Extender II
-Low-
x1 Damage Control II
x1 Drone Damage Amplifier II
x1 Nanofiber internal Structure II
-Drones-
x5 Hobgoblin II
x5 Warrior II
x5 Hornet EC-300
x5 Hammerhead II
-Implants-
x1 Genolution Core Augmentation CA-1
x1 Genolution Core Augmentation CA-2
x1 Inherent Implants 'Squire' Engineering EG-603
-12.9K EHP, 1m22s Cap, 1063m/sec, 45DPS Rockets (Rage) / 183 DPS Drones (Hobs), 292.5 DPS (Hammer) -

I think this is fair enough for a 50mil Frigate hull, mind you this change the price of it would increase a bit i think. But i think the ships drone damage bonus should only affect lights as you can see the dps on Hammerheads is a bit extreme with the bonus.

340 dps on a frig with almost no range problem would be ******* OP, a daredevil do 350dps before overload at 2km range and with no tank except for a damage control.

25mb with a 50% bonus to dmg and hp would be plenty of a boost to make the thing useable.

Im going to tell you like i told the other guy before, go back and read it properly.

Unbonused Hammerheads would be 195DPS, Bonused would be 292.5 DPS.

"i think the ships drone damage bonus should only affect lights as you can see the dps on Hammerheads is a bit extreme with the bonus."

So therefore when fighting a cruiser you will still have slightly more dps with mediums than lights.

It's easier for frigates to rip drones apart. As things stand, the Dramiel has 60% of the Worm's drone DPS, which is really a bit silly. It certainly needs a drone damage/HP bonus. More CPU too. I'd also toy with a third launcher slot, or changing the missile velocity bonus to a damage/ROF one.

As for Guristas in general, well, they have a problem similar to that of Sansha - they have no "special ability", while the other pirate factions have unique abilities - neuts, webs, mobility - but Guristas and Sansha are just generic gank 'n' tank ships. I really don't know what a Guristas special theme would be though. Bonused ECM Bursts?