KingsGambit
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Posted - 2005.10.14 22:18:00 -
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The Kestrel is being addressed in an upcoming patch I understand, and the Raven gets a damage boost by increasing ROF, increasing DPS indirectly to all missile and damage types, at the expense of greater ammo consumption.
The Crow, Caracal and Cerberus however get bonuses to Kinetic missiles only, as I've pointed out in a thread I posted here. The argument from DrunkenOne has some fair numbers but I think he may be missing our point. Missiles strengths are zero cap usage, zero tracking/range issues and the ability to switch damage type. Now even if we don't get into the recent missile changes (new skills, explosion velocity, explosion radius), missiles are really not very powerful weapons. FoF missiles are also below par, but as they're an option no other pilots have they can be ignored.
The point here is that missile ships which are supposed to be excellent damage dealers with said missiles, are not...not unless they use kinetic missiles specifically. Now that is great if we only ever fight Guristas NPCs all day of every day, but that's not the case for the most part. These ships are no better with non-kinetic missiles than non-caldari, non-missile ships. An Apoc with a standard launcher and piranah missiles does the same damage as a Kes/Crow, a dedicated missile frigate.
Their damage output is desperately lacking, and with Caldari being the *missile* race, their dedicated missile ships are laughable with missiles, no better than any others...except when using kinetic missiles, which unless you're a Guristas, probably won't hurt very much. These are missile ships, they should be able to fire missiles with zero cap use, zero range/tracking issues AND the ability to vary damage type. At the moment, switching to anything other than thorn/bloodclaw/scourge is pointless, and even with decent skills wouldn't break a basic tank.
I would like to see either the missile bonus be applied to all missiles for the aforementioned missile ships, else restrict the bonus on the domi/ishtar to *only* use Ogre/Hammerhead/Hobgoblin drones, the Tempest to *only* Nuclear L ammo, and the Arma/Apoc to Radio L crystals only. See how fair that would be? No, I didn't think so.  Alternatively, change the bonuses to straight out ROF bonuses. It would increase dmg at the expense of ammo consumption and more reloading time, but would work across the board on any missile and launcher of appropriate class. The would also bring them in line with the Mega/Temp/Arma/etc/etc.
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