Barbelo Valentinian
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.10.20 19:26:00 -
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I think there has to be some sort of "bull rush" ability for Gallente blasterboats, as others have said (MWD bonus of some kind?).
Gallente blasters are the equivalent of "melee" in other games - ultra-close range, ultra-high damage. To have "melee" without some kind of reasonably high-cost but effective (at decent skill level) means to get into range just makes nonsense of "melee".
Also, Gallente are supposed to be pretty high tech aren't they? It makes sense that they could be able to overcome their mass disadvantage for short periods in order to be able to "rush" their opponent by squeezing uber performance out of the MWD for short periods with respectable cooldowns (so you can maybe only use it once every few minutes).
I suggest a special ability for Gallente blasterboats that enables an overdrive injector in the lows to act as a sort of "hyper boost" for MWD, changing the nature of the MWD clickie to the "bull rush" ability (i.e. super fast for short time, long cooldown). That way you'd still have to sacrifice a little tank for gank, but with a PG increase, you could still fit a semi-decent armor tank even with sacrificing one slot to the "special" overdrive injector ability.
An alternative might be making dampeners much more effective on Gallente ships?
The rationale that the weapon type that needs to get in range, but has big fat heavy ships, should try and "tempt" the enemy to get into that range - that kind of makes sense, doesn't it? Maybe drone boats could work more like this, to bring opponents into close range for extra hurt from guns - as opposed to the blasterboats specifically, which could be bonused with the MWD thingy.
Oh yeah, and more PG please - at high skills, you should be able to fit your top class T2 weapons and some kind of semi-decent tank, like other races can. That's very rare with Gallente, which is ridiculous.
With nearly all Gallente ships, a lot of the time, it seems to make more sense to fit autos and arties, even taking into account the relevant bonuses and lack thereof. How borked is that? |