Rod Blaine
Gilded Goose Brokerage
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Posted - 2011.10.30 11:23:00 -
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You know what's funny? The current state of gunnery balance is nearly identical to (might be somewhat off,but not much) 2004-2006.
We have hybrid boats fitting arties (used ot be lasers too, so something got better at least), pulses and autos outdoing blasters at blaster optimal, rail dps only decent on paper but crappy in practice due to popular tank fits. It's all just like back then.
Last time pulses got nerfed a bit , and arties got nerfed a bit, while rails got a range/dps buff and blasters realy didnt get anything at all. It didn't change enough to make a real difference. Blaster boats never really took off, railboats never really had a specific role (although they worked well enough in sniper doctrines for a while due to good dps).
So excuse me for being sceptical about the preliminary buffs and suggestions here that do nothing but repeat the same thing tried before.
As i see it these are the three gallente 'niches' in pvp/pve:
- short range, high agility ships with face melting dps and a mediocre tank, centered around an ambush, kill, gtfo -doctrine, great for small scale pvp and viable at med scale with logis and an EHP tank. Problems: fail practical dps in optimal, fail tracking in optimal, fail agility, fail cap reservoirs (death by neut). Needs web and scram range bonused or tackle support to work, which is fine.
- long range railboats that do high dps at extreme range with high tracking and low alpha, used for fleet snipe stuff. Decent armor tanks make this a decent pve option as well, especially for low-sp pilots. Problems: this is not a true niche + cap use for rails/cap reservoir on railboats is fail. pve fits need too many concessions to cap stability with a full-size rail fit, taking away med, low and rig slots you should be using to fit that niche: damage, tracking, range, sb's.
- med range drone boats. Relying on damage projection at med range by dorne use and a good armor tank, combiend with some EW capabilities there's a viable pve and pvp niche here. As far as I can see this works well in pve, but not too well in pvp. Incorporating a bit more EW capability into these ships might be nice for that. |