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Posted - 2005.12.05 09:36:00 -
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 Originally by: Necrologic
Everybody knows assault frigates pritty much suck in comparison to interceptors. They have less firepower due to inty double damage bonuses, they have less speed and so cannot catch anything much, they have more mass so they can't escape larger targets, and their tanks arn't good enough to take on larger targets. Interceptor speed tanking is much better than af armor or shield tanking. To make matters worse, we now have interdictors coming. They actually have less mass and more speed than assault frigs, despite being based off destroyers (t1 destroyers have less mass to)...
Rifter= 11,00,000kg / 300m/s
Claw= 1,125,000kg / 475m/s
Wolf= 1,825,000kg / 295m/s
Thrasher= 1,500,000kg / 240m/s
Sabre= 1,500,000kg / 455m/s
I think it is clear that assault frigs are soon going to be totally useless once interdictors are in. They will have less firepower, way less speed, and only slightly better tanks. It is really time for AFs to get fixed. They need their missing 4th bonus (another dmg wouldn't hurt to bring them inline with ceptor's dmg output), and the crappy ones need the slots they are missing. They also need either a speed increase or mass reduction. It is important that they not usurp the role of the interceptor, so i think it should just be a mass reduction (faster accel and warp speed) so the inties still have the advantage of being able to close and have higher warp speeds.
Ever tried shooting an AF while in a battleship? Then switch to drones and get some better results, but it still doesn't splat as fast as you'd want, while an interceptors becomes a laughable splatter of grease.
AF's are great hunters, especially for killing other frigates. My Enyo usually greases anything around it's own size, although it may get in trouble with certain other Assaults (Harpy in snipermode that comes in at enough range), plus if I see a Hac I just run the hell away. Even if the Hac may have problems hitting you (we had a zealot shooting a wolf; the wolf laughed), the assault frigate simply will have problems penetrating the base tank on these ships.
Now I'm going to arbitrarily compare some numbers on a Taranis, Enyo and Nemesis (Nemesis added for general hiliarity).
Mass / Base Speed:
Taranis - 1,075,000 / 420m/s
Enyo - 1,950,000 / 240m/s
Nemesis - 2,975,000 / 205m/s
Armor (base armor value multiplied with resistances):
Taranis - 1119.69
Enyo - 3385.59
Nemesis - 857.24
Capacitor / Recharge Time:
Taranis - 275 / 206.25s
Enyo - 275 / 150s
Nemesis - 235 / 188s
Signature:
Taranis - 36
Enyo - 33
Nemesis - 48
I'll let someone else interpret this mass of numbers. I'm going back to bed.
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