Kraschyn Thek'athor
Asgard Ammunitions
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Posted - 2013.07.19 23:07:00 -
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What role does a HAC have?
It is not an PvE ship! T3s does that a lot better.
It is not a good mining ship. (sorry couldn*t resist).
It is a PvP ship.
It should be an specialisation of Attack and Combat Cruisers.
Against whom?
T3 Fleets?
T1 Cruiser Fleets?
Battleships?
Fleet Doctrin in big fleets include enough webbers to make all signature tanking void.
The 50% MWD signature reduction on Assault Frigs is nice, but AFs are not "fleet" ships, they are roamers.
So, while T1 Cruisers can become fleet ships, thanks to cost effective, T2 cannot. The MWD signature increase makes only sense if you are beyond Webber Range (60km). But for snipping, the Naga/Oracle are far superior, while cheaper and can be insured.
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The 50% MWD signature reduction is useless on Cruiser hulls, used for fleet duties.
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1. Change
Let all T2s become insureable. That stuff is expensive. T1 is to close in performance and completly superior cost-effectie through insurance. It is an outdated Idea.
2. In case, no insurrance, HACs need an rolebonus that helps them specialises against their natural enemy.
The Battleship-Fleet with webber support.
The enemy of signature tanking is the webber. So, rolebonus, Webber are only 25% effective against the HAC.
Harsh, but for ships costing close to an BS with no insurance, there must be some specilisation as BS hunters.
You can even split up the HACs in a Fleet and a Roaming HAC Line. One with MWD Signature reduction, one with Webber-resistance. |
Kraschyn Thek'athor
Asgard Ammunitions
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Posted - 2013.07.20 03:23:00 -
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MeBiatch wrote:
what if scrams did not turn off the hacs mwd? that would be a nifty bonus eh?
Role Bonus:
Micro Warp Drive immune to Warp Scrambler
that would make them unique and worth the isk investment over comparable alternatives...
Scram-Immunity helps only HACs using MWD.
That would only be viable for an Roaming-Role HAC (Vagabond).
For an fleet-HAC, we need something different.
Different approach:
For the fleet-hac would be an big resistance increase Role Bonus for the fleet-hac an different approach, that is only viable against Large and XL Weapons. Maybe even fixed Resistance values against Large/XL weapons. Which would offer FCs to use HACs only with Plates/Shield Extenders and more speed/damage slots, but with the risk that an BC/Cruiser fleet does a lot more damage or more well rounded fittings with resistance modules.
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