The Domi is balanced with a 10 percent bonus. There are so many other ships in the game that need a balance pass and the Domi is not one of them. Especially when removing their DPS is EASY compared to removing DPS of a turret or missile ship.

So yes It could have stood that way for 3-6 years and been fine. Only fools were complaining about the domi and it is saddening to see CCP accepting the arguement of fools instead of focusing development time on aspects of the game that need changing now. (Logistics need so much development time)

This is indeed not taking any real time. Not any proper time at all looking at the realistic use of this ship as opposed to a stupid tournament.

The nerfs have to stop now. You let this change go through on this already balanced ship. And it will be Drake 2.0 The Domi will be the cause of all EVE Online's ills and then CCP will be more than happy to nerf it again and again.

The Domi is being turned into a scapegoat. And I do not accept that.

What feedback where they getting to start? Where were the countless topics saying "OMFG DAT DOMI TOO GOOD NERF IT NAO!!!111"

Who asked them to make this change? Especially when there have been countless topics to do something about the ability to AFK while cloaked, Logi UI issues and lack of Killboard, Drone UI, etc..

We were idiots when we thought the first nerf to the Drake was going to be anything but a long line of blame the Drake for everything. And now we want the Domi to be that again? I think not. Stop the nerf to an already balanced ship now and it won't be further nerfed later.

This is an unwanted, pointless change that further punishes those who bother to train to actually fly these ships. On a ship that is already balanced.

It is a complete waste of development resources when far more important changes need the time now.

Here is the sentence that irks me most of all.



Specifically.

It is quite comedy that you balancing folks at CCP now consider drones a "primary weapon" on par with missiles or turrets.
How many missile launchers or turrets are destroyable by being shot or smartbombed or killed by rats?
How many missile launchers and turrets often decide to stop firing by themselves or just stop in space like drones often do?
How often do you have to warp off leaving your full rack of turrets or launchers on the field if you even moved 2500m?

Drones have some terrible drawbacks you people at CCP selectively forget and don't factor in, before declaring them a "primary weapon" and the recently revamped Domi 'imbalanced'.

If you're saying there's an issue with Sentry drone Domis? Please point to the overwhelming evidence of imbalance on TQ...
But oh wait....you've actually got no evidence because you'll probably see many more people flying Geddons as a result of the BS changes rather than Domis - so where's the Geddon nerf? And its nothing to do with AT11, except your only evidence of Domi 'ownage' is in AT11.... so... of course we will believe you CCP Rise that this change has nothing to do with AT11.

Quite simply an unnecessary change prompted by a long standing CCP desire to homogenize the traditional Gallente 'drone race' superiority, under the guise of game balance. Tosh.

I hope you are not comparing Gardes to a long range system. Their base optimal is 20k'ish, and their fall off is like 5. Their closest comparable turret probably is pulse lasers, except they can be shot out of space and can't move.

Pulses occupy an odd point in the lineup. They get ranges comparable to long range weapons, with tracking and damage associated with short range weapons.

Not to concerned with the balancing. However between Sisi and Tranq with the same RR fit I went from -170.1 GJ/s on Tranq to -264.8 GJ/s on Sisi. Looks like you messed with more than just drone bonus on the Dominix.

I would agree but something has been changed. i'll post link of both fitting windows.

http://i.imgur.com/Q552ltf.jpg Tranq Fit

http://i.imgur.com/PIvc8nF.jpg Sisi Fit

Sisi fit shows i have 16 less cap and almost 2s more recharge but the major diff is the Excess cap recharge rate is so different.
Also show's i have less CPU and Power grid.

Either way, Gardes are fine. They are directly comparable to Pulse Lasers, except for the differences between sentries and turrets. They can be stretched out to enormous ranges for their damage, but only with the dedication of a specific ship, multiple mid slots, at least one high slot, and a rig or two. I daresay you would see similar results if you did the same for Pulse Lasers, except you have more options and flexibility in the use of the lasers.