AtomicConnor
Adhocracy Incorporated
Adhocracy
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Posted - 2013.08.11 20:22:00 -
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I'm just going to say this once and I'm not going to post in this thread ever again.
ECM is the killer of solo/small gang PvP
Let's say for example, I'm in an Arty-Kitey Wolf. I fly around and I run into a gatecamp that I think I can kite away and take on. Say it's a Stiltto, Flycatcher, Thorax, and Hookbill, just as an example. Ok, I get the first move in this fight, so I'll just burn straight away in the direction furthest from the Stiltto. The Stiletto will probably go down in only 2-3 volleys, and the Hookbill will probably go down in a similar number of volleys (depending on his fit). Flycatcher and Thorax will not be fast enough to catch me. Alright, I can do this. I burn away, and put a volley into the Stiltto, wiping out his shields. Then, a Falcon decloaks, and perma-jams my frigate. At this point, the Falcon has enough jams on me to make sure that the chance that I will get a lock on the Stiltto and kill him, is next to 0. The Stiletto catches up to me, scrams me, then waits for the rest of his friends to come up and ***** on my killmail. There is literally nothing I can do to save myself, I am officially screwed. They call in a Sabre while they hold me down, and I loose the pod as well.
A doable fight turned impossible by a single jamming ship. If it were damps, I could have just let the Stiltto in closer before blapping him. If it were TD's, I'd just have to change my flight path to lower transversal with the inty for a single crucial second. With jams.....I die. Explain to me what I could have possibly done in this situation to save my ship.
Aliventi makes the argument that the Falcon pilot trained for months to fly that ship well. Well, I trained for months to fly my Deimos well. Should I still get jammed really often? Also, that Falcon can appear at any moment. I often don't know going into a fight that a Falcon is going to decloak and insta-win the fight for his friends. Don't make the argument that I could have fit a mid-slot ECCM module on my Deimos, because that ship only has 3 mids as it stands. And I need a prop mod to survive, a scram to kill things, and a cap booster to run my reps (or an LSE if it's a shield Deimos).
ECM drones are just as OP. Far too many Vagabonds have escaped the grasp of my Scram/Web in a 1v1 by getting a lucky jam with ECM drones. Don't make the argument that I could have destroyed the ECM drones, because guess what, sometimes, they jam on the first cycle. A perfect example of even if you aren't perma-jammed, 20 seconds can make-or-break a fight.
As a person who has been solo PvPing almost every day he plays EVE for over a year now, I can say that ECM has ruined more fights for me than any other thing in the game. I can fight the blob. I can't fight my ship not doing anything. |