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Trii Seo
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Posted - 2013.08.12 08:25:00 -
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They'll probably get around to dealing with it when they rebalance the black ops in general. I guess the initial idea was "a battleship shouldn't warp cloaked" which kind of doesn't make sense since with Black Ops 3 or higher you can warp straight after dropping cloak if you were aligned.
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Trii Seo
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Posted - 2013.08.12 09:58:00 -
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Well all things considered, they're still battleships and the only thing actually changing would be them being cloaked while in warp. Right now they can decloak and warp immediately anyway.
(I would not take my chances with a gatecamp in a damn battleship anyway.)
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Trii Seo
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Posted - 2013.08.12 12:28:00 -
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It's actually pretty useless idea since one does not just "warp" in a black ops. The peasant with a cyno warps and takes gates, you await his signal and jump on top of already caught prey to murder it and claim the killmail.
This is how 1% does it~
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Posted - 2013.08.13 16:15:00 -
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I get the stinking feeling a lot of people here not only haven't flown a blackops, they also don't have a clue as to how it should be used. Not that I disagree they deserve some love, but:
- If you're warping out as a blackops BS, you shouldn't really be cloaked. You likely just ganked someone and your cap booster is cycling so that you can jump to an extraction cyno right after exiting warp.
- If you're warping anywhere, just cloak on landing. It's a battleship, it has smaller fleet members left for it to scout or tackle things.
Granted here, it could use one thing: a bonus negating scanres penalty. The scanres is already obnoxiously low.
As for the matter of gank&tank... to have both in line with T1 variants would hugely imbalance the Black Ops. Let's not forget the massive advantage it has: jump drive (not to mention undetectable cynos that last 1/10 of the cycle time etc.) and a portal generator. It's a battleship that can bypass whatever defences are between itself and the target with a single jump and without the risk of fielding a Titan to bridge it.
Given their role as covert harassment ships, Black Ops should probably be given a damage increase. Be the Stealth Bombers among battleships, fragile but able to kill off an isolated target very quickly.
As for the covert cloak, to think of it, there's a point to it being non-covert. If someone manages to catch one in the field, he deserves at least a shot at killing it. "Covert" does not mean "Completely uncatchable and invulnerable" it means "damn hard to catch if the pilot is good"
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