Having been looking recently at the ships I and others have been flying I have a question for the Eve community.

Do Medium ACs need some sort of buff?

It feels like they should do well in the area between 5-15k on a non range-bonused hull and 15-25k on a range bonused hull, but this simply isn't the case, they have awful projection even with a falloff bonus a-la Vaga/Cyna/Stabber while lacking the raw damage and tracking of Blasters. They feel like the weapon system that tries to do everything and ends up being good at nothing. Even null performs better than barrage in a lot of circumstances these days.

So, is it a problem, and if so how do we fix it, a raw damage increase would probably be in-appropriate, falloff boost maybe or a buff to Barrage, I'm not sure, but they do feel like they lack something compared to the other weapons in the class (Blasters, loldeeps/null, Lasers, lolscorch).

It's funny, I feel like we've come full circle on the nerf/buff cycle. When I first started the game it was 'Go Minmatar or go home' or 'AC kiters are OP' and all that stuff, because ACs had just been buffed and were top of their game, people were crying for buffs for blasters and gallente everywhere and nerfs for ACs.

Now that CCP has finally answered their calls, Minmatar has been left in the dust and now this thread marks the start of players calling for buffs on what was previously known as Winmatar.

And the cycle restarts.....

Null gives blasters too much range taking away the only real advantage AC's had.

except for the fitting, no cap, and variable damage advantages?

I don't think Null blasters are particularly good at range. Certain range-bonused hulls can kind of get away with kiting (a lot of blaster boats have falloff bonuses), but even then their range projection will still be worse than autos. If that's a problem, then you should change the bonuses on blaster platforms.

Here's a hint....they never were! If you are kiting anything with auto's you'll be lucky to be actually applying anything near to 50% of your 'paper' dps to your target.

blaster are better than AC on all sizes not only on medium guns, plus ccp keep boosting gall hulls and nerf minmatar ones, personally being capable to fly all races with equal skills i almost never fly minmatar ships even if my char was born as minmatar and im very attached to them but there is no reason to fly minmatar ship other than role play

This is not true, there are plenty of hulls that are good at it. However, they usually have range bonuses and/or fit a bunch of range mods (vaga for example)

Sure, but you'll be doing a lot more than 50% of your paper DPS.

The vagabond is really the only one that has decent range and dps on autos.. Excluding large autos of course.

except for the fitting, no cap, and variable damage advantages?

Many ships have resist holes, and if you are familiar enough with the hull you can ascertain from a cookie cutter fit which ammo to choose. EHPpDT stats vary wildly from hull to hull and from one application to another.

Moreover, if you use a ship that projects a fixed damage type, there are a number of hulls that are out of reach to you due to racial hull resists. With flexible ammo, you can engage them better.

Big Issues with different guns though is the ammo, and how (near ?) identical penalties to those t2-ammo sorts just render some useless, and some OP.

Just Scorch is strongly overpowered and is in desperate need of a rangenerf or damagenerf. Currently Scorch is to good. It's so good I dropped said-to-be-OP ACs a long time ago, even when they were still called OP, just to get dat scorch loaded.
Blasters using null are better on ALL accounts compared to autocannons (similiar tracking, more usable range, drastically higher damage output)
Rage/Javelin ammo are imo both good, javelins drastically increase your range, while the drawbacks of rage ammo are - in space - not noticable compared to navy, that though is my perception.

Hail is just ********, even with higher paper-dps it's still the WRONG choice over fusion. Barrage is way to weak compared to RF ammo on similiar ranges. It's nice though to tickle things beyond RF range, though that's about it. Both ammosorts wuold rather be fine if they were to be pure explosive, but with that kin/exp mix, they're just crap.

Autocannons are acceptable thanks to selectable damage type and capless guns, the huge magazine is wayne, as your RoF is crazy aswell, that's not a pro. So selectable damage, the one thing ACs don't suck terribly at, thankfully that trait is strong enough to equalize the disadvantages.




If you are just hitting him with autocannons, you could actually also hit him for real, actual damage, using scorch or certainly better using null on a similiar designed blasterboat.

Many ships have resist holes, and if you are familiar enough with the hull you can ascertain from a cookie cutter fit which ammo to choose. EHPpDT stats vary wildly from hull to hull and from one application to another.

Moreover, if you use a ship that projects a fixed damage type, there are a number of hulls that are out of reach to you due to racial hull resists. With flexible ammo, you can engage them better.

Lol when I started, Torps were the weapon of choice... Then followed by Blasters... Then followed by AC's... Then followed by Lasers... Then back to AC's.... Now back to Blasters...