Yea I usually have a noticeable amount of PG (not to mention CPU) left and always feel dirty or like I've done something wrong... who knows, maybe I have?

vote on which is best.

Good changes, but I would like for blasters to get the same 10% damage buff that rails are getting. Also, its the medium hybrids that suffer the most IMO, so possibly increase their damage buff to 15%?

Good point, that might actually be the better question.
Without considering drones or missiles (advantage Rupture if included):

Moa (after buff) 200mm rails (three mfs), spike: 73km+13km = 86km, 157 dps, 422 alpha
Rupture 650mm Arties (two tracking enhancers, two gyros), tremor, 57km + 36 km = 93 km, 150 dps, 838 alpha
Rupture 650mm Arties (one tracking enhancer, three gyros), tremor, 50km + 28 km = 78 km, 168 dps, 886 alpha

As far as I can tell, the results are similar with other ammo types.

What compelling reason is there to fly a Moa over a Rupture? What is its niche? Shouldn't Moa dps be significantly higher at the same long ranges as a Rupture, since the Rupture alpha is 2 times as great? Rupture still has same or better dps.

Javelin, Gleam and Quake (all sizes): Removed tracking speed penalty, added 25% tracking speed bonus

Hail (all sizes): Removed falloff penalty

And after that hybrid will be overpowered. Ok for a boost, but don't joke.
BTW i like the concept to have 2 close range ammo whith different kin/therm %, very nice idea.

Medium and small blasters became a complete gamble when webbers where nerfed and scrams got boosted. That change was ment to be a boost to AF. That never played out. You acknowledge that there is a problem with webbers in conjunction with blasters but fail to understand the underlying issue. The combined effect of having a rather useless webber and at the same time getting your MWD shut off was the killer. A brutix can lose 75% of it's damage because a rifter is switching it's MWD off.

For Dreads adding the mass boost to siege modules made blasters a complete nono. If you get bumped at jump in you can't drop in siege for minutes. You might even have to relocate via warp out and back in to get into any reasonable range. If there are hostiles around that is simply not an option.

Fiddling around with fitting requirements or tracking wont change anything. The big gamble that are medium and small blasters is still there and I wont take it. Your unwillingness to take a change to the game back that didn't play out as expected is not going to make anything better.

Before we got T2 ships the low kin/therm resi on pretty much any PvP fit ship made up for the lower damage mod on rails. Increasing the base damage wont change that. Any T2 ship got either increased kin or therm resi. With combat prolongment and the RR boost volley damage got even more important in PvP then it used to be. A 10% dps increase wont change that.

I can't see how the proposed changes will improve anything in PvP.

If you really want to change something you need to let rails play in their own league. I would propose to turn rails upside down. Let the shortest rails do the most damage and then give those short rails a hefty damage boost. If you keep trying to have a difference between rails and beams/arties without making them different you will just keep shifting inferiority around.

In my eyes the root of all evil started at the very beginning of EVE when 4 races got introduced that where ment to fill the same role without being redundant. Nobody would argue about the inferiority of Apocs compared to Hulks because those different factions ships are meant to fulfill a different role. If you don't give up on the concept of having the same role for different ships or weapon systems you will just keep shifting FotMs around.

This has been the most insightful post i have read so far and one that i had a feeling for but wasn't quite able to put my finger on until now.

If blasters are so crappy then how about give every gallente ship a web bonus instead of just the new battlecruiser?

Still needs more DPS. Too close to AC's in DPS without any of the advantages.

"ok. lets boost both close and long range Projectiles, and also Lasers and say that this is Hybrid wepons boost actually" (c) CCP

i dont want to be politically incorrect, but... WTF IS THIS? WHAT IS THE POINT IN BOOSTING TRACKING WHEN BLASTER BOATS STILL CANT GET CLOSE ENOUGH?

this "boost" looks like bad excuse, and blaster boats will still only be able to stand against n00bs in hands of a skilled pilots. and i dont think that this is looks like good balance.

inb4 "whine more n00b... wait.. WHAT?"

Got through about 1/2 of the posts here, and I think many of you need to get on EFT and try some new loadouts, using the new stats, before you rant and rave about the proposed rebalancing.

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i dont want to be politically incorrect, but... WTF IS THIS? WHAT IS THE POINT IN BOOSTING TRACKING WHEN BLASTER BOATS STILL CANT GET CLOSE ENOUGH?