Do you realise the speed a 10% mwd speed give to a ship?

Great to see CCP address the issue and obviously they are tracking on the fact that the ships using them are all jacked up. Unless this is addressed all these changes are frankly a minor band-aid, but I'll add a few more 2 cents on the table:

1) Why is the Mrym and the Ishkur not gettting the speed/agility boost? You can't tell me they are too fast already and the poor Myrm needs some help.

CCP Tallest brings yet more news of balancing. This time he tells us what he's doing to hybrid weapons and tech II ammo this winter!

Check it out right here and make sure you tell Tallest what your thoughts are about the changes. He's waiting for your feedback.

The proteus in particular is difficult to fit so once these changes hit maybe take another look at mega hulls, bc hulls, t3 and assault ships??

I'd like to see Gallente different.. maybe add some special drone bonuses for the Gallente ships (for eg, make web drones actually usefull on gallente ships, so that we have a chance to catch up with others). Maybe even go further and design a new kind of drone (eg, sentry drones that can move with your ship, might give few ships sniper roles then)..

I am pretty sure that the way to save this race is revival and fixing of drones combined with some minor blaster/rail changes. The reason I made a Gallente character, back then, was this illusion that the Gallente were DRONES race, combination of few weapon systems, etc .. (you guys still remember the massive drone boat that the Domi was.. feared it was.. not mocked for its ugly looks, like today :))

Bring those days back I say!

All railgun turrets: +10% to Damage modifier

How does it work ? I'm not comfortable with turret formulas and how bonus works (Turret + Skills + Ship Bonus+ Riggs + Implants etc...)* But does a +10% to Damage modifier means mandatory +10% DPS...I'm not sure about that and I feel that it can be more...

* I had read an excelent post about how bonus work and how they apply (Skills > Riggs with penality or not etc..) but I can't find it anymore. Anyone can link it or PM it to me. Tvm !

I want to believe that 10% damage and a little more leeway on grid/cpu will make headway for rails, but I have serious doubts.

Blasters definitely need a damage increase on reflection. Now, this might look very high on paper, but perhaps a 20% increase to damage in addition to these changes. This way, whilst their damage dealt in close proximity is very high, they still have similar TTKGÇÖs as their peers, due to the fact that they have more travelling than any other ships to get into their optimal range GÇô i.e they accrue more damage in the process.
If I take 2 well established ships, the hurricane and a Brutix: (fittings ripped mercilessly from Battleclinic, because I LOST MY EFT BACKUPS >.>)

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We can see that DPS is not too far apart, (768 dps vs 592 dps), yet the speed of a hurricane is 1434 m/s vs the Brutix's 1112 m/s (before the change). Tank is only different by 4k EHP.

10 m/s is not going to effect this hugely. The tanking abilities are relatively close, as are the dps abilities, considering the hurricane can kite outside the Brutix's maximum 9km effective range, as it is the faster ship. Now, if the Brutix was given greater damage, (20% increase), we see its DPS rise to 921 dps. There is a larger difference, but now, that is accounted for by the hurricanes ability to kite the target, as well as the fact that Brutix will recieve more damage attempting to get into that range. What it does mean, however, is that when it is in range, it will hurt and hurt hard, evening out this fight somewhat.

Again, maybe 20% is too far, maybe 10% would suffice. All I know is that blasters and rails both need a bit more damage, to really make their roles attractive alternatives. It seems this buff does not go far enough. To paraphrase others here, why would you fly blasters over AC's as it stands? This buff, compared to the projectile buff is impotent.

That's becoming more and more apparent.

I dislike power creep, I have to say. Perhaps nerfing projectiles in line with other weapon systems is a better idea.

The agility change is an agility buff. The ships will be more agile.

The Dominix will still not benefit from the buff as its limp **** power grid holds it back from being an awesome cheap solo or buffer gank/tank ship. Was hoping to fit a full rack of large neutron II's with buffer fit or large electron II's and double rep, double cap injection with this expansion, but thatGÇÖs not going to happen.