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Bienator II
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Posted - 2013.10.02 16:07:00 -
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sentinel (solo) pilot here. Increased lockrange is AWESOME and always was my main complain about the ship.
More hp/speed/cap recharge is all nice to have - i don't say no but it isn't gamechaning. Thanks for all of those tweaks!
The neut range however throws it totally out of balance. A year ago sentinel was a ship which required some piloting skill so you can fly it. One mistake and you where dead. (very similar to a slicer in this regard.. just less agile and slower). But now since you can fitt AARs on it you can just get out of scram range again and again. Piloting mistakes don't matter much anymore, its a very forgivable and safe ship. Every local tank buff helped the sentinel, since it buffed the sentinel without buffing the opponent (... neuts). Drone boats or even condors or dragoons where a huge problem for a sentinel pilot a year ago.. but they are no longer a big issue.
This being said, the sentinel already is a very good ship even without the buff. Please don't give it neut range it just makes it ridiculous overpowered in my opinion. If you still like to buff it give it bandwidth for another drone or something like that.
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HOWEVER if you compare it to broken mechanics like ECM you could still say its a necessary buff. If a griffin can silent your ship from 70k away why shouldn't you be able to neut at least half the range? But i always saw ECM as broken mechanic and therefore never hoped that other ewar would be adjusted to be in line with it.
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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
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Posted - 2013.10.02 22:16:00 -
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Travasty Space wrote:Zarnak Wulf wrote:Akturous wrote:Honestly, I was hoping for a speed increase, hp buff and .....covert ops cloaks, since that role isn't filled, a cheaper covert ops bridgeable ewar ship that can be used effectively with a gang of bombers.
Still, I'll not complain about having EAF V. I think you, me and at least two other dudes have EAF V. Hey bro I've got it too!
i had it before it was cool!
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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
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Posted - 2013.10.09 15:30:00 -
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CCP Rise wrote:Alright you win !
Yesterday spent some time talking internally and I think I'm going to make some tweaks to tone them down a little. Not sure exactly what the numbers will be yet and I'm not in the office today but I'll post here letting you know when we work something out.
Thanks for the help
whatever you do, don't touch sentinels bandwidth please
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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
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Posted - 2013.10.10 03:54:00 -
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the main reason why you didn't see EWAR frigs in fleets was the lock range. The T1 variant did basically the same thing and had a lockrange which made the ewar bonus useful.
example: sentinel was just a worse crucifier if all you needed was a frig with TDs. Cruicifier had almost twice the lock range out of the box. This means that you usually died to long range turret boats before you where even able to burn into lock range - sentinel just didn't do its job. You see the same thing with griffins and the T2 variant. A stock griffin can jam you from 70k, the old T2 variant cant.
all what was needed was the lock range. I don't care about the neut range buff of the sentinel, speed or hp buff - its already fine as it is IMO, the lock range buff however changes everything.
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Bienator II
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Posted - 2013.10.11 14:24:00 -
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With three drones the sentinel is pretty much useless for my playstyle. But it wouldn't be a challange to solo with this ship anymore, given those neut ranges. Its probably better to nerf it to the ground like you did. On the other hand, you could just kept the TQ version and increased lockrange without the nerf.
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Bienator II
madmen of the skies
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Posted - 2013.10.11 15:02:00 -
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what makes me sad is that a ship which once required skill to fly like the sentinel will probably end up as better griffin driven by multiboxed alts and only used after the bait caught something. But at least i had my fun while it lasted.
trading 10km neutrange for hobgoblin.
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