I am an interceptor pilot with over 700 sucessfull initial tackles and therfore kills in the last 5 months. I am purely piloting this ships in nullsec day in day out.

I cannot understand the cheer for this changes and I explain it to me that most of the people cheering are not flying this things often - and if - not really correctly.

I dont need bubble immunity, a Interceptor is fast enough so a bubble hardly exists. There are even situations where I want to land in a bubble. Now my immunity saves some of the prey from beeing catched. I dont say its complete bullshit but its really not something the interceptor really needed. And nothing to freak out about it. ( As already stated the interdictor really needed this not interceptors. )

Warping instant feels like teleporting in some ranges not like flying a spaceship. So basically we will have this frigs now as uncatchable " I-travel-where-I-want" frigates. And interceptors wont catch them too.

Taking the example of the ares with no boni-links.

After the Patch it will loose both in HP and Speed significantly ( The increase in Speed with a Prop mod due to the mass loss is a blant lie as testet on SiSi )

Due to this you cant fit nanos anymore as the Interceptor were already too much of a paper plane and their speed didnt help a **** especially when they need to apply a short point they die way too fast even with all existing piloting tricks which are already incredible hard to pull off.

I still need a ionic field rig for sufficient targeting range. So no way to make up for the speed loss.

The tracking bonus was actually usefull against drones. The damage "increase" as we have it now on sisi is laughable and doesnt make up for the loss.

Combined with the speed loss drones are even more dangerous to us now as they were before.

All in all this is a unbelievable nerf to this particular ship were we needed a Buff so bad to be able to get competitive again towards ships we need to tackle and hold that got buffed into the sky over the last patches.

So are we going to get this old model for the raptor / crow?

Fozzie, this guy ^ nailed it.

Remove this stupid bubble immunity, give all the interceptors another slot. Personally as a long time interceptor pilot I think all the tackle specialized ones should have the ability to fit a nosferatu so that they can get up close and scram tackle ships with neuts. They should all have the ability to fit a fair amount of tank without hurting their mobility or general role on the battlefield. The tackle interceptors should all have bonuses and damage application good enough to be able to handle a wave of warriors. The combat interceptors should in my opinion be similar to AFs in dps potential but exchange a substantially lower tank(about half, kinda what they have now) for speed. The role of the combat ceptors has always been anti-tackle.

Buffing combat ceptors like I proposed would give a sense of scalability. As long as you don't make them very tanky we shouldn't get the problem that we had with the dramiel back in 2011 since it was pretty much like an interceptor and an AF built into the same ship.

to everyone saying you need a nos to keep a scram on a ship with a neut

you really don't

neuts don't turn scrams off unless you are the unluckiest person in the entire world, a scram needs 0.75GJ to activate, even from 0 capacitor a stiletto will regenerate that in 1/6th of a second. if you're having trouble keeping a scram running against a 12 second cycle time med neut (or heaven forbid, a 24 second cycle heavy neut) then i don't know what to tell you

The bubble immunity + the new warp speed makes ceptors silly.

What is supposed to catch these?

True

The ability to lock targets as you enter grid but are still in warp, not able to activate modules, just lock the target, will give a true interceptor feel to it.

However the warp speed! wow those little buggers are so quick off the mark now!!

You'll also notice we kinda devestated the cargo capacity of all the Interceptors. The intention is that if you want to use their bubble immunity for a cyno ship, you have to put some work into it and gimp your fit a tad.

I just fought a jaguar in my medium neut hurricane, fight lasted 2 minutes and I turned of his scram 5+ times. I know jag doesn't have the cap bonus but he did have a nos.

but yeah if you're not gonna give us lockrange at least put the turret slots back on the malediction

Why would you want the turret slots back? As far as I can see, it has plenty of fitting room for both rockets and light missile launchers, in both brawling and tackle configurations. What specific fit do you have in mind?

[Malediction, a1]

Damage Control II
Energized Armor Layering Membrane II
200mm Reinforced Steel Plates II

Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
1MN Afterburner II
Warp Disruptor II

125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
Core Probe Launcher I, Sisters Core Scanner Probe /OFFLINE

Small Ionic Field Projector I
Small Ionic Field Projector I



is the fit i used to use for armor fleets, was very good at staying alive on pretty hostile grids
i'm sure its not a perfect fit or absolutely fantastic or anything, but its nice to have the option to use very low fitting anti-drone weapons and use your cpu/pg elsewhere

Fair enough, I hadn't considered that you might want dualprop and a plate. However, afaict the rubicon malediction can do basically the same thing:

[Malediction, a1 rubicon]
Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
200mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Damage Control II
Adaptive Nano Plating II

Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
1MN Afterburner II
Warp Disruptor II

Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket

Small Ionic Field Projector I
Small Ionic Field Projector I

Gains an extra 100 EHP, slightly better resists, and 10 km of lock range in exchange for the offlined probe launcher; overall, I'd say that's a pretty good trade.

The bubble immunity + the new warp speed makes ceptors silly.

What is supposed to catch these?