Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
1287
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Posted - 2013.11.07 13:51:00 -
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Have flown these for a while, if the player skills are a major factor to decently pilot/use these pesky little things, their survivability on the other hand is pretty awful and can quickly burn 99% players trying this specific game play very hard to master.
I'll miss the double bubble paper tank dictor only because of the double bubble, never because of it's tank.
This new 3 bubble clip with a 60sec reload timer makes it a bit "weird", increase it up to 5 clip wouldn't hurt even if these won in tank it only profits in smaller/solo engagements, in big fights these are still the main target of anti support wings and will pop easily after spewing their 3 bble stuff.
The 5 clip change would actually help them jump in, pop a bble or two while running OH for their life, eventually manage to gtfo and drop again for another bble run before the 60sec timer.
With the 3 bble clip, despite the obvious tank reinforcement but also the agility/mass nerf, it will only require more Dictors but their survivability will still be the same in big fights (because of alpha) and thats why its rather hard to get pilots doing it, it's such an interesting role but also such a fast ticket home you guys need to actually get another approach of it imho.
Again, adding or increasing their firepower is ok for small/solo engagements, in big fights? - the guy better fit another extender or hardeners instead (I don't fit a single gun in my latest ones because worthless)
There are two support ships that don't need a single firepower unit: logistics and light dictors. They need speed, agility, tank and rep/bble power.
Logistics are ok, hell a bit more than just ok, we can safely say those are pretty close to op even.
Light dictors, but it's just my opinion, could use of extra tank/tackle/ewar slots instead of firepower, just remove completely all guns and let them use cover ops cloak (only light dictors) with 5 sec targeting delay cause they don't need it anyway, their job is to poop bbles but poop them wisely, not to bring 250 miserable dps on the table for the best of them in this department (Sabre).
Also, the covert ops cloaking ability in exchange of fire power would make this role so much more interesting and pesky to deal with then just drop arty canes/SFI (+10% tracking p/lvl) .
A bit like the Bomber, pesky dumbass thing it's either too late when you see it or just another KM if the guys does it wrong (and uncloak/bble will still leave it a few sec inside his own bble, so not OP at all)
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