From the perspective of a small gang, small ship, T1/empire faction Gallente pilot:

Gallente frigs are going to do very well in the next update. The comet is going to look very ugly to the naked eye, but it will perform extremely well in the field. These ships were already well balanced versus other empire faction frigs, now they get a little extra something that will put them over the top.

Armor tanked Exeqeror Navy Issue(ENI) at 2k m/s with boosts to hybrids is going to be really fun to fly. VNI will be fun too.

Catalyst vs. Thrasher: 266 vs 268 m/s baseline speed? Damn near even. Good enough for me. One prop mod in the low and Cat is faster. After years of getting kited and nueted by Thrasher pilots, now I'm only going to get nueted. :D

Proposed Thorax (180) vs Rupture(192): Two overdrive injectors on a Thorax makes it go about as fast as two nanofibers on a Rupture. With the other turret boosts... this is good enough for me for now. I think I'm going to enjoy flying the Thorax again.

Brutix (155) vs. Cyclone(165): Same deal. Two overdrive injectors on a Brutix is about as fast as two nanofibers on a Cyclone. This class of ship is largely obsolete, however.

Megathron(115) vs Tempest(120): Same deal.

Note: Myrm and Hyperion speed should have been boosted as well, but whatever...

Gallente hulls progressively get worse as size increases, but the "break even" point with Minmatar is now at about Tier 1 BC where before it was at the Velator.

Hoping CCP fixes range bonus to Null (which any persom pasing 7th grade algebra can figure out), until then I'm waiting for a chance to do "live fire" tests on Tranquility.

BTW, I completely understand the frustration of armor tanked blaster pilots wanting to travel long distances to get kills... it ain't gonna happen....

A sample size of 214 ships. Pro proof. Your proof also shows no one uses Amarr either.

Yes they aren't hugely popular, but they work and they work well in unison with other ships in a mixed gang.

The Drake and Cane are more popular I'd put that down to BC's being to go to ship for roaming/small gangs, and the Myrm not doing well in gangs, mainly due to its bonuses and its heavy drone use while the Brutix suffers from being a tier 1. You don't see many Ferox/Cyclones/Prophecys in gangs either.

Deimos has always had the issue of survivability compared to the Vaga and Zealot mainly due to a lack of grid, while the Ishtar again, doesn't make for a good gang ship. The Thorax is a excellent cheap ship and I've not seen many mixed gangs without one.

the Enyo/Ishkur make a decent showing, the Taranis is deadly and sees a lot of use.

Granted the Commandships are utter crap and aren't seen at all in gangs around my area.

Because it offers a huge boost to tracking\damage\survival

You didn't others have. This isn't all about you princess.

Gallente now have more options than Blasters and Drone boats with projectiles

Personally I've been using hybrids for the last 3 years with no complaints, and yes I can also use t2 projectiles and lasers. I've always preferred hybrids and so that's what I use...

Clueless blah blah blah

Personally I've been using hybrids for the last 3 years with no complaints, and yes I can also use t2 projectiles and lasers. I've always preferred hybrids and so that's what I use, going from how they perform on Tranq right now, these changes in my eyes have gone beyond what was needed to bring them into line.

You clearly don't have a clue about hybrids, hybrid ships, and of course about gallente.

They were total crap from frigs to bs, now they're total crap from cruisers to bs, nice step.

There is nothing left to say. Tallest made his tweak. He provided no explanations or feedback. Discussing Hybrids is no longer worthwhile.

I hope that the devs seriously think through some of them and decide if they would be desirable/practical to implement.

The best part is how many people were saying how it was such a shitBoost, and how matar would still be worthless after the patch.

But the same thing happened during the amarr boost so....... I am predicting hybrids will be considered OP in 8mo. :))

The difference being that their changes actually put them in range of the target. We are hindered by previous nerfs and changes starting with and not limited to, Webber nerfs, Armor rigging changes, speed nerfs, agility nerfs, the projectile buff and the laser buff, and the EANM nerf. All of them make us slower, less survivable and less able to project damage. 5 percent here 10 ms there is doing jack all to help the core issue.
GET US IN RANGE Tallest or your changes mean nothing.

Do I think they will make blasterboats common? No.

If the answer to your question is no, aren't you really just saying you believe these changes will not be successful?

I'm not asking for hybrids to dominate the battlefield, but it would be nice if hybrids presented enough usability to compose roughly a quarter of ships from any random pvp engagement. I think you and I can both realistically say it's well below 10%, maybe even below 5%. That's pathetic.

I think the changes will be successful at putting blaster boats back onto solid footing in the engagements and ranges they are supposed to shine in. Something that they have lacked.

Usage statistics are a pretty ****-poor method of evaluating the quality of a product, so I will not even bother with the rest of your post.

Clearly they arent looking to chage hybrids roles and/or make them mimic lasers/projectiles. These chages going live are a boost to their current roles. Ill take it - given that he said gallente ship tweaks are next. That is where the big canges will come from - the ship bonuses.