W0lf Crendraven
The Tuskers
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Posted - 2014.02.13 20:06:00 -
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MeBiatch wrote:Ecm is a terrible mechanic. It should never be chance based. There is no player skill involved...
NO.
Let me start with that all the talk abou ecm beeing chance based and thus terrible is rubbish, people claim its just a dice game and that the rest of eve isnt. They always forget that all combat in even is a game of dice
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A turret with a 100% hit chance will see a natural and unavoidable damage spread between 50% to 149% of its base damage for normal hits, and will always do exactly 300% of its base damage on perfect hits.
This basicelly means that in a 1v1 match there is a chance of one ships doing 50% of its dps the entire fight and the other ship doing 300%. No one ever complains about that.
The problem with ecm isnt the mechanic (its not bad, unlike alll other ewar which is always applied 100% and cant be evaded ecm is the strongest of them all but if it doesnt hit its completly useless) it is that it is also one of teh strongest forms of anti tackle.
You can counter every ewar (bar tps, but they dont impact your offensive capabilities) by piloting, you can negate damps/range td if you get to close, you can counter tracking tds by lowering transversal. And yes you can even counter ecm, simply by kiting it, at 100km the chance to be ecmed is very slim.
The one problem ecm has is that it provides a hardcounter to tackle, if you counterpilot any other ewar ship it is easily killable, if you get clsoe enough to a razu to not be affected by damps you can kill it and there is nothing it can do, if you manage the tds you can kill the curse (if you have a nos) and so on. A good marker is that they all can be soloed by a really good frigate.
But ecm has no minimal range, up close its strongest so you will easily get jammed out and it warps away, its the only ewar you can nagate defensively but not on the offence. This is wrong, and it would be really easy to fix, make ecm have a minimal range of 20km (within that it doesnt work at all) and reduce range boni. Now you can solo them if you are close and they require a bit more piloting as they have to stay in range. |