ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors Late Night Alliance
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Posted - 2013.12.20 05:50:00 -
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Daenika wrote:To be fair, not *all* Amarr boats are laser. There are a number of them that use predominantly drones (which can use any) or missiles. Specifically, the Vengeance, Malediction, Heretic, Sacrilege, Legion (with Assault Optimization), and Damnation all primarily use and receive bonuses to missile damage. In addition, the Magnate, Anathema, Dragoon, Arbitrator, Curse, Prophecy, and Armageddon all have at least as many launcher hardpoints as turrets, and receive no specific bonuses to any turrets (and all of them except the Magnate and Anathema instead receive bonuses to drones). I'm intentionally excluding the Purifier, as it's obviously irrelevant.
That's a fair amount of missile-oriented ships, and not a single one of them has an EM focus (the Purifier being the only Amarr ship that has an EM exclusive bonus). Minmatar are the same way, the only ship of theirs that has an explosive-specific launcher bonus is the Hound.
So yes, every single race has a secondary option for weapon systems that allow omni damage types on a fair number of their hulls. Minmatar have that innately with faction ammo on projectiles, as well as their non-typed missile bonuses. Gallente have drones. Amarr have missiles and drones. Caldari...have hybrids, which allow thermal in addition to their base kinetic, that's it.
Basically, it just flat makes sense to remove the restriction to kinetic damage. You bring up a fair point...
BUT
Bear in mind that the missile ships which are not restricted by damage type tend to have less launchers than their Caldari missile-boat counterparts (the idea is that they deal less damage overall, but can target the resistance hole).
Honestly though... this isn't going to happen. - CCP is big on "racial flavor" - Outside of drones (which is a moot argument for a number of reasons*) 3 out of the 4 races are pretty much locked into a certain damage dealing profile unless they are willing to give up raw DPS numbers to compensate (which the Minmatar do overall as projectile weapons operate primarily in falloff range... which means they are always dealing less than their "on-paper" damage).
*The drone argument is silly because... - all ships larger than cruisers can use them to varying degrees (so at that level and above everyone has the same options). - outside of sentry drones, you ALWAYS use Minmatar drones and/or Gallente drones (for speed/tracking and damage respectively). No ifs, ands, or buts. Using Caldari or Amarr drones is just sub-par in every respect. Change isn't bad, but it isn't always good. Sometimes, the oldest and most simple of things can be the most elegant and effective. |