CCP needs to introduce a faction version of drone damage amplifiers in order to improve the balance in game.

CCP needs to introduce a faction version of drone damage amplifiers in order to improve the balance in game.

How about toning town the T2 version instead and introducing a Faction one with the T2 stats?

T2 DDA gives an equal bonus to other damage modifiers. Should those also be nerfed to make the faction versions better?

How about toning town the T2 version instead and introducing a Faction one with the T2 stats?

"Equal" is a matter of opinion. But since you want to have the T2 drone damage amplifier on par with the others, let's change it to 10% damage and 10.5% rate of fire. Then you can have 12.5% damage and 10.5% rate of fire with the Faction drone damage version. All good?

Drone ROF does not work, that is why it gives a fixed 23%

CCP needs to introduce a faction version of drone damage amplifiers in order to improve the balance in game.

What balance needs to be improved? T2 requires a couple of IV skills and is already pretty powerful. So power and skill reqs aren't in need of balance. Perhaps you're implying that faction DDAs need reduced fitting requirements?

The key advantage of faction gear is near or higher than T2 performance at lower fitting cost thus allowing maximum pimp. A min maxers dream.

T2 DDA gives an equal bonus to other damage modifiers. Should those also be nerfed to make the faction versions better?

the whole "better than tech 2 BUT less fitting" is what angers me, faction should either have higher fitting reqs but be better than T2, or be slightly lower fitting and just below T2 stats.

only thing that should be better than T2 is deadspace and officer, faction should be used to bridge the "skill gap" between T1 and T2, not fly right by it.

"Equal" is a matter of opinion. But since you want to have the T2 drone damage amplifier on par with the others, let's change it to 10% damage and 10.5% rate of fire. Then you can have 12.5% damage and 10.5% rate of fire with the Faction drone damage version. All good?

Why?

What about that didn't make sense?
T2 should be better than faction because T2 has higher skill requirements. Faction has the same skill requirements as T1 and in many cases is just plain better. Faction modules are presented as an intermediate module for the Meta 4 to T2 jump, but in effect are better than the T2 in most every case. To my knowledge the only existing faction modules that aren't better than their T2 counterparts are weapons, where T2 weapons actually tend to be better.
Faction either needs to be better than T2, which kinda screws the point of having T2, or fall between Meta4 and T2. Consistently.

*Use of "faction" excludes deadspace and officer mods*

Just because something takes more skills to use doesn't mean it should be better. See? I can present an opinion as fact too.

I hate to break it to you faction should be better than T2. Meta modules are the intermediary from meta 0 to T2. Many meta 4 modules are equivalent or in some cases perform better than their T2 counterpart. Why would I pay for a faction item when a meta 4 item does just as well? I wouldn't and I hope you wouldn't also. That would be a waste of isk.

Faction modules have a place in the universe. They follow the CCP Rise "Exponential cost for linear reward" policy. In other words you are paying many times the T2 price for only a marginal gain. To some that will be worth it. To others it won't be. This leaves both T2 and faction a place in New Eden.

See? Faction can be better than T2 without screwing it over.

the whole "better than tech 2 BUT less fitting" is what angers me, faction should either have higher fitting reqs but be better than T2, or be slightly lower fitting and just below T2 stats.

only thing that should be better than T2 is deadspace and officer, faction should be used to bridge the "skill gap" between T1 and T2, not fly right by it.

my qualm isnt that T2 should be better for the sole fact that they have higher skill reqs, but because

faction are not only better ACROSS the board than T2 (which are supposed to be specialized modules) they ALSO have lower fitting requirements, meaning fi you have access to faction, there is little reason fro T2 to even exist.

im just saying faction shouldnt be better in EVERY REGARD to their t2 counterparts, its ridiculous.

how about we stop making T2 universally worse than faction?

faction exists to help make up for a lack of skills, not a flat-out upgrade over T2.

Faction and Deadspace drone damage amps are currently both sorely missing (all other weapon platforms have these, come on) and would be hugely welcome.

Pretty strange that CCP introduced officer DDAs before faction, I guess they wanted to create more content for drone regions but drone plexes still kinda lack good rewards.

Just what we need. Another faction LP item to be exploited by Incursion runners and their OP Concord floating LP.