Morning fellows

I've been reading as fast as I can and I'm almost up to most current post but I'm about to be stuck in meetings for a few hours so I wanted to respond to what I'm seeing so far.

Everyone seems unhappy with the Cynabal - fair enough. The balance oriented folks here are going to have a sit down this afternoon to discuss options to add some more unique flavor to the line. Failing any large changes, I'll at least look at the powegrid and make sure Artillery is viable.

Vigilant powergrid seems to be at least a mild concern so I'll look at that again. I'm not sure there will be changes here because if I remember correctly it was trivial to do 1600 + mwd + at least Ions which is probably a bit generous. Will check it out though.

Phantasm is mix of excitement and concern about the tension between the bonuses (guns + speed and sig + shields) which is fair, but I think this is part of what makes it interesting and I'm not really worried about it not being strong enough. Part of how I justified the weird bonus set is by looking at how it performs as a simple MWD/shield skrimisher, which it does quite well.

Hopefully back with more in a few hours. Thanks for the response (except you Capqu)

Mixed with an AAR, 800mm plates are indeed quite viable. Quit being such a bitter soul and open your mind.

Just edited EveHQ, and one thing is for certain, the Ashimmu is going to be a hell of a lot of fun with those endless vampires. It has just enough PG to sustain a full rack of nuets / vamps with two med armour reppers. Unfortunately no plate though, but with enough cap to sustain two active reppers, that makes up for it. Thank you Rise, cannot wait to try out this beast. It is finally going to be good at what is it meant to be good at, nueting out a target and being a complete ***** to kill. The endless nuets will give it a whole new niche of its own.

Battleships coming soon

I'm not sure exactly when we will be able to get this stuff on Singularity but hopefully it won't be too long.

Two ships can kill one, color me surprised....

Webs are useless because every player in the game only fit ab's and drift away before you can kill them. This is true for every ship.

Give the ashimmu nos range bonus only and give back the 1 high slot, loose 1 med slot for the additional 1 low slot instead.
Would be so much more brawler!!!
Could even nano it with the additional speed boost... lol!

Heavy Pulse Laser II, Scorch M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Scorch M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Scorch M
Corpum A-Type Medium Nosferatu
Corpum A-Type Medium Nosferatu
Corpum A-Type Medium Nosferatu

Warp Disruptor II
Federation Navy Stasis Webifier
Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I

Medium Armor Repairer II
Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer, Nanite Repair Paste
Damage Control II
Heat Sink II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Nanobot Accelerator I
Medium Nanobot Accelerator I

get out

So the Cynabal is basically a Vagabond that gains the ability to get on grid quickly while losing the ability to do anything useful on grid. Sweeeeeeeeeeet

Rise, dawg, I love what you've done with most of the pirate faction stuff. Really. But man you've gotta figure out a unique role for the non-Machariel Angel ships that sets them apart from their Minmatar counterparts. "Warping quickly" isn't a role,

Whats so wrong with having the Ewar on your drones instead of yourself? All drones in bay will most likely have more HP than the ship.

Edit: Did some quick math.

Shield: 1005 = Eff HP: 1436
Armor: 2160 = Eff Hp: 3323
Structure: 5325

Total Eff Hp: 10084

You can fit 10 medium drones in the bay so,

10084 x 10 = 100840 Effective hp inside your drone bay if you carry only Hammerheads

Edit 2: Augmented hammers are pretty cheap and they have numbers that will scare you.

The more Ewar is off your back the better. And the drones can take it with ease.

The ashimmu can get its old school neuts, it also should lose a high and a mid for 2 extra lows and a armour resistance bonus. Making it a tanky neut (nos) ship that shines in small scale hac fleets. (no idea what to do with the cruor)

So CCP why did you have to make the Vigilant even more useless as it currently is?

What was the reasoning for the PG nerf?

It can't even fit a 1600mm RRT, T2 MWD and neutrons currently on TQ.

Again, why did it need the nerf?

T2 fitting rig, gg

Fitting a ANC Rig currently is not required if you bling it up.

I don't mind fitting nerfs, what does bother me it is being done on a ship already rarely used. If you are going to nerf a ship that is popular to curb it's use like they did with Cane I can understand.

The Vigilant I don't. If you want to change I would understand if they tried to make it more popular.. but not in this instance.

I wonder if the Ashimmu will play out as a strong kiter... I mean, it has dual 20km webs, and with a major speed boost coming as well as an extra low slot, it seems plausible. Also, it is possible to keep the capacitor up with Nosferatu as a-types have 19.5km range.

I wouldn't expect to see it as a full blown kiter -mostly because it will still lack speed and agility, and not using a cap booster means your cap is very weak and therefore not really able to use an active tank- but the possibility is definitely there.

you do reaise you can fit all other criusers without any compromise?

Shhhh, you forgot the Moa, the Thorax, the Maller, the Omen and the list continues...

Ever tried to fit 250mm railguns on a Moa or an eagle? I have yet to find a boat that is smaller than a battleship to fit them on and fit a tank.