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MonkeyMagic Thiesant
Shockwave Innovations
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Posted - 2014.05.03 00:03:00 -
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OK, so according to in-game stats they're just short of 3x the dps of an ogre2, more than double the mwd speed, 33% higher orbit velocity, +50% the tracking, and a load more ehp.
Are they not getting included in some skill bonus (heavy?) to level out things a bit? |
MonkeyMagic Thiesant
Shockwave Innovations
Surely You're Joking
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Posted - 2014.05.03 15:53:00 -
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Owen Levanth wrote:They have double the size and bandwidth requirements then normal heavy drones. Isn't that enough? Since there are no subcaps with a bandwidth of 150, no ship below subcap can field more then 1-2 of them.
Well, if you take a 125 bandwidth ship, it could field two geckos and an ogre2. That's the equivalent dps to 6.7 ogre2s, ie about 34% more dps than present. For ships with 50 or 100 bandwidth, eg rattlesnake or stratios, it's a straight +42% dps buff. Then you consider +50% tracking, it'll apply that dps to smaller targets vastly better. Double the speed and more ehp also effectively adds applied damage, by virtue of less travel time and more survivability.
None of this makes much sense, which makes me wonder what I'm missing. |
MonkeyMagic Thiesant
Shockwave Innovations
Surely You're Joking
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Posted - 2014.05.03 16:05:00 -
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I guess no racial drone specialisation bonus applies (2% per level). Assuming lev4 of that, the figures above should be +25% dps on a 125mbit ship, and +32% on a 50/100.
Guessing: they're not going to apply heavy drone skill damage bonus to it (+5% per level). It'd still be better than ogre2s, but not absurdly so. |
MonkeyMagic Thiesant
Shockwave Innovations
Surely You're Joking
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Posted - 2014.05.06 02:06:00 -
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Yep, stats haven't changed ..... they're insanely OP.
Use em with an Eos for a laugh, hullbonused for drone damage/tracking/mwd. They mwd around at the speed of light drones, with the tracking of mediums.
Stratios now has 800dps before guns.
VNI/Ishtar hefty dps boost too.
With their nice hps, battleships remote repping em might work really well in pve. Especially the new rattlesnake, only a single drone, easy to keep perma-locked for remote repping purposes.
Biggest winner though? Carriers. 7 Geckos, 1 ogre2, I think they're 1800-1900dps. Dunno how practical this will be for a lot of pve though, they might die before you can lock to rep em. |
MonkeyMagic Thiesant
Shockwave Innovations
Surely You're Joking
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Posted - 2014.05.08 01:43:00 -
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Chris Winter wrote:One of the devs confirmed on twitter that the Gecko's stats will not be changing in Kronos.
Yeah, it all makes much more sense now. The stats were so out of whack something extra had to be at play.
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