Andreask14
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Posted - 2006.06.23 11:59:00 -
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Edited by: Andreask14 on 23/06/2006 11:26:09
Not only that.
While being the best of a few aspects of PvP a few years ago, this has tunred into the opposite for the amarr now.
Check ECM:
Amarr have fewest mid-slots and lowest sensor strength.
Check Gank:
You cant fit more than 3 heat sinks anymore, and all other races have their specific damage mods. Thus, laser damage on amarrian ships that dont have a RoF bonus is compareable to the damage of other race¦s ships with the same weapon category, while other races ship that also do have a damage/rof bonus actually put out MORE raw dmage than the amarrians do.
Just try it and compare a stabber to an omen in quickfit and the tracking guide, and you will see that, if both ships are fitted for all short range gank with all slots used for t1 and with mwd, no ecm, the stabber does more damage to the omen at all ranges the weapons hit. That is without taking into account that the satbber has two missiles while omen has 1.
The little increase in armour of the omen doesnt make up for this. Also, stabber is faster than omen, thus dictates the range, thus the omen cant force the fight to longer distance (of only 2 more km), where it could slightly out-do the stabber, that is without the missiles again, where the stabber always wins.
Add on top of this that the omen will run out of cap during the fight, while the stabebr usese NO cap, and you know why nobody flys an omen.
Check Sniping:
Amarrian snipers dont have the range that other snipers can achive, and their guns deal primarily EM damage.
With EM damage easily hardned to 80% with a hardenener, or even with the new passiv options as an all-inclusive, other snipers from all races, cept for the missiles, outdamage amarr.
Furthermore, while the great optimal of amar mid-range lasers, and the option to accomodate the laser to the needed range helps amarrian firepower during t1 fights, this dosnt hold true with any t2 ammo.
There are only 2 t2 crystals for each class, so you are either in range or you are not, the great advantage of always being fitting for the most damage your guns can deliver via an adjustable optimal, doesnt hold true for t2 anymore, diminishing your damage potential.
Check tanking:
In the glory days of the amarr, they were the kings of the passiv tank, because only their ships had built-in passiv resistances.
With the new armor compansation skills cheaply available, EVERYONE can tank just like the amarian tanking bonuses do.
If an amarr uses a passiv tank now, it will still be on top of the passiv tank of a ship that doesnt have the resistance bonuses, but only by a neglectable margin, thanks to diminishing returns.
While this tank was their strong-point, due to cap needs for the weapons, all the amarr ships geared towards this design are no worthless and never flown. Best example is the Maller, it has become the bastard-child of all available cruisers, it really has nothing going for it anymore.
Consequential, the bonus is worthless.
Summary:
All the above combined lead to the situation we have now, where amarrians use drones and missiles over lasers and tank, only to be able to play like the others in PvP, scince it is the only competitive way.
Any amarrian ship not being able to do that is useless in close-range pvp, so only the arbitrator and its variants get used.
1 of the 2 BS is useless for fleet pvp, and the useful one is the worst of its kind. They are both inferior in close range combat to all other BS, because of slot distribution combined with the above reasons, making them inferior. PvP is mid-slot hvy, no question.
Lastly, amarrian ships are the worst to rat in, thanks to not being able to adjust teh damage donw, and the weapons you fire are breaking your own tank, unlike with missiles, projectiles or hybrides.
And NO this one NOS slot doesnt make up for it.
Too bad there are so few amar-only players around, meaning that their inter
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