The Abaddon is meant to be the primary armor ship of the line but it's rarely used and could indeed use some love.

OMG it must really suck to be you!

A short range gun with short range - zee HORROR

For %$@#% sake please give the eagle moar dps! Give her drones! Specifically a 15^3m drone bay for 3 light drones. Theres is no way that my t1 moa should out dps its hac variant. Sure, it can tank a bit moar, but that means nothing if everything can outrep your damage. Its bad enough that it doesn't do hybrids as well as gallente (more tracking and dps bonuses). Whether blaster or rail fit.

Also, why are caldari ships so slow and sluggish? Its a shield ship........

Because caldari ships generally have bigger HP pools than gal or minmatar. Theyre normally used in fleets where logi is readily available. See HERO's moa/eagle doctrine, or older Rokh doctrines, before it was drones online. Amarr is pretty much the same, but armor and lasers.

I however would not be opposed to a minor speed buff for caldari.

...................and the next update is rapidaly approaching yet we are still playing "Ishtars Online".

Can we get any infomation on what you think the Ishtar tweak has done to hte game?

Tempest slot redo will not cut it

7 guns so it can benefit from dual dmg bonus in actual dps number or add application bonus and buff rof.

If you want to keep tier 1 tempest as garbage with sub battle cruiser dps and agility than please for a love of all that is holy do fix tempest fleet issue so it is used over tier 1 phoon or maelstrom, it is a bloody shame where it sit currently.

The eagle still needs more dps.........and I don't believe that they should be as slow or nearly as sluggish as armor boats of amarr.

I agree with you, just stating why theyre slow. Theyre meant as the shield fleet/gang faction, and amarr the armor fleet/gang faction. Gal and matar seem to be more skewed in solo least on the majority of their ships.

The eagle does need some drones, 15m3 of drones is not going to make the eagle OP. I see no reason why it shouldnt have them. Especially considering the moa has drones.

I really hope they do more with the muninn as well. Give us a 4th mid and drop a low at least.

I see a lot of people still clamoring for additional nerfs to the Ishtar, and some very small buffs to other HAC's. I think we're all missing the bigger picture here. We've often wondered how ridiculous CCP's nerfbat could get. Now we know. When it ran out of targets, the nerfbat nerfed itself, hence the feather touch to the Ishtar.

Edit: Just a joke everyone, this post is not to be taken seriously.

Curiously enough, I have yet to actually see anyone piloting a muninn in this game.

Hi guys

You may or may not have seen me make a post a while back saying that we were intending to do a revisit on battleship and heavy assault cruiser balance for this summer, and I can now be a little more specific with you about that!

After digging into this we were both happy and a bit surprised to find that there weren't a lot of clear changes needed. Battleships especially seem to be in a pretty solid place. There are ships within the class getting less use than others, but that is almost completely due to either the meta favoring certain things (this is why the Abaddon isn't seeing a lot of action for example) or due to the ship falling into a niche that isn't extremely popular even though the ship performs exceptionally in that niche (the Hyperion is a great example of this). So the result is that for now we are going to leave BS alone and keep checking back for opportunities to make improvements.

HACs on the other hand are a slightly different story. In general the class gained a lot of power in the last pass and it's seeing plenty of use across the board, but there are some pretty clear imbalances between certain ships in the class. If you've undocked lately you probably know the Ishtar especially is a little out of control. Here's the small set of changes we're going to make:

Ishtar:
Bonus to drone tracking and optimal range from 7.5% per level -> 5% per level
Max Velocity from 195 -> 185

Eagle:
Max Velocity from 180 -> 190

Muninn:
Max velocity from 210 -> 230

We expect that some of you will feel this is far too gentle on the Ishtar, and we understand that (it's what we heard from the CSM as well), but we get releases very often now and we're happy to be conservative here, rather than nuke it out of the game, and just make more changes if they're needed in the following release.

Looking forward to your feedback as always

PS - how would you feel about an 8/4/7 Tempest?

Note for clarity: Hyperion release date is August 26

So I'm guessing that the Ishtar is no longer dominant? Otherwise we would have seen some additional tweaks in Oceanus. You know, with this new rapid development cycle being so useful for incremental changes and that we shouldn't worry because there's always the next cycle etc etc.