Valleria Darkmoon
Convicts and Savages Shadow Cartel
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Posted - 2014.08.05 12:35:00 -
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Bullet Therapist wrote: 2. The target painter isn't particularly well balanced with respect to the stasis webifier. It's a hard issue, given that the TP has so much range over the web, but given that webs have an implicit benefit of possible range control in some engagements I think it warrants a balance change to reflect that disparity.
4. Heavy missiles probably need a small DPS buff. The nerf to both their application and DPS was pretty heavy handed, and I think it's time to undo a little bit of the DPS hit.
A couple of things on both of these:
2. While it's true that webs are generally going to be the superior choice for increasing applied dps with missiles, target painters have implications beyond missile use. Increasing signature allows turrets to track more easily, reduces lock time for anyone who has not locked yet or has lost lock etc and generally makes a ship more susceptible to damage from any source. For that reason a buff to TPs to make them roughly equivalent to a web for missile damage application probably makes them extremely strong on these other fronts. It bears pointing out here that TPs have no direct counter to mitigate their effects as well.
- ECM > ECCM - Damps > Sebo/rsebo - TD > TE and TC, proper flying, missiles - TP > Halo set and Ragnarok fleet booster
Secondly, as you pointed out TPs vastly out range webs, which is exactly why they should be less beneficial. Going to within web range carries with it the inherent risk of being hard tackled yourself as well as the significantly increased difficulty of applying the web if your target is set on not being caught. The fact that they are harder to use as well as riskier suggests they ought to be more powerful. Since this is in fact the case I see little issue with the current setup.
4. Don't forget their projection was brought down a little ways as well. HMLs need either higher dps or better application either would go a long way but HMLs probably had too much attention paid to them to bring about the end of the Drake era.
Incidentally, I would like to see the Typhoon's missile application bonus apply to rapid heavies as well, the damage bonus lists rapid heavies but the application bonus doesn't. Reality has an almost infinite capacity to resist oversimplification. |