This. Why Phobos no drone? I can live with Onyx not getting them. Tis Caldari. But Amarr gets drones and not Gallente? Makes no sense, brah.

On another note, it occurred to me that having the focused point work its anti-jump magic vs all ships would be pretty cool. But then we might see HICs Online sooner rather than later. Thoughts?

No anti-gate mechanics vs jump freighters?

So, resist bonuses move to a fixed 20% role bonus and replaced with a RoF bonus. So more dps. I'm ok with that.

Devoter got +1 turret.
I see more base tank in a couple cases. Looks legit.

+1 for changes.

Can we also get it so the focused interdiction script disables mwd? I know it might be a little too much to ask for, but it DOES have very specific limitations to the ship; It would be an extremely useful thing to have in lowsec pvp.

Tackle
Cap injection
Better damage application due to tracking bonus.
Plus rate of fire gives a 33% dps increase over the 25% the damage bonus

I disagree that 50% extra tracking is going to be killer.

comparison of tech II beam vrs tech II 250 rails with just regualr tech I close range ammo shows the phobos native rails having a better tracking than beams.

though most would compare it to pulse with scorch. so yeah the pulse have better tracking but when using jav its not that bad. pluse have 36% better tracking and a 22.8 km engagement range with close range tech II ammo but a switch to antimater greatly increases engagement range up to 33.6 km which is slightly more than the long range ammo for pulse whch tops out at 31km.

So at max disruption range the only damage comming from the devoter is from its drones but the phobos can easy switch to uranium and hit what its tackled.

So each has thier own bonuses the pulse are great in longer then 10km but shorter then 30km and the blasters are g-d like for less then 10km and rails dominate after 30km.

plus having the 4th mid slot adds extra utlity for a small gang where you might not have dedicated e-war ships.

I am thinking ions with antimater and a mwd scram web and cap injector.

That is going to obliterate ships within range.


if you dont want to use a phobos by all means just stick to the ammar one. but i like tech II gal resist specally against kin/thermal heavy damage...

each to thier own i guess...

You're not wrong but it's not the end of the world. Phobos has a utility niche and Amarr finally get a T2 DPS cruiser that isn't outshone by the Gallente alternative. Everyone wins?

I'm noticing a fair bit of consternation at the fact that the Devoter is getting a small dronebay but the Phobos is not. The optimal bonus on the Phobos has also been raising some eyebrows.
The key thing that these players are missing is the distinctive flavour we are working towards giving the entire Roden Shipyards line. The old design for Roden Shipyards was focused on a fairly watered down use of missiles and hybrids. This left them in an underwhelming place compared to the other two Gallente T2 corps.

In the new world order for Gallente T2 ships, each manufacturer has a clear set of strengths and a unifying theme:

Roden Shipyards ships can be used as effective blasterboats, but tend to lean towards railguns with big bonuses to hybrid optimal range and tracking. They are a bit slower than Duvolle ships, and have the weakest drone capability of all the Gallente ships, but they tend to have more low slots and more armor HP, as well as better sensors.

An extra mid?

I do think you will find the devotor will be king as usual due to its stats for doing the primary role. the phobos will likely be better for dps as rails atm are better than beams (pretty much the same ability's with less fitting and cap use)

I don't think the Phobos is as bad as people think, it is better than Devoter at holding targets in place (scram+web-cbooster / dual web+scram). The damage of these won't be a deal-breaker, it basically just means that a HIC adds a bit more meaningful contribution to small gang dps than before.