Dvesk Sunie
Dark-Rising Federation
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Posted - 2014.12.29 11:09:24 -
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I read most of post concerning Pilgrim changes.
There are people who think that range is great and neut amount can be neglected. And there are those who think amount can not be neglected.
As we all know Pilgrim has always suffered from range restrictions. Yes, you can choose what or when to engage , but if you are engaging more than 1 target ( happens a lot in solo pvp! ) and one of them can kite, after you kill what you can, you will be a sitting duck. Your drones would NOT be able to catch 4.5-5 km/s speeding Raptor or any other inty and you would just sit there and might as well eject.
So I think to make it more balanced and viable, I would really love to see pilgrim maintaining it's Neut Amount Bonus, because that is what it made it so awesome to fly even against cap-boosted ships, as you could still neut them out, BUT adding SOME range. Why not give it Dragoon like or smaller ( Dragoon has 20%) neut range bonus?
With 10% Neut and Vampire range, Pilgrim Medium Neutralizers would have 19km range with RECON 5. That is 61% more neut range. It still keeps Pilgrim inside "brawling" field, but now it can actually neut targets before they get on top of you,or after lighting a Cyno it can be used ot neut target which are , well at 19km from you.
And in all honesty, If you take dragoon as basic ship for that line, I see two possible lines:
Both lines focus on TD Bonuses, as well as Arbitrator, which makes perfect sense.
But then, mixing two ship bonuses to match one another is a bad way in order to make them special and unique.
The way I see specalized Amarr Recon ships :
Pilgrim - CLOAK+Strong Neut amount(40% bonus )+Small range(10-15% bonus)+SLOW+ARMOR
Cruse - NO CLOAK + SMALLER NEUT AMOUNT(10-15% bonus )+ HIGH RANGE(40% bonus)+ FAST+ SHIELD
I think that is what CCP should be aiming for in specializing ships.
Other than that, Might as well change nothing, Neut range was the only difficulty with the Pilgrim. Just a SLIGHT change to it might do wonders. When I saw that CCP Hammer going down on Pilgrim neut amount it almost made my cry. No no no, dont fix it if it ain't broken.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop playing eve, start living it
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