Liura Rurii
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.12.21 15:02:11 -
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Usually I do not participate in these forum posts but from own experience and other comments elsewhere I found one glaring question I feel begs answering.
Why do combat recons not have a scan bonus as well as a fitting attribute that make the expanded probe launchers viable?
I mean, it is a recon FFS. If any ship in fleet should be able to sniff out others in safespots this would be it.
It is said that the best weapon to kill a tank is another tank, and likewise with DSCAN immunity these ships should not only be able hide from DSCAN but also be able to find each other more easily.
You could also make it so, that these ships are hidden on DSCAN from every ship except another recon. This would make them stand out compared to T3s.
Looking at real life military, recon units will have superior capabilities in regards to electronics that enable them to hide from and spot enemy units. Recons in eve are more about electronic warfare than reconnaissance, but good recon enables you to set up fights and it is a big part of the game.
Give the Falcon the bonus for the cloak, and give the Rook the bonus for the Expanded Probe launcher. It is not going to make it more OP, but instead open up the role and put it more in line with T3s. Likewise for the other races.
The first comment I got from one of my pilots when I asked him to fly a recon in the future was "Well, then I will just take one of my T3s with a cloak".
If I was to nerf anything with the combat recons, it would be their ability to do DPS. Doing DPS is not something a recon should be focussed on. One of my current Rook fits does 512 DPS within 25km, has 76/86/83/77 resists, 46.6K EHP, does 516m/s and fits two jammers. To me, that is a viable ship in a roaming gang. The DPS is not that much lower than other cruisers, but I can still jam out 2 hostile ships, if primaried, I have some of the higher resists in the gang combined with decent EHP. None of the numbers are overheated and its cap stable. It will break if neuted. I have absolutely no use of it, as a "recon" ship, it is pure fleet support in a brawl.
With the coming changes, this fit will feature even more resists, more EHP, better weapons bonusses and cap! I understand very well, if some people would call this OP.
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