Cythrawl
Caldari
Central Defiance
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2006.12.06 18:45:00 -
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Edited by: Cythrawl on 06/12/2006 18:48:24
 Originally by: kaufmann
EW - Changes makes me cry, if they are true....
I have several tungsten-plated scorps for the soon coming Lag-Battles and cant jam
S*** with them ?????
Pls Tuxford, this time you MUST react sooner then after 2 years.
Made alot of posts about this sorta stuff here lately. I agree totally with him about fixes. Right now the only 2 ships that get the same or better jam rates are the Rook and the Blackbird. But you have to have Caldari Crusier/Recon to 5 to even get the rate back up to top with the highest named low slot mods and 2 of the t1 rigs. Another bone of contention, the Blackbird bonus is on the cruiser level and the Falcon and Rook are both bonused from the Recon Skill. That kinda gimps the strength right out when you have to have recon 3 to pass the Blackbird on the Rook and Recon 5 to equal it on the Falcon.
Right now the Blackbird is the only decently balanced of all the ecm ships. Possibly the Griffin too.
Scorpion is crapped out considering it was supposed to be able to hold down firepower from other battleships and provide a small tide change in war. Currently it's got pretty much the same power potential of the blackbird and at a much longer time training overall. Cost/benefit ratio without the ECM bonus being tweaked is considerably low towards the Scorpion again since it had a bonus pre-Revelations.
20% bonus on the Scorpion and the Falcon and a 25% bonus on the Rook would actually put them into a fighting chance of having the skills enough to be on par with their roles pre-Revelations without having to sacrifice every low slot and rig spot for ecm strength mods to fly the ships.
The only reason I say give the Rook more jamming strength is the fact that out of the two recons, it's actually got to go toe-to-toe with combatants since it can't use the covert ops cloak. Slapping a prototype cloak on there would just gimp the setup completely considering the recalibration times.
Oh, and the Recon ships? Maybe get their bonuses from the Caldari Cruiser skill and not their Recon skill, since they're sort of pre-training nerfed and almost pointless when you get them at first without the bonuses. Might as well fly Blackbirds since you've got the cruiser skill to 5 already.
And as for the Griffin, it deserved the nerf considering what it was doing before the patch to battleship pilots. It's fine for frigs and cruisers now, just where it needs to be.
P.S. Before anybody says anything, I'm an ECM pilot. Don't be alarmed that I'm actually looking at the maths and not screaming about everything being completely borked.
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Time to go with a more... Honest, sig.
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