Nobody said nerf the cane, you ridiculous panic merchant.

I would like to once again push for all drones to be stripped off ALL ships that are not made for them until you get to CBC and BS size ships.

I hope you'd suggest buffing the ships that are then losing drone bays. Deimos, Thorax and Fed Navy Comet get horribly sub-par DPS without their flights, for example.

I hope you'd suggest buffing the ships that are then losing drone bays. Deimos, Thorax and Fed Navy Comet get horribly sub-par DPS without their flights, for example.

Thorax ... get horribly sub-par DPS without their flights ... for example....

But then... Why every ship type (but logifrigs and cmd dessies) show they dealt fighter damage?

'Cause I bet the chart shows damage received by ships, not damage dealt.

So please people stop complaing about Ishtars and Gilas. The chart doesn't show that drone cruisers are the most effective ships (and no I'm not saying they aren't, I'm just pointing out that's not what the chart shows).


The chart just shows that:

1) people love flying cruisers;
2) one of the most effective weapon to hurt a cruiser are drones.

We all know that.

And BTW anyway it's obvious that drones as a weapon system have the most combined damaged... that's because almost every ship has drones, and even not counting drone boats, drones account for 10%-20% of the DPS of most ships.

So if you take ideally 1 Amarr laser ship, 1 Gallente hybrid ship, 1 Caldari missile ship and 1 Minmatar projectile ship, let's say for sake of simple math they all are perfectly balanced and do 400 DPS from the main system and 100 from drones, you end up with:
400 DPS by lasers
400 DPS by missiles
400 DPS by hybrid
400 DPS by projectile
and guess what, 400 DPS from drones. And there's no drone boat in there.

Add to the mix 1 drone boat (400 DPS from drones + 100 DPS from turrets, ideally) and you get 900 DPS from drone, and "only" 400 from the other systems (with just one that gets 500).

Nothing surprising here.

'Cause I bet the chart shows damage received by ships, not damage dealt.

'Cause I bet the chart shows damage received by ships, not damage dealt.

So please people stop complaing about Ishtars and Gilas. The chart doesn't show that drone cruisers are the most effective ships (and no I'm not saying they aren't, I'm just pointing out that's not what the chart shows).


The chart just shows that:

1) people love flying cruisers;
2) one of the most effective weapon to hurt a cruiser are drones.

We all know that.

And BTW anyway it's obvious that drones as a weapon system have the most combined damaged... that's because almost every ship has drones, and even not counting drone boats, drones account for 10%-20% of the DPS of most ships.

So if you take ideally 1 Amarr laser ship, 1 Gallente hybrid ship, 1 Caldari missile ship and 1 Minmatar projectile ship, let's say for sake of simple math they all are perfectly balanced and do 400 DPS from the main system and 100 from drones, you end up with:
400 DPS by lasers
400 DPS by missiles
400 DPS by hybrid
400 DPS by projectile
and guess what, 400 DPS from drones. And there's no drone boat in there.

Add to the mix 1 drone boat (400 DPS from drones + 100 DPS from turrets, ideally) and you get 900 DPS from drone, and "only" 400 from the other systems (with just one that gets 500).

Nothing surprising here.

CCP Quant has conjured up some data magic added some grains of crunched numbers and voil+í! ready is the damage profile chart 2015.


Let the analysis begin!

CCP Quant has conjured up some data magic added some grains of crunched numbers and voil+í! ready is the damage profile chart 2015.


This chart shows the accumulated damage in 2015 grouped by ship group and refined by weapon group.

A high resolution (vector) version of this 2015 chart is available here.
As comparison check out the damage profiles 2014.

Let the analysis begin!

Why are Battleships at the top?

Why are Battleships at the top?

Are you saying that in a whole year, no carrier was ever shot by anything but drones?

And stealth bombers doing damage with other systems than missiles? I'm assuming dark gray areas with "0B HP" mean "some damage, even if negligible",

Second point still holds. It's not possible to compare weapon systems w/o considering the number of ships that use each system.

This message show that you don't know the game.

Fighter damage for all class except the ones who were introduced after they removed fighter assist mean that all the fighter damage on class beside carrier is assisted fighters. Unless no damage was done by DD on anything but titans and bombers only ever managed to bomb bombers...

Stealth bombers have hard points for turrets. The hound has 2.

I have always wondered why the reliance on drones for just about every ship to take out small stuff when a second fitting line (for small weapons only) would accomplish the job without the extra server side load drones produce.

I would like to once again push for all drones to be stripped off ALL ships that are not made for them until you get to CBC and BS size ships. Frigs die so easily, and so often to the token light drone dps from a cruiser or two, they are ....mostly,,,, not worth the actual time clock investment to undock. Faction/pirate and T2 frigs aside of course.

As well, the drone DPS on that graph is way over represented because every ship has a few token drones, or a flight of mediums that often do more damage to the target than the actual bonus'd weapons system on the hull.

Tristan
Maulus
Maulus navy
Keres
Worm

Algos
Magus
Dragoon
pontifex

Vexor
Vexor Navy
Arbitrator
Gila
Curse
Pilgrim
Ishtar

Proteus (drone configuration)
Legion (drone configuration LOL)

These are the only sub CBC ships that should have drones. AT ALL.

Remember when the Zealot was fun to fly, and Amarr was worthwhile?

because someone had to be at the top. THe top does nto mean more damage. the BRIGHT colors do.