People are to overexited, so they keep saying: "OMGOMGOMG HYBRIDS ARE AWSOME!!!!", so CCP is likely to think their job is done, and then in a month or so the hybrid weaponsystem is gonna be the least used again.

Keep it down morons! You are ruining the hybrid buff, it needs more buffing.

The only pissing and moaning that I hear about blasters has been on the forums mostly from carebears.

every pirate or PVPer that I've talked to will never say their blasters suck. sure they'd love another buff but come on. Get within optimal and a blaster will tear you to shreds.

Oh, btw, blasters suck.

Suck as much as your skills to ?

I have every of my Blaster skills maxed and i have been using them for some time now. And even before the Blasters was boosted now i still found them to be awesome in close range.

You can see my skills here if you want to see that i'm not a newb.

Suck as much as your skills to ?

I have every of my Blaster skills maxed and i have been using them for some time now. And even before the Blasters was boosted now i still found them to be awesome in close range.

Suck as much as your skills to ?

I have every of my Blaster skills maxed and i have been using them for some time now. And even before the Blasters was boosted now i still found them to be awesome in close range.

You can see my skills here if you want to see that i'm not a newb.

I was fitting a Falcon the other night and I still get a better fit and more dps/alpha from Arties without any buffs than I get form Rails with a Buff. So no, when a ship with Hybrid buffs is better with projectiles then Hybrids aren't fixed.

Rails now has +10% of very little dps, +5% of very little tracking. Blasters now has +0% of very little range. Gallante slowboats has +5% of very slow speed.

Did it occur to CCP that adding very little percentage of very little is still very little?

If you're going to give +5% of something, make it 5% of AC range/dps, etc.

Start adding up all those LITTLE things up. And it ends up not being so little at all.

Awfully nice of the previous owner to train all those skills for you!

Exactly - implementing several huge buffs at once brought us the ridiculously overpowered projectiles we have now. Better to change things little by little.

I'm not saying Hybrids are fine yet - time will tell - but at least they're not flat out broken anymore.

Exactly - implementing several huge buffs at once brought us the ridiculously overpowered projectiles we have now. Better to change things little by little.

I'm not saying Hybrids are fine yet - time will tell - but at least they're not flat out broken anymore.

Well done on missing the point. The problem is that lasers and ACs are, if not pretty awesome, then certainly more than good enough up close, while offering much greater tactical flexibility than blasters.

Changing blasters won't solve the problem of ACs and lasers being too good in blasters' domain. Pulse and ACs track too well.

Funny Thing is Gallente were FOTM years back but now everyone's got Gallente they will never be AS FOTM and you know thats the only thing the experienced players are pineing for.

Muhahahaahaha.

No, the problem is that something like FOTM does actually exist.
I sometimes wonder about how it-¦s possible to screw balancing up this badly. It-¦s like they have no concept of the whole thing, what they are doing about it and what results they want to achieve. I could do it better without putting in too much effort.

I disagree. Because the attempted balancing goes completely into the wrong direction.
Gallente are not designed for close combat and sniping, in fact their design is from all the races the most incompatible with it, therefore continuing to force them into those roles will only result in failure.
This is why people can-¦t agree wether it-¦s the weapons or the hulls that needs changes and how exactly those changes should look like: they all presume Gallente has to fill these roles, but since they aren-¦t suited for it, there are no satisfactory solutions.

Well - Gallente used to fill these roles just fine years ago -they were just constantly nerfed indirectly whilst other got boosted:

- Changes to speed, webs, scrams and MWDs in QR finally broke them - everyone thought it would hit Minmatar the worst, but all in all, it turned out they were largely unaffected by the changes.
Every Blasterboat had an MWD and a web - kind of sucks to be Gallente when everyone can turn your propmod off way outside your optimal+falloff and your web is nerfed from 90 to 60% at the same time whilst base speed and agility is among the worst in the game.
- Not only were some Gallente ships heavily nerfed with the introduction of dronebandwidth (whatever sicko came up with the idea of 75 mbit/sec bandwidth for the myrm tortures little kitten in his basement), but also medium and heavy drones received multiple nerfs over the years, which again struck Gallente the worst.
- At the same time, Projectiles and tracking enhancers were buffed into oblivion which left autocannons better at being blasters than blasters themselves up close and the bonus of having insane falloff.
- Thanks to on-grid probing, sniping BS fleets died and the only long range system put to practical use are arties, thanks to their sick alpha. So yeah - rails are dead - just as beams.

When asking for better range for blasters, people constantly argued that then, they would be too akin to ACs - well - maybe CCP shouldn't have made ACs the better blasters in the first place.