Caletha Reborn
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Posted - 2007.02.27 12:41:00 -
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ECM is not fine, currently you do -not- need to fit ECCM's on BS because you hardly get jammed anyway.
You have ECM ships, to be effective they need to sacrifice any sort of tank. They cant tank using mid slots as they are needed for sensor boosting & jamming, they cant use low slots as they are used for ECM-strength increase.
But now you say "but ECM is their tank", so you call a module that works on -chance- a tank?
My huginn has 2 sensor damps, they -always- work (their counter is sensor boosters, and if they can still target me, I warp out, not like they can get close when dual-webbed). My friend's Pilgrim uses tracking disruptors, they -always- work too (ok, except on missile ships). An arazu can tackle at +50km, if things go wrong he just cloaks + warps off (not like any ship can target them 1 on 1 at that range, no mater how many sensor boosters are fitted).
But here's the kicker, none of those ships sacrifice their tank to be effective.
But the Falcon and Rook both get -no- tank with a EW weapon thats based completely on chance.
If you think thats fine, then I'm Santa Clause.
ECM got nerfed too much and you see this in ship setups and current state of PvP. You never see people fit ECCM's anymore, this says something about both the strength of ECM's and the number of pilots willing to fly ECM ships. If ECM was fine, people would have to fit modules to counter its effect. In all fairness, I always felt ECM was fine before, once you fitted an ECCM, scorps had less chance of jamming you then as they do now (and that says a lot).
What had to get nerfed was none-dedicated ECM ships (most likely as how Sensor Damps will get 'nerfed' as I'm sure it'll happen), fitting an Multi-spec ECM on a pest/mega/domi/raven was almost an i-win button, that was wrong. Rooks and Scorps and Falcons etc, those where never wrong, they where fine.
Anyways, I'll be buying a Rook soon, because if this nerf did one thing 'good', it was dropping prices of these ships dramatically. Last time I saw them go for something like 50m, compared to the what? +200?
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