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Drizit
Amarr
Lonely out here
Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2007.06.23 03:15:00 -
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Edited by: Drizit on 23/06/2007 03:15:15
 Originally by: Nyphur
I still think it's important that devs be answering the correct questions, but sometimes we players forget that they don't HAVE all the answers. Everyone knows Amarr are a little underpowered and lack variety but not even the devs know of a quick-fix or it would have been implemented already. You have to wonder why the EANM minor cpu increase was slated as a boost to amarr when it did nothing of the sort, though.
A little underpowered? That's a little underestimated. Comparing Amarr to the other 3 races is similar to saying you could stand a chance of winning the Dakar Rally if you go to your local car dealer and buy a standard family saloon to compete with and then race it unmodified.
Only being able to deal 2 types of damage with lasers has always been a burden and most players hike up EM/Thermal resists beyond extreme if they know they are fighting against energy weapons. If you're mad enough to turn up on the battlefield in an Amarr ship, you can only hope they will laugh themselves to death. If that fails, maybe your energy weapons can tickle their shields and especially armor into submission.
Any armor tanked ship from the other 3 races v Amarr can fill all the remaining lows with damage mods after adding active em/thermal resists and a repper. Amarr tanks have to fit all 4 types as well as repper and may as well be shining a torch out the window for all the damage they do.
Edit: Spelling
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Drizit
Amarr
Lonely out here
Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2007.06.24 20:19:00 -
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Originally by: Illyria Ambri
Originally by: Drizit
A little underpowered? That's a little underestimated. Comparing Amarr to the other 3 races is similar to saying you could stand a chance of winning the Dakar Rally if you go to your local car dealer and buy a standard family saloon to compete with and then race it unmodified.
Underestimated should be understated
I dunno about you euros.. But over here.. we buy sedans from a car dealership. Not many automakers here sell saloons fully stocked with alchy, bar, stools and a dart board.
But over here, car dealers sell Estate Cars and station wagons are unused train carriages. 
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Drizit
Amarr
Lonely out here
Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2007.06.27 18:20:00 -
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ATM the only good Amarr ships are tankers. That's about the extent of what they can do well. No amount of highslots can increase the damage sufficiently to make a dent in another ships tank unless it's a noob they are shooting at.
The primary problem lies in the EM/thermal limitation of lasers and the fact that these two resists are commonly the highest for any ships armor as standard. With very little effort, anyone can get their armor resists for these two types well above the 90% mark. Amarr vs an armor tanked ship = give up cos you'll never break its tank hitting for 10's and 20's each time.
Even having a 25% damage bonus from a lvl5 skill isn't much on a 5x modifier. Wow, it's now 6.25 but against a 90% resist, it equates to just a mere 2 or 3 more HP per volley. They can still tank it easily and just laugh at you for wasting all that time training the skill.
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