Markus Reese
Debitum Naturae
White Noise.
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Posted - 2012.01.28 17:05:00 -
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Read the original thread, didn't read the replies, tl:dr all of that.
Anyways, my two bits. The drake tank, isn't the resists or the missiles, blah blah blah, the only reason it's "Tank" is so strong is the amount of passive resistance it can get due to the base shield recharge rate. Now that is the one thing about it that is off balanced. The recharge rate was or is a bit higher than other ships default, I haven't looked in a while or maybe made my calculations were incorrect. But this means that by fitting the exact same shield modules as any other ship, it will have superior defences. Take a raven with hardeners, dual LSE, etc. It's passive recharge rate is less because the base hp's are about the same to a drake with the same shield hp, but less recharge rate.
Now that being said, that is the problem with all of the passive shield ships. Not the shields, not the ships, but the LSE. What is needed is the recharge rate for an LSE and the CFE rig need to modify the recharge rate. The way to do this would be instead of the recharge rate being time based, it actually needs to be a rate. Get rid of the 12k hp in 1000 seconds or whatever. Make it peak recharge (30% sheild) of 10hp/s So if you got 500k hp of shield, you still recharge the same. This puts it on par with armor ships in small gang. Large fleet warfare, primaries are not alive enough for recharge to matter.
This might require other tweaking. I would need to look it up, but I believe the shield extenders don't give an hp bonus matched to their armor counterparts, and if so, that would need to be tweaked to give an increased hp bonus. We cannot nerf something because it is popular we need to look at the whole of the design. In the case of the drake, it isn't the ship itself, but the extender.
Personally, I like the drake. But I don't fit the extremely high double LSE/relay fit for small gang. When I am only with a few people, I prefer a higher damage output fit. Typically one LSE/resists, and the mwd/point. for mids. Offensive, a ham drake can put out excellent dps. Not worrying about a high recharge, suddenly I have lowslots. This can allow for a pair of BCU, and the other slots for maybe a pair of nano on the ham drake and/or pds for more powergrid, dcu, kinda depends on my mood. Haven't flown it in a while cannot remember my fit off top of head.
Point is, that this fit is quite fun, and effective. It also doesn't have the massive dps/passive tank in small scale pvp that makes the drake get called O/P
Anyways, final words, Fix passive recharge, not drake. |