Next, because of the advent of wormhole and incursion PvE and Marauders are supposed to be the "Kings of PvE", I propose that these ships have some form of spider tanking bonus. The best option would be to give them a bonus to the remote repair or shield transporter amount received instead of making them battleship sized logistics ships. This would make these ships very competitive when being used in PvE situations where logistics is required (incursion / wh sites).

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I'm not sure if a salvaging bonus would help marauders that much. I was thinking something more like a capacitor helping module like a Nos bonus or cap booster bonus or rep cap usage bonus.-á

Why must a ship be purely PvE? Also the EWAR immunity idea fits well. If CCP gives EAFs the ability to use EWAR on ships that are immune then they become very valuable fleet assets. Coupled with the low sensor strengths of the marauder it will still be very easy to use EWAR to good effect. Which means the EAF would be very effect vs a marauder.-á
Also, if you're EWAR immune, npc EWAR isn't going to effect you. This would mean that Marauders have an advantage over faction battleships for PvE.-á
The Marauder would also be very useful for low sec PvE as you could only be tackled by a HIC infinite point on a gate or an EAF at a mission site.-á

Anyone who has been in combat with SCs or sieged/triaged caps can attest to the annoyance of EWAR immunity. Give it to a sub cap ship with decent damage and EWAR capabilities of its own, and you're looking at a very overpowered ship.

As before mentioned I would only buy a marauder for PvE if it was more effective against those damn scrambler frigates.

This thread is just full of no.

Marauders are not pvp boats. Giving them any kind of bonuses towards pvp would be ridiculous. No spider tanking. HELL no to 8 turret (or missile) points. Using half the ammo of other ships is one of the few good things left about marauders and you want to change that? Seriously?

And god no to cap booster bonuses. I hate cap boosters and I'll be damned if I'm gonna shove them on my mission boat.
All of the marauders have enough drone bay to accommodate more than one flight of drones. Frigates should not be a problem. The Kronos and Paladin also have a web bonus...
They don't need an immunity to ewar, they just need some help against Guristas f'ing jamming. I think it should be removed tbh.

I want the tractor bonus, but I want it improved. Give the marauders the same tractor bonus as the noctis then give them a bonus to cut salvager cycle time in half. That would fix the marauder vs noctis problem.

HELL no to 8 turret (or missile) points. Using half the ammo of other ships is one of the few good things left about marauders and you want to change that? Seriously?

I don't think that's what he meant. I'm thinking he meant remove that 100% bonus and give it something like a 5% per level bonus or something and have 8 guns fit. They need to leave it at 4 weapon hardpoints and give it like a 120% damage bonus or 100%+a per level bonus. But base it on the battleship, not marauder. The only thing that should be based on Marauders skill level is maybe tanking bonuses.

As for Marauders vs Faction:
Lets look at the problems and arguments...

Resists. Most people say Marauders need a resist boost, I would have to disagree. They do get a little bit better resists (in their race's respective resist types), but not as much as smaller t2 ships. The marauders get a lot more buffer though. The only thing that does kinda suck it makes them a bit harder to omni-tank. If anything, give them a bit more resists across the board. Like the Kronos's massive explosive hole.

Damage. Even with Marauders 5, they're still hard pressed to get the same theoretical dps as faction ships. They don't need a huge buff, just a small one to bring them up to par with faction ships. Without Marauders 5. Having that at 5 should tip the scale and put them a little more powerful than faction. The other problem with this is faction battleships get bonuses that help them apply dps like the marauders. Vindi gets webs, Nightmare gets tracking bonus (which the Paladin simply can't match). The Vargur vs Macharial is fairly well done, imo. I don't see any problems here really. Golem vs CNR... I'm not really sure honestly. I haven't flown a Golem. I would use cruise missiles simply because of the range of torps. It does get a bit less damage than the cnr, but it also gets a couple bonuses to help it apply damage much better than a cnr, so I think it would get the same or better hits than a cnr. I'm not talking eft damage, I'm talking about real in game damage.

Price. They're about the same. There is no reason a marauder should be getting less DPS as a whole.

Sensor Strength/Scan Res. There is no damn reason this should be so gimped. The ONLY advantage a marauder would have over a faction battleship is the 3 free high slots. The argument is to keep marauders out of PvP. But what's the point? Even with the three spare highs, they are not going to be one stop killing machines. This may have made since when they were introduced, but it doesn't now. With faction ships becoming more and more common, this point is now moot and needs removed.

it's only a CNR worth half the money.

+ Marauders have a better active tank, but round about 30% less buffer compared to CNR.

This is mostly a sum of the the introduction of the Noctis, which has made salvaging "in mission" inefficient compared to reshipping for a Noctis