Taki Kenirou
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Posted - 2008.01.15 19:20:00 -
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fine then how about this, battleships. and you are correct, it is not wise to sit there imobile in a dread. if one wants to look at dread on dread combat, they may and see this fact to be true. If you want take a battleship and assult a dread, as these are the real dread killers already. having another ship to jump and require capital ship skills is really silly. if it's only purpose is to fight other capital ships, and fleet, then my answer is there is one, and that ship is the carrier. There really is no need for a small dread. If its purpose is to rival a carrier fleet, why not rival it with another carrier fleet. or better yet bring some EW, and battleships. a Rook/Lachesis combat is a nightmare for a carrier. even in triage mode, a perfect skills carrier with plenty of stront, faction tanking gear (this is based on armor tanking I have not done a chymera or nidhogger as of yet) can tank over 12,000 DPS effective DPS. one can look at eft and see this. 15 battleships can achieve this. let us not forget that a carrier in triage is not invincible. I believe like siege mode, it is unaffected by external forces, ieg can not be remote repped. and for that matter can it even have energy given to it by an external ship?
I don't want to sound like I am ripping the idea apart. I just do not see a purpose for it. anti capital forces already engage capitals in the game. a 200 on 200 man battle will occur similarly even with the advent of this new ship class. A carrier squadron can be combated by another carrier squadron, or a smart non capital gang. There is not really a need to develop more skills, for something that really is just a half capital ship. and if you think about the effectiveness of things around it, they will be easily destroyed. a fleet of 10 of those, will get smacked by a fleet of 10 dreads. in this respect, they would have every reason to go into siege, and the lower hit point half dread will not be able to compensate for the DPS unleashed by focused fire from dreads, even if they are not in siege mode.
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