Rajere
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Posted - 2008.08.09 18:02:00 -
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Actually a lach w/ a warp scrambler II, recons 4, and a mindlinked claymore in gang has a scramble range of 26km. Unless they changed the bonus of the module on sisi (I didn't check), as that's the range as it is on TQ now. Without the claymore, overloaded, it's 19km.
The reason this makes me nervous is that in order to kill something with blasters you must get very close to them. A blasterthron (or blaster BS of any type, except possibly a null rokh) generally must fit a MWD in order to as quickly close the range as possible in order to start putting DPS on target. With scramblers of this range, this may literally be impossible. The changes on sisi with regards to battleships make them accelerate even slower than they do now and they take more time to reach max speed, making anything that shuts down a MWD from outside of blaster range even more effective. While I'm as for just about anything that boosts gallente recons, I'd much rather see sensor damp bonus increased to 7.5% or 10% per level, and the bonus not apply to scramblers if this goes in. As others have noted, a 9km scrambler that also shuts off your MWD may not be broken. 26km though....that makes me wonder. Especially since lachs are now about 40m and very easy to get.
start fitting rails? You need to increase the size of your killzone, try 425's with Faction antimatter now that nano***s won't e able to run around outpacing your guns. standard blaster mega mindset of turn on mwd, hit approach, web, launch heavies only worked because once they could web you, you could web them back and your inertia would carry you into your blaster sweet spot and ogres speed didn't matter when you had your target webbed. Also you'll need to start packing warriors/valks to deal with scramming frigs.
I think that that they should probably boost afterburners so that tanked BS hit 500-600ms while ABing. make them take longer to build up that higher speed, but just like a BS fitting a web shouldn't be able to instagib a frigate, a BS shouldn't be able to be held down by an ABing frigate indefinitely either. If a BS could do atleast 200m/s ABing after being 60% webbed, then you've got time to reapproach a gate. If there's a gang with that frig, you'll die long before you could make it back, but he shouldn't be able to hold you down til his buddies 6 systems over get around to forming up and heading over to take you out either.
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