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Psiri
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Posted - 2009.02.12 15:35:00 -
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Boost the explosion velocity of cruise missiles, rockets (a small boost to torps would be good aswell)and give large blasters a boost in tracking. I don't mind neutron cannons having poor tracking but ions and especially electrons should be able to hit alot better than what they do now.
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Psiri
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Posted - 2009.02.25 16:15:00 -
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I'd love to fly a Mega (the tier 3 ships are too expensive still), however I can't find any reason for doing so. You can overcome its ****-poor tracking by using electrons and dual webs, however that makes its effective range even worse and suddenly you're very vulnerable to neuts due to not being able to fit a cap booster (on the flipside you'll be able to fit a neut or nos yourself). The DPS with an electron fit, even with tripple mag stabs is barely touching 1k so what are the strengths of a Megathron s'posed to be? The fact that anyone with a scrambler can pretty much stop you dead in your tracks doesn't make the situation any better.
The Dominix is an awesome ship, it's just too bad I hate drones (cumbersome and expensive). As for the Hyperion it suffers from many of the same problems that the Mega has, it's just alot more expensive. I'm personally considering for these reasons not to advance my blasters above small specializatio with my alt, lasers are looking mighty tempting.
I just wish I hadn't trained medium hybrids IV.
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Psiri
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Posted - 2009.02.25 19:47:00 -
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 Originally by: NightmareX
Ships with Blasters fitted are extremely good at dealing damage at close range.
Yes, this is how it should be. Unfortunately this isn't quite the case.
Blaster Cannons have lousy tracking, even when using a tracking bonused ship they are having problems hitting at the ranges that they are supposed to do good damage in.
Heavy Blasters don't have quite the same tracking issues but instead suffer from having poor shiptypes to employ them on. The Brutix is good for its cost but just like the other tier 1 BC's its noticably weaker than its competitors like the Drake and Harbinger. The Deimos and Astarte are just much too expensive for what they do.
Light blasters are good, they have strong ships to employ them on and their tracking is excellent.
However, the blaster concept in general is quite flawed. You're severely hampering your range, risking being kited outside of your damage dealing zone, all for what often is a quite marginal damage increase. I find blasterboats pimping out good damage mostly just because of their large drone bays.
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Psiri
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Posted - 2009.02.28 16:41:00 -
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A boost to tracking OR a slight range boost (or rather a damage boost to long range ammo).
Personally I'd prefer a tracking boost, that way the Mega would recieve its own unique strength and the Hyperion would be able to deal the damage it's s'posed to at the ranges blasters are intended for.
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