Ships & Modules

I'll be short and sweet - these ships took a massive hit with the nano nerf and never recovered. Here's a laundry list of issues:

• Their signature raddii are measured in the 50's. The Kitsune is even now larger then the Thrasher, a destroyer class ship.

• There are six bonuses between four ships related to cap conservation. A ship class role bonus would allow four of these stale bonuses to be replaced with something more related to survival.

• The T2 resists given to the class are similar to the T2 Force Recon cruisers' resists. As EAF can't cloak, they should have the higher resists of the Combat Recons.

• The Hyena bonus of reduced signature size is a throwback to what interceptors used to have. It was changed for the interceptors because it no longer worked. Why does the Hyena still have it?

Could we please get these ships at long last looked at?

innit?

I can fly them, yes.

It was mentioned in Ship Balancing session at Fanfest (saw it on Youtube) that EAFs will be looked at.
I would not expect them to be fixed quickly though, because the concept for EAF requires far more analysis, feedback and innovation then lets say rebalancing BCs or T1 cruisers/whatever.
Many months if not more than a year probably.

Keres and Hyena need looking at, while Sentinel and Kitsune just need minor tweaks, especially to survivability.

That said, Sentinel and Kitsune are awesome and I will TD/jam anyone who calls them a liability in a fleet.

As a fellow optimist who spent weeks rocking EAF to V on four characters, I too would relish a long-needed buff to the ship class.

Of course, with tiericide on the horizon and the prospect of many more broad-stroke game changing nerfs/buffs therein, I don't see a lot of reason to gripe for it now. IMHO, let the post-inferno meta shake out a bit, see where the EAF might fit in, change their stats or various roles accordingly.

It would be way too easy, and true to CCP's old style, to simply bandaid buff only to see them re-broken when a bunch of newly viable t1 ships come into play.

Great example of a ship class that should be on the rebalance shortlist

True. I've never even seen one is pvp combat

as Petrus said, kitsune and sentinel only need some surivability-related tweaks here and there. they actually work relatively well, if not for the extremely low survivability expectancy they have.

keres and hyena however...


keres as a damp platform is no better than a maulus. heck the maulus actually has a damage bonus so it can shoot back, more cpu and costs 1/100th of it, and as a tackler, why going for it when you have the ares?

hyena as a painting platform is too much of low-level job for such an expensive ship (vigil can do it with the same efficiency and, again, 1/100th of the cost), and as a long range web platform it will die as soon as anything bigger than a pod sneezes at it. also nano nerf killed whatever usability that the ship had as a fast long-range webbing frigate.

and to kick it down even further, you stack on top of them the same issues that plague both the kitsune and the sentinel.

The Sentinel and Keres can be fun and I say that as a solo frigate pilot but its easily arguable they are in need of some sort of update.

I appreciate they are really support ships and dont expect their dps to be boosted particularly but my main issues are sig radius and agility.

As far as the sentinel goes. I played around with it a few months back and did reasonably well, only dying to a blob while killing some competent ships and a failfit battleship...

my loss http://tinyurl.com/d7cyv8z

my kills http://tinyurl.com/bnfn684

I know griefwatch isnt the best but it is easy to search for ship specific stats.

You may also question the fit but I have flown this ship plenty and trust me it is the most effective for what I do :P