Ships & Modules

So these ships were drastically reworked but their T2 variants still have:

- Speed and inertia based on the older T1 variants. This results in T1 having better stats.
- Both Vengeance and Harpy have damage bonus tied to Assault Ships skill which is not always trained to V. Though it may be compensated by 3 turrets instead of 4 it's still weird.
- Capacitors. Merlins capacitor is superior to Harpy's. In case of Punisher it is somewhat balanced out by recharge times.

Still it looks like some of the developers downgraded the ships...

Should CCP buff respective AFs to the level of those frigates?

What really got screwed was combat intereceptors. Many of whom could be smashed by t1 frigates before, but now it's p sad.

CCP doesn't do logic, they don't do proper coding and they can't balance ships. The Merlin is SO overpowered it's ridiculous, to a point one really has to wonder "what were they thinking".

175 dps, 8k EHP, AB and full tackle or a dual prop with 7+kEHP and 165 dps. That's overpowered as hell, the Punisher can't come close to that, not on dps, nor on full tackle or dual prop. That 170 dps will make mince meat of the new incursus as well, its tank+ehp simply isn't up to the task. Any rifter being foolish enough to attack a pvp fit Merlin is an idiot and will die in flames.

Don't get my wrong, I don't mind it (I fly caldari only and mostly hybrid ships) but I would be a hypocrite if I stated it's on par and well balanced.

I thought that the new harpy was already excellent

AF being slower than its T1 counterpart, not really a shocker now is it. The Harpy is a tiny package of Awesome, its only issue is agility which isn't really Caldari's thing anyway and is compounded by being an AF.

Command ships never received the hp buff that tech 1 bcs received 6+ years ago resulting in the tech 1s having higher base hp values. Based on that time frame I think that this fail is here to stay just like the command ship fail of the past.

Do you have that fit handy?

At a guess, this was to allow a greater differentiation between the Merlin and Kestrel, which presumably will be buffed with the other missile frigs at some point in the near(ish) future.

The setup I was refering to was the Incursus. It's able to put up those stats.

I also, referenced the Punisher with regard to 10,000 Ehit points. The Merlin is able to gain similar stats. While the punisher cannot perma neut like a Vengeance and Retribution can. It's still able to run a neutraliser for a very long time with a warp scrambler and gatling pulse lasers active. While doing significant damage. It's able to incapacitate alot of frigates. Including many combat intereceptors (Taranis, Crusader) and assault frigates. Which translates into a GTFO module and ruines the dual armor repair Incursus. Although, the incursus is able to tank a Punishers damage on 1 armor repair (heated, with or without synth exile and capacitor booster) LOL.

I'm not home and I'm about to head to a pub. I'll paste the setup later on when I get a chance. Either way. These 3 frigates (Punisher, Melrin, Incursus) are inline with each other. The Rifter is the odd man out. I've yet to figure out a way around these changes for the Rifter and many others are in the same boat. More so when dealing with the Incursus and Merlin.

I see no way around it unless the Rifter leaves warp scrambler range altogether. Another issue is. These changes have made the Merlin and Incursus as good or better than thier navy faction counter-parts. WTF is up with that?