Warfare & Tactics

The loss of a midslot to cap boosters causes a direct loss of tank on the ship. You also forget that shield ships must also fit utility as well.

Armor tanked ships can afford to to use a cap booster since mids are for just utility.

Shield tanking however must be able to squeeze in tank AND utility into those midslots. Most shield ships have less midslots than Armor ships have low slots.

LOL I just saw an ancilliary shield boosted myrm kill a drake and a armor repping Myrm. This clearly shows that these things perfectly balanced next to armor repairers.!

Im already looking forward to fly only ships able to fit oversized/multiple asbs for next year (or more). Also Im looking forward for future fights where I will spend first minute (if Im lucky) of the fight shooting ships in godmode.

couldn't agree more, it's a broken mechanic.

I feel the need to point out how absurd all of this EFT warrior/troll/WoW/wtf ever else crap is. EHP is the name of the game. If you have your EHP eaten between cycles (XLASB) all the active rep in the world won't help you. You will never see these in med to large fleet fights due to the many advantages of remote rep buffer fleets over burst or sustained active tanks. For those of you complaining about the "OP reps with no cap", fit alpha and kill ASB ships as they have no buffer. There is a counter to every fit. Find it and melt faces. This is not an OP module, but good luck getting it nerfed so that you can go back to having frig fights out front of stations in the same old fits you've spun in the station for years.

It's sad when entrenched (inside the box!) thinking and knee-jerk party line catchphrases override rational discussion and the improvement of our collectively shared universe.

Not empty quoting.

Is that any surprised destroyers have been crap after a long time, crucible has made them better but they are far from actually being truly worth fly other than for mostly suicide ganks.


The solution is simple. Neut the ship, without cap that frigate will fold into a crumpled piece of paper.

I figured that out in 10 seconds, why couldn't you do the same?

I'm not going to lie - I hated the ASB at first as I thought it was a broken mechanic. I complained about it in the forums and cursed CCP for its ignorance.

Now, I think I love it.

Prior to the ASB buffer ruled in ALL pvp except for some very limited circumstances where you had a solo or small group completely pimped out with links and implants and drugs killing small gangs who were (not every time, but often) terrible. These were the things that cool pvp videos were made of. The cost and logistics of creating this uber 'solo' ship are far beyond the capabilities of the average eve player.

Now, with ASBs, active tanking (shield only) is superior for solo/small gangs, and buffer is still superior for fleets. It gives both tanking styles a niche. The ASB tank can still be alphaed, so it is not effective in all situations. But it makes active tanking viable in small gangs again. Really - now I fracking love it.

My sole complaint about it now is that there is not a similar armor module. Having to fit 2 or 3 active reps + 1 or 2 cap boosters to rival the tank of an ASB has just highlighted how bad armor tanking is in comparison. They need to give us (not the exact same) a similar armor module, or make armor reps have a larger burst (e.g. Make a single rep = 2 current reps) but still rely on cap boosters. If they did, I would be the happiest clam in the sea.

Fly in small gangs and give the ASB a chance. It has revived active tanking. I, for one, welcome our new small gang overlords.

The unfortunate truth is that ccp desperately needs a new design team and the addition of this asb clearly proves that... Also they need to not listen to OP ideas proposed in silly "new module idea" troll threads. ASB needs to either be removed or heavily nerfed/reworked. t1 capless modules out repping 2b+ deadspace mods that require cap is fundamentaly broken, wake up people.