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Okay!

Well, you may be right that an ASB vaga is only on par with a regular hurricane.

But of course, you've been flying ASB fitted canes and vexors and other ships, and when that becomes standard for most hulls I think the ASB will be a drawback for solo pvp.

The ASB, as it stands, is basically a neut-proof repping device which for some reason is both easier to fit yet reps more than regular shield boosters, and only requires one slot to utilise (unlike a med armour/shield rep + cap booster combo). gg balancing. A lot of your kills in your recent videos have been testament to this.

So my criticism of your video isn't that you put a ASB on a vagabond, but that your last 2 videos (I enjoyed Everlasting II very much) basically feature you dominate cookie-cutter setups in a lot fights, in a variety of hulls that you fitted with ASB's. Which is fine I guess, but most people commenting on your vids don't seem to 'get' that many of the fights you won were based a much superior fit. As I said, a lot of the kills you feature are in the comfort zone in terms of running the rep. They're not even close. And you aren't sig-tanking for many of them either.



ASB's are overpowered. Your videos are a demonstration of that even more than they are of good fights or pvp skill.

I'll admit on the vaga that's a hull where it might not actually be overpowered, and you can be proud of your piloting.

But what about the Drake/Ferox fight?

You weren't exactly sig-tanking in that fight.

Ask yourself how many kills you'd have scored off that gang if they'd all been fitted like you were?

When ASB knowledge diseminates through the player base it's going to go from being a good thing for a handful of solo pvpers like it is right now, to being the bane of solo pvp, which makes killing ships take ages and gives even more time for their 8 buddies to jump 2 systems or whatever and arrive.

I disagree that few people will use it. It will become standard fit in the near future for every 2-8 man gang camping a gate or roaming without a scimitar. Of course it will never be popular in fleet vs fleet fights over a certain number, for the same reasons no rep fits are (alpha strike...).



I mentioned the mistakes just to put in perspective that while the piloting is excellent, it isn't so amazingly good that you could have scored the kills without making maximum use of a module which dominates small scale pvp, but which a lot of people still aren't fully clued up about. I regard this video in particular as more of a showcase of the ASB, than an example of amazing fights and piioting.

I think I excessively downplayed the quality of the fights. I still think it's something of a "time and place" video, which he made at a perfect point when a powerful new fit came into play which people weren't wise to.

If you truly ask this question for every pvp video you ever watch, I can't understand how you could ever enjoy any of them.

In many PvPPP situations, kills for the soloer often result due to error on part of the opponent(s), whether fitting or piloting-wise (see -- any propless maelstrom vs gatecamp video which involves HACs, recons, and BCs running directly into maelstrom's scram). While I can see how that could detract from the enjoyment of a video, I think that you're maintaining too high standards if you expect the other guy's fittings to be optimized to the same degree as the video maker's.