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Lasers cap usage reduction
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Soon Shin
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
#1 - 2014-05-04 21:38:12 UTC
A long time ago Lasers were so powerful that it required high capacitor usage which would be balanced by having hulls sacrificing a bonus for a laser cap reduction bonus.

But nowadays, lasers don't provide that much more higher advantage of being worth fitting onto for unbonused hulls, which is why we would often see players mount autocannons on the punisher and the prophecy before they got changed.

I think its time to reduce cap usage for all lasers and forever remove the cap bonus on all amarr ships and give them something else.
Bohneik Itohn
10.K
#2 - 2014-05-04 21:42:46 UTC
Soon Shin wrote:
A long time ago Lasers were so powerful that it required high capacitor usage which would be balanced by having hulls sacrificing a bonus for a laser cap reduction bonus.

But nowadays, lasers don't provide that much more higher advantage of being worth fitting onto for unbonused hulls, which is why we would often see players mount autocannons on the punisher and the prophecy before they got changed.

I think its time to reduce cap usage for all lasers and forever remove the cap bonus on all amarr ships and give them something else.



I think you're forgetting that the cap bonus of Amarr hulls not only benefits lasers, but the neuts and NOS's that Amarr ships are known for along with active armor tank modules such as hardeners.

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Daenika
Chambers of Shaolin
#3 - 2014-05-04 21:52:11 UTC
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think you're forgetting that the cap bonus of Amarr hulls not only benefits lasers, but the neuts and NOS's that Amarr ships are known for along with active armor tank modules such as hardeners.


He's not talking about the higher-than-normal cap capacity and regen, he's talking about the per-level reduction in laser cap usage that many Amarr hulls have.