Ships & Modules

because is too good, good damage, extreme (for a small) range, perfect application.

If its extreme range for a small ship, then why dont nerf missile's flight time then?

What i dont understand is that the nerf was because some ships where overpowered, but this change affects all the little missile boats, even if they were overpowered or not.

its a long range weapon so te range has to be kept, but long range weapon get to chose between damage and application - cant have both.
btw its just the first pass and I suppose the one easier to "fix", probably they'll touch every other weapon during next passes of module tiericide.

I don't call having to wait 16 seconds per volley OP and superior. Using missles over other weapon systems has still a big disadvantage, thats why missles should be doing more damage per volley compared to other weapons. Anyway, I don't use normal lights anymore due to this change, only the rapids are still useful now.

WIth skills it gets down to 6-7 seconds which is just as fast as artillery and just as much volley damage, with no tracking issues, longer range, lower fitting requirements and singular damage type. And no damage/DPS drop with range because there is no falloff to worry about. So they already in practice deal far more damage than any other turret. Check the 2000volley damage flycatchers or 1600 volley damage corax.

The -6% DPS nerf everyone is getting their panties twisted about is largely insignificant.
You stopping to use a weapon system just cos a bunch of 3-4 missile hardpoint ships lost 6-10DPS is quite amusing.

I'll keep using light missiles just like I did before. They combine incredible range and excellent damage application that is 100% independent of the launching ship's motion. When you're in a fast-moving frigate, these two things together are invaluable, even if LML RoF did get nerfed by 6%.

Devils advocate. Its subversive pressure to encourage missile specced characters to spend time training guns instead.

Good ole fozziebear has been crusading against missiles for a long time now, this is just the latest in his attempts to "balance" missiles. If any other weapon system got a flat 6% damage nerf there would be threadnaughts everywhere, but since everyone "knows" that missiles are OP there is nothing to stop fozziebear from continuing his quest. I wonder if he'll be fixing the OP damage of HAMs next or the OP application of cruises.

You mean... like railguns? Or arty?



This. I agree with and hate this. Drones have always been easy mode in this game. They add so much versatility to a hull as to compensate for any smaller targets, or being able to blap anything with tiny EHP. They're basically insta-kills vs people that fly small ships, and then you can just recall those drones and set out sentries to wreck larger ships. They don't take cap to use, have no fitting requirements.

Ive watched ishtars use sentries from 70km to farm cheese kills on people in FW because they had frigs or destroyers. No skill involved.