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Assault Frigates - rebalance brainstorm
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Buck Turgidsun
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2016-11-20 03:25:51 UTC
Ready - set - go! In watching a bit of the live stream from EVE-Vegas my ears perked up when someone presenting note that AF's were up at bat for a re-balance soon as it was one of the most requested in its' sphere of the game.

Let's come up with some ideas on what said changes could be. No idea is too big or small for this discussion, feel free to propose anything you like as long as you can take any and all criticism. Crazy ideas encouraged. Should stats simply be tweaked? Resource/fitting? Unique role bonuse(s)?

1- Role bonus - Immunity to MWD warp scrambling

2- Increasing base hull velocity to be faster than T1 counterpart, but still well short of Interceptor fast.

3-Give them a the racial ewar ability of their respective faction like they gave to navy ewar frigates (severely reduced range)
Do Little
Bluenose Trading
#2 - 2016-11-20 09:29:19 UTC
I would consider AF's balanced if a couple of them working together can realistically take on a T3D. I don't think they need a new capability to achieve this - a bit more speed, reduced signature, modest improvements to tracking dps and tank.

If they are fast, fun, deadly in wolfpacks and half the price of a T3D I think they will regain their popularity.
elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#3 - 2016-11-20 11:09:59 UTC
Listen very carefully and read my signature.

What you want is t1 < t2 < t3 < t4 < t5 and as such you should go back to wherever you came from. There were 2 different threads about assault ships in the last few weeks already.

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Buck Turgidsun
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2016-11-20 18:19:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Buck Turgidsun
Thanks elitatwo I have seen that chart before actually and do already understand the the ship 'map' / flow chart (seen it before actually). I'm guessing that statistically AF's are still an underutilized ship in the game and that combined with the community's grumblings about it being percieved to be sub-par will lead to CCP giving it a change as they had whispered at eve vegas. Let's not get locked into the 'I'm a moron who doens't understand the meta vs the smug bitter vet who knows everything about internet spaceships' thing.

I'm a little surprised that not one person has chimed in yet with something positive about buffing AF's. In FW they are practically unicorns, in lowsec/nullsec roams they are laughed away when proposed - the answer is always to either use an interceptor gang or T3D's.