EVE General Discussion

Hull repair modules are a CCP joke.

Compare the stats on a hull repair module with those of its shield or armour counterpart and you'll see that they're basically useless.

CCP is on record (somewhere, long ago, can't be arsed to dig up the posts) stating that hull reppers are meant to be used only as an alternative to paying for hull repairs, not as a combat tank.

If you're hull tanking, you're buffer tanking.

CCP does not want active hull tanking to be a thing, and it kind of makes sense.

If they made it viable, technically all a hull tank would need is two mods (damage control and a repper) because the resists would be consistent accross the board. If you made remote hull reps as effective as normal remote reps, it would be a big deal because your tank would either be the same with fewer mods or greater if you used the same number.

Things would get even more interesting when you consider hull rigs do not have any significant drawbacks (I think all they affect is cargo capacity).

Before citadels, the only things hull reppers were mostly used for was remote rep POSs and rep hull in WHs. With citadels, both of these are kind of going away.

As an avid hull-tanker myself, if you want reps, put an armour repairer on your hull buffer. It works. I've been doing it with the Enyo since before it was a thing on the Hecate, and a few other ships. It's very effective.

CCP hates Gallente.

I think if there's really a race to specialize in hull tank, it should be Minmatar, because people always give me a diehard impression of them.

I want a decent hull repper to make my hull tanked brutix even more awesome

If you do it properly, with the right ships, hull tanking is very effective. If you're engaged with an enemy, and they rip through your shields, and then your armour, and they're sitting there smiling, thinking this is going to be easy, it puts them on the back foot when they suddenly realise they have a lot more work to do than they thought. It really does. You can completely throw off someone's confidence by hull tanking. Not only that, but my hull-tanked Thorax gets almost 700dps heated (drones included) with 24K EHP, and can move at 2km/s+ with enough mids left for scram and dual web, cap booster need not apply. And that's just a Thorax. If you've never seen a Brutix hull tank, then you ain't seen nothin' yet.

hull tanking is beastly

Which is exactly the way to used to work 10+ years ago with the result that everyone hull-tanked as you could use the other mids/lows for damage/tackle/ewar.

It go so bad that you could setup a ratting laser ship, find a dead-end null system, get the chain going and go AFK for hours. Zero risk, minimal cost & it could often double as a PvP ship at a push.

In PvP fleets everyone & their dog was flying Amarr BSs so all those empty lows got filled with damage/tackling mods. If not Amarr then it'd be megathrons so the same applied.

I was never entirely sure whether it was everyone hull-tanking or people AFK ratting which prompted CCPs nerf of hull repairers, they never showed much interest in imbalances back then so I reckon it was the isk....