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Why must Gallente Armor tank?
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Zarnak Wulf
Task Force 641
Empyrean Edict
#81 - 2012-04-24 23:39:32 UTC
Hrett
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#82 - 2012-04-25 06:36:59 UTC
Zarnak Wulf wrote:
Frigate Proposals


Thank you sir. Those incursus changes make me happy in the pants. They are going to have to do some real balancing though - it's going obsolete the Comet if it's not careful.

spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!
Verity Sovereign
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#83 - 2012-04-25 11:17:56 UTC
Really?
It loses its range bonus, that means you must get in closer, which means tracking is more of an issue.
You now have more distance to close, and still no buffer boost (yes, it got an HP boost, but so did the other frigs)

They also sort of nerfed its cap. Its regeneration is a bit better, but its total capacity is significantly worse-
You don't expect your active tank to be cap stable do you? no?
Well then its now not going to last as long and you can be neuted quicker.

Of course, I think the punisher is also taking a hit - it now has no cap usuage bonus, but now has a laser damage bonus - so its sort of like a mini Abaddon - except, like the incursus, they've reduced its cap capacity, while pushing people into using guns that use a lot of cap - before people used capless autos, rather than lasers with a energy consumption bonus, now the bonus will push people to use lasers with no energy use bonus on top of a smaller cap.

They've basically just made the Rifter more Win (because it also got generic buffs, but not changed bonuses)
Tanya Powers
Doomheim
#84 - 2012-04-25 12:58:40 UTC
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Why must Gallente Armor tank?


Because when you gate/station camp with lots of minmatar ships webing your targets, your shield gallente ship all lows full of dmg mods it's just a "OMAGAD LOOK AT ZTHAT 1500 BAM", if you're one of these kids having some sort of sexual pleasure reading huge numbers on your screen while doing close to nothing, then you've picked the right tool.
Please bring more friends ready to fly more of those ships and also please come all to null sec, I'd be happy to help you out there Bear

However my Arty laugh at your rails Lol
Verity Sovereign
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#85 - 2012-04-25 20:57:50 UTC
Thats my point, again, many gallente ships are set up such that a shield tank is better... and thus the armor bonus is a wasted bonus, and they are 1 bonus hulls useable in only a small niche.

On any gal hull with an active rep bonus (except maybe the myrm), I'm pretty sure people would instead prefer a ROF/tracking/falloff bonus to increase applied DPS.

CCP trying to force us to armor tank the gal ships with the active rep bonuses effectively turns them into 1 bonus ships for most uses.