EVE General Discussion

From a PVE standpoint I would like to see hybrids and lasers have at least access to a third damage type so they could at least be viable on missions outside of their current pigeonhole of em/therm therm/kin. After playing with guns I've grown to resent my raven.

Lasers are kind of a bastard-child. You can't give them any other damage types without breaking 4th wall. That said lasers are generally regarded as being POS and being in need of a major overhaul.

It should be interesting to see although I suspect if there's no kind of 'penetration' effect then you're just going to see higher damage modifiers and slightly better tracking.

My 2c on lasers.

Never fear, after the last round of ammo simplifications was received so warmly, I predict the following changes will occur shortly.


Remove Damage types completely. Damage will become just Damage.

Remove Shield, Armor, Hull and replace with Hitpoints.

umm no...

what ccp is willing to do is add flavor to hybrid ammo such as tracking bonus and better selection between thermal and kinetic damage.. example being uranium being 80% kin and therm being 20% then plutonium being 80% thermal and 20% kin... and so on...

this i would support... but tbh if you want damage selection use drones or missiles...

Because CCP ******* said so

Not that I disagree with the principle of rebalancing, but counters already exist. Also, other races share the same "problem," which isn't really a problem at all. Standard T2 resists are calculated by applying two 50% hardeners against a race's main enemy's primary damage type, and one 50% hardener against the race's main enemy's secondary damage type. Amarr shooting Minmatar T2 ships is exposed to the same issue. Minmatar hitting Amarr T2 doesn't suffer as much, but projectiles in general have lower dps.

I really don't see an inherent problem in the system. All weapon types have their own strengths and weaknesses, and I don't perceive any significant imbalances between them. I have all four races trained up on my primary characters, and use different ships and weapons all the time. My largest complaint in relation to weapons is that pulses have fitting requirements that are a bit too high.

It would be easier to remove selectable damage types from projectiles and missiles, and make them explosive and kinetic respectively.

That will surely make things interesting.

Right now I rather fly a ship into PVP I know I can change the damage types for just incase, which boils down to Projectile or HAM's.

I love Lasers and I love Hybrits... although have you tried shooting down a Tech 2 Minmatar ship with Lasers. It can be killed but my god...

Kill switchable damage except on missiles.

Let us switch guns without losing the ship's turret bonus.

If only one of your ammo types is viable for your weapons platform then your weapons platform is fubar.