Ships & Modules

So, I just had a test fight on SiSi.

It was a 1 v 1 fight versus a RATTLESNAKE in a BHAALGORN and I LOST.

My Bhaalgorn had 250 K EHP, 850 gun + 200 drone DPS, dual web, dual NOS, one neutralizer, one tracking computer with tracking scripts, one target painter, one warp scrambler and 4 T2 pulses with COnflagration L crystals.

The other guy had a generic mission carebear fit like all rattlesnakes do, the typical super passive+crap boring drones and pathetic 150 dps cruise missiles setup.

I got the guy into 5% shield FIVE TIMES IN A ROW and he always bounced right up back to 70-100% in a few short seconds.

If this was a TQ fight I would have been pissed for losing a Bhaalgorn to a badly fit mission rattlesnake with two overpowered mods on it.

Any word on when you intend to NERF the ASB or at least limit the son of a ***** to ONE per ship, CCP?

The other day I had this guy in a MERLIN tank SIX GUYS in CA 1 in PVH for 8 consecutive minutes using ASB.

No seriously, when are you nerfing that?

If you're going to leave it like that, at least make armor repairers or armor plates repair armor passively when inactive and work like an ASB when activated.

Seriously CCP, ASB is OP right now.

Ideas for nerf:

1) Allow only one per ship.
OR
2) Remove shield passive recharge when you have ASB installed.
OR
3) Increase cooldown by one minute for every new ASB installed.
OR
4) Restrict certain item sizes to ships of that size and over. (AKA you can only have an XL shield booster or ASB on a battleship, you can however choose to use mediums, larges or smalls. On BCs the max would be large. On Cruisers it would be medium. On frigates it would be small.)
OR
5) A mix between 1) and 2) and/or 3) or a mix between 3) and 4), or any variation that makes sense from a balancing standpoint.

Come on CCP, what happened to your balancing lately, it's like you always decide to make a change and either exagerate it to hell (ASB) or make it almost completely useless and broken and pre-nerfed (like the new crap armor resistance). It's as if the guy whose job is to balance **** in this MMO only plays FPS games or something, and has no clue how to do it right. Either that or we're being Dev trolled... again.

Holy Crap, lemme get a 55 gallon drum, your tear ducts are in overload

News just in.. prices for tears plummet as massive new ASB Tear deposits are overflowing the market.

I thought that was Cobalt.

ASB ships are not prevalent like Dramiels were before the nerf or how Thrashers are now after the boost. ASB are still very rarely used and therefore cannot be an overpowered mod, else everyone would be using them.

The more likely scenario is that you don't know how to defeat them. Well I'm not going to tell you, but all ASB ships that faced me are dead. Eve is not a 1vs1 game.

ok let's all just take a step back here

Obvious weakness of ASB's is obvious.... therefore obvious PVP ****** OP is obvious :D

Show me a bs with 90k raw shields that does 600 dps before drones at 50k with full damage 90% of the time. Might believe you then.

Pretty sure they already do. A Battlebadger can almost certainly stay under the Nado's 1400s if it gets the right warpin.

Ground Floor.