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Disruption Cruisers

The Disruption Cruisers are built for electronic warfare support and are split roughly into two categories, the hybrid disruption/combat Arbitrator and Bellicose, and the range-bonused fleet ewar ships in the Blackbird and Celestis.

The Arbitrator already had an effective role as a hybrid of a Tracking Disruptor bonused electronic warfare cruiser and drone combat cruiser. We improved it via an extra low slot, stronger TD bonus and the ability to choose between turrets or launchers for added damage.
The Blackbird was already extremely effective in its force multiplier role so we left it mostly intact an extra lowslot adds flexibility and an increased ECM range bonus helps counteract the ECM range nerf also released in Retribution.
The Celestis suffered from both a lack of focus and the weakness of Sensor Dampeners. We’ve replaced the former hybrid damage bonus with Damp range bonus and extra drone damage and the Celestis also benefits greatly from the Damp buff in Retribution.
The Bellicose is getting the most significant changes of the Disruption Cruisers. It will receive a new bonus to missile rate of fire which combined with the significant dronebay and increased target painting bonus make the Bellicose an excellent ship for any roaming gang.

Bellicose:
Minmatar Cruiser bonuses: -5% heavy assault missile launcher, heavy missile launcher and rapid light missile launcher rate of fire and +7.5 target painting strength per level
Slot layout: 4 H, 5 M, 4 L, 0 turrets, 4 launchers
Fittings: 575 PWG, 360 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull): 1400 / 1200 / 1500
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 1200 / 428 s / 2.8
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 240 / 0.51 / 11550000 / 5.5 s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 40 / 40
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 42.5km / 300 / 7
Sensor strength: 14 Ladar
Signature radius: 120