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When did my Drake get nerfed?
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Lyza Kimbo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-03-18 17:44:06 UTC
I haven't flown the Drake for a while, and when I went to undock, it gave me an error saying I had 7 launchers fitted when only 6 were allowed. It looks like they reduced the number of launchers and number of high slots by one.

Did the Drake gain something in return, or was this just a straight-out , unapologetic nerf?

Grrrrrrr!
Heinrich Hoss
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-03-18 17:46:34 UTC
Kinetic missile damage went up from 5% per level to 10% per level, so if your BC skill is 3 or higher the damage with kinetic missiles has gone up, but with every other damage type it has gone down. Basically a PvE nerf and a PvP buff. Then there was also some minor adjustement to the ship's attributes but they don't really make a difference.
Lloyd Roses
Artificial Memories
#3 - 2013-03-18 17:47:42 UTC
Lyza Kimbo wrote:
I haven't flown the Drake for a while, and when I went to undock, it gave me an error saying I had 7 launchers fitted when only 6 were allowed. It looks like they reduced the number of launchers and number of high slots by one.

Did the Drake gain something in return, or was this just a straight-out , unapologetic nerf?

Grrrrrrr!


Your Drake indeed got slightly buffed. (heavy nerf aside)
Lyza Kimbo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2013-03-18 18:21:35 UTC
Ah, thanks, guys. Replies appreciated.

Once I stopped hyperventilating, I went and found the patch notes from a month ago, and the link to the relevant dev blog.

Sigh.

I swear trying to stay even marginally competitive in Eve is like a half-time job. There are so many notes and forums and blogs and **** you have to keep up with if you're not going to get blindsided by **** like this. I wish there was one central place to read about all such upcoming stuff, instead of having to pursue the information in 17 different obscure nooks & crannies.

(insert miscellaneous pissy, grumbling comments here)

Fine.
sabre906
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-03-18 18:29:16 UTC
Heinrich Hoss wrote:
Kinetic missile damage went up from 5% per level to 10% per level, so if your BC skill is 3 or higher the damage with kinetic missiles has gone up, but with every other damage type it has gone down. Basically a PvE nerf and a PvP buff. Then there was also some minor adjustement to the ship's attributes but they don't really make a difference.


You forgot the hml nerf. Btw, -10% direct dmg isn't the real nerf, it's the exp radius and exp velocity nerfs that killed your real dps, and it's not limited to hmls. Why CCP thought Rage Torps needed even bigger exp radius than they had, I'll never know...Roll
Lyza Kimbo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-03-18 18:41:37 UTC
sabre906 wrote:
Heinrich Hoss wrote:
Kinetic missile damage went up from 5% per level to 10% per level, so if your BC skill is 3 or higher the damage with kinetic missiles has gone up, but with every other damage type it has gone down. Basically a PvE nerf and a PvP buff. Then there was also some minor adjustement to the ship's attributes but they don't really make a difference.


You forgot the hml nerf. Btw, -10% direct dmg isn't the real nerf, it's the exp radius and exp velocity nerfs that killed your real dps, and it's not limited to hmls. Why CCP thought Rage Torps needed even bigger exp radius than they had, I'll never know...Roll


Well said. Really, this all started with the Stealth Bomber nerf of, what, three years ago? It's like CCP has been actively looking for ways to rain on our missile parade ever since :(
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#7 - 2013-03-18 18:55:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Zhilia Mann
sabre906 wrote:
Why CCP thought Rage Torps needed even bigger exp radius than they had, I'll never know...Roll


You keep saying that. It isn't true. With GMP 5, new Rage torps have a 10% smaller explosion radius than they did before. Before the change it was 650. Now it's 774. GMP 5 makes that 580.5. GMP 4 makes it 619.2, which is still an improvement over the old stats. GMP 3 puts it about on par at 657.9.

Edit: to the OP, this is an almost directly clone of this thread from four days ago.